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Israel has been brought to its knees by its superpower patron

The time has come for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to confront US President Barack Obama.

A short summary of events from the past three days: On Tuesday morning, the head of the IDF’s Military Intelligence Analysis Division Brig. Gen.

Itay Brun revealed that the Syrian government has already used “lethal chemical weapons,” against Syrian civilians and opposition forces. Brun described footage of people visibly suffering the impact of chemical agents, apparently sarin gas.

Hours later, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Netanyahu had told him on the telephone that “he was not in a position to confirm” Brun’s statement.

It is hard to imagine the US was taken by surprise by Brun’s statement. Just the day before, Brun briefed visiting US Defense secretary Chuck Hagel on Syria. It is not possible he failed to mention the same information.

And of course it isn’t just the IDF saying that Syrian President Bashar Assad is using chemical weapons. The British and the French are also saying this.

But as a European source told Ma’ariv, the Americans don’t want to know the facts. The facts will make them do something about Syria’s chemical weapons. And they don’t want to do anything about Syria’s chemical weapons.

So they force Netanyahu to disown his own intelligence.

Thursday afternoon, in a speech in Abu Dhabi, Hagel confirmed, “with some degree of varying confidence,” that Syria used chemical weapons, at least on a “small scale.”

What the administration means by “some degree of varying confidence,” is of course, unknowable with any degree of varying confidence.

Then there is Iran.

Also on Tuesday, the former head of IDF Military Intelligence, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, said that Iran has already crossed the red line Israel set last year. It has already stockpiled 170 kg. of medium-enriched uranium, and can quickly produce the other 80 kg. necessary to reach the 250 kg. threshold Netanyahu said will mark Iran’s achievement of breakout capability where it can build a nuclear arsenal whenever it wants.

Yadlin made a half-hearted effort Wednesday to walk back his pronouncements. But his basic message remained the same: The die has been cast.

Due to American pressure on Israel not to act, and due to the White House’s rejection of clearcut reports about Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, Iran has crossed the threshold. Iran will be a nuclear power unless its uranium enrichment installations and other nuclear sites are destroyed or crippled. Now.

True, the Americans set a different red line for Iran than Israel. They say they will not allow Iran to assemble a nuclear bomb. But to believe that the US has the capacity and the will to prevent Iran from climbing the top rung on the nuclear ladder is to believe in the tooth fairy — (see, for instance, North Korea).

http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2013/04/25/swat-nation/?print=1 Fear. Horror. Disgust. For me, that melancholy trinity defines the response to latest act of Islamic terrorism on U.S. soil, the hideous bombings at the Boston Marathon just over a week ago that left 3 dead and more than 260 injured (at least 15 were in critical condition). [2] Let’s start with the horror. […]

George W.Bush was a fair….mostly mediocre….president, but compared to Barack Hussein Obama, he was a prince.

After enduring the vilification of the Democrats and the mainstream media and being blamed for absolutely everything by the Obama administration, his presidential library opens at Southern Methodist University, and his image is now being burnished by a host of political commentators.

Not so fast. His response to 9/11 and his speeches to Congress and the United Nations were perfect. But then, his obsequiousness to the Saudis and his obfuscating on our enemies; calling Islam a great and peaceful religion “hijacked” by a teeny, tiny, microscopic minority of meanies; his launching of two wars without ever naming the enemy or the object of the missions; his tolerating rules of engagement which favored exquisite sensitivity to the brutal mores of our antagonists at the expense of the safety of our own forces; his encouragement of appeasement by Israel and surrender of Gaza; his inability to foresee the perverse intentions of North Korea and Putin….all these point to a very mediocre administration.

He is a decent man whose intentions cannot be faulted. But spare me the encomiums. Compared to Barack Hussein Obama every former President looks good with the exception of Jimmy Carter.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/spineless-americans-accept-airline-delays?f=puball Why is it that everything that has Obama’s fingerprints on it has an expensive and idiotic component to it? The latest are the airline delays, but spineless Americans simply wait around as delayed flights steal their time and productivity, and harm the economy. Sequestration was Obama’s idea, a device to force a bi-partisan congressional […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/turkey-convicts-world-renowned-pianist-for-defaming-islam A Turkish court on April 15, 2013, convicted world-renowned pianist Fazil Say under Article 216(3) of the Turkish Penal Code.  This article punishes “[a]nyone who openly denigrates the religious values of a part of the population” with imprisonment of six months to a year.  Say’s case highlights once again the limits to free speech […]

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Means, opportunity and motive are the three crucial elements of investigating a crime and establishing the guilt of its perpetrator. Means and opportunity tell us how the crime could have been committed while motive tells us why it was committed. Many crimes cannot be narrowed down by motive until a suspect is on the […]

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/did-terrorism-denial-cause-the-boston-bombings/ Means, opportunity and motive are the three crucial elements of investigating a crime and establishing the guilt of its perpetrator. Many crimes cannot be narrowed down by motive until a suspect is on the scene; but acts of terrorism can be. Almost anyone might be responsible for a random killing; but political killings are […]

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/04/hillary_lied_under_oath_about_benghazi.html Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, testifying in January 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations committee, said “…what difference at this point does it make?” Clinton was speaking about the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans.    Well, Hillary, it does make a difference, as we are now finding out.  A report of findings […]

http://pjmedia.com/blog/after-boston-the-worst-is-yet-to-come/?print=1 Future Islamist terrorists can take comfort in the reluctance of both the media and the president to blame the culture of Islamic extremism. Sometime in the not-to0-distant future there will be meetings of the various law enforcement agencies involved in the hunt for the Boston terrorists. They will look at what worked and what […]

http://pjmedia.com/blog/now-a-french-spring/?print=1 Less than one year after François Hollande’s election as president and the stunning victory of his socialist supporters at the National Assembly, there is a widespread feeling in France that his administration is doomed. According to the latest poll [1] released by Journal du Dimanche on April 21, 74% of the French now entertain bad […]