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With Washington, D.C., talking Israeli politics, National Review Online asked experts: “Going into a presidential-election year, what’s a sane, responsible Israel policy?”
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President Barack Obama’s biggest claim to support of Israel is: “When the chips are down, I have Israel’s back.” Sorry, Mr. Obama, that’s not what America needs to “have”. We don’t need you at our Backs, pushing us. We are not human shields which you can hide in “back” of. We need America to stand side-by-side with Israel – and our other Western allies – to defend all Western Civilization from Nuclear Holocaust.
Susan Rice, US Ambassador to the UN says: “We remain determined not to rest until a democratic and peaceful state (sic) of Israel lives side-by-side with a viable and secure Palestinian state.” All their maps show their “Palestine” with the Terror flag over, on top of, eliminating the Jewish State of Israel. Their letterheads, army uniforms, big pictures on the wall in front of where they host their guests for Television photo Ops…all show their map wiping Israel away.
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BE MY FRIEND….SHARE PEACE….(AND TAKE ANOTHER PIECE OF ISRAEL)
IS THERE ANOTHER WORLD LEADER WHO IS AS DUMB? RSK
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=260676
PM hands Obama a Megila: Persian plot against Jews
NURIT GREENGER EXPLAINS:
“Netanyahu presented Obama with a gift, a Scroll of Esther. This is the Megillah — that tells the story of the anti-Semite plot of Haman, in Persia, in the Fifth Century BCE, to annihilate the Jewish people, and the way in which Esther foiled the plot, enabling the people to rise up and destroy their enemies: Where Persia once stood Iran stands today.
“And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they would unto them that hated them,” one of the verses says.”
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/41054#CurDomainURL#/blog.cfm
‘Dhimmicrat’ Rep. Marcy Kaptur Wins Redrawn Ohio 9th C.D. Primary Beating Fellow Progressive, Rep. Dennis Kucinichby Jerry Gordon
….THE MOSLEMS HAVE KAPTURED HER IMAGINATION IT SEEMS…..IN HER WORDS…..
“One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown”
The narrow victory of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney over challenger, former US Senator Rick Santorum in the early hours of March 7th in the GOP primary may have overshadowed the victory of Rep. Marcy Kaptur over veteran progressive Rep. Dennis Kucinich in the redrawn Ohio 9th Congressional District, Democratic primary. The National Journal reported on her victory over Kunich in a brief note,”Kaptur Defeats Kucinich in Ohio’s 9th District Primary”:
The Cleveland Plain Dealer called the race for Kaptur near midnight. With 84 percent of precincts reporting, Kaptur led Kucinich 60 percent to 36 percent.
Kaptur and Kucinich were drawn into the same district after slow population growth forced Ohio to contract two seats in congressional redistricting last year. Kucinich ran strong in his Cuyahoga County base outside Cleveland, but Kaptur more than made up the difference around her home in Toledo and the sliver of territory between the two cities that was new to both representatives.
Kaptur’s victory puts her in pole position for the top Democratic slot on the powerful House Appropriations Committee next year. She is the second-ranking Democrat on the committee now, but ranking member Norm Dicks, D-Wash., announced last week that he will retire at the end of this Congress.
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1488
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his team were working hard to refine and edit the speech he had prepared to present to AIPAC’s annual conference in Washington on Monday evening. Though the text had been ready prior to Netanyahu’s arrival in the United States, it was understood that it was not the final draft. This is because the prime minister had to wait to hear U.S. President Barack Obama’s address – as well as meet with the American leader face-to-face – before finalizing his own public statements.
Meanwhile, speculation ran rampant about whether Obama was going to give Netanyahu the usual wrist-slap and tongue-lashing – this time about Iran, rather than the Palestinians – or merely tell him in no uncertain terms that it would be in everyone’s best interest to give Tehran another chance to relinquish its nuclear ambitions and program.
http://pjmedia.com/spengler/
The Sunday morning edition of Germany’s Die Welt reports that Western intelligence agencies detected two nuclear weapons tests in North Korea in 2010, and that one or both of them might have been conducted for Iran. Die Welt sets the reported nuclear tests in the context of new documentation showing that the Iranian regime began its drive for nuclear weapons as early as 1984, under the direct orders of the late Ayatollah Khomeini. The author is the respected German analyst Hans Rühle, whose evaluation of Israel’s capacity to cripple the Iranian nuclear program created a stir last month.
The Die Welt report reads like a line-by-line refutation of the reported U.S. intelligence evaluation that there is no “hard evidence” that Iran is building nuclear weapons. That is a noteworthy reversal: the Obama administration’s intelligence chiefs claim that Iran is not an imminent threat, while a former top German official warns of immediate danger to the Jewish state. The fact is that there are some Germans who do not want to be responsible for a second Holocaust.
I AM NOT THE CHAIRLADY OF THE BIBI FAN CLUB…..HE’S ERRED MANY TIMES….BUT WHEN I HEARD HIS SPEECH I WAS PROUD OF HIM….ONE OF HIS FINEST MOMENTS. WE JEWS ARE ALWAYS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES…AND SOMETIMES THE THREATS ARE SELF INFLICTED….BUT WHEN THE PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL STANDS IN AMERICA, THIS GLORIOUS CORNER OF THE DIASPORA AND SPEAKS THE FOLLOWING WORDS….I CHEER AND BLESS HIM…..RSK
“As prime minister of Israel, I will never let my people live in the shadow of annihilation.”
“My friends, 2012 is not 1944,” “The American government today is different. You heard that in President Obama’s speech yesterday. The Jewish people are also different. Today we have a Jewish state.”And that state exists to ensure that the slaughter of the Jewish people will “never again” happen.”
“That is why Israel must always have the right to defend itself — by itself — against any threats.”
Al-Qaeda Bar Advancing Inside DOJ
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President Obama has promoted Tony West to the number three job at the Department of Justice – associate attorney general. The former Civil Division head will oversee a wide array of issues, including enforcement of federal election laws in the 2012 presidential election, but also GITMO detainee policy. Before coming to the Justice Department, West and his San Francisco law firm represented some of the most radical Islamic terrorist causes, including the American Taliban John Walker Lindh.
West’s firm also was involved in the case of Mohamed vs. Jeppesen Dataplan, effectively attacking the CIA high value detainee rendition program. They also assisted the defense of Mohammed Al Qahtani, considered the 20th hijacker. But naturally, you won’t learn any of this in Sari Horwitz’s Washingon Post announcement of West’s promotion.
West is not alone among new Obama DOJ lawyers who represented radical causes. West brought more members of the al-Qaeda bar with him to the Civil Division at Justice to oversee GITMO policy. As Jennifer Rubin has reported at the Weekly Standard, West also failed to recuse himself, it seems, from terrorist cases his firm worked on even after West arrived at the Justice Department.
Most disturbing of all, Rubin reports that these members of the GITMO bar which West placed in charge of GITMO policy may have failed to recuse themselves sufficiently. Rubin:
Other attorneys in the civil division who came from firms that represented detainees—such as Brian Martinez (West’s chief of staff), Geoffrey Graber (counsel to the assistant attorney general), and Ian Gershengorn (West’s deputy in charge of the Federal Programs Branch, which handles habeas petitions)—recused themselves from individual cases where their former firms represented detainees. Gershengorn, however, continued to play a role in setting policy on issues relating to his prior cases. In an email dated July 14, 2009, he wrote, “I have realized that, while I can discuss policy issues arising from substantial support etc., I cannot work directly on the brief because it is one of the Boumediene cases, and Jenner had an amicus brief in that case.” (This begs the question of who, if anyone, was supervising the habeas petitions and the matters from which the political appointees were recused.)
West’s representation of Lindh, however, is particularly troubling. Even after Lindh was sentenced, and the case was concluded, West made outrageous statements to the Washington Post defending Lindh as a good person. “He’s so intellectually-driven, and he has a wide variety of interests — from English literature to World History to Islamic studies. I truly believe John will have a lot to offer after his incarceration.”
Left-wing defenders like to crow that everyone deserves a right to a lawyer. Fine, but that doesn’t mean you get to work at the Justice Department, and certainly doesn’t mean you should be setting GITMO policy.
Cully Stimson, former deputy assistant secretary for detainee affairs in the Bush administration, raised the question whether big law firms like Jenner and Block and Covington and Burling should devote so many millions of dollars to terrorist causes without raising legitimate questions for other paying clients who were effectively subsidizing the terrorist work. Stimson was right, even if those who should have defended him didn’t. But the question first raised by Stimson years ago has grown even more acute.
DOES HILLARY, PURVEYOR OF “PUTTING CHILDREN FIRST” NOTICE OR CARE?OR IS BASHING ISRAEL HER PRIMARY OBSESSION?….RSK
URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/06/afghan-police-free-41-child-suicide-bombers/
More than 20 people died recently in “religious” riots in Afghanistan. The spark that set off the conflagration was the burning of several Korans by American soldiers after it was discovered extremist prisoners at an air force base near Kabul were using Islam’s holy book and other religious writings from the prison library to exchange messages with other prisoners they had no contact with.
The fact the Muslim inmates had already desecrated the Korans by defacing them with writing didn’t stop the usual “outraged,” rent-a-religious mob from furiously and hysterically shouting “Death To America.” It also didn’t prevent the subsequent murder of several US soldiers and President Obama from rushing to make an apology.
But that was not the least of the hypocrisy surrounding this staged, anti-American and anti-Western disturbance. Largely passed over by the mainstream media, about the same time the “religious” riots were happening Afghan police freed 41 Afghan children who were being taken to Pakistan to be indoctrinated for use as suicide bombers. The police also were able to arrest four handlers transporting this condemned cargo of innocents.
The ages of the children are shocking. The youngest child destined for a jihadist’s death was six-years-old while the oldest was eleven. They all came from poor Afghan families whose parents, in allowing them to leave, believed they were going to madrassas in Pakistan to receive a free education. Authorities returned the children to their families.
Earlier last month, Afghan police arrested a further two child suicide bombers, both aged 10, before they could attack NATO and Afghan military personnel and civilians. The children were reportedly released when the president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, pardoned them along with 18 other children. The problem of child suicide bombers is so severe in Afghanistan that one of Karzai’s ministers warned that people should watch out for their children aged seven to 13 years old.
