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"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."
Quds Force Leader Qassem Soleimani’s Death Marks Huge Blow to Iranian Regime
6:26
The U.S. military, at the direction of President Donald Trump, killed Iran’s most significant military figure, Qassem Soleimani, in airstrikes in Baghdad early Friday morning in a huge blow to the Islamic Republic.
The Pentagon confirmed in a statement that it killed Maj. Gen. Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite military forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, as well as the commander of Iranian-controlled Shia militia forces in Iraq, Syria, and around the world.
“The reported deaths of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani and the Iraqi commander of the militia that killed an American last week was a bold and decisive military action made possible by excellent intelligence and the courage of America’s service members,” said Lt. Col. (Ret.) James Carafano, vice president of the Heritage Foundation’s Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy.
“His death is a huge loss for Iran’s regime and its Iraqi proxies, and a major operational and psychological victory for the United States,” Carafano added.
Phillip Smyth, an expert at the Washington Institute on Iran-controlled Shia militias and the Middle East, agreed.
“This is a major blow,” he said. “I would argue that this is probably the most major decapitation strike the United States has ever carried out. … This is a man who controlled a transnational foreign legion that was controlling governments in numerous different countries.”
Smyth said Soleimani had a cult of personality, as well as a unique leadership role in the Iran-controlled Shia militia network.
“He had a hell of a lot of power and a hell of a lot of control,” he said. “You have to be a strong leader in order to get these people to work with you, know how and when to play them off one another, and also know which Iranians do I need within the IRGC-QF, which Lebanese do I need, which Iraqis do I need … that’s not something you can just pick up at a local five and dime. It takes decades of experience.”
Several other experts also agreed that Soleimani’s death was even more significant than al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s, or Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s.
Killing Qasem Solaimani for @realDonaldTrump is bigger and more consequential than that of Baghdadi.
The Pentagon indicated that Soleimani’s death would have a significant operational impact.
“General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region,” the Pentagon said in a statement. “This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans. The United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world.”
The Pentagon said Soleimani had orchestrated attacks on U.S.-led coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months, including one on December 27 which killed an American contractor and wounded U.S. service members and Iraqi personnel.
The Pentagon also said Soleimani approved the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that took place earlier this week.
The group that carried out the December 27 attack, Kata’ib Hizballah, is the same group that pioneered the use of explosively formed penetrators that killed and maimed hundreds of U.S. service members during the Iraq War, according to Smyth.
Carafano argued that Soleimani’s death should be treated similarly to bin Laden’s. Trump designated the IRGC-Quds Force a foreign terrorist organization in April, essentially labeling Soleimani a terrorist leader.
“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), led by Suleimani, was responsible for the deaths of more than 600 Americans in Iraq between 2003-2011, and countless more injured. He was a chief architect behind Iran’s continuing reign of terror in the region. This strike against one of the world’s most odious terrorists is no different than the mission which took out Osama bin Laden – it is, in fact, even more justifiable since he was in a foreign country directing terrorist attacks against Americans,” he said.
According to local reports, the U.S. airstrikes also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the leader of the Badr Organization, one of Iraq’s most powerful Iranian-controlled Shia militia groups.
“It’s an incredible two-fer,” Smyth said. “This is another one of those old hands. These guys don’t grow on trees. It takes time.”
The U.S. airstrikes also reportedly killed the public relations chief for the umbrella group of Iran-controlled Shia militia in Iraq, the Popular Mobilization Forces, Mohammed Ridha Jabri, as well. Smyth said Jabri had some significance to the militia network as a spokesman, but his death would not be of the same significance as Soleimani or al-Muhandis.
As for what to expect next, Smyth said a response could come in many forms and in different places and perhaps not be even recognized as a response. But he pushed back against the notion that the U.S. started a war with Iran with the death of Soleimani.
“Iran has been at war with the United States since the Islamic Revolutionary regime took power in Tehran in 1979. To say that we are going to war or that this is yet another American escalation — I think we need to be a little more detailed,” he said.
He said over the past year, Kata’ib Hizballah, was launching rockets and mortars at Americans in Iraq and eventually killed one.
“Over the past couple of years we’ve had a number of issues in the Gulf, we’ve had a number of issues in different countries, we’ve had international terrorism issues, you name it, you can throw everything at the wall, and the Iranians have in some way been behind some of it. Even arm supplies to the Taliban … so this didn’t just appear in a vacuum because ‘we didn’t like the Iranians,'” he said.
Carafano said going forward, the Trump administration must keep its maximum pressure strategy in place.
“What the administration must offer now is firm diplomacy backed by the continuing, credible threat of the use of military force. President Trump has wisely shown that he will act with the full powers of his office when American interests are threatened, and the extremist regime in Tehran would be wise to take notice,” he said.
6:26
The U.S. military, at the direction of President Donald Trump, killed Iran’s most significant military figure, Qassem Soleimani, in airstrikes in Baghdad early Friday morning in a huge blow to the Islamic Republic.
The Pentagon confirmed in a statement that it killed Maj. Gen. Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite military forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, as well as the commander of Iranian-controlled Shia militia forces in Iraq, Syria, and around the world.
“The reported deaths of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani and the Iraqi commander of the militia that killed an American last week was a bold and decisive military action made possible by excellent intelligence and the courage of America’s service members,” said Lt. Col. (Ret.) James Carafano, vice president of the Heritage Foundation’s Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy.
“His death is a huge loss for Iran’s regime and its Iraqi proxies, and a major operational and psychological victory for the United States,” Carafano added.
Phillip Smyth, an expert at the Washington Institute on Iran-controlled Shia militias and the Middle East, agreed.
“This is a major blow,” he said. “I would argue that this is probably the most major decapitation strike the United States has ever carried out. … This is a man who controlled a transnational foreign legion that was controlling governments in numerous different countries.”
Smyth said Soleimani had a cult of personality, as well as a unique leadership role in the Iran-controlled Shia militia network.
“He had a hell of a lot of power and a hell of a lot of control,” he said. “You have to be a strong leader in order to get these people to work with you, know how and when to play them off one another, and also know which Iranians do I need within the IRGC-QF, which Lebanese do I need, which Iraqis do I need … that’s not something you can just pick up at a local five and dime. It takes decades of experience.”
Several other experts also agreed that Soleimani’s death was even more significant than al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s, or Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s.
Killing Qasem Solaimani for @realDonaldTrump is bigger and more consequential than that of Baghdadi.
The Pentagon indicated that Soleimani’s death would have a significant operational impact.
“General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region,” the Pentagon said in a statement. “This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans. The United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world.”
The Pentagon said Soleimani had orchestrated attacks on U.S.-led coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months, including one on December 27 which killed an American contractor and wounded U.S. service members and Iraqi personnel.
The Pentagon also said Soleimani approved the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that took place earlier this week.
The group that carried out the December 27 attack, Kata’ib Hizballah, is the same group that pioneered the use of explosively formed penetrators that killed and maimed hundreds of U.S. service members during the Iraq War, according to Smyth.
Carafano argued that Soleimani’s death should be treated similarly to bin Laden’s. Trump designated the IRGC-Quds Force a foreign terrorist organization in April, essentially labeling Soleimani a terrorist leader.
“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), led by Suleimani, was responsible for the deaths of more than 600 Americans in Iraq between 2003-2011, and countless more injured. He was a chief architect behind Iran’s continuing reign of terror in the region. This strike against one of the world’s most odious terrorists is no different than the mission which took out Osama bin Laden – it is, in fact, even more justifiable since he was in a foreign country directing terrorist attacks against Americans,” he said.
According to local reports, the U.S. airstrikes also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the leader of the Badr Organization, one of Iraq’s most powerful Iranian-controlled Shia militia groups.
“It’s an incredible two-fer,” Smyth said. “This is another one of those old hands. These guys don’t grow on trees. It takes time.”
The U.S. airstrikes also reportedly killed the public relations chief for the umbrella group of Iran-controlled Shia militia in Iraq, the Popular Mobilization Forces, Mohammed Ridha Jabri, as well. Smyth said Jabri had some significance to the militia network as a spokesman, but his death would not be of the same significance as Soleimani or al-Muhandis.
As for what to expect next, Smyth said a response could come in many forms and in different places and perhaps not be even recognized as a response. But he pushed back against the notion that the U.S. started a war with Iran with the death of Soleimani.
“Iran has been at war with the United States since the Islamic Revolutionary regime took power in Tehran in 1979. To say that we are going to war or that this is yet another American escalation — I think we need to be a little more detailed,” he said.
He said over the past year, Kata’ib Hizballah, was launching rockets and mortars at Americans in Iraq and eventually killed one.
“Over the past couple of years we’ve had a number of issues in the Gulf, we’ve had a number of issues in different countries, we’ve had international terrorism issues, you name it, you can throw everything at the wall, and the Iranians have in some way been behind some of it. Even arm supplies to the Taliban … so this didn’t just appear in a vacuum because ‘we didn’t like the Iranians,'” he said.
Carafano said going forward, the Trump administration must keep its maximum pressure strategy in place.
“What the administration must offer now is firm diplomacy backed by the continuing, credible threat of the use of military force. President Trump has wisely shown that he will act with the full powers of his office when American interests are threatened, and the extremist regime in Tehran would be wise to take notice,” he said.
Iran’s Khamenei Taunted Trump Before Soleimani Strike: ‘You Can’t Do Anything’
2:14
Iranian dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted Wednesday that the U.S. was powerless to respond to Iran’s attacks against American contractors, soldiers, and diplomats: “You can’t do anything,” he taunted President Donald Trump.
By Thursday — Friday morning local time — U.S. forces had taken out Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, thought to be behind recent attacks in Iraq, and responsible for hundreds of earlier American deaths in that country.
Trump had tweeted Wednesday, after an Iranian-backed militia stormed the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, that Iran “will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE!”
He added: “This is not a Warning, it is a Threat. Happy New Year!”
But Khamenei dismissed the threat, as did Iranian military leaders. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leader Major General Hossein Salami, who said that “we are not worried.”
That may have contributed to security lapses Thursday, when a U.S. airstrike, at President Trump’s command, took out Soleimani and a local militia leader traveling with him.
Trump’s comment, via Twitter: a simple American flag.
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.
2:14
Iranian dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted Wednesday that the U.S. was powerless to respond to Iran’s attacks against American contractors, soldiers, and diplomats: “You can’t do anything,” he taunted President Donald Trump.
By Thursday — Friday morning local time — U.S. forces had taken out Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, thought to be behind recent attacks in Iraq, and responsible for hundreds of earlier American deaths in that country.
Trump had tweeted Wednesday, after an Iranian-backed militia stormed the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, that Iran “will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE!”
He added: “This is not a Warning, it is a Threat. Happy New Year!”
He added: “This is not a Warning, it is a Threat. Happy New Year!”
But Khamenei dismissed the threat, as did Iranian military leaders. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leader Major General Hossein Salami, who said that “we are not worried.”
That may have contributed to security lapses Thursday, when a U.S. airstrike, at President Trump’s command, took out Soleimani and a local militia leader traveling with him.
Trump’s comment, via Twitter: a simple American flag.
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.
US assassinates top Iranian general as 4,000 troops readied for Iraq intervention
The targeted assassination of the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Quds Force commander Major General Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad’s international airport early Friday morning has sharply intensified the spiraling conflict between the US and Iran, placing the outbreak of a catastrophic new war in the Middle East on a hair trigger.
The Iraqi and Lebanese media, as well as officials in Iraq’s Shia militia movement, reported that a US missile strike killed Soleimani after he had disembarked from a plane that had brought him to Iraq from either Syria or Lebanon. Also slain in the attack was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second in command of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), the powerful coalition of Iraqi Shia militias.
Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File).jpg
The Pentagon issued a statement taking responsibility for the killing: “The U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.”
For its part, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confirmed the killing, telling the Iranian media that “Honored supreme commander of Islam Soleimani was martyred in attack by U.S. helicopters.”
Soleimani has been a major figure within the Iranian military since the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88. As head of the Quds Force, he played a central role in defeating the US-backed Al Qaeda-linked militias unleashed by Washington and its allies against the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and subsequently helped lead Iraqi militia forces in routing the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). While mentioned as a possible candidate for the Iranian presidency, he rejected any run for office, insisting that he would serve his country as a soldier.
He was well known to US officials and military commanders who had engaged in back-channel communications with the Iranian general since Tehran’s collaboration with Washington in the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan.
The assassination came as the Pentagon dispatched another 750 US paratroopers to the Middle East, while 4,000 more have been placed on high alert for deployment to the region.
The deployment follows this week’s storming of the US Embassy in Baghdad by Iraqi demonstrators, an act of popular anger over US militarism that Washington blamed upon Iran.
U.S. Marines prepare to deploy from Kuwait (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Sgt. Robert G. Gavaldon via AP)
Defense Secretary Mark Esper claimed on Thursday that there were “indications out there” that Iran is planning “additional attacks” on US forces or interests in the region and that Washington was prepared to “take preemptive action” if it received any “word of attacks or some kind of indication.”
“The game has changed,” Esper said. “Do I think they might do something? Yes, and they will likely regret it.”
Thus, US has arrogated to itself the “right” to launch not only assassinations, but devastating military attacks on Iran based on the claim that it is acting to “preempt” rumored or invented threats from any entity in the Middle East that Washington deems an Iranian “proxy.” This category stretches from Iraqi Shia militias to the Hezbollah mass political and militia movement in Lebanon to Hamas, the Islamist party that governs the Israeli-occupied territory of Gaza.
On Tuesday, the US Embassy in Baghdad came under siege by thousands of protesters outraged over the December 29 US air strikes against bases in both Iraq and Syria of Kata’ib Hizbullah, an Iraqi Shia militia. The bombings, carried out by US F-15E fighters, killed 25 of the militia’s members and wounded at least 55 others.
The Trump administration claimed that the airstrikes were in retaliation for a missile attack on Iraq’s K-1 military base outside of Kirkuk in which an American civilian contractor was killed. While Washington blamed Kata’ib Hizbullah for the attack, it has presented no evidence of its responsibility.
The protesters, including many militia members and supporters, had marched on the embassy, located in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, following funeral services for the slain militia fighters that had brought thousands into the streets of the Iraqi capital.
They scaled the wall surrounding the US Embassy and laid siege to it, hurling Molotov cocktails and rocks. The embassy complex, the largest US diplomatic facility in the world, sprawls over 104 acres on the Tigris River and, at its high point in 2012, housed 16,000 US personnel, an effective continuation of the American occupation that formally ended in 2011.
The protesters managed to storm the main entrance to the complex, setting alight a guard booth and two reception rooms. Photographs released by the Associated Press on Wednesday showed the charred interiors of these areas of the embassy, with smashed furniture and windows and smoke still rising from the ruins.
Walls to the embassy compound were left covered with graffiti, including slogans such as “US embassy closed by order of the people” and “Death to America and Israel.”
US Marines manning the embassy’s interior fired continuous rounds of tear gas, stun grenades and warning shots in an attempt to disperse the protesters. Apache attack helicopters circled overhead firing flares toward the crowds in what was described as a “show of force.”
While the December 29 airstrikes were meant as a demonstration of US power and a blow to the Kata’ib Hizbullah militia, the popular response expressed in the siege of the embassy has exposed the immense crisis of Washington’s policy in Iraq and across the region.
The crowds of protesters were able to reach and enter the embassy only because the elite US-trained Iraqi antiterror troops deployed to protect the Green Zone, which also houses government buildings, other embassies and villas of the Iraqi oligarchy, offered no resistance whatsoever.
The event further exposes the predominant role played in the Iraqi government and its security forces by Shia militias—many of which originated in the fight against American troops following the criminal US invasion of Iraq in 2003—organized under the umbrella of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). This had already become clear in 2014, when the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was able to overrun roughly a third of Iraq after US-trained security forces collapsed, and the main opposition was mounted by the forces that would be organized into the PMF.
Infuriating the Trump administration, among those present at the embassy protest were Faleh al-Fayyadh, the nominal head of the PMF, who also serves as the country's national security advisor, Hadi al-Amiri, the former minister of transport and leader of the Badr Brigades, one of the largest militias within the PMF, and other leading members of parliamentary factions tied to the Shia militias.
While the US ambassador had been meeting with these figures in recent months, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo fired off an angry tweet, including a photograph of four of them, branding them as “terrorists.”
All of Iraq’s key government leaders, including the president, prime minister and head of the parliament, have denounced the US airstrikes as a violation of Iraqi sovereignty. Iraqi Prime Minister Abdul Mahdi, who heads a caretaker government after resigning in the face of mass protests against unemployment, social inequality and government corruption that have swept the country since last October, described the strikes as an “unacceptable vicious assault” against a militia that is considered part of Iraq’s armed forces and warned of its “dangerous consequences.” He described being notified by US Defense Secretary Esper of the impending bombings shortly before they were launched and pleading with him, unsuccessfully, to call them off.
The country’s President Barham Salih, who also condemned the US attack, described a similar conversation with a US diplomatic official.
While Trump fired off a tweet Wednesday thanking Abdul Mahdi and Salih for their “rapid response” to Washington’s demand that they provide security for the embassy, the US-trained Iraqi antiterrorism force charged with protecting the Green Zone, issued a pointed statement to the media denying that it had received an order to protect “any entity.”
The protesters left the Green Zone chanting “Yeah, we burned them!” after being told by militia leaders that they had achieved their purpose, and that legislation would be introduced in the Iraqi parliament demanding the expulsion of all US troops from the country.
While similar proposals have been introduced in the past without success, the present crisis may well have produced the conditions for the approval of such a measure. Leaders of a number of the blocs in the Iraqi legislature have signaled their support for ending the US military presence.
According to the Pentagon’s figures, some 5,000 uniformed US personnel are deployed in Iraq along with an unknown number—undoubtedly greater than that amount—of civilian military contractors. Their presence in the country was justified in the name of the “war on ISIS,” in which the US played a massively destructive role, reducing Mosul, previously Iraq’s second city, along with a number of other urban centers in Anbar province, into rubble and killing tens of thousands.
With ISIS smashed, Trump early last year allowed that having “spent a fortune on building this incredible base” in Iraq, Washington should keep it to “watch” Iran. The remark drew a swift rebuke from the Iraqi president, who stated that Iraq’s constitution “does not allow our territory ... to be used against our neighbors” and that Baghdad did not want to be “part of any axis.”
If the Iraqi parliament were to vote for legislation mandating an end to the US military presence in Iraq, it is by no means clear that Washington would withdraw its troops. A continuation of the American occupation, initiated by an unprovoked and criminal invasion, would initiate a new stage in the protracted war that has devastated Iraqi society.
This has culminated in the Trump administration’s abrogation last year of the 2015 nuclear accord between Tehran and the major world powers, followed by the initiation of a “maximum pressure” campaign aimed at reducing Iranian oil exports to zero and starving the Iranian population into accepting regime change and the installation of a US puppet government.
The recklessness and criminality that characterize Washington’s acts against Iran are not a sign of strength, but rather an expression of the deep-going social tensions, economic instability and political crisis gripping American capitalism, which the ruling financial oligarchy seeks to divert outward in an explosion of military violence.
Nancy Pelosi Complains: No Notification Before Attack on Iran’s Soleimani
2:30
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reacted to the successful U.S. airstrike on Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq on Thursday evening by complaining that Congress was not consulted in advance about it.
In a statement released by the Speaker’s office on Thursday evening, Pelosi demanded an immediate briefing:
American leaders’ highest priority is to protect American lives and interests. But we cannot put the lives of American servicemembers, diplomats and others further at risk by engaging in provocative and disproportionate actions. Tonight’s airstrike risks provoking further dangerous escalation of violence. America – and the world – cannot afford to have tensions escalate to the point of no return.The Administration has conducted tonight’s strikes in Iraq targeting high-level Iranian military officials and killing Iranian Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani without an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against Iran. Further, this action was taken without the consultation of the Congress.The full Congress must be immediately briefed on this serious situation and on the next steps under consideration by the Administration, including the significant escalation of the deployment of additional troops to the region.
A spokesperson for Pelosi confirmed that she had not been notified in advance and only spoke to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper after the attack.
Pelosi has yet to notify the Senate formally about the impeachment of President Donald Trump — 16 days ago.
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.
Obama Aide Ben Rhodes: Death of Iran’s Soleimani ‘A Really Frightening Moment’
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:
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:
Rhodes then added that he was specifically worried about President Trump’s “strategy” and competence to lead:
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.
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.
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
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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
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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
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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 ErdoÄŸan 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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"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."
“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
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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.”
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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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