Saved By Religion and Macho Man!

Saved By Religion:

I was devastated to find out my wife was having an affair. By turning
to religion, though, I was soon able to come to terms with the whole thing.
I converted to Islam. We're stoning her in the morning!
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Food For Thought:

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Ronald Reagan (1986)

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!
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What is behind the Shalit release? An analysis. Sent to me by an Israeli relative. (See 1 below.)
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Stella writes about our new breed, our new generation. They may crap on police cars but if they are an indication of what progressive, PC liberal education has helped create our entire society is in doo doo. (See 2 below.)
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Will radical Iranians provide Obama with the provocation he needs to help get him re-elected as our new 'macho man?' (See 3 below.)
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Have a great weekend. Off to the N.C. mountains.
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Dick
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1)WJC ANALYSIS - Pinhas Inbari: Hamas and the prisoner exchange deal with Israel

Tuesday’s breaking news about the completion of the ‘Shalit deal’ between Israel and the Hamas came as a surprise because of the deep secrecy surrounding the negotiations. The Israeli public had developed a sense of skepticism about news of "breakthroughs" in the past, but this time Hamas was quick to confirm the news.

Which Palestinian prisoners are slated to be released?

No doubt Israel agreed to release quite a large number of ‘heavyweight terrorists’, but Hamas might be judged according to those who will be left behind bars. At this stage we don’t know all the details of the deal. There are conflicting reports about a crucial element: who are the Palestinians that are going to be released? No doubt Israel agreed to release quite a large number of terrorists with "blood on their hands" - but Hamas might be judged according to those who will be left behind bars.

Why has the deal been reached now? There are a number of factors. First among them is the PLO bid for Palestinian statehood in the UN. Mahmoud Abbas' move met with fierce opposition from both Israel and Hamas who have perceived the PLO move as a danger. The timing of the Shalit deal in the middle of PLO statehood diplomacy is no coincidence.

Another important factor is the ‘Arab Spring’ in both of its aspects: the Egyptian and the Syrian. As for Egypt, the impact is double: the removal of the obstacle that Mubarak regime represented in preventing a deal. On the one hand, Mubarak did not want to bolster Hamas, and on the other hand, Hamas did not want to hand the prize of having brokered a deal to Mubarak. Iran's and Syria's veto was a major obstacle in the past to any agreement.

However, the interim Egyptian regime changed the parameters: Hamas is deeply interested in improving the relations with Cairo, and Egypt became its strategic depth. The military government expects now to regulate the Rafah crossing into Gaza a as a formal border crossing.

In a very strange way Israel also wanted to help the military regime in Egypt – but for the opposite reason than Hamas: Israel's prime interest is to contain the growing influence of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Evidence for that is the strange apology that Defense Minister Ehud Barak issued over the killing of Egyptian soldiers after the Eilat terror attack.

Iran also apparently removed its opposition and effective veto of the deal in expectation for better relations with the new Egypt, as is evidenced by the direct involvement of Tehran’s number one loyalist in Gaza, the military wing commander Ahmad Ja'bari, in the deal. It cannot be excluded that Iran also wanted to distance Turkey from influence in Gaza.

However, most intriguing are developments in Syria. An analysis published on a Hamas-linked blog website back in July 2011 might have given the first indication of the materializing deal. A blogger, Husam Dajani, drew a link between a visit of Hamas leader Khaled Mashal (pictured below) to Cairo and the surprising announcement by Syria that it would recognize a future Palestinian state limited within the pre-1967 borders. The interpretation of the two reports was that Syria had actually divorced from Hamas, and Mashal had gone to Cairo to ask for accommodation. In order to get Egyptian approval for relocating the Hamas headquarters to Cairo he might agree to conclude the deal to free Gilad Shalit.

It is too early to tell whether Egypt will agree to accomodate Hamas. After Mashal’s speech on Tuesday night in which he thanked a long list of countries that helped to broker the deal, notably Turkey, Qatar and Syria, doubts remain. Actually, Mashal mentioned the possible locations of his future base, including staying in Damascus after all.

There was another hint about Hamas’ future line of activity. Firstly, the Hamas leader promised to the prisoners that will stay behind Israeli bars that Hamas would continue to act for their release, meaning that they will continue with their efforts to kidnap other Israeli soldiers. He also adopted Fatah slogans such as "being faithful to the oath and the commitment" that Arafat had launched immediately after the signature of Oslo agreements. The ‘oath and commitment’ means sticking to the armed struggle for the full liberation of Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River, despite the agreements with Israel.

This was a declaration of intent that Hamas is determined to inherit Fatah's primacy in the West Bank and that it is also ready now to move the struggle into the West Bank - against Israel of course, but indirectly also to topple the entire ‘peaceful Intifada’ nurtured by the PLO. hamas message is this: The entire bid for statehood has suffered serious blow under the PLO, and with the return of more than 1,000 Palestinian terror convicts one can see that terror is more effective than negotiations or diplomatic maneuvers.

Moving the struggle into the West Bank could explain why Israel was that adamant in insisting on expelling dangerous terrorists to Gaza or abroad under any deal. It could also explain why Hamas was ready to exclude symbols of the Intifada such as Abdallah Barghouti from the prisoner exchange deal - not only resolute Israeli rejection but also not the release Tanzim leader Marwan Barguti who could contain Hamas’ growing influence in the West Bank.

At the same time, Mashal emphasized that senior members of Fatah and other Palestinian groups were on the list. Nonetheless, refusing Marwan Barghouti his freedom from Israeli incarceration is a very powerful political signal by Hamas to its archrival Fatah.

The Hamas strategy, which focuses on consolidating power, control and influence across the West Bank, also means that Gaza will be not likely be the focus of an Israeli-Palestinian showdown. Hamas will on the one hand try to solidify its rule in the Gaza Strip and remove the 'siege' especially on the Egyptian side, but on the other hand also intensify the 'armed struggle' from the West Bank in a bid to take over this part of the Palestinian Autonomy.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2) America's Children Come Home to Roost
By Stella Paul

Do you think the young gent from Occupy Wall Street who defecated on the cop car got an A in "Dialectics of Hegemony"?

The hordes of pathetic, dead-eyed pagans pustulating through our cities with Occupy Wall Street are the crowning achievement of America's academy.

Thousands of vampires with PhDs labored for decades to perfect the art of sucking the souls from America's trusting young, and then hustling them into the slavery of terminal stupidity.

How obedient these foul-smelling young wretches are! How touchingly eager they are to please! They sit on the ground in kindergarten formation, obligingly parroting whatever hellish nihilism oozes from the "microphone leader's" lips: "Everything is possible! You can have sex with animals!" Up go the "happy hands" in dutiful response. They so want to be good!

A British paper informs us that Bard College students are gracing the Occupy Wall Street throngs in New York, playing hookey on their $57,000 a year classes. Or are they? I suspect they're apple-polishing for extra credit. Last year, that towering intellectual, Bard's Leon Botstein became the first college president to welcome the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) as an official campus organization.

Attention Bard parents, who thought you were shelling out a fortune to put a little artsy sheen on your precious darlings! Actually, you were thrusting them into the hands of the ISM, a terrorist-enabling group awarded a gold medal by Hamas for all their lovely help.

President Botstein now explicitly funnels campus funds and resources to ISM, which trains students on Bard's idyllic grounds to take "direct action" against Israel. "The training was led by 3 Bard students. 14 trainees were present," notes Bard's ISM website. "Many were headed for December's Gaza Freedom March to break the Israeli siege of Gaza."

Those eager, painfully naive Bard students smelling up the streets of New York aren't being transgressive! They're trying to be virtuous like their hero, student activist Rachel Corrie, who was ferreted to her death in Gaza by the very same ISM. After all, "direct action" is what all those lavishly credentialed grown-ups keep telling them to do.

In case you're worried about Leon Botstein's paying a price for his outrageous antics, let me assure you that destroying young people's souls is lucrative work. George Soros -- imagine that! -- just donated $60 million to Bard College for international work under the aegis of the brand-new Bard College Center for Civic Engagement.

Civic engagement, indeed!

Let us now place an urgently needed cordon sanitaire around the pigsty of New York's Zuccotti Park, where Occupy Wall Street holds forth, and fly to Occupy Boston.

There, in America's college town, we'll find our dewy-eyed innocents rallying on behalf of accused terrorist Tarek Mehanna. But of course! Who better to pour out their sympathies to than a PhD pharmacist who allegedly plotted to machine gun shoppers in New England malls? No one can accuse Tarek Mahenna of lacking "civic engagement."

Perhaps the Occupy Boston mob feels a collegial warmth for Mahenna, who's one of five New England Muslim college graduates either arrested for or convicted of terrorist acts. For the record, alumni donors, their colleges were Northeastern, MIT, U Mass, Boston and Brandeis University. Holy Che Guevera, what are they teaching there?

Oh, just the usual "America is an imperialistic war-monger in thrall to the ethnic cleansing Zionists" shtick. Just look over to the Big Campus in Town where Harvard's Stephen Walt is patiently explaining the evils of America's Jews in his legendary effluvia, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy.

(Does anyone else find it disconcerting that the German translation works out as Die-Israel Lobby?)

The $20 million the Saudis gave to Harvard goes a long way to buying young minds. You need a strong academic infrastructure to get students so inspired they surge through the streets on behalf of terrorists planning to kill them. But Allah willing, with the help of "scholars" like Sara Roy of Harvard's Center for Middle East Studies, all is possible. The tireless Dr. Roy specializes in instructing impressionable youngsters on the moral beauty of Hamas and other terror groups, in her unofficial capacity as "the ringmaster of Harvard's bash Israel circus."

The nationwide scenes of robotic debauchery, moral confusion and nihilistic violence are searing my heart. This Yom Kippur, I read a tale of a Hasidic master whose disciples asked him, "What is the worst thing a person's evil impulse can achieve?" His answer: "to make him forget that he is the child of a King."

America's children were born into the blessings of Constitutional freedom and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness should be theirs for the taking. Instead, they obediently wallow in the muck of anarchy, as their academic pagan priests taught them. May this tragic farce playing out on our campuses and main streets mark the bottom of our descent, before we begin to rise again.
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3)Iranian radicals look for a limited armed clash with the US

The motivation for the foiled Iranian-instigated plot to murder the Saudi ambassador to Washington at his favorite eatery, Café Milano in Georgetown, is revealed by Iranian sources as a bid by a super-radical faction at the top of the Iranian regime to draw the United States into a limited military clash. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei approved the plot when his son and heir Mojtaba, 42, and the Al Qods Brigades commander Gen. Qassem Soleiman ipresented him with their "grand plan."
US President Barack Obama said Thursday, Oct. 13 that a person charged with plotting to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s US ambassador “had direct links, was paid by” and “directed by individuals in the Iranian government. He also said he would not take any options off the table in dealing with Tehran.

The American UN ambassador Susan Rice later met with her Iranian counterpart about the plot. The contents of their conversation were not revealed.

Iranian sources disclose how the "grand plan" was intended to unfold. The first stage was kicked off last week with the flare-up of new Shiite-led riots in Bahrain which Iranian agents helped to expand into the neighboring Qatif oil region of eastern Saudi Arabia.

This week, Revolutionary Guards and Al Qods experts in mayhem organized pilgrims heading for the Umrah, the little pilgrimage, in Mecca starting on Nov. 4, as agents provocateur for stirring up riots among the massed pilgrims. The first batch of 20,000 Iranian pilgrims is already in the shrine cities of Mecca and Medina.

Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir's assassination was planned to coincide with riots in the holy cities and disturbances in the oil regions and so cause a breakdown in national security and shake the throne to its foundations.

The Americans would then come running to save the kingdom, Mojtaba (picture on the left) and Soleimani figured, and head straight into a limited armed clash with Iran. This is what the pair was aiming for to further the following objectives:
1. To head off the spread of unrest in Syria into the Iranian Republic. The downtrodden ethnic and religious minorities which make up 60 percent of the population would not venture to rise up against the minority Persian rulers at a time of war for fear of being punished as traitors.

2. To push the controversial Iranian nuclear program down to the bottom of the international agenda and stop in its tracks the US-led campaign to halt its development.
3. To win international Muslim acclaim for diverting the military focus of the West away from Syria and saving President Bashar Assad's regime.

4. By sacrificing a few of Iran's warships and planes in a limited clash, Tehran would win support from Russia and China, which are both strongly opposed to Western military intervention in Syria or any other part of the Middle East.

5. They would produce a Tehran-led anti-American Muslim military line-up to stand up against the pro-American Sunni Muslim military bloc sponsored by the West, which Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is assembling.

Intelligence sources say there is nothing paradoxical about the super-efficient professional Al-Qods Brigades enlisting a Mexican drug cartel for a hit squad to assassinate Ambassador al-Jubeir. For at least 20 years, Iran's Lebanese proxy Hizballah has kept itself in funds by drug trafficking, gunrunning and fencing stolen goods and today controls entire networks in Latin America and Africa.
This fact is well known, fully recorded and easily available to anyone interested.

The most competent clandestine organizations often use inept losers like the Iranian-born New York American Mansour Arbabsiar for "dirty operations." They tend to be a far cry from the high-IQ superspies of film and fiction. In this case, he may have been the best foot soldier available. Al Qods maintains small sleeper cells among the 900,000 Iranian expatriates living in the United States, more than half of them in California and Texas. But its active agents are by and large of the same substandard caliber as Arbabsiar.

There is another possibility: His Al Qods controllers expected the plot to be foiled. They knew Arbabsiar was under FBI surveillance after an unsuccessful attempt to enter the drug market, and watched him walk into a trap when he tried to hire a DEA agent posing as a member of the Mexican drug cartel.

Had the assassination taken place, it would have been treated as an act of war by the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel. (The Saudi and Israeli embassies were to be bombed at the same time in Buenos Aires.)

Mojtaba and Soleimani did not intend to go that far or provoke a full-blown war. A foiled plot was to be the cue for a limited armed confrontation which was all their "grand plan" required – and that result appears to be building up.
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