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Abbas the trouble maker for Israel but Kerry's hero! (See 2 below.)
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More racial bias from our duo - Obama and Holder? (See 3 and 3a below.)
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Will this Tuesday begin America's return to its better past or will we continue to sink going forward? (See 4 below.)
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Women are just not as stupid as Democrats believe them to be. (See 5 and 5a below.)
I have posted two articles that play on the emotions of women betting women cannot think with their heads.
First of all, Liberal economic policies have resulted in crippling burdens for single parent women trying to work and raise their children. These Liberal economic policies have burdened our nation with deficits which has cheapened the dollar and increased the cost of living which hits the middle and lower classes far more than any other economic class.
Second, Liberal policies, related to welfare, have created a dependent society, forced the male to compete with Uncle Sam's largess and consequently, helped to destroy the family structure, again, leaving women to fend for themselves.
Third, women have been told they earn less for the same job but women, partly because of the above, are unable to work the same hours as their male counterparts and Obama's White House has been proven to be a violator of their own scare tactic.
In some cases, women physically just cannot equal their male counterparts and no where is this more evident than in the military.
The politically correct crowd would have us believe men and women are the same and Mars and Venus do not exist.
This evident fact is not putting women down, it is not a slur on women. It simply recognizes there are differences in the sexes and that is all to the good because the world needs and benefits from balance from ying and yang.
Fourth, the primal responsibility of government is to protect its citizens and I daresay women understand a weak government, that relies on military voluntarism, puts their sons and daughters at grave risk.
I doubt women love their children less than men even if they raised them without husbands.
The Obama Administration might have wished or thought it could withdraw from the world but learned it could not and now our military sons and daughters are more vulnerable than ever.
Finally, Republicans walked off the rational reservation when they deluded themselves into embracing extreme attitudes on social issues and lost elections accordingly.
Republicans have returned to the center on many of these issues and Democrats hit them over the head solely for the purpose of employing scare tactics assuming women are not intelligent enough to think independently.
I find it incongruous that a party that now distances itself from its own leader continues to urge women to embrace him and his radical policies. Boy are Democrats playing you women for fools! Vote for Democrats this time around and women will prove they are as dumb as Democrats suggest.
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Author: Shoshana Bryen
Source: Gatestone Institute.
Yehudah Glick has spent the better part of the last 20 years championing the right of Jews to pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem – Judaism’s holiest site. On Wednesday night, the Palestinians sent a hit man to Jerusalem to kill him.
And today Glick lays in a coma at Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
Two people bear direct responsibility for this terrorist attack: the gunman, and Palestinian Authority President and PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas. The gunman shot Glick, and Abbas told him to shoot Glick.
Abbas routinely glorifies terrorist murder of Jews, and funds terrorism with the PA’s US- and European-funded budget.
But it isn’t often that he directly incites the murder of Jews.
Two weeks ago, Abbas did just that. Speaking to Fatah members, he referred to Jews who wish to pray at Judaism’s holiest site as “settlers.” He then told his audience that they must remain on the Temple Mount at all times to block Jews from entering.
“We must prevent them from entering [the Temple Mount] in any way.... They have no right to enter and desecrate [it]. We must confront them and defend our holy sites,” he said.
As Palestinian Media Watch reported Thursday, in the three days leading up to the assassination attempt on Glick, the PA’s television station broadcast Abbas’s call for attacks on Jews who seek to enter the Temple Mount 19 times.
While Abbas himself is responsible for the hit on Glick, he has had one major enabler – the Obama administration. Since Abbas first issued the order for Palestinians to attack Jews, there have been two terrorist attacks in Jerusalem. Both have claimed American citizens among their victims. Yet the Obama administration has refused to condemn Abbas’s call to murder Jews either before it led to the first terrorist attack or since Glick was shot Wednesday night.
Not only have the White House and the State Department refused to condemn Abbas for soliciting the murder of Jews. They have praised him and attacked Israel and its elected leader. In other words, they are not merely doing nothing, they are actively rewarding Abbas’s aggression, and so abetting it.
Since Abbas called for Palestinians to kill Jews, the White House and State Department have accused Israel of diminishing the prospect of peace by refusing to make massive concessions to Abbas. The concessions the Americans are demanding include accepting the ethnic cleansing of all Jews from land they foresee becoming part of a future Palestinian state; denying Jews the rights to their lawfully held properties in predominantly Arab neighborhoods; and abrogating urban planning procedures in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem built within the areas of the city that Israel took control over from Jordan in 1967.
The US claims that it has great influence over the Palestinians. If this is true, then as Fatah’s official celebrations of Glick’s attempted murder make clear, that influence is being intentionally exercised in a negative way. The Americans are encouraging the Palestinians to be more violent, more radical and more extreme in their demands of Israel and propagation of Jew-hatred.
The Obama administration is abetting Palestinian terrorism today. And it is doing so after it spent last summer siding with Hamas and its state sponsors Qatar and Turkey in its illegal war against Israel.
Moreover, it is important to note that the most outrageous statements the administration has made to date against Israel came after the first terrorist attack in Jerusalem directly inspired by Abbas’s call to murder Jews.
The most outrageous statements the administration has made about Israel came of course this week with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg’s report that senior unnamed Obama administration officials called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a chickenshit” and a “coward.” They also described an administration in a state of “red hot anger” against Netanyahu and his government. Those statements were made after three-month old Chaya Zissel Braun, an American baby, was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem in an Abbas-incited attack.
The most distressing aspect of Goldberg’s quotes is that in and of themselves, these profane, schoolyard bully personal attacks against Israel’s elected leader were the mildest part of the story.
The most disturbing thing about the gutter talk is what they tell us about Israel’s role in Obama’s assessments of his political cards as they relate to his nuclear negotiations with Iran.
The senior administration officials called Netanyahu a coward because, among other reasons, he has not bombed Iran’s nuclear installations.
And now, they crowed, it’s too late for Israel to do anything to stop Iran.
They are happy about this claimed state of affairs, because now Obama is free to make a deal with the Iranians that will allow them to develop nuclear weapons at will.
The obscene rhetoric they adopted in their characterization of Netanyahu didn’t come from “red hot anger.” It was a calculated move. Obama knows that he has caved in on every significant redline that he claimed he would defend in the nuclear talks with Iran.
Obama has chosen to demonize Netanyahu and castigate Israel now as a means to transform the debate about Iran into a debate about Israel. The fact that the trash talk about Netanyahu was a premeditated bid to capture the discourse on Iran is further exposed by the fact that Obama has refused to take any action against the officials who made the statements.
He isn’t going to punish them for carrying out his policies.
As a consequence, any congressional opposition to his deal makes no sense and therefore must be the result of the nefarious Israel’s lobby’s control of Congress. Loyal Americans, like Obama, must stand up to the cowardly, power grabbing, warmongering Jews, led by the coward in chief Netanyahu.
In other words, in castigating Netanyahu and Israel, the Obama administration has decided to use Jew-hatred as a political weapon to defend its policies of abetting Palestinian terrorism and enabling Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
There are critical messages to the Israeli people and our leaders embedded in the Goldberg article.
First, the unbridled attacks against Israel’s democratically elected – and popular – prime minister show us that when we are faced with an inherently hostile administration, the wages of appeasement are contempt.
No Israel leader has done more to appease a US administration than Netanyahu has done to appease Obama. Against the opposition of his party and the general public, Netanyahu in 2009 bowed to Obama’s demand to embrace the goal of establishing a Palestinian state.
Against the opposition of his party and the general public, in 2010 Netanyahu bowed to Obama’s demand and enacted an official 10-month moratorium on Jewish property rights in lands beyond the 1949 armistice lines, and later enacted an unofficial moratorium on those rights.
And Netanyahu bowed to Obama’s pressure, released murderers from prison and conducted negotiations with Abbas that only empowered Abbas and his political war to delegitimize and isolate Israel.
And for all his efforts to appease Obama, today the administration abets Palestinian terrorism and political warfare.
As to Iran, Netanyahu agreed to play along with Obama’s phony sanctions policy, and bowed to Obama’s demand not to attack Iran’s nuclear installations. All of this caused suffering to the Iranian people while giving the regime four-and-ahalf years of more or less unfettered work on its nuclear program.
Netanyahu only cut bait after Obama signed the interim nuclear deal with Iran last November where he effectively gave up the store.
And for Netanyahu’s Herculean efforts to appease Obama, Netanyahu found himself mocked publicly as a coward by senior administration officials who snorted that now it is too late for him to stop Obama from paving Iran’s open road to nuclear power.
One of the assets that Netanyahu’s continuous attempts to please Obama was geared toward securing was US support for Israel at the UN Security Council. And now, according to the senior administration officials, Obama has decided to spend his last two years in office refusing to veto anti-Israel Security Council resolutions.
Before formulating a strategy for dealing with Obama over the next two years, Israelis need to first take a deep breath and recognize that as bad as things are going to get, nothing that Obama will do to us over the next two years is as dangerous as what he has already done. No anti-Israel Security Council resolution, no Obama map of Israel’s borders will endanger Israel as much as his facilitation of Iran’s nuclear program.
As unpleasant as anti-Israel Security Council resolutions will be, and as unpleasant as an Obama framework for Israel’s final borders will be, given the brevity of his remaining time in power, it is highly unlikely that any of the measures will have lasting impact.
At any rate, no matter how upsetting such resolutions may be, Goldberg’s article made clear that Israel should make no concessions to Obama in exchange for a reversal of his plans. Concessions to Obama merely escalate his contempt for us.
Bearing this in mind, Israel’s required actions in the wake of Goldberg’s sources’ warnings are fairly straightforward.
First, to the extent that Israel does have the capacity to damage Iran’s nuclear installations, Israel should act right away. Its capacity should not be saved for a more propitious political moment.
The only clock Israel should care about is Iran’s nuclear clock.
As for the Palestinians, whether Netanyahu’s willingness to stand up to Obama stems from the growing prospect of national elections or from his own determination that there is no point in trying to appease Obama anymore, the fact is that this is the only pragmatic policy for him to follow.
The proper response to the assassination attempt on Yehudah Glick is to allow Jews freedom of worship on the Temple Mount. The proper response to Obama’s nuclear negotiations is a bomb in Natanz. Obama will be angry with Israel for taking such steps. But he is angry with Israel for standing down. At least if we defend ourselves, we will be safe while isolated, rather than unsafe while isolated.
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3) Obama and Holder Ignore Cop-Killings While Obsessing over Ferguson Shooting
President Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder have shown exactly what they think of police officers, based on their actions in two cases.
Sharpton in brief remarks to reporters additionally reiterated a call for St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch to step aside to allow the federal government to head the investigation into the death of Brown, the unarmed teen shot in August by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson.
He charged that leaks to the media about the events that unfolded on Canfield Drive the afternoon Brown was killed have "tainted" the process while "defaming and desecrating Michael Brown."
Sharpton said the leaks of internal investigation reports and the autopsy on Brown's body were designed to "make the victim look like a thug (instead) of an unarmed young man who was shot and killed. There is no reason why probable cause (in the Brown case) has not been executed" with the arrest of Wilson.
The activist and cable television talk show host called the national and local media stories this week on the possible resignation of Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson a distraction that deviates attention from the larger issue of justice.
"Whomever has leaked information has achieved the goal of getting people to prepare for a non-indictment," Gray told reporters.
Sharpton and his National Action Network team have scheduled four days of activities in the St. Louis area -- one day for each of the Brown's body remained on the street following the Aug. 9 shooting.
The events include activities for young people, a Saturday afternoon workshop addressing police brutality, a Sunday gospel concert and a Monday "Get Out the Vote" in advance of the Tuesday general election in which St. Louis County residents will select a new county executive.
Banks instead on Friday submitted his resignation, a circumstance that Sharpton said required his presence in New York for at least a portion of the weekend.
General assignment reporter Steve Giegerich covers St. Louis County.
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Source: Gatestone Institute.
In the run up to November's P5+1 talks, Iran has already won the battles that count; remember, this is the bazaar. After last year's unsatisfactory interim agreement, this author wrote:
A deal that is not a capitulation requires two conditions: the parties must equally value the process; and there has to be a compatible endgame. The West invested the process with much more value than did Iran, providing the mullahs with instant leverage, but most important, there was no agreed-upon end game.
The P5+1 wanted to negotiate the terms of Iran's nuclear surrender; Iran was negotiating the conditions under which it will operate its nuclear program.
We are familiar with the rules of buying a rug in the souk. The goals are compatible — he wants to sell, you want to buy. If you want the rug more than he wants the deal, you will overpay; if he wants the deal more than you want the rug, you win. But either way, money and rug will change hands. Alternatively, if you want to buy a rug and he wants to sell a camel, no matter how ardently you bargain there will be no deal. Unless you change your mind and take the camel.
The White House took the camel.
A speech by Wendy Sherman, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, to a P5+1 symposium in Washington, made that clear:
“The President has pledged to ensure that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon…. Specifically, Iran [took a number of steps, including having] agreed not to make further advances at the Arak heavy water reactor; and opened the door to unprecedented daily access for international inspectors to the facilities at Natanz and Fordow.”
Maybe. But all of the steps Iran took are reversible, IAEA inspectors were denied access to a suspected military site at Parchin, and the issue of warhead delivery systems has not been addressed. If they cheat, it is worth noting that its friend in proliferation, North Korea, appears to have miniaturized a nuclear weapon to fit on a mobile missile. Want to risk it? In Wendy Sherman's words:
“[O]ur group has proposed to Iran a number of ideas that are equitable, enforceable, and consistent with Tehran's expressed desire for a viable civilian nuclear program and that takes into account the country's scientific knowhow and economic needs.”
Iran's legitimate civilian needs could be met through legal purchases of enriched uranium. Iran's “expressed desires” should not be the driver of U.S. policy.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during talks in Vienna, Austria, July 14, 2014. (Image source: U.S. State Department)
According to Sherman:
“Iran's Supreme Leader has repeatedly said that his government has neither the aspiration nor the intention of building a nuclear weapon; indeed, he has said that such a project would be forbidden under Islam. So our proposals are consistent with Iran's own publicly-stated position.”
Why?
“Iran's leaders would very much hope that the world would conclude that the status quo — at least on this pivotal subject — should be acceptable, but obviously, it is not.”
Iran's goal was to establish the principle of its “right” to enrich uranium. Although the relevant UN Resolution says the acceptable level of enrichment is none at all — as does the relevant and lopsidedly approved Congressional sanctions bill — the administration granted Iran's principle and is, in fact, negotiating a level.
Sherman continued,
“The temptation to link the nuclear question to other topics is understandable. However … we are concentrating on one job and one job only, and that is ensuring that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon.”
This single-track negotiation has allowed Iran to proceed without American objection along the path to a variety of other important Iranian ends, including:
Additional repression at home, which is crucial to the longevity of the regime. Twenty-six-year old Reyhaneh Jabbari was the 967th person to be executed since the “moderate” Hassan Rouhani became Iran's president in August 2013. She was convicted of killing the man she accused of raping her, but with no investigation of her claim. The pace of executions has been accelerating: 381 by the end of 2013, 586 so far this year, including Miss Jabbari.
The victims are often hung from cranes in public with an audience that includes children.
There is a new campaign of throwing acid in the faces of women not considered “modest” by roving gangs, and probably instigated by the Basiji paramilitary police. (Check photos on the Internet if you dare, but be warned.) Writer and professor emerita Phyllis Chesler wrote recently that the Women's Freedom Forum of Iran told her laws have been passed to protect the acid throwers, and the regime has been “intimidating the families of the victims and hospital nurses and staff. Reporters are also prevented from going to hospitals to see the victims.”
There are also reports of increasing pressure on non-Muslim communities in Iran. The attacks are much like those of ISIS — but with no condemnation from the White House.
Support for Syrian murderer Bashar Assad: With the U.S. diverting attention to ISIS and demanding that “moderate Syrian rebels” (yes, quotation marks indicate skepticism about whether “moderates” exist and if they do, that we know who they are) shut down their attacks or postpone desired attacks against the Syrian government, which has been repressing, bombing, gassing, and starving their compatriots. Instead, says the U.S., turn on Sunni “radicals,” who are at least cousins of the Sunni “moderates,” and kill them first — removing one threat from Damascus.
More support for Assad — and Iran: The U.S. air campaign is the decision of the President, who said we are there at the “invitation of the Iraqi government.” That creates two problems: the Iraqi government, even the new one, is Shiite-dominated and beholden to Iran; and it makes the U.S. Air Force an agent of those two bodies against their most serious adversaries.
If Iran and the Baghdad government are so worried about ISIS (and they are), why not let THEM do something about it? Why is the U.S. trying (not very successfully) to create a Sunni coalition to fight a Sunni organization? America's tepid air support and failure to provide American or allied “boots on the ground” have already bred resentment among Iraqi Sunnis, who are considering how to create some stability with ISIS rather than fighting what they see as a losing battle. (See U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan for similar problems with the Afghan National Security Force.)
Perhaps most important: The total erasure of all international sanctions. There have been justified complaints about European countries running to do business with Iran, even during the sanctions period; Germany may be the prime offender here. But the U.S. has jumped in bed with them—first releasing billions in frozen Iranian assets and now permitting U.S. companies to sign new contracts with the Islamic Republic. A week ago, Boeing, a major U.S. defense contractor, announced that it had signed its first new contract with Iran since 1979.
The game is not over at halftime. No matter how great the score disparity, if the team behind — in this case the P5+1 — makes adjustments and sticks to its goals, victory is still possible. It is not likely in this instance because the Coach-in-Chief, President Obama, appears to believe the West and Iran are on the same team looking for a negotiated tie.
The Iranians, however, are looking for nuclear weapons.
1a)Iran Wants All Sanctions Lifted in Final Deal
By Arutz Sheva Staff
Iran wants all Western sanctions to be lifted as part of a deal on its contested nuclear program by a November deadline, a top official said Wednesday, according to AFP.
The announcement came amid intensifying efforts to conclude a definitive pact. The six powers in the talks with Iran - Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States plus Germany, known as the P5+1 - have set November 24 as the deadline after they failed to reach an agreement by a previous deadline in July.
However, the chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said an American proposal of a gradual lifting of sanctions was “unacceptable.”
“If we want a definitive accord on November 24, there must be an immediate lifting of sanctions,” he told a news conference in Paris, according to AFP.
A Western diplomat close to the negotiations with Iran on Monday said a firm deal by the deadline was highly unlikely, saying Tehran would have to make “significant gestures.”
The aim is to close avenues towards Tehran ever developing an atomic bomb, by cutting back its enrichment program, shutting down suspect facilities and imposing tough international inspections.
In return, the global community would suspend and then gradually lift crippling economic sanctions imposed on the Islamic republic.
But the two sides, despite long-running talks, remain far apart on how to reconcile their objectives.
Western officials have said there are still important differences between the sides, especially over the future scope of Iran's production of enriched uranium, which can be used to fuel atomic energy plants but can also provide the fissile core of a bomb if purified to a high degree.
Iran has been toughening its position, with senior negotiator Abbas Araqchi saying last week he sees no prospect for a deal unless the other side abandons its “illogical excessive demands”.
Araqchi recently indicated that nuclear talks with world powers could be extended again if no deal is reached by the November 24 deadline.
However, an American official dismissed the possibility of talks being extended yet again after November, saying there were no talks now about extending the deadline.
2) Being safe while isolated
By Caroline B. Glick
And today Glick lays in a coma at Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
Two people bear direct responsibility for this terrorist attack: the gunman, and Palestinian Authority President and PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas. The gunman shot Glick, and Abbas told him to shoot Glick.
Abbas routinely glorifies terrorist murder of Jews, and funds terrorism with the PA’s US- and European-funded budget.
But it isn’t often that he directly incites the murder of Jews.
Two weeks ago, Abbas did just that. Speaking to Fatah members, he referred to Jews who wish to pray at Judaism’s holiest site as “settlers.” He then told his audience that they must remain on the Temple Mount at all times to block Jews from entering.
“We must prevent them from entering [the Temple Mount] in any way.... They have no right to enter and desecrate [it]. We must confront them and defend our holy sites,” he said.
As Palestinian Media Watch reported Thursday, in the three days leading up to the assassination attempt on Glick, the PA’s television station broadcast Abbas’s call for attacks on Jews who seek to enter the Temple Mount 19 times.
While Abbas himself is responsible for the hit on Glick, he has had one major enabler – the Obama administration. Since Abbas first issued the order for Palestinians to attack Jews, there have been two terrorist attacks in Jerusalem. Both have claimed American citizens among their victims. Yet the Obama administration has refused to condemn Abbas’s call to murder Jews either before it led to the first terrorist attack or since Glick was shot Wednesday night.
Not only have the White House and the State Department refused to condemn Abbas for soliciting the murder of Jews. They have praised him and attacked Israel and its elected leader. In other words, they are not merely doing nothing, they are actively rewarding Abbas’s aggression, and so abetting it.
Since Abbas called for Palestinians to kill Jews, the White House and State Department have accused Israel of diminishing the prospect of peace by refusing to make massive concessions to Abbas. The concessions the Americans are demanding include accepting the ethnic cleansing of all Jews from land they foresee becoming part of a future Palestinian state; denying Jews the rights to their lawfully held properties in predominantly Arab neighborhoods; and abrogating urban planning procedures in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem built within the areas of the city that Israel took control over from Jordan in 1967.
The US claims that it has great influence over the Palestinians. If this is true, then as Fatah’s official celebrations of Glick’s attempted murder make clear, that influence is being intentionally exercised in a negative way. The Americans are encouraging the Palestinians to be more violent, more radical and more extreme in their demands of Israel and propagation of Jew-hatred.
The Obama administration is abetting Palestinian terrorism today. And it is doing so after it spent last summer siding with Hamas and its state sponsors Qatar and Turkey in its illegal war against Israel.
Moreover, it is important to note that the most outrageous statements the administration has made to date against Israel came after the first terrorist attack in Jerusalem directly inspired by Abbas’s call to murder Jews.
The most outrageous statements the administration has made about Israel came of course this week with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg’s report that senior unnamed Obama administration officials called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a chickenshit” and a “coward.” They also described an administration in a state of “red hot anger” against Netanyahu and his government. Those statements were made after three-month old Chaya Zissel Braun, an American baby, was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem in an Abbas-incited attack.
The most distressing aspect of Goldberg’s quotes is that in and of themselves, these profane, schoolyard bully personal attacks against Israel’s elected leader were the mildest part of the story.
The most disturbing thing about the gutter talk is what they tell us about Israel’s role in Obama’s assessments of his political cards as they relate to his nuclear negotiations with Iran.
The senior administration officials called Netanyahu a coward because, among other reasons, he has not bombed Iran’s nuclear installations.
And now, they crowed, it’s too late for Israel to do anything to stop Iran.
They are happy about this claimed state of affairs, because now Obama is free to make a deal with the Iranians that will allow them to develop nuclear weapons at will.
The obscene rhetoric they adopted in their characterization of Netanyahu didn’t come from “red hot anger.” It was a calculated move. Obama knows that he has caved in on every significant redline that he claimed he would defend in the nuclear talks with Iran.
Obama has chosen to demonize Netanyahu and castigate Israel now as a means to transform the debate about Iran into a debate about Israel. The fact that the trash talk about Netanyahu was a premeditated bid to capture the discourse on Iran is further exposed by the fact that Obama has refused to take any action against the officials who made the statements.
He isn’t going to punish them for carrying out his policies.
Obama knows that after next week’s midterm elections, he will likely be facing a Republican-controlled House and Senate. He has no substantive defense against attacks on his policy of enabling the world’s most active state sponsor of terrorism to acquire nuclear weapons. The threat a nuclear- armed Iran poses to the US is self-evident to most people who pay attention to foreign affairs.
Since he can’t win the substantive debate, he wants to change the subject by pretending that the only country that opposes Iran’s nuclear weapons program is Israel, which, his senior advisers insinuated to Goldberg, was apparently bluffing about its danger. After all, if it was a reason for concern, Netanyahu would have bombed Iran three years ago rather than try to accommodate Obama.
As a consequence, any congressional opposition to his deal makes no sense and therefore must be the result of the nefarious Israel’s lobby’s control of Congress. Loyal Americans, like Obama, must stand up to the cowardly, power grabbing, warmongering Jews, led by the coward in chief Netanyahu.
In other words, in castigating Netanyahu and Israel, the Obama administration has decided to use Jew-hatred as a political weapon to defend its policies of abetting Palestinian terrorism and enabling Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
There are critical messages to the Israeli people and our leaders embedded in the Goldberg article.
First, the unbridled attacks against Israel’s democratically elected – and popular – prime minister show us that when we are faced with an inherently hostile administration, the wages of appeasement are contempt.
No Israel leader has done more to appease a US administration than Netanyahu has done to appease Obama. Against the opposition of his party and the general public, Netanyahu in 2009 bowed to Obama’s demand to embrace the goal of establishing a Palestinian state.
Against the opposition of his party and the general public, in 2010 Netanyahu bowed to Obama’s demand and enacted an official 10-month moratorium on Jewish property rights in lands beyond the 1949 armistice lines, and later enacted an unofficial moratorium on those rights.
And Netanyahu bowed to Obama’s pressure, released murderers from prison and conducted negotiations with Abbas that only empowered Abbas and his political war to delegitimize and isolate Israel.
And for all his efforts to appease Obama, today the administration abets Palestinian terrorism and political warfare.
As to Iran, Netanyahu agreed to play along with Obama’s phony sanctions policy, and bowed to Obama’s demand not to attack Iran’s nuclear installations. All of this caused suffering to the Iranian people while giving the regime four-and-ahalf years of more or less unfettered work on its nuclear program.
Netanyahu only cut bait after Obama signed the interim nuclear deal with Iran last November where he effectively gave up the store.
And for Netanyahu’s Herculean efforts to appease Obama, Netanyahu found himself mocked publicly as a coward by senior administration officials who snorted that now it is too late for him to stop Obama from paving Iran’s open road to nuclear power.
One of the assets that Netanyahu’s continuous attempts to please Obama was geared toward securing was US support for Israel at the UN Security Council. And now, according to the senior administration officials, Obama has decided to spend his last two years in office refusing to veto anti-Israel Security Council resolutions.
Before formulating a strategy for dealing with Obama over the next two years, Israelis need to first take a deep breath and recognize that as bad as things are going to get, nothing that Obama will do to us over the next two years is as dangerous as what he has already done. No anti-Israel Security Council resolution, no Obama map of Israel’s borders will endanger Israel as much as his facilitation of Iran’s nuclear program.
As unpleasant as anti-Israel Security Council resolutions will be, and as unpleasant as an Obama framework for Israel’s final borders will be, given the brevity of his remaining time in power, it is highly unlikely that any of the measures will have lasting impact.
At any rate, no matter how upsetting such resolutions may be, Goldberg’s article made clear that Israel should make no concessions to Obama in exchange for a reversal of his plans. Concessions to Obama merely escalate his contempt for us.
Bearing this in mind, Israel’s required actions in the wake of Goldberg’s sources’ warnings are fairly straightforward.
First, to the extent that Israel does have the capacity to damage Iran’s nuclear installations, Israel should act right away. Its capacity should not be saved for a more propitious political moment.
The only clock Israel should care about is Iran’s nuclear clock.
As for the Palestinians, whether Netanyahu’s willingness to stand up to Obama stems from the growing prospect of national elections or from his own determination that there is no point in trying to appease Obama anymore, the fact is that this is the only pragmatic policy for him to follow.
The proper response to the assassination attempt on Yehudah Glick is to allow Jews freedom of worship on the Temple Mount. The proper response to Obama’s nuclear negotiations is a bomb in Natanz. Obama will be angry with Israel for taking such steps. But he is angry with Israel for standing down. At least if we defend ourselves, we will be safe while isolated, rather than unsafe while isolated.
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3) Obama and Holder Ignore Cop-Killings While Obsessing over Ferguson Shooting
President Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder have shown exactly what they think of police officers, based on their actions in two cases.
In one, they apparently presume that a Ferguson, MO police officer murdered a man who allegedly surrendered with his hands raised. In the other, which they have ignored, a cop-killer in Sacramento, CA. rightly presumed that police wouldn’t kill him if he surrendered.
A twice-deported illegal alien, Luis Enrique Monroy Bracamonte, 34, is charged with murdering Sacramento County Deputy Sheriff Danny Oliver and Placer County Homicide Detective Michael David Davis Jr on Oct. 24. During his six-hour shooting rampage and police chase, Bracamonte shot another Placer County deputy in his arm and shot a civilian in the head who resisted being car-jacked. Bracamonte surrendered after tear gas was fired into the house where he was hiding.
Neither President Obama nor Attorney General Holder has expressed a word of outrage over the murders nor expressed sympathy to the families. Oliver left a wife and two daughters. Davis is survived by a wife and four daughters.
Three days after the murders, Attorney General Holder overlooked the sacrifices of Oliver and Davis while reminding the conference of International Association of Police Chiefs on Oct. 27, that such “sacrifices” are “too often overlooked.” He remembered to remind attendees about “lingering tensions” in “Ferguson, Missouri.
The president and his attorney general have called for justice for Michael Brown, which presumes that Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson police officer, illegally shot Brown, a black man, to death even though Brown had allegedly raised his hands to surrender.
Who but race-baiters believe that a police officer with no record of using excessive force would murder someone in broad daylight in front of witnesses with cameras, and make up a defense easily refuted by forensic evidence?
President Obama sent three White House officials to Brown’s funeral. Both he and his attorney general have made numerous statements about the “tragedy” of Brown’s death.
Attorney General Holder flew to Ferguson “to make an on the ground assessment” after dispatching 40 FBI agents to investigate Wilson for violating Brown’s civil rights before a local investigation got off the ground.
While there, he played his favorite race card, saying:
"I am the Attorney General of the United States. But I am also a black man."
What is the basis for Holder’s assumption that race had anything to do with the “split-second” decision Officer Wilson had to make when he was attacked by the 6’4, 289-pound Brown. There is none.
The attorney general is upset at media leaks, including Brown’s autopsy report, forensic evidence, and several black eyewitnesses who corroborate Officer Wilson’s testimony that he feared for his life. He wants the leakers to “shut up” because “they’re trying somehow to shape public opinion about this case.” How dare they assume his role?
Mr. Holder stood by his insult that America is a nation of cowards when it comes to race during an interview at the Aspen Institute on Wednesday. He also stated that the Ferguson Police Department needs “wholesale change,” even though the DOJ investigation isn’t complete.
Despite threats by community and outside agitators to riot again unless Officer Wilson is indicted, our president and attorney general have done nothing to dissuade threats of mob violence.
President Obama fueled the Ferguson fire on Sept. 29, telling the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual awards dinner that “the widespread mistrust of law enforcement … is having a corrosive effect on the nation, particularly on its children.”
The president has a history of expressing contempt for police. In 2009, he accused the Cambridge, Mass. Police Department of acting “stupidly” when a white officer, Sgt. James Crowley, arrested Obama’s friend, Henry Louis Gates Jr, a black Harvard professor. See here.
In 2011, the first family showed blatant disrespect for police when they welcomed to the White House a rap poet who celebrates cop killers. Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., known professionally as "Common," performed a few days before thousands of police officers arrived in Washington for "National Police Week," the annual memorial to honor fallen officers. See here.
Law enforcement had their fill when Obama nominated Debo Adegbile, former attorney for convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, to oversee the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. The Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate rejected the nomination.
Back in California, adding insult to injury after releasing Bracamonte from custody four times, ICE wants custody of him again if he is released by California law enforcement. The Obama administration must be running out of illegal alien felons to set loose in the U.S after releasing thousands of them.
In light of the above, it isn’t hard to understand why two aunts of slain officer Michael Davis Jr. expressed to Sean Hannity of Fox News on Wednesday their outrage at his death at the hands of an illegal alien:
“Our entire family, we are so angry, it’s beyond words …. It has to stop … There can’t be any more like this.”
Hannity asked what their reaction would be if Obama expressed his sympathy to them.
“I’m not even sure. I don’t even know if I could be kind. Because I think his words would fall on deaf ears. I just don’t think I can handle him saying he is sorry.”
Last Friday evening, Placer County Sheriff Bonner said:
"I think there's those people who would say, 'You know what, I wish you'd killed him [Bracamonte]. Now, that's not who we are. We are not him. We did our job."
Why haven't we heard expressions of sorrow from our president and attorney general by now if they agreed?
Jan LaRue is senior legal analyst for the American Civil Rights Union.
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Al Sharpton returns to stir up Ferguson
ST. LOUIS -- The Rev. Al Sharpton Friday kicked off four days of symposiums, workshops and rallies to ask Ferguson activists keep the focus on attaining justice for Michael Brown and his family.
"If there is not justice for this family than we have not achieved the goals of this movement," Sharpton told a gathering of 125 supporters at the Jonas Hubbard Community Center Neighborhood Center on St. Louis' near north side.
Sharpton in brief remarks to reporters additionally reiterated a call for St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch to step aside to allow the federal government to head the investigation into the death of Brown, the unarmed teen shot in August by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson.
He charged that leaks to the media about the events that unfolded on Canfield Drive the afternoon Brown was killed have "tainted" the process while "defaming and desecrating Michael Brown."
Sharpton said the leaks of internal investigation reports and the autopsy on Brown's body were designed to "make the victim look like a thug (instead) of an unarmed young man who was shot and killed. There is no reason why probable cause (in the Brown case) has not been executed" with the arrest of Wilson.
The activist and cable television talk show host called the national and local media stories this week on the possible resignation of Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson a distraction that deviates attention from the larger issue of justice.
In her own remarks, Lesley McSpadden, Brown's mother, renewed the family's plea for peaceful demonstrations after the county grand jury hearing evidence in the case releases its findings.
Brown family attorney Anthony Gray said the information appearing in the media about the case has also upset the family.
"Whomever has leaked information has achieved the goal of getting people to prepare for a non-indictment," Gray told reporters.
He however said that McSpadden continues to hope that Wilson will suffer the "consequences for the death of her child."
Sharpton and his National Action Network team have scheduled four days of activities in the St. Louis area -- one day for each of the Brown's body remained on the street following the Aug. 9 shooting.
The events include activities for young people, a Saturday afternoon workshop addressing police brutality, a Sunday gospel concert and a Monday "Get Out the Vote" in advance of the Tuesday general election in which St. Louis County residents will select a new county executive.
Sharpton announced Friday that the unexpected resignation of a high-ranking New York City Police Department administrator will cause him to miss some of the scheduled St. Louis events.
New York Police Commissioner William Bratton had announced earlier this week that Philip Banks III, currently the department's highest ranking uniformed officer, would be promoted to first deputy commissioner -- the agency's second highest rank.
Banks instead on Friday submitted his resignation, a circumstance that Sharpton said required his presence in New York for at least a portion of the weekend.
General assignment reporter Steve Giegerich covers St. Louis County.
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4)Which Will We Choose? Our America, or Theirs?
Many of us were raised in pre-Liberal Apocalypse America – the one in which our parents were largely responsible for reducing real racism to a statistical anomaly. It was an America populated by people who were not so deluded by a belief in their own superiority that they unilaterally declared themselves the arbiters of the rights of their political opponents. In that America, it was understood that those practicing religions different from one’s own coexisted without a concealed belief that we deserved to die for our beliefs, and that it was the right of the zealot to act as executioner. In America, people worked, they earned a living, they paid their own bills, they raised their own children, they taught those children right from wrong, and they expected to be left alone by their neighbors and their government unless they were breaking a law. It didn’t take a village full of grievance-mongers, predators, criminals, pedophiles, emotional degenerates, grifters, and self-declared victims. It took a family, led by parents who were raised with values distilled from generations of wisdom and experience, both black and white.
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In that America, liberals were still sufficiently “of” America that they identified with it as their country, too, and its heritage was also theirs. They were the children of the “Greatest Generation” and the grandchildren of immigrants who came legally, assimilated, and were grateful for the opportunities that grew from their hard work.
Those days are gone, and we are no longer fellow citizens of the same America. Our America is under angry, determined, and endless attack by other Americans who seek to conquer it and remake it in their image. Of course, that image depends on the aggressor. For some, it will be socialist at least, and communist at best. For others, it will be dominated by those practicing every vice known to decay and destroy a culture. For some, it will be a nation of pagan environmentalism. For others, an arena in which sexual preference equals advantages over others, and the power to make the unwilling conform to and celebrate such choices. Perhaps it will be a gun free zone where the innocent are more easily killed by the evil. For some, it will be an Islamic theocracy.
What it will decidedly not be is a nation of equality of rights, representative government, opportunity, and liberty. We can no longer act as if we don’t recognize that the left intends to eradicate the old America forever. We are to be overwhelmed, conquered, and converted, and we are to have no say in what is done to us. Historically, states that fail to see the malice in their neighbors are destined to be defeated and enslaved by those neighbors. Though we usually recognize this in the context of nations, it is time we recognize that such wars are also internal, internecine struggles that determine the survival of a nation as constituted. Evil, even in Americans, will eventually rise up and attempt to smother good.
For many reasons, this is a troubling concept to accept, since for so long we have considered other Americans to be like us, of America rather than merely in it. We share a common heritage, common history, common values, and common goals, don’t we?
Actually, no, we do not, and the sooner we come to terms with those who work every day to force us to live in their misshapen and fundamentally deformed America, the better. For those of you who still think that liberals/Democrats are also like-minded Americans, with all the commonalities just listed, ask yourselves this: if we shared a common heritage, why is it so important to the left to eradicate or rewrite it? If we shared a common history, why won’t they admit to that history, or the goodness of America that made it what it is, or was? Common values? Not unless pervasive dishonesty and lawlessness in the acquisition and illicit use of power, enabled by propaganda and intimidation, are common values.
Perhaps it is in the matter of common goals that the divisions are most clearly drawn for those unable to admit the rest. Those who are of America see the timeless and near flawless wisdom of a governmental code that prevents one faction from intimidating and overpowering the others. They see protected human freedom as the epitome of evolution, the crowning achievement of an enlightened civilization that welcomes those who subscribe to the code in good faith. They see guarded liberty as the fruition of all that is best in humanity, with each person free to take the actions and make the choices that maximize his return on his own skill, talents, dedication, ethics, and time. They give to those in need, because it is what they wish, and they are generous as a people.
Those who are no longer of that America have wholly abandoned such concepts as freedom, liberty, loyalty, and honesty. It is upon the antitheses of these that the left has commenced to remake America. Criminals have known for centuries that it is easier to steal than to earn, that they can more easily break into a house than enter as a respected guest or neighbor, and that they must take by force what they cannot justly receive. Those practicing these trades as politicians, celebrities, officials, judges, and even citizens have cynically rejected the social code that enabled their own success, and have replaced it with the tyranny that will enrich them at the expense of other Americans.
So how do we arrest their march? We can start by admitting that the greatest threat to America at this moment in our history is actually posed by Americans. Look around you. They are not merely temporarily misguided, and we are not still all one blended family. Do they appear to accept that premise? As they actively force their faults, failures, immorality, and deception upon you, do you think they are troubled by the fact that those upon whom they force their vice are also Americans? Did they seem to care when they stole our money to pay off their friends and benefactors and called it stimulus? Did they care when they passed Obamacare, knowing that millions of Americans would lose their insurance? Did they care when they used the IRS to attack fellow Americans? How about when they rig voting machines, or engage in wholesale fraud, to nullify your vote? When they falsely redefine marriage, do they appear concerned for your views or beliefs? When they repeatedly vote to deny rights and freedoms to Americans who disagree with them, while creating entirely new ones for others who will vote for them, do they seem concerned? Or when they open the border to bring in every rapist, child molester, cop-killer, and drug-pusher who appreciates such a vast new workplace? Or when terrorists are freed, stable nations are destabilized, and our nation is weakened, all of which will bear bitter fruit our children will have to eat? Have they ever seemed troubled to you? Why should they be? They believe in their mission and objectives. They intend to win.
All this evil, and not even a single moment of self-doubt or remorse. We have seen the enemy, and he is us. Or he used to be. Every moment spent not seeing that these Americans are the greatest threat to our future as a free people is wasted. We cannot defeat the enemies outside if we do not defeat the enemy inside the gate first. We can make a start next Tuesday, but that must be merely a start. We must work as hard to get America back as they have worked to steal it.
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5) Democrats Count on Edge With Women to Limit Election Losses
Democrats are nervously counting on an enduring edge among female voters in most states to prevent a Republican rout in Tuesday’s elections. Yet so great is the uncertainty that even before the returns are in, some are second-guessing the party’s strategy of focusing more on issues like abortion and birth control than on jobs and the economy.
Democrats are nervously counting on an enduring edge among female voters in most states to prevent a Republican rout in Tuesday’s elections. Yet so great is the uncertainty that even before the returns are in, some are second-guessing the party’s strategy of focusing more on issues like abortion and birth control than on jobs and the economy.
The danger for Democratic candidates is that their advantage among women could be so reduced by dissatisfaction with President Obama and the country’s course that it is not enough to offset Republicans’ usual edge among the smaller population of male voters. Should that happen, a party pollster, Geoff Garin, acknowledged, “They’ll lose.”
But he and other Democratic strategists professed optimism, however tempered, for the party’s imperiled Senate majority, among other things. Mr. Garin pointed to surveys of states with the most competitive Senate contests showing that on average Democratic candidates lead among women by about 12 points, while men favor the Republican by an average of nine points. Since women account for more than half the electorate, Democrats theoretically can withstand some erosion of support.
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