"Under the Iran deal, the Obama administration gave Iran access to $100-$150 billion in frozen assets, as well as nearly $2 billion in cash (delivered by cargo plane), some of which is thought to have funded Soleimani’s activities."
Double Exposure: The Dems Coddling of Criminals and Iranian Terrorists
This week, the Democrats have been revealed as the party that exposes us to (1) criminal mayhem (often anti-Semitic) on the streets of New York and (2) terrorism everywhere as they consistently ignored it, indeed, paid off the perpetrators with pallets of airlifted unmarked bills and praised the worst of its perpetrators. The President has the magical power, it seems, to get idiots and criminals to expose themselves.
Mayhem on the Streets of NY
Beginning on the first of this year, New York's “no bail no jail” law, enacted by the Democratic legislature and put into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo went into effect. The law allows those arrested for a large variety of crimes, including some that create serious consequences for others -- like third-degree assault, making terrorist threats, selling firearms to minors, money laundering to support terrorism and grand larceny -- to be released immediately on no bail. One assumes if they later refuse to appear for a court hearing they might well also be released on their own say-so. The new law provides that hindering prosecution, after all, is a no-bail crime.
It may be true that some low-level crimes for which poorer arrestees cannot afford bail, means they languish in jail until trial, but this law is so poorly crafted that it includes crimes for which bail is warranted no matter what the economic condition of the person arrested, for otherwise there is no penalty for immediately repeating the criminal acts. Criminals learn there are no consequences for their actions. Of course, it won’t much affect the rich, who glide about in chauffeured cars and live in gated communities or buildings guarded by doormen, but the middle class surely are impacted. Once, again these misguided efforts to coddle the underclass have the effect of remaking our cities and states on a feudal model where the rich are protected and serfs who work and pay taxes are in constant danger from brigands and murderers.
Days before the law went formally into play, a series of horrific anti-Semitic attacks on Orthodox Jews began. (Many more such acts, including harassment on subways and streets, were filmed and appear online though not in the press.)
As I understand it, the courts must release the defendant without any inquiry into the likelihood of the defendant’s fleeing the jurisdiction. “In theory, the bail system is meant to balance three competing objectives: (1) allow all but the most dangerous criminal defendants to go free before trial, (2) ensure that defendants appear at all required court proceedings, and (3) protect the public by preventing new crime.”
The consequences of this ill-conceived law were readily apparent. Seth Barron writes at City Journal:
In advance of January 1, when the new reforms officially come into effect, judges and prosecutors statewide have begun easing into the new regime by proactively letting remanded prisoners out of jail and by releasing newly arrested serious criminals on their own recognizance. For instance, on Friday, Tiffany Harris of Brooklyn slapped three Jewish women in the face, yelling anti-Semitic imprecations. She was arraigned on Saturday and released without bail; she was arrested for assaulting someone else on Sunday. On Saturday, Steven Haynes, a Brooklyn man lying on the sidewalk, attacked and pummeled a police officer who asked him to get up. Charged with a series of crimes, Haynes was released by a judge and was back on the street within a few hours. In Rockland County -- where the Hanukkah machete attack occurred -- Jorge Flores-Villalba, an unlicensed driver, killed a pedestrian on Christmas Eve and fled the scene. He was released without bail on Christmas Day.Police and other critics of the hastily enacted and sloppy criminal-justice reforms have been warning New Yorkers for months that the scene is being set for mayhem. But neither Governor Andrew Cuomo -- who now promises to enact “domestic terrorism” legislation in response to the Monsey attacks -- nor the legislature have moved to fix the new bail laws. Mayor Bill de Blasio has introduced a plan to offer incentives like gift cards or baseball tickets to induce offenders to return to court. “In a world where we want speedier trials and we want the justice system to work, if small incentives are part of what actually makes it work, then that’s a smart policy,” said the mayor. The day after the Monsey attack -- perpetrated, like almost all the recent anti-Semitic violence in New York, by an African-American -- de Blasio blamed President Trump. This echoed his June comments that “the right-wing movement” represents “the violent threat” of contemporary anti-Semitism.Mayor de Blasio expresses the defeatism and denial that has infected the state’s entire political class regarding public safety. Having accepted the bogus argument that minority communities are disproportionately policed and “criminalized,” our leaders have seemingly surrendered the will to protect the communities -- largely these same minority neighborhoods -- most ravaged by crime. The only option left is to pursue the debunked logic that policing is driven by implicit racial bias, and that crime is caused by inadequate funding of social programs.
Should those who enacted this idiotic law pretend they were unaware of these consequences, or the media downplay the fact that a subset of blacks influenced by anti-Semites linked to Democrats commit most of these crimes, the record belies that defense.
Back in 1992, Obama’s friend Professor Skip Gates warned of the dangers of Black anti-Semitism, Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan and Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright have been leaders in stirring this pot and yet no Democratic leader has called them on it. Indeed, most seek their endorsement and support. Linda Sarsour, the new anti-Semite on the block, is an ally of Mayor de Blasio. Obama named her one of his “Champions of Change.” Don’t look to the media to report honestly about this Democrats' tradeoff of black underclass votes for Jewish votes. Don’t expect leftists of any background to call them on it.
People like Farrakhan are not “fringe figures,” they are key players in the Democratic effort to round up votes. As by online friend Alex Bensky writes:
He comes to Detroit every year or so and fills the arena with twenty thousand people, while local black leaders jostle for prominent seats. A black guy I know decided to see for himself a couple of summers ago when fifteen thousand filled an outdoor theater. He said the crowd was very enthusiastic, equally so when Farrakhan went into the Jew stuff, applauding and cheering as for anything else he said.
Both local gazettes limited themselves to observations at the end of their stories that Farrakhan has sometimes said things "that some people consider anti-Semitic." The local black weekly gives him extensive and admiring coverage and doesn't mention the Jew-hatred at all.
Imagine a comparable situation -- a caucus of Republicans in Congress has close and longstanding ties with an out and out racist who can command the presence of thousands wherever he goes. My guess is the media's coverage would have a different tone.
Even the media’s go-to namers of hate organizations, the money scamming Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) failed to acknowledge it either. They remain silent on the terror attacks against Jews. Instead they list as hate groups such outfits as the David Horowitz Freedom Center and ACT for America.
Precision bombings in Iraq Expose the Democrats’ Love Affair with Iranian Terrorism
Precision bombing in Iraq killed the number-one terrorist in the world, far more dangerous to U.S. personnel and interests than Osama bin Laden was when he, a frail, isolated old man, was killed: Qassem Suleimani.
“General Suleimani was the architect of nearly every significant operation by Iranian intelligence and military forces over the past two decades, and his death was a staggering blow for Iran at a time of sweeping geopolitical conflict.”
Also killed, according to Iran, were General Hussein Jaafari Naya, Colonel Shahroud Muzaffari Naya, Major Hadi Tarmi, and Captain Waheed Zamanian. Other reports include Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi paramilitary leader, who attacked American and Western embassies and was the founder of a group responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq.
And there were reports late Friday that Shibi al Zaydi, leader of the PMU (Popular Mobilization Units, Iranbacked militias) was confirmed dead after another U.S. air strike. Yet another strike eradicated six Shiite militia leaders near Baghdad.
The Democrats’ response had been laughable when not contradictory. Just as the impeachment effort exposed Joe Biden’s corruption, the attack on this sweeping retaliation against Iran and Iranian-backed terrorists exposes how closely the Democrats have been coordinating with the thugs in Iran.
Obama liked and aided Iran. A little history fromLee Smith:
The White House’s so-called nuclear talks with Iran over the last 18 months were never about Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Like everyone else in the Middle East, the Iranians understood that when Obama failed to strike Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in September 2013 for crossing his redline against the use of chemical weapons, there was no way the president would ever order military action against Iranian nuclear facilities. When Obama took that option off the table, he signaled to Iran that he wasn’t going to stop them because he thought there was no way to do so. When he leaked information about the Stuxnet worm, he suggested that he could help with Israel, too.The negotiations were about something else entirely -- they were about what Obama has described as a new geopolitical equilibrium, which would stabilize the Middle East and allow the administration to further minimize its role in the region. The way Obama described it publicly, this new security architecture was going to balance Iran against traditional American allies, like Saudi Arabia. However, it soon became apparent that the White House wasn’t really balancing at all, but had rather chosen one team over the others, Iran. Obama made his preference for Iran and its allies clear -- in Lebanon, Syria, and most obviously in Iraq where the White House ordered air strikes on ISIS positions that allowed various Iranian-backed outfits, under the leadership of Qassem Suleimani, to take Tikrit.
Obama liked Suleiman and praised him as an example to Arabs (ibid ):
The Arabs need to learn from Iran’s example. In fact, they need to take a page out of the playbook of the Qods Force -- by which he meant developing their own local proxies capable of going toe-to-toe with Iran’s agents and defeating them. The president seemed to marvel at the fact that from Hezbollah to the Houthis to the Iraqi militias, Iran has such a deep bench of effective proxies willing to advance its interests.
He did this though the man was responsible for hundreds of deaths in Iraq. Muhandis was no slouch in the terror game either, a key player in the Iranian-backed militias and Hezb’allah operation in Lebanon.
Whether out of fondness for Suleiman or paralysis I can’t say, but it is reliably reported that Obama foiled Israeli’s own assassination plan earlier and “reached out to Iran with news of Israel’s plans.”
Daniel Greenfield credibly argues that with respect to the attacks on our consular facility in Benghazi and the latest embassy attack in Baghdad, "the Obama Administration's policy of cultivating Islamic terrorists had come home to roost"
Melanie Phillips, a shrewd observer, predicts that these acts herald a new realignment in the Middle East.
The killing of Soleimani may now encourage further destabilizing demonstrations, not just in Iran itself but also in Lebanon and Iraq whose people have also been mounting unprecedented protests against the Iranian militias and Shia clerics responsible for the fanatical religious oppression of the people. The hitherto unthinkable US killing of Soleimani may now spur all these people to redouble their efforts to bring the tyranny down. [snip]President Jimmy Carter was paralysed by the 444-day Iran hostage crisis. President Clinton vacillated between sanctions against Iran and appeasement.Most infamously, President Obama did a deal with the regime which would have allowed it to develop nuclear weapons after at best a ten-year delay, and which opened the way for millions of dollars to be funnelled into Iran to finance its continuing terrorist attacks, regional aggression and genocidal agenda against Israel.Faced with attacks on American assets, Carter ran away, Clinton prevaricated, Obama actually helped fund them – but Trump ruthlessly and decisively killed the attacker. America is now back as a force to be reckoned with.
Consider as well that in these attacks no civilians were killed or injured; Iranian sovereignty was not violated and no American serviceman was wounded or killed. (Iran must be weighing how deeply spies have penetrated their forces, mustn’t they?)
To the Democrats’ bleats that they weren’t consulted (it would have been like sending alerts to the ayatollahs) they’ve searched through their Oughta be a Law books to complain that the attacks were not approved by Congress. I don’t recall this argument when Obama launched 2,800 strikes on Iraq and Syria. In any event, the Pentagon reports that in the real law book, the present airstrikes were authorized by 10 U.S. Code Sec. 127e as support of special operations to combat terrorism.
Fear of Reprisals by Iran are Overblown
History and present circumstances suggest the warnings about Iranian reactions are overblown. Iran’s forces are stretched deeply, its economy reeling under the Trump sanctions and domestic unrest grows every day.
At Frontpage, Kenneth Timmerman observes:
We have two historical parallels to compare to Thursday’s events: Operation Praying Mantis in April 1988, when U.S. naval forces sank 1/3 of the Iranian navy in a matter of hours after repeatedly catching them dispersing naval mines against international oil tankers in the Persian Gulf; and the presumed Israeli assassination of Iranian-Lebanese terrorist Imad Mugniyeh in Damascus in February 2008.In both cases, we were told Iran and their proxies were going to counter-attack with devastating lethality. Hundreds of Americans and Israelis were going to die. Thousands! The entire region was going to explode.In the end what happened? Absolutely nothing.That’s what I predict here as well.The Iranians have been lulled into thinking they can act with impunity in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.Finally, the United States has drawn a firm hard line on their bad behavior.This is exactly what we needed to do.I believe the Iranian people will draw the obvious conclusion that this once powerful regime has feet of clay. Expect bigger anti-regime protests inside Iran in the coming weeks, and popular revolts against Iranian interference in Lebanon and Iraq as well.
How Do I Know the Dems are Scared?
Because at the end of the week they rolled out their designated liar Susan Rice, who on Rachel Maddow’s show said that the Obama administration would have done the same thing had they had this kind of intelligence. Echoing Professor Margot Cleveland -- this obvious lie by a notorious liar reveals Obama’s poor choice of intelligence chiefs and “creates a dilemma for Dems who are blasting this action.”
Hocus Pocus -- once again Trump gets the Democrats to strip and expose their naked idiocy, hypocrisy, cupidity, and fecklessness.
“And then we have to get to work on the healing of our homeland, repairing the many social and cultural injuries and injustices caused by turbo-capitalism.”
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA AND HIS
MUSLIM DICTATORS - WHO PAYS FOR THE PHONY OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL
LIBRARY THAT WILL NEVER HAVE HIS PAPERS?
"Under
the Iran deal, the Obama administration gave Iran access to $100-$150 billion
in frozen assets, as well as nearly $2 billion in cash (delivered by cargo
plane), some of which is thought to have funded Soleimani’s activities."
Obama Welcomed Terror Leader Behind Iraq Embassy Attack To White
House
Democrats
and their media allies are spinning the attack on our embassy in Iraq as
Trump's Benghazi. The reality is that it's still Obama's Benghazi.
As this Daily Mail story reminds us
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7844623/Barack-Obama-welcomed-l...
Hadi al-Amiri was Iraq's minister of transport under then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and stood in the Oval Office as part of Maliki's delegation on a visit to the White House in December 2011.
On Tuesday, al-Amiri was among those leading the charge against the US embassy in Baghdad when it was stormed and set alight by pro-Iran militants. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shared a photograph of Amiri amid the rioters, condemning him as an 'Iranian proxy,' and calling those shoulder-to-shoulder with him 'terrorists.'
The head of a leading pro-Iran Shia faction, Amiri exerts great power within Iraq's state-sanctioned Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and was highlighted by Pompeo among three other men as the ringleaders of the siege.
A former guerrilla fighter who fought for Tehran in the Iran-Iraq War, Amiri has been accused of terrorism against the US, of helping Iran to ship arms to Bashar al-Assad in Syria and has been pictured bowing before the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Not that Amiri was getting special treatment. The White House of the day had opened its doors to a legion of foreign and domestic Islamists. But it also highlights the degree of collusion between Obama and Iran.
Obama's Benghazi in Baghdad
BLOG: NO ONE BUT A LOBOTOMIZED FOOL SHOULD THINK ANY MUSLIM IS OUR ALLY!
Obama
Aide Ben Rhodes: Death of Iran’s Soleimani ‘A Really Frightening Moment’
Aaron
Klein: Soleimani Was ‘Bin Laden of Shiite World,’ Killing Him Prevents Another
Benghazi
Office of the
Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File
OBAMA’S AGENDA:
BUILD A MUSLIM-STILE DICTATORSHIP
The Case for
Impeaching Barack Obama
Pollak:
Everything Joe Biden Said About Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Actually
Describes Barack Obama’s
Everything
former vice president Joe Biden said about President Donald Trump’s foreign
policy speech on Thursday actually applies to the policy that Biden carried out
together with former President Barack Obama — and not Trump.
OBAMA POSED WITH FARRAKHAN, ACCUSES REPUBLICANS OF "RACIAL NATIONALISM"
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/271281/obama-posed-farrakhan-accuses-republicans-racial-daniel-greenfield
The Ground Zero Mosque
Project Is Back
The Left Lines Up With the
Terrorists
President Trump Again Does
the Right Thing for the Jewish People
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA AND HIS MUSLIM
DICTATORS - WHO PAYS FOR THE PHONY OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY THAT
WILL NEVER HAVE HIS PAPERS?
"Under the Iran
deal, the Obama administration gave Iran access to $100-$150 billion in frozen
assets, as well as nearly $2 billion in cash (delivered by cargo plane), some
of which is thought to have funded Soleimani’s activities."
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA AND HIS
MUSLIM DICTATORS - WHO PAYS FOR THE PHONY OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL
LIBRARY THAT WILL NEVER HAVE HIS PAPERS?
"Under
the Iran deal, the Obama administration gave Iran access to $100-$150 billion
in frozen assets, as well as nearly $2 billion in cash (delivered by cargo
plane), some of which is thought to have funded Soleimani’s activities."
Obama Welcomed Terror Leader Behind Iraq Embassy Attack To White
House
January 2, 2020
Daniel
Greenfield
As this Daily Mail story reminds us
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7844623/Barack-Obama-welcomed-l...
Hadi al-Amiri was Iraq's minister of transport under then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and stood in the Oval Office as part of Maliki's delegation on a visit to the White House in December 2011.
On Tuesday, al-Amiri was among those leading the charge against the US embassy in Baghdad when it was stormed and set alight by pro-Iran militants. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shared a photograph of Amiri amid the rioters, condemning him as an 'Iranian proxy,' and calling those shoulder-to-shoulder with him 'terrorists.'
The head of a leading pro-Iran Shia faction, Amiri exerts great power within Iraq's state-sanctioned Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and was highlighted by Pompeo among three other men as the ringleaders of the siege.
A former guerrilla fighter who fought for Tehran in the Iran-Iraq War, Amiri has been accused of terrorism against the US, of helping Iran to ship arms to Bashar al-Assad in Syria and has been pictured bowing before the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Not that Amiri was getting special treatment. The White House of the day had opened its doors to a legion of foreign and domestic Islamists. But it also highlights the degree of collusion between Obama and Iran.
But who helped build up this
terrorist infrastructure? The Obama administration did. Beyond its illegal
foreign cash shipments to Iran and the sanctions relief, the PMFs benefited
from US foreign aid directed through Iraq's Interior Ministry.
Obama's Benghazi in Baghdad
How
Obama's Iraq treason created ISIS and led to the attack on our embassy In Baghdad.
January 3, 2020
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel
Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an
investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic
terrorism.
When Shiite members of the Popular
Mobilization Forces (PMF) attacked the American embassy in Baghdad, in a
deliberate recreation of the attack on our embassy in Tehran that had ushered
in a new age of Shiite terror, the media was quick to label it 'Trump's
Benghazi'.
The parallels are certainly there.
BLOG: NO ONE BUT A LOBOTOMIZED FOOL SHOULD THINK ANY MUSLIM IS OUR ALLY!
In both Benghazi and Baghdad,
Islamist terror militias who we thought were our allies turned on the United
States. In both cases, there was nothing surprising or unexpected about this
inevitable development to anyone except foreign policy experts and the media.
And, in both Benghazi and Baghdad,
the Obama administration's policy of cultivating Islamic terrorists had come
home to roost.
The Islamists who attacked the
embassy were not Trump's allies, but Obama's allies.
When Hadi al-Amiri, the head of the
Badr Brigade, the former military wing of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq,
came to the White House, it was in 2011, not 2017.
The close IRGC ally was welcomed by Barack Obama, and played a
role in the embassy attack. The IRGC, Iran's global terror hub, had been listed
as a terror group by President Trump, a move resisted by Barack Obama dating
back to his time in the Senate.
Once in the White House, Obama's
policies so empowered and enabled the IRGC that in one of the most infamous
incidents in American history, members of the Islamic terror group captured and
humiliated American sailors. There is little doubt that the IRGC was the hidden
hand behind the embassy attack in Baghdad through its PMF proxies.
The rise of ISIS and the attack on
our embassy in Baghdad had their roots in Obama's backing for Iraq's Shiite
dominated government in Baghdad. The Bush administration had tried to unite
Sunni and Shiite Muslims into a political system that would sideline Al Qaeda
on the Sunni side and Iran on the Shiite side. Iraqi civil society was probably always doomed, but
Obama's Iraq policy was to turn the country over to the terrorists.
Obama wanted to pull out of Iraq as
soon as possible. His plan for a quick pullout was to allow Iran a free hand in
Baghdad. Iraq's central government dominated by Shiite Islamists loyal to Iran
allowed Islamic militias backed and trained by Iran to execute gays and impose
Islamic law in the streets. The Sunni tribal leaders who had made the
'awakening' against Al Qaeda possible were ignored when they came to D.C.
seeking support against Iran.
While the media went on touting
Obama's incredible successes in Iraq, the country split into two terror camps.
While the Popular Mobilization Forces rolled up Shiite areas, Al Qaeda in Iraq
reinvented itself as ISIS.
Unlike President Trump, Obama chose
not to hit ISIS hard. Instead, after Iraq's military collapsed, his
administration's anti-ISIS strategy relied heavily on supporting the Shiite PMF
militias which included embedded Iranian forces.
Obama had helped birth the Islamic
State by backing Iran's takeover of Iraq. Forced to fight ISIS, he doubled down
on the same strategy. And that completed the takeover.
The marginalization of the Kurds,
whose attempts at creating an independent state were crushed by the Shiite
regime in Baghdad, and the Sunnis, who had been caught between Iran and ISIS,
ended military opposition to the Iranian takeover of Iraq.
But political protests against the
Iranian puppet regime broke out, leading to violent clashes between protesters
and PMF thugs, PMF attacks on Americans, American retaliation against PMFs, and
the attack on the United States embassy by the PMFs.
Iran's takeover of Iraq, like its
involvement in Yemen's civil war, in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza, had been funded
by the wages of Obama's nuclear sellout. The billions that the Obama
administration had directly and indirectly handed to the terrorists of Tehran
were used to fund soft and hard influence across the region.
The Iran deal didn't just mean that
the terror regime was able to continue building up its nuclear program, but
that it could increase its financial commitments to Hamas, help build up
Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and the PMFs in Iraq.
Iran had four things to offer its
Shiite (and occasional Sunni fellow travelers ranging from Hamas to Al Qaeda)
Islamist allies. These were weapons, training, a global network, and money. Of
these money was the most generic, but also the most important.
Islamic terrorism is only partly
built on the suicidal fanatics willing to die for Allah. It's mostly built on
amateur and professional killers who want to get paid.
Choke off the money and recruitment
drops
Under Obama, billions in foreign
currency were illegally flown into Iran on unmarked cargo planes, but Trump cut
off the cash.
The cash crunch not only weakened
Iran's regime, where fresh protests arose, but its terror networks, including
in Iraq, began facing their own cash shortages. And so Iran's rulers,
their IRGC hidden hand, and their Islamist PMF proxies decided to send America
and the protesters a message.
Earlier this year, the Trump
administration had sanctioned the South Wealth Resources
Company (SWRC), allegedly a key conduit for the IRGC's ability to smuggle
weapons and money in and through Iraq.
The sanctioning of the IRGC itself
had met with anger from the Badr Brigade and
Hadi al-Amiri. The conflict escalated with Kataeb Hezbollah, a PMF, attacking
Americans. The death of an American contractor in a Kataeb Hezbollah rocket
attack raised the stakes. President Trump struck back with airstrikes against
Kataeb Hezbollah. And Kataeb Hezbollah attacked the embassy.
Kataeb Hezbollah is another project
of the IRGC and is led by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis who was part of the attack on
the embassy. Muhandis is the Deputy Commander of PMF who is linked to the 1983
truck bombing of the US embassy in Kuwait which, had it been better planned,
could have destroyed the facility.
But who helped build up this
terrorist infrastructure? The Obama administration did. Beyond its illegal
foreign cash shipments to Iran and the sanctions relief, the PMFs benefited
from US foreign aid directed through Iraq's Interior Ministry.
Even as Iraq's Interior Ministry
was headed by a Badr leader trained by Iranian forces who had been arrested for
smuggling explosives used to attack American soldiers, our foreign aid kept
flowing through an Iraqi ministry run by terrorists.
The Obama administration was
funding terrorists to fight terrorism. It was the same disastrous scenario that
had led to the massacre in Benghazi.
The only difference was that the
blowback took longer to arrive in Baghdad than it did in Benghazi.
Obama's foreign policy operatives
and the media have blamed the embassy attack on Trump's pressure on Iran, rather
than on Obama's appeasement of Iran.
This is a variation of the same
cynical Obama administration strategy which manufactured a fake intelligence
community consensus blaming Benghazi on a protest over a Mohammed YouTube
video, instead of a coordinated transnational wave of Islamist attacks
coordinated well ahead of time to coincide with September 11.
The Obama administration may be
history, but the damage it did still revebrates through the region as the
Islamist forces it unleashed continue to tear apart nations and to threaten
American lives.
Obama
Aide Ben Rhodes: Death of Iran’s Soleimani ‘A Really Frightening Moment’
Pete Souza /
The White House via Getty
2 Jan 20203,244
2:07
Ben Rhodes, the former national security aide to President
Barack Obama who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal, expressed concern on
Thursday evening at news that the U.S. killed Iranian terror general Qassem
Soleimani.
Soleimani led the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force. In that capacity, he was
responsible for the deaths of hundreds of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and directed
Iran’s foreign military adventures, including terrorism. He was killed at the airport in
Baghdad, Iraq, early Friday local time, after reportedly arriving in the country late
last year to repress anti-Iranian protests. The attack came days after an
Iranian-backed militia attacked the U.S. embassy.
The U.S. Department of
Defense later confirmed that Soleimani had been killed at President Trump’s
“direction.”
Rhodes took to Twitter to
warn that the death of Soleimani was “a frightening moment” that could lead to
war:
Agree - no question that Soleimani has a
lot of blood on his hands. But this is a really frightening moment. Iran will
respond and likely in various places. Thinking of all US personnel in the
region right now. https://twitter.com/chrismurphyct/status/1212913952436445185 …
Rhodes also worried about
congressional authorization for Trump’s decision — though he had expressed no such concern when President Obama
led the U.S. into a controversial war against Mummer Ghadafi in Libya in 2011:
Trump may have just started a war with no
congressional debate. I really hope the worst case scenario doesn’t happen but
everything about this situation suggests serious escalation to come.
Congress has to assert itself and determine
exactly what our Iran policy is. Did we mean to do this? Do we have any plan
for what comes next? What is the legal basis for all this?
Rhodes then added that he was
specifically worried about President Trump’s “strategy” and competence to lead:
There are real world consequences to having
Trump as President. They are becoming increasingly clear and he is the one who
is going to have to navigate incredibly complicated and dangerous messes of his
own creation. This is not reality TV.
Iraq and Lebanon are just two of the places
where we have to be very concerned about the potential Iranian response which
could play out over time - not to mention Iran's nuclear program. Again, QS was
as bad a guy as there was, but what is the strategy here?
What is the strategy? We have no
explanation about what happens now and what we are trying to achieve in a very
serious international crisis. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1212924762827046918 …
Under the
Iran deal, the Obama
administration
gave Iran access to $100-$150
billion in
frozen assets, as well as nearly $2
billion in
cash (delivered by cargo plane),
some of
which is thought to have funded
Soleimani’s
activities.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior
Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and
Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from
Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni
Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside
Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter
at @joelpollak.
“So, unlike the Obama administration in
Benghazi, which, again, refused to deploy —
in fact, misled the American public about
what happened — here, you have Trump,
within hours, sending forces to Iraq, and
now, taking out — possibly
— the terror
commander
who organized [and] greenlit that
assault
on the American embassy,” Klein
said.
Aaron
Klein: Soleimani Was ‘Bin Laden of Shiite World,’ Killing Him Prevents Another
Benghazi
3 Jan 202010
4:50
Breitbart News Jerusalem Bureau
Chief Aaron Klein described the elimination of
Qassem Soleimani, who he labeled the “Osama bin Laden of the Shiite world,” as
President Donald Trump’s critical deterrence for Iran crossing the “red line”
with Tuesday’s organized
assault on the U.S. embassy in Iraq.
Klein said
Iran-backed militias could not have carried out the embassy attack without
Iran’s permission. He offered his remarks on Friday’s edition of
SiriusXM’s Breitbart News
Daily with host Alex Marlow.
“Soleimani was basically the Osama bin Laden of the Shiite
world,” remarked Klein. “Iran is the largest state-sponsor of terrorism in the
world, and Soleimani was the commander of that state-sponsor of terror. Today,
the [elimination] of General Qassem Soleimani really should be celebrated as …
a watershed moment in the war of terror, and [as a] really a great victory for
freedom.”
LISTEN:
Klein opined,
“Iran has been getting away for years now, and unfortunately even in the last
few months, with carrying out significant strikes, terror attacks, and actually
using their proxies at times to attack America and to attack our allies.
Because they believed they were getting away with it, I believe you saw the
escalation [of conflict] 48 hours ago at the U.S. embassy in Iraq.”
Soleimani
likely directed Tuesday’s attack on the U.S. embassy in Iraq, estimated Klein.
“Make no mistake about it, there is absolutely no way, I believe, that
Iran-backed militias could possibly have laid siege to the American embassy in
Iraq without a green light [and] without operational instructions from Iran.”
“I think what
you’re seeing today with this targeted elimination of Qassem Soleimani was a
direct response to the attack on our American embassy and a response to
numerous other attacks in which many Americans were killed, and many of our
allies were targeted by this terrorism grandmaster,” added Klein.
Klein continued,
“The elimination of Soleimani was maybe the biggest foreign policy decision
that Trump has made so far. Maybe number one is getting out of the JCPOA. This
is a watershed moment.”
Soleimani directed Iran’s foreign terrorist operations for 20
years, noted Klein, including proxies such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in
Gaza.
“The Iranians have to be very nervous right now after this
killing because they understand that Trump did something that Obama never
would, and I think that the Iranians have been put on notice,” assessed Klein.
Klein stated,
“I can’t imagine, after attacking our American embassy in Iraq — and again,
that’s basically what [Iran] did — what would they do next if they got away
with that? The media’s spinning this like, ‘Oh, America eliminated Soleimani.
That’s a major red line.’ No, a major red line is attacking our embassy
in Iraq. That’s a major red line.”
“This was not
a protest,” said Klein of assorted news media’s description of the attack on
the U.S. embassy in Iraq. “This was an organized assault on our American
embassy in Iraq. Massive. What would Iran possibly do next if they already got
away with breaching the gate of the American embassy?”
Klein went on, “I think the only reason they didn’t get further
is because the embassy was fortified. They couldn’t, although unfortunately
American diplomats were holed up in a safe room, which reminds me also of the
original Benghazi attack.”
“So,
unlike the Obama administration in
Benghazi,
which, again, refused to deploy —
in
fact, misled the American public about
what
happened — here, you have Trump,
within
hours, sending forces to Iraq, and
now, taking
out — possibly — the terror
commander who organized [and]
greenlit that
assault on the American embassy,”
Klein said.
“So if we did
do something like eliminate this terror commander — this Osama bin Laden of the
Shiite world — after our American embassy was attacked, again, what greater red
line could you have had that Iran crossed?” asked Klein.
The elimination of Soleimani amounts to a message of deterrence
against further Iranian belligerence, estimated Klein.
Klein
concluded, “Then Iran would have understood they can get away with anything.
Now they know they can’t. Now they know that America, under Trump, is not the
America that they experienced for eight years under the Obama administration,
and I think they got that message today.”
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Barack Obama’s plot for a third term for life
A Muslim dictatorship like his crony paymasters, the 9-11
invading Saudis who have financed him for decades.
“Obama has the totalitarian impulse.
After all, he went around saying he didn't have Constitutional authority to
legalize the illegals, and then he tried anyway. The courts stopped him.”
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What was Obama’s motive? Simple, he knew if he did that
for Hillary, he’d own the next President of the United States, and could
blackmail her with the truth till the end of time. It literally would have
given him a 3rd and 4th term.
THE OBAMA – CLINTON RUSSIAN CONNECTION
*
WITH THESE
TRAITORS, JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!
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How President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aided
Russia’s quest for global nuclear dominance.
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OBAMA’S WAR ON THE JEWS
The Democrats are now
officially the party of Jew-hatred. This is largely due to the disastrous
presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. PAMELA GELLER
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*
Abunimah’s piece -- and Obama’s numerous
anti-Semitic associations -- got little attention. Throughout his life Barack
Obama has been close friends with numerous virulent anti-Semites: Jeremiah
Wright, Bill Ayers, Khalid al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi and others. PAMELA GELLER
THE OBOMBS AND HARVARD
OBAMA AND HIS SAUDIS
PAYMASTERS… Did he serve them well?
Malia,
Michelle, Barack and the College Admissions Scandal https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/03/malia-michelle-barack-and-college.html
*
Michelle was the next to attend Harvard, in her case Harvard
Law School. “Told by counselors that her SAT scores and her grades weren’t good
enough for an Ivy League school,” writes Christopher Andersen in Barack and
Michelle, “Michelle applied to Princeton and Harvard anyway.”
GOOGLE WHAT THE OBOMB DID FOR HIS SAUDIS
PAYMASTERS
Barack Obama’s back door, however, was unique to him. Before
prosecutors send some of the dimmer Hollywood stars to the slammer for their
dimness, they might want to ask just how much influence a Saudi billionaire
peddled to get Obama into Harvard.
“Of course,
one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful and angry”
is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein
Obama was president for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
OBAMA’S AGENDA:
BUILD A MUSLIM-STILE DICTATORSHIP
The Case for
Impeaching Barack Obama
Listen to the Article!
Yes, you read the title of this
missive correctly.
As a career military officer, we
never believed that you win on defense. During the constant, incessant, and
insidious attacks on President Trump, I believe there should be a full-fledged
attack to evidence the abject, utter hypocrisy of the progressive socialist
left. If I were on any news program and was asked about the “impeachment
inquiry” of President Trump, I would pivot and discuss the case for impeaching
Barack Obama…and why the progressive socialist left defended his indefensible
actions.
If in this current frenzy by the
left and their media accomplices about Ukraine, the issue is about national
security, I can counter that.
Early in 2009, Barack Obama
traveled to Cairo, Egypt to deliver an address to the Muslim world. I have no
issue with his wanting to have an outreach. But we should all agree that
Obama’s requesting members of the Muslim Brotherhood to be in attendance, front
and center, was ill advised. All one need to do is understand the history of
the Muslim Brotherhood, the grandfather of modern-day Islamic jihadism.
This is the terrorist
organization responsible for the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat. Anyone can read the Muslim Brotherhood’s website and realize what their
goals and objectives are, and they are not consistent with those of the United
States. Yet, Barack Obama supported the Muslim Brotherhood candidate for
President, Mohammed Morsi, as he undermined the office of Hosni Mubarak. Sure,
Mubarak was not the best, but he was not supportive of Islamic jihadism.
When Morsi won the election,
quite questionably, it was Barack Obama who congratulated him and offered US
support, to include military aid…to a Muslim Brotherhood backed president. The
people of Egypt were indignant, and in the end, revolted against Morsi and
overthrew him for a new President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Barack Obama condemned
Egypt and its so-called coup, threatening to cut off any US aid…which he was
willing to supply to a Muslim Brotherhood backed government.
Second point, Barack Obama
claimed that there was a major crisis in Libya and ended up outsourcing our
military support and aid to Islamic jihadist organizations against President
Muammar al-Gaddafi. There was evidence that Gaddafi was willing to negotiate
his removal and departure from Libya, but instead, Obama supplied weapons,
intelligence, and air support to Islamic terrorists who did overthrow, and
execute, Gaddafi. Since when did the United States provide military aid to
Islamic terrorists?
In the aftermath, the Obama
administration attempted a weapons buy back program from these same jihadists.
And that led to the debacle we came to know as Benghazi. Amazingly enough a US
Ambassador, Chris Stevens, was brutally murdered and paraded in the streets,
along with Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty during an Islamic
terrorist attack. But where was our support to those brave men who fought off
the attacks? Why was it that Barack Obama lied about this very sad day in US
history, and was never held accountable and responsible? This was not about
some anti-Islam video, which was the Obama talking point. And sadly, those four
Americans who lost their lives, Barack Obama did not even send a US military
aircraft to retrieve their remains.
Third point in the case for
impeaching Barack Hussein Obama, the off-mike comment by Obama to Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev. Yes, remember when Obama whispered, “tell Vladmir
that after my reelection I will have more flexibility”. It was 2012 and no one
dared ask of President Obama, that is from the left, what was meant by flexibility?
Here was a sitting US President making overt guarantees to Russia. Funny thing,
when Obama was in office Russia was not this enemy, dark specter, matter of
fact, the Obama administration offered a “reset button” to Russia. Recall in
the final presidential debate between Obama and Mitt Romney how Obama chastised
and ridiculed Romney on his assertion that Russia was our number one
geopolitical threat? Obama said to Romney that the 80s was calling for their
foreign policy back, now the progressive socialist left runs around screaming
Russia, Russia, Russia ad nauseum.
When Russia was overrunning
Ukraine, and Ukraine asked the Obama administration for support, Obama sent
socks and MREs. President Trump has sent A-10s and increased military support
to include increased military to military training and cooperation in the
Baltic States and Poland. And somehow, we are being told by Nancy Pelosi that
we must impeach President Trump for threatening national security and our
foreign policy?
Lastly, Iran is the number one
state sponsor of Islamic terrorism. Why then did Barack Obama sent pallets of
laundered cash in a blacked out unmarked plane to Iran? And no, it had nothing
to do with past weapons deals, those deals, agreements, had been made with the
Iranian Republic when the Shah of Iran was the leader. When the Shah was
deposed by the Ayatollah Khomeini, that agreement was null and void. Several US
Presidents, Republican and Democrat, had not sent cash to Iran, until Obama.
That was, and is, a violation of US Code, Statute, in aiding and abetting the
enemy, which Iran used the funds to advance its terrorist support, especially
to its proxy army, Hezbollah.
As well, why was it that Obama
did not bring the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iranian nuclear agreement,
before the US Senate as a treaty for ratification? Instead he made it a
unilateral executive decision, which is in violation of our US Constitution.
There was nothing said about impeaching Obama, but I am saying it now.
I am tired of Republicans playing
right into the traps, games, of the progressive socialist left, instead of
putting them on defense. I would love to have someone, anyone, ask of Nancy
Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Jerrold Nadler, and Rashida Tlaib, who wants to use US
Marshals to remove Trump administration officials from office, to answer these
points I have presented.
The progressive socialist left is
mad that they lost the 2016 presidential election. They realize that, as Rep.
Al Green said, they will probably not be able to defeat President Trump at the
ballot box, unless they use tricks like ballot harvesting. So, what it their
only recourse, the Banana Republic, kangaroo court tactics of using impeachment
as a political weapon...this is nothing more than an unsophisticated coup.
The case for impeaching Barack
Obama was easy, yet the left and their propagandized media dismissed it. Let’s
stop allowing the progressive socialist left to dominate the narrative, it is
time to put them on defense.
(Allen West is a retired
Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. Mr. West is a Senior Fellow at
the Media Research Center, supporting its mission to expose and neutralize
liberal media bias. Mr. West also writes daily commentary on his personal
website theoldschoolpatriot.com)
Pollak:
Everything Joe Biden Said About Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Actually
Describes Barack Obama’s
Johannes Eisele / AFP Getty
12 Jul 20193
3:48
Everything
former vice president Joe Biden said about President Donald Trump’s foreign
policy speech on Thursday actually applies to the policy that Biden carried out
together with former President Barack Obama — and not Trump.
In his speech, at City University of New York, Biden called
Trump an “extreme” threat to the country’s national security. No one has yet
taken Biden to task for describing the sitting commander-in-chief in such
alarmist terms.
But that wasn’t even the most bizarre aspect of Biden’s speech.
He said the main problem in Trump’s foreign policy was … Charlottesville,
Virginia. Biden went on to recite a version of the debunked “very fine people”
hoax, claiming that Trump had drawn a “moral equivalence between those who
promoted hate and those who opposed it.” That, he said, was a threat to
America’s mission of standing for democratic values in the world.
But in fact, Trump
specifically condemned the neo-Nazis
in Charlottesville on multiple occasions. The entire premise of Biden’s speech
was a lie.
Biden went on to claim that Trump’s foreign policy rejects
democratic values and favors the rise of authoritarianism worldwide. He cited
Trump’s warmth to Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator
Kim Jong-un. And he claimed that Trump has undermined America’s alliances with
democracies in favor of flattery from dictators.
Apparently Biden forgot that Obama literally bowed to the Saudi
king; that he abandoned the pro-democracy protests during the Green Revolution
in Iran; that he pushed for a “reset” with Russia and abandoned our Czech and
Polish allies on missile defense; that he promised Putin he would be even more
“flexible” after he won re-election; that he tried to normalize relations with
the Cuban dictatorship without securing any democratic reforms there; that he
gave the store away to the communist dictatorship in China; and that he
abandoned Israel, a betrayal in which Biden himself played a direct and
shameful role, condemning Israel for building apartments in a Jewish
neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Trump praises dictators as a negotiating tactic; Obama praised
them because he, too, thought America was a problem.
One of the few times the Obama administration embraced
democratic change was during the Arab Spring, when “democracy” meant the rise
of the Muslim Brotherhood — which had no interest in freedom, only in power.
In 2008, the Obama campaign cast Biden as a foreign policy guru,
though he had been wrong on almost every foreign policy issue in his career. On
Thursday, he mostly ignored his own record.
Astonishingly, Biden claimed credit
for Trump’s success in crushing the so-called “Islamic State,” saying he worked
with Obama “to craft the military and diplomatic campaign that ultimately
defeated ISIS.” In fact, Biden was complicit in the rise of ISIS. He was
Obama’s point man on Iraq when the U.S. suddenly pulled out of the country,
leaving a vacuum that ISIS filled. He did not object when Obama called the
terror group “junior varsity.”
Biden offered nothing new in terms
of solutions to current foreign policy challenges. He claimed that the Iran
nuclear deal had been a success — on the very day Iran was reportedto have been cheating all along. He said the U.S. should
re-enter the deal once Iran did, offering no idea how to ensure that it did so.
On North Korea, Biden promised he would “empower our negotiators,” whatever
that means.
He said that he would get “tough”
with China, which Trump is already doing (and which Biden previously suggested he
would not do).
And on immigration, he ridiculed the very idea
of borders — literally: “I respect no borders.”
And this is the best Democrats have on
foreign policy.
Joel B.
Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social
Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard. He is a
winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the
co-author of How Trump
Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from
Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
OBAMA POSED WITH FARRAKHAN, ACCUSES REPUBLICANS OF "RACIAL NATIONALISM"
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/271281/obama-posed-farrakhan-accuses-republicans-racial-daniel-greenfield
September 9, 2018
See if you can spot the Republican racial nationalism in these
pictures.
In his Trump-bashing speech, Barack Hussein Obama accused
Republicans of an "appeal to racial nationalism that’s barely
veiled". I don't see a whole lot of veils up there.
ANTI-SEMITE LOUIS
FARRAKHAN SPOTTED IN THE FRONT ROW AT ARETHA FRANKLIN’S FUNERAL
Amber Athey | Media and Breaking
News Editor
Louis Farrakhan, the anti-Semitic
leader of the Nation of Islam, managed to snag a front-row seat at Aretha
Franklin’s funeral on Friday.
A live broadcast of the Queen of
Soul’s funeral shows Farrakhan seated in the same row with Rev. Al Sharpton,
Rev. Jesse Jackson and President Bill Clinton.
On
stage in front at Aretha Franklin’s funeral are Min. Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Al
Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and former president Bill Clinton https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/aretha-franklin/2018/08/31/aretha-franklin-funeral-live-stream/1151529002/ … #ArethaHomegoing
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Farrakhan is a black nationalist
who has called for an end to white men and repeatedly gone on angry rants
against Jewish people. (RELATED: Seven Louis
Farrakhan Quotes On Jews, Gays, And White People)
“Some of you think that I’m just
somebody who’s got something out for the Jewish people. You’re stupid. Do you
think I would waste my time if I did not think it was important for you to know
Satan? My job is to pull the cover off of Satan so that he will never deceive
you and the people of the world again,” Farrakhan said in 2011.
In 2015, he asserted, “White
people deserve to die, and they know, so they think it’s us coming to do
it.” (RELATED: Louis Farrakhan Issues A Sunday
Call For An End To White Men)
BARACK Hussein OBAMA: THE CLOSET MUSLIM PSYCHOPATH WHO HATED AMERICA!
"But the Obamas are
the center of the most delusional cult of personality that the media has yet
spawned. And so we get bizarre pieces like these."
The mullahs rolled in cash as a result of rolling
Obama and his gullible team over the deal, knowing that Obama was desperate for
some sort of legacy. MONICA SHOWALTER
MUSLIM DICTATORS, INCLUDING THE 9-11 INVADING SAUDIS,
FUNDED THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES OF BUSH, CLINTON and OBAMA!
ISLAMIST BARACK OBAMA
“Of
course, one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful and angry” is because
race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein Obama was
president for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
"But the Obamas are the center of the most delusional
cult of personality that the media has yet spawned. And so we get bizarre
pieces like these." MONICA SHOWALTER
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and
Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the
eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
THE OBOMBS AND HARVARD
OBAMA AND HIS SAUDIS
PAYMASTERS… Did he serve them well?
Malia,
Michelle, Barack and the College Admissions Scandal https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/03/malia-michelle-barack-and-college.html
*
Michelle was the next to attend Harvard, in her case Harvard Law
School. “Told by counselors that her SAT scores and her grades weren’t good
enough for an Ivy League school,” writes Christopher Andersen in Barack and
Michelle, “Michelle applied to Princeton and Harvard anyway.”
GOOGLE WHAT THE OBOMB DID FOR HIS SAUDIS
PAYMASTERS
Barack Obama’s back door, however, was unique to him. Before
prosecutors send some of the dimmer Hollywood stars to the slammer for their
dimness, they might want to ask just how much influence a Saudi billionaire
peddled to get Obama into Harvard.
Our efforts in showing what an insult it was to the American
people and to the victims of 9/11, and how many Muslims worldwide would
inevitably view it as a triumphal mosque built on the site of a jihad attack,
defeated it.
The Ground Zero Mosque
Project Is Back
The
news was buried under two dense paragraphs and five large photos in an article in New York YIMBY
about a different project: "Construction has also yet to begin on 51 Park
Place, which is slated to become a 71-foot-tall, 16,000-square-foot Islamic cultural
center." The infamous Ground Zero Mosque project, a long-buried
effort to build a triumphal mosque at the site of the worst jihad terror attack
in American history, is back.
Construction
has yet to begin, but it will: the shady developer behind the Ground Zero
Mosque scheme, Sharif El-Gamal, has been working to build this sinister
structure for years.
We
defeated the Ground Zero Mosque project once before. The 16-story
mosque that El-Gamal initially planned to build there has not been
built. Our efforts in showing what an insult it was to the
American people and to the victims of 9/11, and how many Muslims worldwide
would inevitably view it as a triumphal mosque built on the site of a jihad
attack, defeated it. Tens of thousands of people came out for
our rallies in lower Manhattan against this celebration of this 9/11 attacks,
and El-Gamal was beaten in the court of public opinion.
It
was a long battle. President Obama announced his support for the
mosque at an Iftar dinner, no less. Then-mayor of New York City and current
presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg supported the mosque as well,
claiming hysterically that "if we don't build it, the terrorists will
win!" The media actively campaigned for it — the elites in
their increasingly fragile ivory towers relentlessly stumped for the Cordoba
mosque (euphemistically called an Islamic center with a prayer space) for
years.
And
yet despite all this opposition and much more, the people stood up and fought
the Ground Zero Mosque and won. An army of Davids.
But
that wasn't the end of the story. Crains New York reported on
El-Gamal's new project in 2015 in a story that demonstrated how the developer
was hoping to sneak his triumphal mosque into existence: "Mr. El-Gamal's
Soho Properties has proposed a 667-foot condominium tower at lower Manhattan's
45 Park Place. The glass skyscraper, which has yet to break ground,
will include at least 15 full-floor units of 3,200 to 3,700 square feet, and
average prices higher than $3,000 a square foot, according to plans released to
Bloomberg by the developer."
That
sounded normal enough. But then the article added: "Adjacent
to the tower, Soho Properties will build a public plaza connected to a
three-story Islamic museum and prayer space." An Islamic
prayer space is a mosque. The article also said: "An Islamic
museum 'is just as much of an insult,' Pamela Geller, a blogger and one of the
center's most vocal opponents, wrote in an email. 'It will be like
having a museum touting the glories of the Japanese Empire at Pearl
Harbor.'"
I
think an Islamic museum at Ground Zero dedicated to the half-billion victims of
jihadi wars, land appropriations, sharia, cultural annihilations, enslavements,
and sharia enforcement is an excellent idea, but is that what Sharif El-Gamal
had in mind? Of course not. And how did El-Gamal plan to
finance this? The answer was predictable. The New York Post reported in May
2016 that "the developer of the failed Ground Zero Mosque has nailed down
'Sharia-compliant financing' for a new, luxury condominium tower and Islamic
cultural museum on the same site, he and his banking partners said."
Then
in May 2017, the New York Times ran a story
entitled "Condo Tower to Rise Where Muslim Community Center Was
Proposed." The Times said that "45 Park Place, a 43-story
condominium that will soon rise three blocks from the World Trade Center,"
was "something of a consolation prize for the developer," as it
"replaces the developer's 2010 plan to build a 15-story Islamic mosque and
cultural center on this site, an idea that erupted into a national controversy
and cable news network bonanza."
In
the last couple of years, there has been virtually no news about this
"Islamic museum." But the New York YIMBY story shows that
the project has been advancing under cover of darkness. A
71-foot-tall structure is three stories high, as in the revised plans announced
in 2015.
El-Gamal
has many friends and allies among New York City's political and media
elites. It is likely that de Blasio city officials and the New York
Times and other city papers all met with El-Gamal and agreed to keep the
reporting on this project to an absolute minimum, so that it could get built
without incurring the righteous anger of the public again. The
first time around, they courted publicity and tried to make El-Gamal a hero. We
demolished that and destroyed their plans. So now they've clearly
decided to go ahead surreptitiously.
It
is disgusting that El-Gamal continues to taunt Americans and poke at America's
most egregious recent memory. El-Gamal was there when we had tens of
thousands in the streets opposing his Ground Zero mosque. He knows
how angry and upset people get at these Islamic structures on the site of jihad
war. The 9/11 Muslim terrorists extolled Allah no fewer than 90
times in their last letters. Will those letters be on display at
this Islamic cultural center/museum?
There
is an important lesson to be learned here — and one we would be wise to
adopt. They never stop. No matter how absolutely they
lose, how many setbacks they suffer, they keep on pursuing their supremacist
goals.
The
Ground Zero Mosque project was and is a middle finger to the American
people. There has never been a mosque of reconciliation and healing
built on the site of a jihadi attack. Ever. It is, on the
other hand, an Islamic pattern to build triumphal mosques on the cherished
sites of conquered lands. History is riddled with triumphal mosques
built on the sites of jihad attacks or appropriated from other religions:
the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa
Mosque on the site of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul,
the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, and
innumerable mosques built on the sites of Hindu temples that were
demolished by Muslims all attest to that.
And
now it looks as if Sharif El-Gamal is going to be able to build his own
triumphal mosque at Ground Zero after all.
Pamela Geller is the president of the
American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of The
Geller Report, and author of the bestselling book, FATWA: Hunted in
America as
well as The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on
America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the
Resistance. Follow
her on Twitter and Facebook.
The Left Lines Up With the
Terrorists
Britain's
voters rejected
soundly the Labor Party, whose former leader Jeremy
Corbyn has called Hamas and Hezb'allah terrorists "his friends"
and for whom Hamas expressed reciprocal support. Americans
must similarly ostracize and marginalize politicians, organizations, and
religious institutions that give tacit support to Hamas, Islamic Jihad,
Hezb'allah, and other terrorist organizations.
There
is a huge legal
difference (no criminal liability versus up to 15 years
in prison), but little moral difference, between giving material support to
terrorists and seeking to damage Israel's economy through boycott, divestment,
and sanctions (BDS). Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
who endorsed Jeremy Corbyn, supports
BDS,
as do Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and 14 other House Democrats. So
does Jewish
Voice for Peace, which I call "Jews for
Jihad."
The Presbyterian
Church USA, Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America, and American
Friends Service Committee also deserve to be
ostracized, shunned, and boycotted for supporting BDS and therefore
(indirectly) Palestinian abuse of not only Jews, but also Arab
Christians, women, and LGBT
people. If you want to show proper respect for
these organizations, as well as the United Nations, please donate to the One Israel Fund;
I did.
Rewarding
Terrorism
It
is very easy to reward terrorism without providing material or even verbal
support for terroristic violence. Ongoing support for a two-state
solution assures the terrorists that there are no long-term consequences, such
as permanent loss of their aspirations for independence or even autonomy,
regardless of how many treaties they
break, how many pizza
parlors and Seders they
bomb, how many little
girls whose heads they bash in with rifle butts, how
many Jewish
families they cut up with knives, how many rockets they
launch at Israel, and how many wildfires they
start with incendiary balloons while they talk openly about destroying
Israel. (Noting how wildfires release carbon dioxide while
destroying carbon sinks, maybe Greta Thunberg should
tell Hamas, "How dare you?") They have also, like the
Nazis, spoken
openly about how they want to exterminate all the
Jews and rule the world.
Jews
might be first on their list, but Sultan Erdoğan has made it clear that Christians and
peaceful Muslims are next. "[T]he
borders of Turkey span 'from Vienna to the shores of the Adriatic
Sea.'" (How did that work out for the Turks in 1683?) The
Palestinian children's show Tomorrow's
Pioneers, meanwhile, talks about becoming "masters of
the world" and "ruling of the world by an Islamic leadership." Didn't
we hear rhetoric (in
German) along those lines back in the 1930s?
Democratic
frontrunner Elizabeth
Warren has nonetheless expressed her willingness to
pressure Israel to accept a two-state solution, and J
Street also supports a two-state
solution. While Bernie
Sanders has condemned BDS and anti-Semitism, he also
wants to re-legitimize the United Nations Human Rights Council despite
its infestation by
totalitarian nations like China, Egypt, and Cuba. Sanders also calls
Israeli settlements illegal. The Democrat-controlled House voted to reward
terrorism by continuing to support a two-state solution.
What
Would Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris Do?
The
Israeli town of Sderot is so close to the terrorists that its residents have
only fifteen
seconds to reach a bomb shelter before terrorist
rockets arrive. British civilians in London usually had, in
contrast, adequate time to take shelter from Nazi bombs; cruise
missiles; and, to a lesser degree, supersonic but
radar-detectable ballistic missiles. The Royal Air Force's response
was to turn Dresden and Hamburg into crematoria, and Winston Churchill
apparently intended to drop a nuclear
bomb on
Berlin. The Nazis fired a total of 3,172 V2
rockets at all Allied targets during the war; the
Palestinians have fired more than 20,000 rockets
at Israel.
I
can see no reason other than pressure from the United Nations, European Union,
and pre-Trump United States as to why Israel has not similarly applied
Admiral John
Fisher's advice to every single rocket launcher,
terrorist, and other military target in Gaza: "The essence of war is
violence. Moderation in war is imbecility." The
political and religious Left, on the other hand, continue to reassure the
terrorists that they will suffer no meaningful consequences for exactly the same
behavior that caused the United Kingdom to go
dracarys on every German city within reach of the RAF.
President
Trump Slashes Material Support for Terrorists
Thirty-four Democratic
senators including Elizabeth Warren, and also Bernie
Sanders (I-Vt.), signed a letter opposing President Trump's decision to cut
$200 million in aid to the Palestinians and another $300 million to UNRWA,
which has been complicit in
promoting violent hatred of Israel. The Palestinians' "pay to
slay" program provides
financial assistance to terrorists and their families. Money given
to the Palestinians, and probably UNRWA, is therefore fungible with material support
for terrorists. "Fungible" means that the
Palestinian government can use the aid money to feed its people while diverting
its own resources to buy weapons, pay terrorists, and indoctrinate Palestinian
children to hate Jews and others, much as the Hitlerjugend indoctrinated
German children, "products of the worst educational crime in the history
of the world." (Yes, Dr. Seuss wrote
"Your Job in Germany.") The Palestinian Hitlerjugend
includes Tomorrow's
Pioneers, "a cheaply-produced children's
television program in which young children are brought onto a
pastel-colored set and taught the wonders of killing the inhabitants of
Israel." The show even says openly,
"We will annihilate the Jews." I don't speak Arabic, but I
did recognize "Yahud"
in that sentence.
Norway has
cut funding for violent indoctrination, but most Senate Democrats seem
comfortable with giving the Palestinians U.S. taxpayer money regardless of its
fungibility with hatred and violence.
Leftists
Accuse Trump of Anti-Semitism for Fighting Anti-Semitism
The Simon
Wiesenthal Center "Commends President Trump's
Executive Order on Anti-Semitism," which will penalize on-campus
anti-Semitism. Progressive
Jews,
however, denounce Trump's order as defining Jews as a separate nationality (it doesn't),
while one critic complained that Trump's action is "an obvious attempt to
kill the BDS 'Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions' movement on college
campuses," as if that were somehow a Bad Thing. The Left has
gone even farther by arguing that
Trump's executive order somehow violates the First Amendment.
The
First Amendment says only that BDS-supporters cannot be prosecuted criminally
for, as an example, telling Jews to "go back to
the ovens." It
does not entitle these people, or organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine
or many Muslim Student
Associations, to financial
support via publicly funded universities, or entry
visas for the international students involved. If terrorist
sympathizers want to advocate BDS and praise the Holocaust, they are free to do
it without either taxpayer-funded university support or fear of criminal
prosecution, just as racist white nationalists can call black people the N-word
without fear of prosecution — and without taxpayer support.
Michigan
Democrats are meanwhile about to elect a governor who supports BDS and a lieutenant
governor who openly supports
Hamas. "Hamas is a legitimately elected party that only rose to
power b/c of Israeli aggression & Western
complicity/enablement." The Palestinians therefore proved
themselves as unfit to govern themselves as the Germans who legitimately
elected the Nazis in
1932. The fact that Michigan voters, including those who elected
Rashida Tlaib, are supporting this pair is another strong argument for Keeping
America Great in 2020.
Civis Americanus is the pen
name of an American Thinker contributor who remembers the lessons of history
and wants to ensure that our country never needs to learn those lessons again
the hard way.
President Trump Again Does
the Right Thing for the Jewish People
I
was honored to be present at the White House on the day President Trump signed
an Executive Order protecting Jewish students from the harassment, bullying,
and intimidation on American campuses coming primarily from Islamic student
associations and leftwing professors and groups.
This
harassment of Jewish students has been going on since the beginning of the
Obama administration, and for all their supposed good intentions, the Obama
presidency and the House under Nancy Pelosi never signed or passed an order or
legislation to protect Jewish students on campus who are being uniquely
targeted. Obama’s
and Pelosi’s failure to stop this had resulted in an escalation and growing
ferocity each succeeding academic year. I and some other Jewish leaders
have spoken out and written about this calamity for years.
President
Trump’s Executive Order does not attack free speech.
Those
who as a profession dislike Israel, and those who dislike Jews and use
criticism of Israel to demonize Jews and Zionism remain free to spew forth
their bias. What is now prohibited is the following: any speech that has as its
goal the incendiary purpose of hostile and discriminatory actions against
Jewish students. It is obvious that many of the Islamic and
leftwing speakers on campus are fiercely prodding the audience to ostracize
Jewish students from campus activities and clubs and to bully and physically
and verbally intimidate Jewish students and invade their privacy by harassing
them even in dormitories. The Islamic and leftwing
groups scream and pound on locked doors where Jewish students congregate.
While
the ACLU and other groups will go to court against the implementation of the
Executive Order, there is no question that if a similar Executive Order were
issued to protect black students or LGBTQIA students this would be heralded as
a gesture against corrosive hate speech and a plea for tolerance and
inclusivity.
There
are some Never-Trumpers in the Jewish community who have condemned this
Executive Order as anti-Semitic. These are the same people who condemned
President Trump when moving our Embassy to Jerusalem as somehow anti-Israel. In
their hatred for our President, they twist pro-Israel and pro-Jewish actions by
Mr. Trump as anti-Jewish; yet they saw in former President Obama’s capitulation
and giveaways to Iran something “pro-Israel”. Either their hate blinds
them to common sense or their partisanship eases them into making lies for the
sake of their political goals. No one should listen to them.
Groups
such as J Street have come out against the Executive Order. It is obvious that
J Street wishes the continuance on campus of unfettered anti-Israel
pronouncements, calling Israel the worst names possible. Though criticism
of Israel will certainly be allowed to continue, the Executive Order withholds
federal funds when speakers advocate for the elimination of Israel or speak of
it as an illegitimate state.
No
one’s speech is outlawed; but federal funding will not be provided if speech is
used to incite against and ostracize Jewish students or defame the very
existence of the State of Israel. Federal funding should have long ago
been halted to colleges whose deans and boards, in un-American fashion,
continue to promote anti-Jewish campus Islamic groups and continue to hire
leftwing professors known precisely for their work toward eliminating the
Jewish State.
The
Executive Order expands the definitions in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to
include discrimination based not only on race and color but also on ethnicity
and nationality. By expanding these contours, aggressive Muslim and
leftwing students will no longer be able to weasel out of their violence and
guilt by claiming they are not against the Jewish religion. If they
attack Jews for being Jews, they are attacking them as a people and members of
a nationality. This, according to the President’s Order, is no longer
tolerated on campuses wishing to receive federal funds.
Some
leftwing Jewish detractors of the President hysterically condemned the
President for expanding the definition of Jewishness beyond religion to include
nationality. They are ignorant. Since it began, beyond being a religion,
Jews were part of a people. They were called “The Jewish People.” The
Bible, the Torah itself, refers to them as Am Yisrael, which means “the nation
of Israel.” These same liberal Jews were against the recent legislation
passed by the Knesset in Israel which labeled Israel a Jewish state and nation.
Our
gratitude goes out to President Trump, who has been, without doubt, the
greatest friend Israel and the Jewish people have ever had among our presidents
and among world leaders. Those whose partisanship and hatred have blinded
them should no longer be viewed as worthwhile or serious participants in our
national conversation. Their toxicity should be contained to
themselves. Let the nation be spared.
Rabbi Aryeh Spero is spokesman for the
Conference of Jewish Affairs, president of Caucus For America, author of Push
Back, and a frequent guest on Fox News.
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