BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA AND HIS MUSLIM DICTATORS - WHO PAYS FOR THE PHONY OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY THAT WILL NEVER HAVE HIS PAPERS?
Under Obama, billions in foreign currency were illegally flown into Iran on unmarked cargo planes, but Trump cut off the cash.
"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."
Haney, who is credited with helping capture more than 300 jihadists, is best known for blowing the whistle on the Obama administration for shutting down an investigation he was leading that could have potentially stopped, among others… the terrorist attack in San Bernardino.
Philip Haney, a genuine Obama whistleblower, found dead at age 66
Philip Haney, an expert on Islamic extremism who was a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003 and who became a prominent critic of President Obama’s questionable management of the agency after he retired in 2015, died from a single gunshot wound on February 21. Haney’s body was found lying on the ground outside his car in the small California town of Plymouth, east of Sacramento.
On Saturday afternoon, as the news of Haney’s death began to be reported, initially in social media and the new media and then more widely, the local Sheriff’s Office of Amador County issued a statement based on the local “Coroner’s Investigation:”
On February 21, 2020 at approximately 1012 hours, deputies and detectives responded to the area of Highway 124 and Highway 16 in Plymouth to the report of a male subject on the ground with a gunshot wound.Upon their arrival, they located and identified 66-year-old Philip Haney, who was deceased and appeared to have suffered a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound.A firearm was located next to Haney and his vehicle. This investigation is active and ongoing. No further details will be released at this time.
A number of people were skeptical of the conclusion that Haney took his own life. For example, investigative journalist and Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter tweeted at 11:09 AM ET on Saturday morning:
Somebody I deeply respected and considered a friend Phil Haney – a DHS whistleblower during the Obama Admin was apparently killed yesterday in Southern [sic] California. Pray for his family and pray they find the person who murdered him. Still trying to get confirmation on details
Carter’s tweet was quoted in a story at Fox News published around 7 PM ET Saturday.
In 2016, one year after he retired from government service, Haney published a book, See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad. The book was extremely critical of President Barack Obama and his administration. Haney appeared several times on Fox News, including on Hannity (June 14, 2016) and Fox & Friends.
An article at Law Enforcement Today on Saturday noted:
Haney, who is credited with helping capture more than 300 jihadists, is best known for blowing the whistle on the Obama administration for shutting down an investigation he was leading that could have potentially stopped, among others… the terrorist attack in San Bernardino.That attack, occurring on December 2, 2015, left 14 people dead and 22 seriously injured from gunshot wounds at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.
On June 28, 2016, Haney testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. His opening statement, which is available online, was titled “Willful Blindness: Consequences of Agency Efforts To Deemphasize Radical Islam in Combating Terrorism.”
Philip Haney testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee June 28, 2016
Screen shot from Fox News
Haney appeared frequently as a guest on new media platforms, including extensive interviews with John B. Wells on Caravan to Midnight (subscription required) and on The Hagmann Report (audio podcast of July 14, 2017 interview here). On January 4, 2018, Haney made his second appearance (video here) on The Hagmann Report, in the third hour long segment following my own in the program’s second hour. Although we were both guests on the program that evening, I did not have a chance to engage Haney as our segments were self-contained.
Friends of Haney discounted the initial report that Haney, a devout Christian, committed suicide. According to Law Enforcement Today:
Friends of Haney told us that they spoke with Haney earlier this week and he’d “never been happier.” They’ve suggested there’s absolutely no way he would have taken his own life… and reinforce that he’s had many enemies since he blew the whistle on the Obama administration. . .In 2018, Haney told Intercessors for America prayer activists that he had been working on a “special assignment” in Minnesota to stop Rep. Keith Ellison from being elected Minnesota’s Attorney General. As we approach the 2020 elections, friends of Haney’s told us he was planning on doubling down on efforts to “protect America from progressive leftists socialists”.
Peter Barry Chowka is a veteran journalist who writes about politics, media, popular culture, and health care for American Thinker and other publications. Peter's website is http://peter.media. His new YouTube channel is here. Follow Peter on Twitter at @pchowka.
Treasury’s Role in
Financing Iranian Terror
There
are reports that
some of the $1.7 billion that Obama gave to Iran as part of the Iran deal or
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has been traced to Iran-backed
terror groups, including Qassem Soleimani’s Quds Force, Iran’s principal
foreign intelligence and covert action arm and part of the Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps. What is not discussed is that the money
could not have been funneled to Iran without active support from actors within
the Treasury Department.
As
a former Treasury Special Agent, the suspect actions of some of my
ex-colleagues saddens and dismays me. Their actions also hypocritically
counter both our anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist finance programs and
the international financial systems and safeguards that Treasury worked hard to
implement and protect.
Since
1979 Iran has conducted virtual acts of war and terror against the United
States and our allies. The State Department designated Iran
as the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism. Iran is also one
of the most corrupt regimes
in the world.
So
why did some Treasury officials move to obfuscate, if not launder, the money
that Obama wanted delivered to the mullahs in Iran? Why did Treasury
participate in a quid pro quo or act of bribery? Why would they engage in
subsequent deception and cover-up?
The
short answer is Treasury willfully became blind and politicized.
It wasn’t just the Department of Justice and John Brennan’s CIA that were
sullied during the Obama administration.
In
2018, columnist Mark Theissen discussed some of Treasury’s suspicious
activities in his article,
“Obama took Lying to New Heights with the Iran Deal.”
- Obama
failed to disclose to Congress secret side deals on inspections when he
transmitted the nuclear accord to Capitol Hill.
- Treasury
secretly tried to help Iran use U.S. banks to convert $5.7 billion in
Iranian assets, after promising Congress that Iran would not get access to
the U.S. financial system. Treasury officials then apparently lied
to Congress about what the administration had done.
- Senate
investigators found that the Treasury Department “granted a specific
license that authorized a conversion of Iranian assets worth billions of
U.S. dollars using the U.S. financial system” including unlimited future
Iranian deposits at Bank Muscat in Oman until the license expired.
- After
issuing the license, Treasury explicitly denied to Congress that it had
done so.
- Treasury’s
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) "encouraged two U.S.
correspondent banks to convert the funds." Senate investigators found
"both banks declined to complete the transaction due to compliance,
reputational, and legal risks associated with doing business with
Iran."
- In
response to Congressional inquiries, Treasury officials declared "The
U.S. Department of Treasury is not working on behalf of Iran to enable
Iranian access to U.S. dollars elsewhere in the international financial
system, nor are we assisting Iran in gaining access to dollar payment
systems outside the U.S. financial system. The Administration has not been
and is not planning to grant Iran access to the U.S. financial
system." The facts contradict Treasury’s statement.
- Treasury
participated in approximately 200 international "roadshows"
where it encouraged foreign financial institutions to do business with
Iran "as long as the rest of the world left the United States out of
it."
The
Obama administration also signed
a secret document lifting sanctions on two Iranian
state banks that were previously blacklisted for their involvement in financing
Iran's ballistic missile program. This occurred the same day Tehran
released four American prisoners. In prior years, Treasury was vehemently
opposed to the same banks for their alleged role in financially backing Iran's
missile program.
President
Obama had the right to conduct and implement his foreign policy.
Certainly, politically attuned attorneys in Treasury and elsewhere provided
rulings and legal cover for the JCPOA. President
Trump exercised the same right to rescind the JCPOA,
an agreement he called “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the
United States has ever entered into.”
There
is conflicting information about the specifics of the $1.7 billion sent to
Iran. There has never been a full and transparent accounting showing how
Treasury effected payment (e.g., manner of wire transfers, use of foreign
banks, foreign currencies, flights of pallets of cash to Iran?). The U.S.
military and intelligence community has been able to follow some of the money
as it was routed to Iranian-backed terror groups but we lack details. How
did they track it? Were the money transfers hidden, disguised or
laundered? Were additional parties or conduits involved? Were
waivers or exemptions granted to skirt sanctions? Was the U.S. government
subsequently able to follow the money trail to corrupt Iranian
officials? The money has certainly not been used to better the
lives of the Iranian people.
There
are also charges and counter-charges about Iran’s right to compensation.
Before
the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran’s government put $400 million for military
equipment into the Pentagon’s Foreign Military Sales (FMS) account. In 1981,
Iran filed a claim at The Hague to have that money returned.
The
Obama administration contended that the $1.7 billion sent to Iran represented
the $400 million plus $1.3 billion in interest and that the money legally
belonged to Iran. That’s simplistic and doesn’t tell the whole story.
In 1981, the US filed an $817 million counterclaim alleging that Iran
violated its obligations under the FMS program. Some observers feel that
it is Iran that owes the U.S., as the list of sponsored attacks, victims, and
damages against Americans is long, bloody, and costly.
In
2000, President Bill Clinton signed a law stipulating
that Iran’s FMS account could not be refunded until court judgments against
Iran for damages from terrorist acts against American citizens were resolved to
America’s satisfaction. Obama ignored the law. To date, U.S. courts have
ruled Iran owes nearly $55.6
billion to American victims of its terror.
There
are also still questions about the JCPOA agreement’s promises to lift sanctions
on Iran’s economy in exchange of Iran scaling back its nuclear program.
It is estimated the JCPOA resulted in the release of between $50
- $150 billion in frozen Iranian assets in the
international financial system. Commentator Mark
Levin looked at the numbers and said, “Obama is the
biggest funder of terrorism the world has ever seen.”
Treasury
is justifiably proud of innovative tools such as sanctions and designations it
developed to fight the War on Terror. It is sad and ironic that the same
Department of Treasure facilitated some of Iran’s terror.
The
Treasury’s Office of Inspector General should conduct an internal review of
Obama’s Treasury regarding the above. Judicial Watch, a nonprofit group
promoting government transparency, could get involved.
The
best course of action would be for President Trump -- while his impeachment
plays out for his alleged “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress” -- to
order the Departments of Treasury, Justice, and State, the National Security
Council, and elsewhere to release all documents, including emails, touching upon
the Obama administration’s deliberations on paying Iran’s claim, any linkage to
the JCPOA, and possible side deals. President Trump should also order a full
accounting of the form and method of the $1.7 billion payment to Iran.
Americans
deserve full transparency and accountability about the Obama Treasury
Department’s role in providing money to the Iranian terror regime.
John A. Cassara is a former U.S. intelligence officer and Treasury
special agent, author, and consultant. He has written numerous books and
articles on money laundering and terror finance. Additional information
is available at www.JohnCassara.com.
Cruz:
Missiles Fired by Iran on U.S. Base ‘Paid for by the Billions the Obama
Administration Flooded the Ayatollah With’
7 Jan 20201,825
1:28
Tuesday during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-AZ) discussed the surface-to-surface missile attack by Iran on
a U.S. military base in Iraq.
Cruz maintained Trump was justified in ordering the airstrike on
Iranian general Qasam Soleimani. He added that Democrats and the media
speculating about World War III was a product of their hysteria and anti-Trump
fervor.
The Texas Republican went on to suggest those missiles that
struck the U.S. base were financed by money delivered to Iran as a result of
the nuclear deal brokered during the previous Obama administration.
“If you look at Iran policy, I think you’ve seen a dramatic
shift,” he said. “Under Barack Obama, as you noted, the policy was
appeasement. The policy under the disastrous Iran nuclear deal under
Obama was to give over $100 billion to Iran. They literally flew $1.7
billion in cash, in unmarked bills on pallettes in the dead of night into Iran.
In a very real sense, the missiles that we saw fired on U.S.
servicemen and women tonight were paid for by the billions the Obama
administration flooded the Ayatollah with. If history teaches anything,
it’s don’t give billions of dollars to people who hate you and want to kill
you.”
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
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
As this Daily Mail story reminds us
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’
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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.
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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
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“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
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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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