More reprieve for fellow memo readers.
Just have to suck it up while the various Jihadist terrorist organizations make progress on all fronts but the world remains "tranquil" according to the Obama Administration.
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Sharia Law Meeting:
Tuesday, August 19
The Plantation Club
Azalea Room
4:45 PM
member/cash bar and light snacks
There have been over 50 documented court cases in 23 states in the U.S.
where Shar'ia law has been applied...this is against equal protection and
due process for all Americans under our constitution.
This seminar will address the theological basis for male/female
relationships under Sharia law. Collectively Sharia practices equate to
female apartheid in the U.S.
The speaker will be David R. Bores who spoke to us in the past on Radical
Islam in American. David served 23 years in the US Army and ended his career
as a Lieutenant Colonel. He has 2 masters degrees in Science and Criminal
Justice. He has delivered numerous presentations on the Threat of Islamism
in American across our country.
Please call for reservations:
Russ Peterson 598-9834 or russp16@aol.com.
We are limited to 70 seats, make your reservations early.
Sustaining Member: No charge, Members: $5.00 per
person, Non-members: $10.00 person.
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The U.N has proven not only worthless again but also dangerous because UNRWA, has allowed itself to be used by terrorists. Our State Department, in violation of U.S. law, continues to fund UNRWA which supports Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. The tunnels were built during Sec. Clinton's term as Sec. of State.
When will Congress and our State Department quit spending U.S tax dollars to allow cement to be used to build tunnels instead of what it was intended for, ie. homes, etc.?
When will Congress and The State Department cease spending U.S. tax dollars to fund a U.N. organization which allows Hamas rockets to be hidden in facilities they manage?
When will Congress and The State Department stop sending U.S tax dollars to UNRWA, which allows the teaching of Hamas designed hateful texts, in U.N sponsored classrooms
And
When will Congress and The State Department stop funding an Organization that has consistently proven so biased towards Israel, its functions no longer resemble the words of its Founding Charter?
Meanwhile, Kerry and Netanyahu are not speaking, according to reports, because this Administration continues to display unmitigated gall towards Netanyahu as Kerry and Obama continue to bash Israel for defending itself against Hamas acts of terrorism.
Even the blind have other senses that can detect intellectual dishonesty and two faced acts of bias.
Obama's sympathy and calls for even handedness and proportionality lay bare his deceit.
There will never be peace in the Middle East as long as two things, at the very least, continue:
a) Western tax funds must stop funding radical Islamist terrorism.
b) This funding provides for perpetuating the teaching of religious hatred. (See 1, 1a and 1b below.)
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The impact of church attendance and the attitude towards Israel. (See 2 below.)
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Hamas victorious!
It is only victorious because the West and America continue to fund it in violation of laws and morality.
You decide.(See 3 below.)
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Obama continues to sink in various polls. Little wonder when you so arrogantly stone deaf! (See 4 below.)
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Hamas victorious!
It is only victorious because the West and America continue to fund it in violation of laws and morality.
You decide.(See 3 below.)
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Obama continues to sink in various polls. Little wonder when you so arrogantly stone deaf! (See 4 below.)
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Dick
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1) US-ISRAEL TIES at NEW LOW after NETANYAHU-KERRY PHONE 'DISCONNECT'
How badly have US-Israel relations deteriorated in recent weeks? If Israeli media reports are any indication, tensions boiled over to the point where a phone call between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ended due to "communications problems" earlier this week. Both men have not spoken since, according to the State Department.
Kerry's spokesperson, Jen Psaki, told reporters in Washington on Tuesday that the two men have not spoken since a brief phone call over the situation in Gaza ended because of "communications problems."
Psaki said that Kerry has held discussions over the course of the last day with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, and UN official Robert Serry.
Netanyahu's relations with the Obama administration have historically been rocky, but the disagreements over how to approach the Palestinian issue came into sharper focus during the recent Gaza crisis.
Last week, Netanyahu reportedly reprimanded the US ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, admonishing Washington "not to second-guess him again" over policy toward Hamas.
When asked about the quote during a news conference in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, the premier went out of his way to praise the Obama administration for its condemnation of Hamas' violation of the cease-fire last week as well as Washington's funding of the Iron Dome project.
Nonetheless, the administration has also used strong language to condemn Israeli shelling of UN-run schools in Gaza.
1) US-ISRAEL TIES at NEW LOW after NETANYAHU-KERRY PHONE 'DISCONNECT'
How badly have US-Israel relations deteriorated in recent weeks? If Israeli media reports are any indication, tensions boiled over to the point where a phone call between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ended due to "communications problems" earlier this week. Both men have not spoken since, according to the State Department.
Kerry's spokesperson, Jen Psaki, told reporters in Washington on Tuesday that the two men have not spoken since a brief phone call over the situation in Gaza ended because of "communications problems."
Psaki said that Kerry has held discussions over the course of the last day with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, and UN official Robert Serry.
Netanyahu's relations with the Obama administration have historically been rocky, but the disagreements over how to approach the Palestinian issue came into sharper focus during the recent Gaza crisis.
Last week, Netanyahu reportedly reprimanded the US ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, admonishing Washington "not to second-guess him again" over policy toward Hamas.
When asked about the quote during a news conference in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, the premier went out of his way to praise the Obama administration for its condemnation of Hamas' violation of the cease-fire last week as well as Washington's funding of the Iron Dome project.
Nonetheless, the administration has also used strong language to condemn Israeli shelling of UN-run schools in Gaza.
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2) How Church Attendance Affects American Attitudes toward Israel
by Daniel Pipes
What role does religion play in American attitudes towards Israel? An analysis by Frank Newport, the
editor-in-chief of Gallup Inc., reviews 14 annual Gallup polls from 2001 to 2014 in which respondents
answer the same question, "In the Middle East situation, are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?" The numbers offer insights different from what one might expect.
The study starts with two basic facts: First, looking at the whole sample of about 14,000 American adults,
59 percent answer that they have more sympathy for Israelis and 16 percent say they have more sympathy
for Palestinians, a ratio of almost 4-to-1. Second, Newport finds that "Religious Americans are significantly more likely than less religious Americans to be sympathetic to the Israelis," confirming what common sense already tells us.
That said, his numbers contain several noteworthy subtleties:
Some reflections on these figures:
(1) Although religiosity helps explain the difference between the United States and Europe, politics has more importance: that even irreligious Americans favor Israel 2-to-1 marks them as very different from their European counterparts.
(2) Given the prominence of Jewish anti-Zionists in the academy, the media, and in Hollywood, the 93-to-2 Jewish support for Israel comes as a surprise, suggesting that the most accomplished and articulate Jews
tend to be disproportionately hostile to Israel. Perhaps this is their way of fitting into the leftist institutions where they work and hope to succeed?
(3) One wishes the "Protestant" category provided further details on the various denominations. How much
do the mainline churches differ from the evangelical ones? Do the adherents of anti-Israel churches follow their leadership in this regard? Are there important changes over time? Gallup should inform us about this in the future.
(4) Muslims are lumped in with other non-Christians but have a unique profile. In Canada, whose Muslim population differs substantially from the American one, pro-Israel Muslims number about 20 percent. I estimate that pro-Israel American Muslims number half that percentage, or less. Also of note: religiosity among Muslim has the opposite influence than among Christians, making them less pro-Israel.
In conclusion, Israel benefits from the fact that Americans remain in large part a religious people. But
declining religiosity bodes ill for the Jewish state.
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The punchline to the old joke about how you can tell when a politician is lying is when his mouth is moving is just as apt for Palestinian Arab leaders whenever they talk about a true victory.
But maybe lying is the wrong word. Maybe Ismael Haniyeh, the Hamas leader who just claimed victory, was watching a different channel, one on which Israel barely played a minor role.
After one month of war against Israel in which Hamas greatly depleted its weapons arsenal, with very little militarily to show despite having launched thousands of rockets, and with schools, hospitals, a university and entire neighborhoods obliterated because Hamas embedded their fighters amongst civilians, Ismael Haniyeh is claiming victory in the Summer 2014 War.
How is that possible?
Because the achievement of strategic objectives through military means is not what Hamas was after.
The Hamas leadership knows that if enough of their people are killed, and enough of their neighborhoods are destroyed, the entire world will sit on Israel's hands and force it to do several things: one, withdraw from Gaza; two, make concessions it would not have agreed to before it was forced into beating Hamas; and three, watch as even more huge boatloads of foreign aid is poured into the Gaza strip to "rebuild Gaza's infrastructure," which really means replenish its arsenal.
From that perspective, Haniyeh is not wrong to take a victory lap.
What were the true objectives of Hamas? One of those was certainly the lifting, or at least the relaxing, of the blockade of Gaza.
Haniyeh addressed that issue in his victory statement issued on Tuesday, August 4:
"The military victory by the resistance, and the legendary strength of our people will lead us to a lifting of the blockage on the Gaza Strip," said the former prime minister of Hamas, through an official statement released through Hamas media.
Of course, that success is yet to be revealed. Will there be a reduction in restrictions? Perhaps Egypt will gin up some way of making it look as though that happened. The reality, of course, is something else, as Egypt is less reluctant to be brutal to Gazans than is the IDF.
Haniyeh also said that Palestinian unity helped reach the agreement in Egypt. "A unified people stood behind our delegation in Cairo. We complied with all the diplomatic procedures and contacted our brothers in Qatar and Turkey and, now, in Egypt in order to end the aggression." They contacted Egypt? Really? In a word, no.
The Gaza political leader stated that "what the enemy could not achieve on the physical battlefield it will not achieve in the diplomatic battlefield." In the language of everyday people, that translates to "what Hamas could not achieve on the physical battlefield we can achieve on the diplomatic battlefield." Because the party perceived as the underdog - the genocidal terrorists with a bloodthirsty governing document and the Ayatollah Khameini as its grand patron - is always coddled by the gullible West.
The leader of Hamas' political bureau said: "I am confident that our Egyptian and Arab brothers all want to help lift the blockage permanently. We support the unified Palestinian delegation in order to produce the most appropriate diplomatic solution and to bring about a resolution that would reflect both the immeasurable sacrifices of our people and the work of the resistance. The delegation stuck to our demands."
What he did not mention was that by not raising them, even Haniyeh has dropped the other unsupportable preconditions Hamas demanded for prior ceasefires.
Those other "preconditions" included the release of the rearrested Shalit exchange prisoners who were scooped up during the search for the three kidnapped teenagers in June and July; the release of the fourth wave of prisoners which had been part of the peace process aborted during the spring; the extension of maritime rights for "fishing" off of Gaza; and the building of an airport for the Gaza Strip. No mention of any of those by Haniyah on Tuesday.
What Haniyeh did say proves what so many Israeli and pro-Israel commentators have stated repeatedly, and what anti-Israel advocates scream is cruel and racist to suggest. He made clear the more death and destruction Hamas can exhibit - true, staged or otherwise - the better it is for Hamas.
These are his words:
"The image of destruction seen by the world is the proof to the extent of the IDF's defeat and its failure in fighting the brave resistance," to which Haniyeh added, Hamas "will be loyal to our people who were hurt by the brutal aggression. The blood spilled by the deceased and the injured is the leadership's responsibility, we will not abandon them."
In other words, the more dead Gazans, the better the positioning and the more integral Hamas becomes. Bravo to those who engineered this ceasefire. Once again the West is soundly defeated by Palestinian Arab manipulation.
Haniyeh is correct when he claims Hamas achieved a victory. But the party it defeated through arm-wrestling and smoke and mirrors was the West. The true battle had little to do with the military engagement with Israel.
About the Author: Lori Lowenthal Marcus is the US correspondent for The Jewish Press. She is a recovered lawyer who previously practiced First Amendment law and taught in Philadelphia-area graduate and law schools.
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4) WSJ/NBC Poll: Obama Approval Hits All-Time Low
By Todd Beamon
President Barack Obama's approval rating has plunged to an all-time low, as 79 percent of respondents to an Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll said they were dissatisfied with him and the American political system.
"The American public is telling its elected representatives that the economic distress that a significant proportion of them are feeling is directly their fault," Democratic pollster Fred Yang of Hart Research told the Journal. He conducted the poll with Republican Bill McInturff.
"The public seems to have moved beyond the plaintive cry of 'feel our pain' to the more angry pronouncement of 'you are causing our pain,' " Yang added.
That pain has translated into strong feelings among the 1,000 adults polled that their children will not have a better life that they do, that the country is on the wrong track, that America is in a state of decline, that the country is still in recession — and that the nation's economy is not stronger because of unprecedented partisan gridlock in Washington.
"We’re in the summer of our discontent," Peter Hart, a Democratic pollster, told NBC News. "Americans are cranky, unhappy… It is with everything going on the world."
Only 40 percent of those polled between Wednesday and Sunday approve of Obama's performance in the White House — an all-time low, the survey reports. That is down from 41 percent in a June survey.
But President Obama's disapproval rating, 54 percent, matched a previous high — and he got his worst ratings on his handling of foreign policy, 60 percent disapproval to 36 percent approval.
The postings were just as bad for Congress, with only 14 percent supporting what legislators are doing on Capitol Hill. The rating marked the seventh-straight time it has been under 15 percent in an NBC-WSJ poll since 2011.
Republicans are viewed less favorably, 19-54 percent, than Democrats, 31-46 percent.
"I don't think they're working for the middle class," one respondent, Evan Coley, 22, of Albermarle, N.C., told the Journal. He works in an auto-repair shop. "They're trying to help themselves more than anyone else."
Al McCauley, 51, of Greenboro, N.C., who is unemployed, said: "Both sides need to get their act together. They're not working with each other."
Despite these frustrations, however, Americans may not be heading to the polls in record numbers for this fall's congressional elections, the pollsters said.
The dissatisfaction varies with political affiliations — Republicans, Democrats, independents — Hart told NBC.
"We’re unhappy, but we aren’t coalescing around an issue," he said.
Even 57 percent of the survey respondents said that they were so bothered by an issue that they'd easily carry a protest sign for at least one day.
Here are some of the signs:
- "Impeach Obama," a female Republican from Ohio said.
- "Republicans and Congress, do your job," said a male Democrat from Kentucky.
- "Close the borders," added a GOP-leaning female from Massachusetts.
- "Stop bombing people in Ukraine and Gaza and Israel," said a male Democrat from Texas.
- "Our government needs an overhaul," a female independent from Florida said.
Republicans need six seats to win back the upper chamber.
"What we're seeing is a good Republican cycle, but not yet like the wave elections we saw in 2006 and 2010," McInturff told the Journal.
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