"Just this once, and for a while longer at least, no one is listening to the leftist, Islamist and antisemitic defense of the indefensible." (JNS.org)
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20230914
"Biden has a secret, illegal deal with Iran that gives mullahs everything they want" - N.Y. Post Opinion
By Richard Goldberg in New York Post, Opinion Sept 12, 2023
In the latest phase of an unacknowledged and unlawful nuclear deal between the United States and Iran, President Joe Biden this week formally approved giving the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism another $6 billion — ostensibly for the release of five Americans held hostage in Tehran.
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| Rob Malley, US envoy to Iran, fmr Secy of State John Kerry, and former Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif |
In May, a top White House official visited Oman to pass a message to Tehran: Washington wants to broker a nuclear deal in secret.
Biden would lift sanctions restrictions on Iranian funds held outside its borders, and in exchange Iran would slow its steady march toward a nuclear-weapons threshold.
Iran would be free to continue hunting former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, former Special Envoy for Iran Brian Hook and other Americans.
Tehran could keep directing attacks against Israel through its Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror proxies.The mullahs could keep providing armed drones to Vladimir Putin for use against the Ukrainian people.
The regime could even keep producing high-enriched uranium just a stone’s throw from weapons-grade, manufacturing advanced centrifuges, developing longer-range missiles, denying access to international nuclear inspectors and constructing a new underground facility that could prove invulnerable to military action.
Biden’s only demands: Don’t move across the nuclear threshold by producing weapons-grade uranium and release five American citizens held hostage in Iran.
For Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the deal was a dream come true.
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On the nuclear front, Iran gives up nothing. The United Nation’s nuclear watchdog last week reported that Iran is still expanding its stockpile of high-enriched uranium, just at a slower rate.
As for the five American hostages — at a cost of $1.2 billion a person — Khamenei will merely restock his collection of American hostages for a future extortion racket.
Meanwhile, Iran gets to use billions of dollars in budget support to subsidize a wide range of illicit activities.
Gabriel Noronha previously served on the Iran desk at the State Department and maintains contacts there and in the National Security Council and European Union who are directly involved in the negotiations. His colleagues were so appalled at the concessions the US gave Iran that they asked him to leak details:
1. NEW: My former career @StateDept, NSC, and EU colleagues are so concerned with the concessions being made by @RobMalley in Vienna that they’ve allowed me to publish some details of the coming deal in the hopes that Congress will act to stop the capitulation.
— Gabriel Noronha (@GLNoronha) March 2, 2022
[Long thread]
In June and July, the Biden administration unfroze more than $10 billion of Iranian assets held in Iraq, allowing Baghdad to move payments for Iranian electricity into accounts in Oman established for Tehran’s use — payments that will continue on a rolling basis.
Now comes $6 billion more transferred to accounts in Qatar, providing the regime additional budget support.
Multiple reports also suggest Washington is allowing Tehran to trade $7 billion in International Monetary Fund special drawing rights for fiat currency.
At the same time, US officials now admit they’re allowing Iranian oil exports to China to skyrocket with estimates ranging from 1.4 to 2.2 million barrels per day flowing in August — their highest levels since President Donald Trump ended America’s participation in the old Iran nuclear deal.
Conservative estimates put this sanctions relief at $25 billion in annual revenue. Iran is now eyeing the transfer of another $3 billion from Japan.
All told, this is at least a $50 billion protection racket — not just a $6 billion hostage payment. (article continues after break)
20170114
Obama's betrayal of Israel means victory for jihad over the West- French analyst, Guy Milliere
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| John Kerry, Benjamin Netanyahu, Barak Obama (Photo: Algemeiner Journal) |
- President Obama's decision not to use the US veto in the UN Security Council and to let pass Resolution 2334, effectively sets the boundaries of a future Palestinian state. The resolution declares all of Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem -- home to the Old City, the Western Wall and the Temple Mount -- the most sacred place in Judaism -- "occupied Palestinian territory," and is a declaration of war against Israel.
Resolution 2334 nullified any possibility of further negotiations by giving the Palestinians everything in exchange for nothing -- not even an insincere promise of peace.
Guy Milliere, author, "Twilight over Europe: Europe's
submission to Islam and to Muslim anti-Semitism"
- The next act is the Orwellian-named "peace conference," to be held in Paris on January 15. It has but one objective: to set the stage to eradicate Israel.
- In this new "Dreyfus trial," the accused will be the only Jewish state and the accusers will be the OIC and officials from Islamized, dhimmified, anti-Israel Western states. As in the Dreyfus trial, the verdict has been decided before it even starts. Israel will be considered guilty of all charges and condemned. A draft of the declaration to be published at the end of the conference is already available.
- The declaration rejects any Jewish presence beyond the 1949 armistice lines -- thereby instituting apartheid. It also praises the "Arab Peace Initiative," which calls for returning of millions of so-called "refugees" to Israel, thus transforming Israel into an Arab Muslim state where a massacre of Jews could conveniently be organized.
- The declaration is most likely meant serve as the basis for a new Security Council resolution on January 17 that would recognize a Palestinian state inside the "1967 borders," and be adopted, thanks to a second US abstention, three days before Obama leaves office. The betrayal of Israel by the Obama administration and by Obama himself would then be complete.
Guy Milliere exclusive video interview with DemoCast - The US Congress is already discussing bills to defund the UN and the Palestinian Authority. If Europeans think that the incoming Trump administration is as spineless as the Obama administration, they are in for a shock.
- Khaled Abu Toameh noted that the Palestinian Authority sees Resolution 2334 as a green light for more murders and violence.
- Daniel Pipes recently wrote that it is time to acknowledge the failure of a "peace process" that is really a war process. He stresses that peace can only come when an enemy is defeated.
- Resolution 2334 and the Paris conference, both promoted by Obama, are, as the great historian Bat Ye'or wrote, simply a victory for jihad.
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20160921
Obama exacts endorsement from Netanyahu for military package (that phases out Israeli industry)
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| Netanyahu knows Obama will soon be unrestrained against Israel (Getty Images) |
Transcript (courtesy The Times of Israel)
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Mr. President, it’s very good to see you again. First, I want to thank you for the Memorandum of Understanding that we signed last week. It greatly enhances Israel’s security. It fortifies the principle that you’ve enunciated many times that Israel should be able to defend itself, by itself, against any threat.
Secondly, I want to thank you for the extensive security and intelligence cooperation between our two countries. I don’t think people at large understand the breadth and depth of this cooperation, but I know it. And I want to thank you on behalf of all the people of Israel.
Third, I want to thank you for the many meetings we’ve had in which we discussed how to confront common challenges and how to seize common opportunities. The greatest challenge is, of course, the unremitting fanaticism. The greatest opportunity is to advance a durable peace. That’s a goal that I and the people of Israel will never give up on.
We’ve been fortunate that, in pursuing these two tasks, Israel has no greater friend than the United States of America, and America has no greater friend than Israel. Our alliance has grown decade after decade, through successive presidents, a bipartisan Congress, and the overwhelming support of the American people. It’s an unbreakable bond based on common values, buttressed by common interest, and bound by a shared destiny.
We’ve been fortunate that, in pursuing these two tasks, Israel has no greater friend than the United States of America, and America has no greater friend than Israel. Our alliance has grown decade after decade, through successive presidents, a bipartisan Congress, and the overwhelming support of the American people. It’s an unbreakable bond based on common values, buttressed by common interest, and bound by a shared destiny.
And I want to thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to once again discuss how we can shape that destiny together.
And I’d like to add, if I may, one final point. As you conclude your presidency, I know you’re going to be busy with many, many things, much more than improving what I hear is a terrific golf game. (Laughter.) Your voice, your influential voice will be heard for many decades. And I know you’ll continue to support Israel’s right to defend itself and its right to thrive as a Jewish state. So I want you to know, Barack, that you’ll always be a welcome guest in Israel.
And, by the way, I don’t play golf, but right next to my home in Caesarea, in Israel, is a terrific golf course.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: We’ll set up a tee time. (Laughter.)
Thank you. Thank you so much.
Well, it’s good to once again welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu and his delegation here. I want to start by just sending a message that all of the American people, my entire administration, and me, personally, are thinking about Shimon Peres — a great friend, a hero, and giant in the history of Israel. And we are hopeful that he will have a speedy recovery.
I’ve always joked whenever I’ve seen Shimon that I wanted to see what he ate and what he did, because he’s always looked so good. I know this has been a challenging time for him and his family, but I wanted to make sure that I relay my gratitude to him for his friendship and his leadership, and helping to forge a strong U.S.-Israeli bond.
As Prime Minister Netanyahu mentioned, the bond between the United States and Israel is unbreakable. It is based on common values, family ties, a recognition that a Jewish state of Israel is one of our most important allies, and a guiding principle throughout my presidency — one that I’ve expressed often to the Prime Minister — is, is that it is important for America’s national security to ensure that we have a safe and secure Israel, one that can defend itself.
And so the Memorandum of Understanding that we recently signed I think is indicative of that. What it does is provide an assurance and a foundation for the kinds of ongoing military and intelligence cooperation that has been the hallmark of our relationship. It allows I think Israeli planners the kind of certainty in a moment where there’s enormous uncertainty in the region. It is a very difficult and dangerous time in the Middle East, and we want to make sure that Israel has the full capabilities it needs in order to keep the Israeli people safe and secure.
This will give us an opportunity to talk about the challenges that arise out of situations like Syria. I’ll also be interested in hearing from the Prime Minister his assessment of conditions within Israel and in the West Bank. Obviously, our hearts go out to those who have been injured, both Israeli and Palestinian. Clearly, there is great danger of not just terrorism, but also flare-ups of violence. We do have concerns around settlement activity, as well. And our hope is that we can continue to be an effective partner with Israel in finding a path to peace.
Obviously, I’m only going to be President for another few months. The Prime Minister will be there quite a bit longer. And our hope will be that in these conversations we get a sense of how Israel sees the next few years, what the opportunities are and what the challenges are in order to assure that we keep alive the possibility of a stable, secure Israel at peace with its neighbors, and a Palestinian homeland that meets the aspirations of their people.
But obviously, these are challenging times. One thing I can say about Prime Minister Netanyahu is he has always been candid with us, and his team has cooperated very effectively with ours. We very much appreciate it. And I guarantee you that I will visit Israel often, because it is a beautiful country with beautiful people. And Michelle and the girls I think resent the fact that I’ve not taken them on most of these trips, so they’re insistent that I do take them. Of course, they will appreciate the fact that the next time I visit Israel I won’t have to sit in bi-lats — (laughter) — but instead can enjoy the sights and sounds of a remarkable country.
So thank you very much.
PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Thank you.
20150702
Israeli Amb. Michael Oren "Ally" book tour video - revealing the secrets behind the spin
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| Former Israeli Amb. to US Michael Oren at Nixon Library July 2, '15 |
Recorded before an audience at L.A.'s Museum of Tolerance, in a speech and conversation with David Suissa of the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles. July 1, 2015.
Above, Amb. Oren fields a broad range of questions from the audience (in two segments).
David Bernstein in the Washington Post refers to "How Israel Got Taken" a review of the book by Michael Doran in Mosaic Magazine. Doran claims that "Netanyahu undertook, at American insistence, an unprecedented settlement freeze, became the first Likud prime minister to endorse the establishment of a Palestinian state, and refrained from engaging in military action against Iran. He might have added that Netanyahu released hundreds of terrorist murderers to further John Kerry’s misbegotten “peace process.” While Netanyahu hasn’t always behaved well, even when he did the White House’s bidding he was met solely with contempt, more contempt than the Obama Administration has shown for any other foreign leader. That would be okay, if one really trusted Obama on the one issue key to Israeli security (and, in my opinion, key to the security of the entire Middle East and therefore to American security), preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons."
United Against Nuclear Iran group has published this public service political advertisement:
20150523
Obama tries Jedi-mind-trick on DC synagogue to swallow his Iran-nuclear & Palestinian initiatives
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| Rabbi Gil Steinlauf welcomes Obama's address to Cong. Adas Israel in D.C. |
Ha'aretz has published the full-text of Obama's speech
"President Barack Obama, wearing a kipah "forcefully" objected to suggestions that policy differences between his administration and the Israeli government signaled his lack of support for the longtime US ally. This raises a question: How do Obama's repeated commitments to Israel’s security square with close US military and intelligence cooperation with an organization whose vow to destroy Israel is backed by 100,000 missiles – all pointed south?" ("US and Hizballah coordinate spy drone flights over Qalamoun, share US combat intelligence," in DebkaFile 5/23/15)
Radio-host, Mark Levin, criticized Obama's ploy, strongly, in this soliloquy:
Radio-host and author, Ben Shapiro presents a good case against trusting Obama on Israel, based on 7-years of history. In A Complete Timeline of Obama's Anti-Israel Hatred in Breitbart.com 3/20/15
... This is the culmination of a longtime Obama policy of destroying the US-Israel relationship; Obama has spent his entire life surrounded by haters of Israel, from former Palestine Liberation Organization spokesman Rashid Khalidi to former Jimmy Carter National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, pro-Hamas negotiator Robert Malley to UN Ambassador Samantha Power (who once suggested using American troops to guard Palestinians from Israelis), Jeremiah Wright (who said “Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me”) to Professor Derrick Bell (“Jewish neoconservative racists…are undermining blacks in every way they can”). Here is a concise timeline, with credit to Dan Senor and the editors of Commentary:
February 2008: Obama says while campaigning, ‘There is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt an unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel that you’re anti-Israel.” At the time, as Dan Senor pointed out in The Wall Street Journal, Israel was run by the Kadima government run by Ehud Olmert, Tzipi Livni, and Shimon Peres, and was attempting desperately to bring the Palestinians to the table. Instead, the Palestinians launch war, as always.
June 2008: Obama tells the American Israel Public Affairs Conference that Jerusalem ought to remain undivided, attempting to woo Jewish votes. He then walks that back the next day, saying only that the capital shouldn’t be divided by barbed wire.
20131212
Bret Stephens: Americans will rue-the-day Obama allowed Iran to build a nuclear bomb in weeks
"In 1938, Chamberlain bought time to rearm. In 2013, Obama gives Iran time to go nuclear. To adapt Churchill : Never in the field of global diplomacy has so much been given away by so many for so little." -Bret Stephens "Worse than Munich" column in the Wall St. JournalIn addressing a Zionist banquet by StandWithUs in Los Angeles on Sunday, 8 December, Mr. Stephens augmented this theory, echoed by other experts. Listen to the speech audio here. Transcript for 2nd half of the speech appears here on JewTube.Info:
"Now, it will come as no surprise to anyone that I want to spend most of my time tonight talking about Iran, but I think that it is also fitting feel that I should begin by speaking about Nelson Mandela and the meaning of his legacy and its meaning for us as Americans- for us as Jews.
"In the 1980s there was a sharp debate in this country about how the United States ought best to deal with the apartheid regime in South Africa. On one side there were those who argued, this was the Regan administration, that the best way to deal with the apartheid regime was through a process of 'engagement'- critical engagement but engagement. The argument that the administration made was that sanctions will only hurt ordinary people, above all ordinary black people in South Africa, and furthermore that South Africa for all its obvious moral failings, was none the less a critical strategic partner for the United States and so that the were interests beyond morality- that there were interest of "real politik" in maintaining an alliance of sorts with that regime. On the other side of the argument there was a bi-partisan coalition that ranged from Bob Dole to Lowell Weicker, to Ted Kennedy, who thought that the best approach to the apartheid regime was also the most moral one- that is, a punitive regime(n) of economic and diplomatic sanctions that would show South Africa's white rulers that they would not be allowed to profit from their rule and that the only road to redemption was to eliminate their repressive system and let the people, all of the people, rule.
20131008
With photo-ops with Netanyahu in the album, Obama denies ally Israel's reasoned requests vis a vis Iran sanctions, ceding strategic land to Palestine, Russia / Syria WMD
Updated: Amos Harel in Ha'aretz || Analysis Oct 9th: When it comes to Iran, Israel is walking a fine line in Washington
Lobbying Congress for tougher sanctions against Iran risks incurring Obama Administration’s wrath.
Lobbying Congress for tougher sanctions against Iran risks incurring Obama Administration’s wrath.
Israel is conducting a diplomatic campaign aimed at blunting the success of the so-called charm offensive led by Iranian President Hassan Rohani during his visit to the United Nations last month. After the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aggressive speeches, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, who is now in the United States, is focused on persuading the Americans not to allow any relaxation of the sanctions on Iran before Tehran signs a binding agreement that will slam the brakes on its nuclear program. In the background, Israel is canvassing Congress with a more ambitious goal in mind – intensifying the sanctions, a move that could lead to a confrontation with the Obama administration, which opposes doing so at this stage. . . .
Jerusalem now realizes, perhaps more than at earlier stages, the full ramifications of conducting an independent military strike on Iran against the will of the United States. A former senior defense official, who played a major role in recent years in the relations between the two countries, told Haaretz this week that an Israeli strike after an agreement is reached between Iran and the world powers and against the latter’s will, on grounds that the compromise reached was insufficient, could be likened to “an act of strategic suicide.”'Don't say I didn't warn you' || Ahead of Iran talks, Netanyahu tries to convince Europe not to ease sanctions by Barak Ravid in Ha'aretz Oct 10 21:04
In a series of press interviews, Netanyahu urges European countries to stop Iran’s race for a nuclear bomb while it’s still possible; insists Israel is not isolated.
On Thursday, Netanyahu gave interviews to several leading media outlets in the three European powers participating in the talks – France, Britain and Germany. The other members of the P5+1 are the United States, Russia and China. In Britain, he spoke to the Financial Times and the Sky television network, in France to Le Monde and the France 24 network, and in Germany to Frankfurter Allgemeine and the ARD network.
A press statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office said that in these interviews, Netanyahu urged European countries to stop Iran’s race for a nuclear bomb while it’s still possible.
“The [Iranian] regime is currently smiling and saying, ‘You know what? Let me continue enriching uranium, let me keep my plutonium plants, and I’ll give you tactical concessions, cosmetic concessions, and you’ll ease the sanctions,’” the Hebrew-language statement said, summarizing Netanyahu’s message.
“But if the sanctions are eased, the sanctions will collapse. They’ll get everything they want, and we, collectively, won’t get anything. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. The Jewish people has been around for 4,000 years. They tried to destroy us over and over, but they didn’t succeed, and we also won’t let people like the ayatollahs succeed. It’s important to stress that this isn’t just an Israeli issue; this issue also affects you.”
In an exclusive interview with France 24, Netanyahu urged France to take a tough stance on Iran and look past Prime Minister Hassan Rohani’s “smile campaign.”
“I don’t have any problem telling the truth even if it’s not popular. It so happens that I’m not isolated - Israel is not isolated,” Netanyahu said.
“Just about every country in the Arab world agrees with our position; some say so openly, some say that less openly. There’s one country who doesn’t agree with us: Syria’s Assad, of course, because he supports Iran’s regime that continues to help him in the mass murder of women and children.”
20130917
How Obama's bungled Middle-East agenda bodes for the future
"The Solution: How to Deal with Obama Middle-East Policy" by Barry Rubin It is likely that the efforts of the Obama Administration during its second term will fail, not only because of its lack of understanding of the region and its ideology, but also due to the specific agenda.
No Middle Eastern country (only hostile ones or movements) can depend on the United States. And to clarify this further: No country -- including Israel -- can depend on the Obama Administration.
But as I noted above, this U.S. policy of Obama’s second term will fail. For example, the main goals of the second term are four big issues:
--Israel-Palestinian peace
--Egypt government coalition with Muslim Brotherhood
--Syrian civil war resolution with rebel victory
--U.S.-Iran rapprochement resolving nuclear issue.
Yet because of irreconcilable differences, these may well be unresolvable. Due to such failures and hardline radical positions (Palestinians, Muslim Brotherhood, Syrian Islamists and regime, Iranian regime), the next administration would probably be forced back on recognition of extremism, support of allies, and U.S. interests.
Yet because of irreconcilable differences, these may well be unresolvable. Due to such failures and hardline radical positions (Palestinians, Muslim Brotherhood, Syrian Islamists and regime, Iranian regime), the next administration would probably be forced back on recognition of extremism, support of allies, and U.S. interests.
Thus, regarding the “peace process,” we may well see the typical pattern in which the Palestinians wreck the peace process by rejecting or demanding even more concessions. Once again, it will only be necessary to wait until American negotiators learn better why their goals are impossible. Radicals will just raise their demands and demonstrate their anti-Americanism, and necessary priorities will shift.
20130426
If Obama’s Syria Promises Mean Nothing, How Can We Trust Him on Iran?
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| Syrian chemical attack victim (Photo: The Times London) |
With even ardent Obama supporters like Jeffrey Goldberg reminding the president he has made it crystal clear that chemical weapons use would be a red line that would trigger a strong U.S. response, what follows will not only tell us whether that promise would be kept. It will also illustrate just how seriously to take other pledges the administration has made, specifically its vow never to allow Iran to go nuclear.
With the White House desperately trying to buy time before making a decision on Syria, it’s fair to ask why anyone should regard American rhetoric on Iran as anything more than an elaborate bluff if Obama won’t keep his word about Assad’s behavior.Read more
20130313
Middle East facts out-reason left-wing, anti-Zionists at American-Israel Policy Conference in D.C.
Original videos filmed around AIPAC Policy Conference reveal competing perceptions, agendas, on US Mid-East policy.
Anti-Zionist demonstrators slandered Israel and US Mid-East policy outside of AIPAC Policy Conference at the Washington Convention Center in early March. Their oversimplified platitudes were contradicted by the Conference's reasoned analysis of Mid-East realities and the Obama Administration's Mid-East policies.
Watch hand-filmed excerpts from the event on DemoCast's playlist:
AIPAC attendees challenge Code-Pink and Occupy AIPAC demonstrators;
Israeli U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren speaks with CNN's Frank Sesno;
U.S. policy advisors Dennis Ross and Elliot Abrams speak with CNN's Frank Sesno;
Mid-east policy roundtable with analysts Robert Satloff, Greg Stephens (of the Wall St. Journal), and Israeli analyst Amos Harel;
U.S. Medal of Honor recipients Lt. Col. Hon. Alfred Rascon and Sgt. Major Ken Stumpf share their experience of the Israel Defense Forces following their recent visit to Israel.
(Advance through playlist with lower center buttons).
Anti-Zionist demonstrators slandered Israel and US Mid-East policy outside of AIPAC Policy Conference at the Washington Convention Center in early March. Their oversimplified platitudes were contradicted by the Conference's reasoned analysis of Mid-East realities and the Obama Administration's Mid-East policies.
Watch hand-filmed excerpts from the event on DemoCast's playlist:
AIPAC attendees challenge Code-Pink and Occupy AIPAC demonstrators;
Israeli U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren speaks with CNN's Frank Sesno;
U.S. policy advisors Dennis Ross and Elliot Abrams speak with CNN's Frank Sesno;
Mid-east policy roundtable with analysts Robert Satloff, Greg Stephens (of the Wall St. Journal), and Israeli analyst Amos Harel;
U.S. Medal of Honor recipients Lt. Col. Hon. Alfred Rascon and Sgt. Major Ken Stumpf share their experience of the Israel Defense Forces following their recent visit to Israel.
(Advance through playlist with lower center buttons).
20121227
Hurricane Sandy aftermath reveals natures of Obama, Islamists, & Zionists beyond lapdog-media's narrative
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| Donna VanZant (r), hugged by Obama in pre-election Hurricane Sandy visit, complains he abandoned her after her photo helped him win re-election |
Obama’s Broken Promises to Sandy Victims
Sandy victims still struggling to find warm housing" - Washington Free Beacon, Dec 10, 2012
"Six weeks after Sandy hit the New Jersey and New York coast, residents are still struggling and in desperate need of shelter. ... In the Red Hook community of Brooklyn, N.Y., many residents are still living in their unheated, powerless homes in freezing temperatures. Help from the government for residents has not come.
One victim from the Midland Beach section of Staten Island is living out of his car, going from one house to another each day in search of a warm bed. Dozens of residents are living in their sewer-flooded homes without heat or power in Gerritsen Beach.
Family in public FEMA tent after Sandy (Brian Sotelo)
Thousands living in hotels courtesy of FEMA are about to lose their rooms. Hotel stays for victims are set to expire on Dec. 13. That would force tens of thousands into the cold, which could prove a public relations disaster for the Obama administration and FEMA.
“Some people are camping in their homes,” said Kirby Desmarais, volunteer coordinator for Red Hook Volunteers, a group affiliated with the Red Hook Coalition. Desmarais did not have an exact number of those in Red Hook who are living in homes without power or heat in freezing temperatures. But she said it is “a lot.”
Red Hook, located a few blocks from New York Harbor and the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, was hit hard. The harbor flooded homes and damaged residents’ furnaces and basement electrical boxes. Many residences remain in the dark.
When asked how well the government is responding to the crisis, Desmarais said that it is a “hard question to answer. … We had no help for 12 days. The Red Cross and the National Guard, they came too late to help.”
Would the media be hiding matters of the government's failures in implementing campaign-promised aid without red-tape if George Bush were still president? As Obama won, the mainstream media protecting him instead advanced feel-good stories of Secret Santa handing out money. They promoted celebrity fundraising concerts with Obama campaigners Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bonjovi. The mainstream media advanced Obama's narrative by under-reporting stories about his unfulfilled promises of disaster-aid follow-up, just as they under-reported stories pertaining to Israeli humanitarian efforts to aid victims - and Islamists' glee in the damage to America- as a step towards its conquest by Islam.
Muslim Clerics: Sandy is Divine Punishment, Israel National News, 11/2/12
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| Salman al-Audah blames Sandy on Americans not accepting Islam while his rich country, Saudi Arabia, sent US no aid |
Prominent Saudi Arabian cleric Salman al-Audah said the storm, which killed more than 140 people, was a wake-up call for Americans to convert to Islam.
"To all those who pray that Hurricane Sandy will bring disaster, I quote the words of the Prophet [Muhammad about] the idolaters in Mecca: 'I hope that [Allah] produces from their loins [sons] who worship Him [i.e., who become Muslims],'" he wrote, according to remarks translated by The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
Another Saudi cleric, Nasser Al-'Omar, likewise regarded the storm as divine punishment, and even issued a fatwa stating that the Muslims must be glad and thank Allah for it.
"We must rejoice at anything that harms these arrogant and tyrannical oppressors," MEMRI quoted him as having said.Various Israeli non-governmental agencies (NGOs) working to bring relief to victims and supplies to emergency workers in New York and New Jersey. Karen Levy reports from Israel News Agency:
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| Israel Flying Aid & synagogue volunteers in Connecticut preparing an emergency food convoy for Hurricane Sandy victims |
One week after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo rejected a formal offer by Israel to assist in emergency disaster relief, other authorities in New York State formally asked Israel for "all aid and or assistance."
The Israel Defense Forces which has been on-site helping thousands of disaster victims in several countries including Haiti, Turkey, Japan and most recently in Ghana to assist in search-and-rescue efforts following the collapse of a multi-story shopping center in the city of Accra. Following Governor Cuomo's rejection for assistance from Israel, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers remained without electricity, food, water and shelter.
20121217
Obama ups anti-Zionist foreign policy - to the bewilderment of his pro-Israel voters
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| Barack Obama and Defense Secy candiate Sen. Chuck Hagel |
Many in the American Jewish community are aghast to discover that President Obama is planning to appoint former Senator Chuck Hagel to serve as Defense Secretary. If you want the skinny on how Hagel has come to be known as one of the few ferociously anti-Israel senators in the past generation, Carl from Jerusalem at Israel Matzav provides it. ...
Obama enabled the Palestinians to get their non-member state status at the UN by failing to threaten to cut off US funding to the UN in retaliation for such a vote.
Both Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush issued such threats during their tenures in office and so prevented the motion from coming to a vote. Given that the Palestinians have had an automatic majority in the General Assembly since at least 1975, the only reason their status was only upgraded in 2012 is because until then, either the PLO didn’t feel like raising the issue or the US threatened to cut off its financial support to the UN if such a motion passed. This year PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas said he wanted to have a vote and Obama responded by not issuing a threat to cut off UN funding. So the Palestinians got their vote and, as expected, it passed overwhelmingly.
Seeing the upgrade as a Palestinian move is a mistake. It was a joint Palestinian-American move.
20121105
DemoCast documentary series, "Israel under Obama" highlights philo-Islamist, Obama administration's special risks to liberty, safety from terror, Middle-East instability, & anti-Semitism - 8:30pm & 11:30pm ET on JLTV - DirecTV & cable
Documentary, "Israel Under Obama," addresses Israel's difficulties with the Obama administration as endemic of its philo-Islamist ideologies- and the threat that poses for Americans and the world. Two episodes will be telecast on JLTV:
At 8:30pm ET/7:30 CT/ 5:30 PT, and the other at 11:30pm ET/10:30 CT/ 8:30 PT. Find JLTV nation-wide on DirecTV on Channel 366. On cable, check local listings or at the end of this article.
An Op/Ed on CNN.com, Israel doesn't swing Jewish voters, by Amitai Etzioni, professor of international relations and director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at George Washington University yesterday stated that "it's a myth that the Jewish vote goes to whoever supports Israel more fervently."
When Zionist-scapegoating, Statist ideologues like Barack Obama's regime vilify Israel and Jews to distract from their enabling of Statism and Islamist totalitarianism, dormant anti-Semitism proliferates. As it was done in Germany, and exported to the Muslim world (carried out today by tyrants like Islamic Iran) anti-Zionism/anti-semitism is demogogues' ticket to power. But the power to punish the wicked Jews is not their end-all - as the Nazis showed, it's garnering power and expanding regional political conquest. It's Iran's objective and the Obama Administration has already demonstrated its complicity in empowering Islamism there, in Libya, in Egypt, soon in Syria. Statism and Islamism are proliferating in American society under the protection of the Obama Administration. The mainstream media is complict in shielding Obama from scrutiny and culpability regarding recognizing the spread of Islamist influence in American government, politics, and society.
In the DemoCast original series, "Israel Under Obama," savvy celebrities, clergy, a former presidential candidate & Zionistic Americans caution to how Obama Administration's pro-Palestinian, philo-Islamist bent imperils Israel, America & the world. Watch Episode 2 of "Israel under Obama" here (in 3 sequential segments) in this window.
DemoCast's complete, original documentary series, "Israel Under Obama," was aired over the past month nationally by LegacyTV (aka The Walk.TV).
Jewish Life TV (JLTV) broadcast Episode 2 yesterday and will rebroadcast it tonight (at 11:30pm Eastern/10:30pm Central/ 8:30pm Pacific).
Watch the concluding Episode 3 of Israel under Obama, "Hearken! Modern-day prophets caution us to the perils Obama" below and on JLTV tonight, Nov 5th at 8:30 ET/ 7:30 CT/ 5:30 PT. Inform your friends and neighbors to see it by forwarding this article.
Episode 3: Jewish & Christian activists have taken steps to alert voters to perils of empowering Obama's philo-Islamist agenda - since the 2008 presidential campaign. Most liberals have shut their eyes. Rabbi Moshe Parry endeavors to open liberal Jewish donors' (and voters') ears at the visit of Pres. Obama to a Hollywood fundraiser. A Hal Lindsey Ministries Christian minister appeals to voters Americans to protect Israel by denying Obama a second, more perilous term.
Former presidential hopeful, Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, condemns the Obama Administration for breaking with Washington's historic relationship with Israel and championing Islamist revolutionaries. The late Andrew Breitbart discussed with DemoCast Obama's hidden personal history holds his pro-Palestinianist/Leftist, anti-Zionist upbringing. He praises conservative Christians for valuing Israel in their voting, more than liberal Jews- dedicated more to social issues.
Rabbi David Algaze, Jon Voight, Ed Ames, Obama's rabbi cousin in the concluding segment of "Israel under Obama." What transformed Barry Soetoro into Barack Hussein Obama? With so much undisclosed about him- except his demonstrated transforming the Middle East into Islamist-dominated societies- how can we risk he and Valerie Jarret won't continue "running interference" for Iran to nuclear weaponize - and be used to nuclear-blackmail the world?
Rabbis David Algaze, Rabbi Moshe Parry, Obama's cousin Rabbi Funnye, actors Ed Ames and Jon Voight all espouse their observations about the Obama Administration's ideology and renewing its reign.
["Israel under Obama" was drawn from DemoCast's 29-hours of original, on-location (in Nashville, Florida, Washington, New York City, Dearborn, Michigan, and Los Angeles), video footage filmed since the 2008 Presidential campaign.]
JLTV Cable Listings:
New York/ New Jersey (NY & Phila suburbs) Comcast Ch. 288
New York City area & northern N.J. TimeWarner Ch. 120
Los Angeles TimeWarner Ch. 177
Swing-state listings:
Florida: Comcast: South Florida & Orlando- Ch. 239
Atlantic Broadband: Miami Beach/South Miami Ch. 167
Bright House: Tampa: Ch. 172
Orlando / Daytona Beach / Melbourne Ch. 165
Orlando area Ch. 239
Pennsylvania: Greater Phildelphia - Ch. 288
New Hampshire / Boston Comcast Ch. 196
TimeWarner: Keene, NH Ch. 126
Indiana Northwest (incl. South Bend) Ch. 686
If you don't see your channel listed here, please check here to see where JLTV is available in your area. Share with your friends who might receive the program to record it for later review and comment.
DemoCast's perspectives will be most vital in the coming crisis between Israel, Iran, and the West. DemoCast is a grass-roots initiative. Generously contribute to continuing DemoCast's efforts- through the "donate" link in the column to the right. Thank you for helping enlighten the world to a pro-West (including Israel) news and analysis perspective with which the mainstream media (even Fox News Channel) doesn't offer the public.
At 8:30pm ET/7:30 CT/ 5:30 PT, and the other at 11:30pm ET/10:30 CT/ 8:30 PT. Find JLTV nation-wide on DirecTV on Channel 366. On cable, check local listings or at the end of this article.
An Op/Ed on CNN.com, Israel doesn't swing Jewish voters, by Amitai Etzioni, professor of international relations and director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at George Washington University yesterday stated that "it's a myth that the Jewish vote goes to whoever supports Israel more fervently."
Most Jews who will change the party they vote for will not "swing" because of his position on Israel.
For the vast majority of Jews, Israel ranks surprisingly low in their considerations as voters. Early in 2012, the Public Religion Research Institute found that among self-identified Jewish adults, 51% of those registered to vote cited the economy as the most important issue driving their voting decision. Fifteen percent cited the growing gap between the rich and the poor, while 10% cited health care and 7% the deficit. Only 4% cited Israel as the most important issue to their vote.As when good Germans elected the National Socialist Party without considering its potential hidden-agendas, so, too many Jewish-Americans go to the polls tomorrow with so much willful blindness to what's behind the least amicable administration towards Israel, at the time when Iran poses the greatest threat to the world, with Israel first.
When Zionist-scapegoating, Statist ideologues like Barack Obama's regime vilify Israel and Jews to distract from their enabling of Statism and Islamist totalitarianism, dormant anti-Semitism proliferates. As it was done in Germany, and exported to the Muslim world (carried out today by tyrants like Islamic Iran) anti-Zionism/anti-semitism is demogogues' ticket to power. But the power to punish the wicked Jews is not their end-all - as the Nazis showed, it's garnering power and expanding regional political conquest. It's Iran's objective and the Obama Administration has already demonstrated its complicity in empowering Islamism there, in Libya, in Egypt, soon in Syria. Statism and Islamism are proliferating in American society under the protection of the Obama Administration. The mainstream media is complict in shielding Obama from scrutiny and culpability regarding recognizing the spread of Islamist influence in American government, politics, and society.
In the DemoCast original series, "Israel Under Obama," savvy celebrities, clergy, a former presidential candidate & Zionistic Americans caution to how Obama Administration's pro-Palestinian, philo-Islamist bent imperils Israel, America & the world. Watch Episode 2 of "Israel under Obama" here (in 3 sequential segments) in this window.
DemoCast's complete, original documentary series, "Israel Under Obama," was aired over the past month nationally by LegacyTV (aka The Walk.TV).
Jewish Life TV (JLTV) broadcast Episode 2 yesterday and will rebroadcast it tonight (at 11:30pm Eastern/10:30pm Central/ 8:30pm Pacific).
Watch the concluding Episode 3 of Israel under Obama, "Hearken! Modern-day prophets caution us to the perils Obama" below and on JLTV tonight, Nov 5th at 8:30 ET/ 7:30 CT/ 5:30 PT. Inform your friends and neighbors to see it by forwarding this article.
Episode 3: Jewish & Christian activists have taken steps to alert voters to perils of empowering Obama's philo-Islamist agenda - since the 2008 presidential campaign. Most liberals have shut their eyes. Rabbi Moshe Parry endeavors to open liberal Jewish donors' (and voters') ears at the visit of Pres. Obama to a Hollywood fundraiser. A Hal Lindsey Ministries Christian minister appeals to voters Americans to protect Israel by denying Obama a second, more perilous term.
Former presidential hopeful, Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, condemns the Obama Administration for breaking with Washington's historic relationship with Israel and championing Islamist revolutionaries. The late Andrew Breitbart discussed with DemoCast Obama's hidden personal history holds his pro-Palestinianist/Leftist, anti-Zionist upbringing. He praises conservative Christians for valuing Israel in their voting, more than liberal Jews- dedicated more to social issues.
Rabbi David Algaze, Jon Voight, Ed Ames, Obama's rabbi cousin in the concluding segment of "Israel under Obama." What transformed Barry Soetoro into Barack Hussein Obama? With so much undisclosed about him- except his demonstrated transforming the Middle East into Islamist-dominated societies- how can we risk he and Valerie Jarret won't continue "running interference" for Iran to nuclear weaponize - and be used to nuclear-blackmail the world?
Rabbis David Algaze, Rabbi Moshe Parry, Obama's cousin Rabbi Funnye, actors Ed Ames and Jon Voight all espouse their observations about the Obama Administration's ideology and renewing its reign.
["Israel under Obama" was drawn from DemoCast's 29-hours of original, on-location (in Nashville, Florida, Washington, New York City, Dearborn, Michigan, and Los Angeles), video footage filmed since the 2008 Presidential campaign.]
JLTV Cable Listings:
New York/ New Jersey (NY & Phila suburbs) Comcast Ch. 288
New York City area & northern N.J. TimeWarner Ch. 120
Los Angeles TimeWarner Ch. 177
Swing-state listings:
Florida: Comcast: South Florida & Orlando- Ch. 239
Atlantic Broadband: Miami Beach/South Miami Ch. 167
Bright House: Tampa: Ch. 172
Orlando / Daytona Beach / Melbourne Ch. 165
Orlando area Ch. 239
Pennsylvania: Greater Phildelphia - Ch. 288
New Hampshire / Boston Comcast Ch. 196
TimeWarner: Keene, NH Ch. 126
Indiana Northwest (incl. South Bend) Ch. 686
If you don't see your channel listed here, please check here to see where JLTV is available in your area. Share with your friends who might receive the program to record it for later review and comment.
DemoCast's perspectives will be most vital in the coming crisis between Israel, Iran, and the West. DemoCast is a grass-roots initiative. Generously contribute to continuing DemoCast's efforts- through the "donate" link in the column to the right. Thank you for helping enlighten the world to a pro-West (including Israel) news and analysis perspective with which the mainstream media (even Fox News Channel) doesn't offer the public.
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