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http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=3738

What reasonable interest does someone in the Pentagon have in hardening the Iranian pharaoh’s heart on the eve of Passover, and indicating to him that he has nothing to fear? This borders on insanity.
Is President Barack Obama bent on preventing unilateral Israeli action against Iran?

At the height of the U.S.-Israel honeymoon, officials in Washington embarked on a puzzling and stinging diplomatic maneuver against Israel over the latter’s purported plans to attack Iran’s nuclear program. These were not verbal single shots, but rather a sustained attack using machine-gun bursts and cluster bombs.

First, there were claims that an Israeli attack on Iran would delay production of a nuclear bomb by only half a year, and would result in the deaths of 200 Americans. Not that the number is insignificant, but how many Americans have died in hopeless U.S. military initiatives that were doomed to failure from the get-go in the past few years?

Few compare to The Jerusalem Post’s Sarah Honig in terms of her keen analyses of the Middle East. Yes, there are some…but Sarah truly is one of the best out there right now. Something about that name, perhaps…???
In one of her latest, Another Tack: Batman and the Iron Dome http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?ID=264041&R=R1, she points out the futility and extreme expense of fighting–but not to win.
That, in turn, brought back memories of my own frustration with such policies over the years. Given that the region is still business as usual, I’ve decided to share those thoughts from a decade ago (and now also a chapter in my book http://q4j-middle-east.com) with hopefully a new crop of readers. Let’s get started…
A family asleep in their own home gets decimated. Among the massacred, the 3-month old infant gets decapitated and her parents’ and two young siblings’ throats are slashed.

A young father and his infant son are killed while driving in their car, people are murdered on a bus, schools and homes are blasted by rockets, mortars, and missiles, and so forth.

Once again, after allegedly intelligent Jews traded over a thousand Arabs for one kidnapped soldier, Israel is bombarded daily with increasingly more powerful and longer distance weaponry. Many of the released Arab prisoners had blood on their hands and should have never been taken alive in the first place given the history of blackmail tied to such experiences. Even more recently, Israel was pounded by hundreds of Arab missiles in just a few days. The UN and the rest of the world did what they usually do–wag their fingers at the Arabs and then quickly lecture Jews to show restraint.

http://www.investigativeproject.org/3513/jasser-appointment-riles-islamists

He has different views than most of the national Muslim advocacy groups featured in the media, and for that, Islamist groups have worked to keep Zuhdi Jasser from gaining traction in the national debate over religion and extremism.

He has been smeared as an Uncle Tom, a clown and even a “sock puppet” for anti-Muslim forces. So when it was announced Monday that Jasser had been appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Islamists frothed with hyperbolic excess.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called the appointment “farcical” and urged supporters to sign a petition protesting the move. An “action alert” mailed to its listserv also steered supporters to the petition, “calling on community members and people of conscience to sign a petition for” Jasser’s ouster.

http://phillipsblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012/03/obamas-knife-in-the-back.html
Is the Obama administration using either leaks or black propaganda to sabotage Israel’s defence against the threat of genocide? America’s former ambassador to the UN John Bolton certainly thinks so – and he is not a man given to rash speculation.

An article on the website of Foreign Policy magazine last Wednesday, written by former unofficial Yasser Arafat adviser and established Israel-basher Mark Perry, quoted four unnamed ‘senior diplomats’ and ‘intelligence officers’ saying that Israel had been granted access to air bases in Azerbaijan on Iran’s northern border. The article suggested that this meant Israel planned to use Azerbaijan either for a strike at Iran or for other support for such an attack.

An Azeri official has subsequently said the claim that Azerbaijan has granted Israel access to its air bases for an attack is ‘absurd and groundless’. That denial, however, is clearly limited. And several observers have concluded that whether this is a genuine leak or disinformation, the story is an attempt to harm Israel by its principal western ally. Indeed, assuming it is not a total fabrication but is based on actual briefings, it is hard to conclude anything else.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/why_the_west_is_best_a_muslim_apostates_defense_of_liberal_democracy.html

Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of Liberal Democracy. By Ibn Warraq. New York: Encounter Books, 2011. 286 pp. $23.95.

The pseudonymous ex-Muslim Warraq has turned his broad intellect and articulate writing to a defense of the Western civilization so wholeheartedly embraced by this British-educated, South Asian-American immigrant. Warraq begins his analysis with an admiring discussion of his adopted home New York City, a “concrete definition of Western civilization” with its millions of heterogeneous citizens flourishing in a mutually enriching, efficient cosmopolitan metropolis. Warraq then examines the superiority of Gotham’s underlying Western ideals and institutions with respect to other cultures, and particularly to Islam.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j602Qodbu1cyTDsIKXEKIO0–DYg?docId=CNG.bf5d089cf24ee0e2049a013355d10a48.9f1
US to allow Syrians to stay beyond visas

WASHINGTON — US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano moved Friday to allow Syrians in the United States to stay beyond their visas and avoid the risk of returning to their violence-torn country.

Napolitano said in a statement that, “in light of deteriorating conditions in Syria,” the Department of Homeland Security will be designating Syria temporary protected status (TPS) for Syrians currently in the United States.

“Conditions in Syria have worsened to the point where Syrian nationals already in the United States would face serious threats to their personal safety if they were to return to their home country,” Napolitano said.

DHS will next week publish a notice in the Federal Register offering guidance about TPS eligibility requirements and registration procedures, according to the statement.

“All applicants must undergo full background checks and while Syrians in the United States are encouraged to apply, they should not submit their applications before the notice is published,” it said.

A DHS official said that “individuals with a criminal background or who pose a threat to national security are not eligible for TPS and their applications will be denied.”

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services estimates that 2,500 to 3,000 individuals will be affected by the designation, the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The DHS secretary may designate a country for TPS due to armed conflict like civil war, an environmental disaster such as a hurricane or earthquake, and an epidemic.

TPS is a temporary benefit that does not lead to lawful permanent resident status or give any other immigration status, according to USCIS.

http://pjmedia.com/spengler/

David Goldman’s predictive powers are quite amazing….Long before the recent news of economic woes in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, while others were swooning over the “Arab Spring” he was the only one writing about economic crises confronting the Moslem nations …..read his book…HOW CIVILIZATIONS DIE (AND WHY ISLAM IS DYING TOO).
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How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too) by David P. Goldman (Sep 19, 2011)

The Obama administration, as former UN ambassador John Bolton observed yesterday, is taking extreme measures to forestall a prospective Israeli strike on Iran. Since when does one ally tip off an enemy about another ally’s possible route of attack, in this case, via Azerbaijan? The utter fecklessness of the administration’s foreign policy, though, is forcing the Israelis to act, whatever the administration’s concerns about the price of gas.

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