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 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
The fruits of subversion
by Caroline B. Glick
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 Courts Shoot Down DC's Gun Policies — Again 
Building on the 2008 Heller decision that struck down the District of Columbia's handgun ban, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled the city's latest policy limiting the right to bear arms. Specifically, the city restricted permits only to residents who could convince bureaucrats they needed a gun for protection. The court said that stymies Americans' "core right of self-defense." Undeterred by Heller, DC has actively looked for ways to impede citizens from acquiring firearms. But the Supreme Court was clear: There is a right to self-defense and certain government policies infringe that right. Judge Leon wrote, "The District's understandable, but overzealous, desire to restrict the right to carry in public a firearm for self-defense to the smallest possible number of law-abiding, responsible citizens is exactly the type of policy choice the Justices had in mind."
          This ruling comes on the heels of a ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court, which took issue with a California county's attempt to squeeze out gun stores from its jurisdiction through regulation. With these two rulings, perhaps DC will get a clue and realize a right is a right, no matter how much city leaders don't like it. Or perhaps they'll continue bull-headedly looking for new ways to infringe basic constitutional rights. 
-The Patriot Post
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 Feeling the Bern, liar-Hilly Turns to Bill 
Poor liar-Hilly is feeling the Bern. It wasn't supposed to be like this.
          Struggling as liar-Hilly Clinton is to put away socialist Bernie Sanders, her latest gambit came this past Sunday. Speaking before a group of voters in Kentucky, liar-Hilly promised that she would put her husband, former President Bill Clinton, "in charge of revitalizing the economy, because, you know, he knows how to do it." Party like it's 1999?
          This is an astonishing statement on a number of fronts. First, liar-Hilly is declaring that she, as the first female president, is going to outsource the single most concerning issue for Americans today to a man, the clear implication being that she is just not up to it. This is a stark reversal from liar-Hilly's angry, indignant response when asked, as secretary of state, about Bill's opinion on a foreign policy matter, snarling "My husband is not secretary of state, I am!"
          Now that she is struggling to close the deal with Democrats, maybe she is a bit less hesitant to bring in her husband to pinch hit for her. After all, as The New York Times recently noted, "Mr. Clinton's more emotive style appears to resonate with blue collar workers in ways that Mrs. liar-Clinton's has not." Of course, it helps if, before you ask for their votes, you don't go into blue-collar states like West Virginia and tell them you are "going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business."
          The second damning aspect of liar-Hilly promising to make Bill the nation's economy czar is that if the need exists to "revitalize" the economy, then by definition it has been stagnant and underperforming. And who has been in charge for the last eight years? None other than her former boss, Democrat Barack nObama.
          It must be tough to be a Democrat these days when contemplating the state of the economy. Are you Team liar-Hilly, which says we need to elect her to continue the nObama policies that got us here (which seems to contradict the proclaimed need to revitalize the economy), or are you Team Bernie, which says that the economy is sluggish and that only the One Percent are benefitting?
          The nObama economy has been marked by massive government spending increases, the stimulus, bailouts, enormous growth of the regulatory state, record numbers of Americans on food stamps, high unemployment and under-employment, and the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression. nObama has doubled the national debt, crippled the health care industry, and, as more and more jobs go overseas to escape the punishing business environment created by Democrats, he's insisted the beatings will continue until morale improves. Barring a sudden reversal of fortune, nObama is poised to become the first U.S. president in history to leave office without achieving a single quarter of 3% or better GDP growth. Is that what liar-Hilly is promising more of?
          During a Democrat debate in February, ;liar-Hilly lamented, "I know a lot of Americans are angry about the economy, and for good cause. Americans haven't had a raise in 15 years. There aren't enough good-paying jobs, especially for young people. And yes, the economy is rigged in favor of those at the top."
          That is quite a damning indictment of the nObama years, and more than a bit ironic. If she brings in her husband to kick-start the economy, he will have to follow a much different model than nObama has, reverting back to the tax-cutting, deregulating model that was so successful in the 1980s and 90s. Back then Bill, having inherited a booming economy thanks to Ronald Reagan's policies and victory in the Cold War, was able to slash government spending by gutting the military. He also raised taxes.
          After being forced to deal with Newt Gingrich following the Republican Revolution of 1994, Bill switched tracks and reluctantly went along with the GOP's pro-growth model of slashing capital gains tax rates, reforming welfare (adding work requirements and lifetime benefits caps), and introducing free trade measures. As a result the economy boomed and we saw federal spending as a share of GDP drop from 21% to 17.6%, with millions of jobs created, and four years of a balanced federal budget.
          This puts liar-Hilly in a bit of a pickle. The Democrat base has moved far to the left since her husband was president, and the measures that would revitalize the economy are now anathema to the Democrat Party base and liar-Hilly's own rhetoric. She has called for steep increases in the capital gains tax, massive increases in government spending, reams of new federal regulations, gutting GOP efforts to reintroduce work requirements for welfare, and opposition to free trade deals. In short, the opposite of what her husband did.
          Now, the key thing to remember here is that in America, our presidents are not placed in charge of the economy, nor do they "create jobs" (other than government jobs, which can only come at the expense of private sector jobs). The best they can do is create a tax and regulatory environment that incentivizes investment, which in turn creates jobs as a byproduct. Socialist paradises like Bernie envisions let their presidents run their economies, which always ends disastrously, as Venezuela has discovered.
          One final thought: The New York Times article notes that liar-Hilly wants to bring in Bill to "focus on places that have experienced substantial job losses and economic dislocation, like coal country and some inner cities."
          What do coal country and inner-cities, devastated by job losses and economic stagnation, have in common? They have been run by liberal Democrats for decades, who have implemented their high tax, heavy regulation, Big Government, pro-union, anti-free market economic models, bringing misery to their constituents. Maybe it's time to go back to what works.   -The Patriot Post
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LTG Jerry Boykin:
Toilette* Terrorists Claim Their First Victim
by George Rasley
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{conservativehq.com} ~ General Boykin, the former commander of the Army’s elite Delta Force, is Executive Vice President of the Family Research Council, and also taught at Hampden College – one of America’s last two all-male colleges... Boykin has now been fired by the college in retaliation for comments he made regarding the effect of nObama’s edict that “gender fluid” men must be allowed – without question – to use the facilities of their choice. Comments similar to what General Boykin said have been posted on Facebook and sent via Twitter thousands of times, but chastising these normal, but otherwise anonymous Americans wouldn’t have the same chilling effect on freedom of speech and thought as bringing down a real American hero for advocating what millions of American parents think, hence the campaign to discredit General Boykin and terminate his employment with the private liberal arts college...     http://www.conservativehq.com/node/23153
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House Passes Upgraded
International Religious Freedom Law
by Lauretta Brown
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{cnsnews.com} ~ The House of Representatives unanimously passed the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act Monday afternoon, which upgrades the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998... giving the administration and the State Department new resources to help combat the worldwide escalation in persecution of religious minorities. The bill’s author Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) said upon the bill’s passage that “the world is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of international religious freedom, a crisis that continues to create millions of victims.” The legislation would amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA) to “locate the Office on International Religious Freedom in the Office of the Secretary of State” and include “mandatory training on religious freedom for all Foreign Service officers.”...     http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/house-passes-significant-upgrades-international-religious-freedom-law
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White House’s Pro-Iran
‘Propaganda Operation’ May Violate U.S. Law
by Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The nObama administration’s efforts to create a so-called “echo chamber” meant to mislead reporters and lawmakers about the substance of last summer’s comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran may have violated U.S. laws... against the establishment of domestic propaganda outfits, according to testimony to Congress by a former Pentagon adviser. Top U.S. officials, including Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry, may have fallen victim to a massive spin operation helmed by White House national security adviser Ben Rhodes, who has come under intense scrutiny following a magazine profile detailing his efforts to mislead the American public and prominent D.C. insiders about the Iran deal, according to testimony offered Tuesday before the House Oversight Committee. The administration late Monday declined to make Rhodes available to testify to Congress about his press operation, which was run out of the White House by Rhodes and other top members of the National Security Council...     http://freebeacon.com/national-security/white-house-iran-violate-us-law/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=bbac6a144b-WFB_Morning_Beacon_05_17_165_17_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-bbac6a144b-45611665
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Sen Sessions – nObama Policies
Double Murder, Violent Crime, Just Beginning
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Senator Jeff Sessions warns of the dangers America faces if a reckless decision is made to abandon the progress made over the course of the past twenty years in fighting crime... He reads from a report the statistics of the first wave of those approved for early release last year in California, with roughly six of seven that applied being approved. Sessions reminds his Senate colleagues that these were not innocent victims of overzealous sentencing but judiciously sentenced criminals. He quotes another article regarding offenders released by the US Attorney in the Pittsburgh area which stated that they “erred on the side of granting the motions.” Senator Sessions notes that this is the policy of ‘president’ nObama and his equally culpable Attorney General to cut people’s lawfully imposed sentences “throughout this country.” He points out that over the last year 123 police officers have been killed, 35 in the first four months of this year. He says, “Violent crimes and murders have increased across the country at alarming rates.” Sessions shares some information as to the trends in violent crime with his fellow Senators. The information comes from the Major Cities Chiefs of Police Association and deals with the percentage of increase in total murders in the first quarter of 2016 versus the same period in 2015. The picture isn’t good, with Las Vegas coming in with the starkest increase of 82% increase...
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Iran Nuclear Deal Unraveling?
by EBRAHIM NOROOZI
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{newsweek.com} ~ Used clothing, toiletries and gifts worth no more than $100—for a decade, these were among the few Iranian products allowed into the U.S., thanks to crippling international sanctions... But when the Iran nuclear deal went into effect in January, Iran was suddenly allowed to resume exports of its famous Persian carpets and pistachios. Iranians also looked forward to reviving the country’s oil industry and gaining access to tens of billions of dollars in previously frozen petroleum revenues, which would provide a much-needed boost to the economy. Perhaps most important, American officials assured Tehran that foreign investment would return to the country, finally ending Iran’s pariah status. ”As soon as we suspend our major sanctions,” Wendy Sherman, the lead U.S. negotiator, had said in 2014, “the world will flood into Iran.” Today, nearly six months after the deal was implemented, Iran is still waiting for those benefits. The country can’t access most of the estimated $100 billion it holds in foreign banks. The reason: U.S. laws, which weren’t included in the nuclear deal, are still highly restrictive. The foreign business hasn’t materialized because big European and Asian commercial banks are afraid they might inadvertently violate those non-nuclear U.S. sanctions and end up facing hefty penalties. Tehran is angry and says Washington is preventing the country from rejoining the world economy...President nObama and Iran are learning what it means to enter a deal without the support of Congress.     http://www.newsweek.com/2016/05/27/why-iranian-nuclear-deal-risk-unraveling-460939.html?rx=us
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American Lawyer Faces Prison: Targeted by nObama’s
DoJ for Aiding Christians in Iraq and Syria
by Pamela Geller
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{pamelageller.com} ~ The nObama administration is prosecuting an Assyrian Christian American lawyer for helping Christians escape Muslim persecution in Iraq and Syria... The federal government provides asylum to immigrants who can demonstrate that they were targeted — or have a legitimate fear of being targeted — in their homeland for religious, racial, political or ethnic reasons. Prosecutors claim DeKelaita, who employed a translator who also was charged, “coached” clients and encouraged them to lie to the asylum officers who decided their fate. Anyone with half a brain and half a heart knows that Christians in Muslim lands are living under the boot of Islamic tyranny, especially in Iraq and Syria, where pure Islam is enforced. The nObama administration knows this, but they support the Muslims against religious minorities...     http://pamelageller.com/2016/05/american-lawyer-faces-prison-because-he-was-targeted-by-obamas-doj-for-aiding-christians-in-iraq-and-syria.html/
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Connecting the dots: Why housing finance is rigged
by Tobias Peter
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{aei.org} ~ If anything, this election cycle has revealed the anger and frustration on both sides of the aisle with an economic and political system that many view as rigged... Maybe nowhere more so than in the housing finance “system” do the people have a point. After all, the deck is stacked against low- and moderate-income borrowers due to rent-seeking behavior of special interest groups such as the National Association of Realtors (NAR), which government loan guarantee agencies and regulators are all too willing to accommodate. The resulting loans enable borrowers to buy more expensive homes than they can truly afford, typically through minimal downpayments, underpriced mortgage insurance, or monthly payments too high in comparison to the borrower’s income. These various forms of excessive leverage continually set the little guy up for failure. Here is how...     http://www.aei.org/publication/connecting-the-dots-why-housing-finance-is-rigged/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=051916
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Refugees sending
'suitcases of welfare cash' home to Somalia
by Leo Hohmann
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{wnd.com} ~ Men and women pulling “suitcases full of cash” started showing up at Seattle’s Sea-Tac Airport last year holding tickets for international flights bound for Africa... Transporting large amounts of cash overseas is perfectly legal. But it was who was carrying the money … and where it was going that caught the attention of law enforcement, according to a report by KING 5, the local NBC affiliate for western Washington. Those hauling the cash-laden cases were Somali-Americans who’d come to this country as refugees. They routinely send money back to Somalia. And many of the greenbacks headed to the jihadist-infested East African country come from welfare checks the refugees receive from the U.S. government, compliments of American taxpayers...Stop the free giveaway.     http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/refugees-sending-suitcases-of-welfare-cash-home-to-somalia/
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“UNLAWFUL ACTION”: Louisiana and Pennsylvania
BLAST nObama’s Bathroom Tyranny
by Caleb Howe
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{redstate.com} ~ President nObama’s plan to put men in women’s bathrooms isn’t going so well. Just a few days ago we told you about 12 states fighting back against his decree that public schools pull the switcheroo or lose funding... Now even more states are on board. On Wednesday, Louisiana and Pennsylvania both blasted nObama’s power grab. Louisiana’s Attorney General Jeff Landry announced that he was fighting back in dramatic fashion, sending a letter across the state to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Board of Regents, Louisiana High School Athletic Association, Louisiana School Boards Association, Louisiana Community and Technical College System Board, and Office of Juvenile Justice declaring that nObama has “no legal authority” for the action... http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2016/05/19/unlawful-action-louisiana-pennsylvania-blast-obamas-bathroom-tyranny/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Israel Introduces Sea-Based Iron Dome
by Mary Chastain
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Israel has debuted a sea version of their successful Iron Dome to provide more protection from Hamas and Hezbollah... The sea Iron Dome will also protect the natural gas fields off the coast of Israel. The discoveries led to a $15 billion deal to supply Jordan with natural gas. Col. Ariel Shir, the Israel Navy’s head of combat systems development, said the live fire test was conducted two weeks ago using the Adir radar developed by Israel Aerospace Industries/Elta and the Rafael-developed Iron Dome, both of which were integrated aboard the service’s INS Lahav Sa’ar-5 corvette-class surface vessel... http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/05/israel-introduces-sea-based-iron-dome/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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The fruits of subversion
by Caroline B. Glick
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ For the nObama administration, Israel’s security brass is an alternative government.

That is the lesson from an article published this week in Foreign Affairs by David Makovsky, a member of Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry’s negotiating team during his failed peace process two years ago.

Makovsky wrote that the security brass’s unbridled vilification of Sgt. Elor Azaria, for killing a wounded terrorist in Hebron in March, “captures the IDF’s growing involvement in the Palestinian issue.”

“Seeing a diplomatic vacuum in Israeli politics,” he wrote supportively, “the IDF has increasingly worked to assert itself as a guardian of democratic values and a stabilizer of the Israeli-Palestinian arena.”

The article tells us two things. First, for the administration, “Israeli democracy” means the Left is in charge.

The “diplomatic vacuum,” Makovsky referred to after all wasn’t an oversight. The public elected leaders who shared its view that the “peace process” is a fraud. We elected leader who agree that Israel making unreciprocated concessions to terrorists is not a peace process. It’s a process of destroying Israel.

If the voters had wanted a government that felt otherwise, they would have voted the Left to lead.

So the “diplomatic vacuum” is just the government doing what it was elected to do.

The General Staff is the Left’s representative, and has in recent months served as its surrogate government, taking steps that advance the Left’s agenda against the wishes of the government and the public that elected it.

For instance, the General Staff “inadvertently” returned the body of a dead terrorist to his family despite an explicit cabinet decision to end the practice.

Likewise, our generals continuously pressure the government to agree to relinquish security control over the Palestinian population centers, and transfer security responsibility to terrorism-supporting Palestinian militias. This despite the fact that the government has repeatedly rejected their position.

These actions are bad enough on their own. But when seen in the context of recent events, they lend the impression that for our generals, gross insubordination to the Netanyahu government is the rule, rather than the exception.

Deputy Chief of General Staff Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan compared Israeli society to the Nazis on Holocaust Remembrance Day. This was a direct assault on the government’s policy of fighting, rather than joining, Israel-bashers who deny the right of the Jewish state to exist. And his comrades in the General Staff and in the Left praised him for his appalling behavior.

Then there is the late Maj.-Gen. Meir Dagan, the retired director of the Mossad.

Last Thursday Channel 2’s investigative news program Uvda broadcast an interview with Dagan, conducted shortly before his death.

Dagan told the host Ilana Dayan that in 2010, he committed espionage.

Dagan revealed that in 2010, he went behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s back and informed then-CIA director Leon Panetta that Netanyahu and then-defense minister Ehud Barak were about to order the security services to attack Iran’s nuclear installations.

Panetta, who Dayan also interviewed, substantiated Dagan’s remarks.

Dagan gave three justifications for his behavior. He claimed that whereas he acted out of Israel’s national interest, Netanyahu acted out of “political motivations.”

Dagan insisted that had Israel attacked, the US would have used force to protect Iran’s nuclear installations from Israel.

Dagan argued that Netanyahu is to blame for President Barack nObama’s decision to cut a deal with the Iranian regime that effectively paves the way for Iran’s emergence as a nuclear power and a regional hegemon.

Had Netanyahu played along with nObama, Dagan argued, nObama wouldn’t have opened negotiations with Iran.

Dagan’s actions and his justifications for them indicated that he trusted Panetta, and through him, nObama, more than he trusted Netanyahu, a man whom he loathed.

Shortly after his interviewed aired, The New York Times posted an article repudiating Dagan’s faith in nObama and showing that Netanyahu’s judgment was far superior to that of his spy chief.

David Samuels’s profile of nObama’s Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, “the single most influential voice shaping American foreign policy aside from nObama himself,” revealed that nObama’s Iran policy was determined well before he entered office. And it had nothing to do with anything Netanyahu did or didn’t do.

Samuels also exposed that Dagan’s confidante Panetta was little more than a marionette controlled by nObama and Rhodes.

In a candid interview with him, Panetta revealed that nObama tasked him with convincing Netanyahu not to strike Iran’s nuclear installations.

As Samuels put it, Panetta, said that as secretary of defense, “one of his most important jobs was keeping... Netanyahu and his defense minister Ehud Barak from launching a preemptive attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.”

Panetta said that he convinced them not to strike Iran by telling that if push came to shove, nObama would order US forces to strike Iran’s facilities to prevent the regime from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Panetta then admitted that today he does not believe that he was telling them the truth.

For his part, Rhodes revealed that from the outset of his presidency, it was nObama’s aim to cut a deal with Iran while ending the US’s alliances with Israel and the Sunni states.

In Rhodes’s words, from nObama’s perspective, reaching a deal with Iran was “the center of the arc” around which nObama’s whole vision of a transformed US foreign policy ran.

Rhodes said that nObama believed, “We don’t have to be in cycles of conflict if we can find other ways to resolve these issues. We can do things that challenge the conventional thinking that, you know, ‘AIPAC doesn’t like this,’ or ‘the Israeli government doesn’t like this,’ or ‘the Gulf countries don’t like it.’” He continued, “It’s the possibility of improved relations with adversaries. It’s nonproliferation. So all these threads that the president’s been spinning – and I mean that not in the press sense – for almost a decade, they kind of all converged around Iran.”

Rhodes said the administration’s claim that talks with Iran only began after the 2013 election brought the supposedly moderate Hassan Rouhani to power instead of outgoing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a deliberately concocted lie.

The myth of Iranian “moderates” locked in a struggle with “extremists” was invented, Rhodes said, to “eliminate a source of structural tension between the US and Iran which would create the space for America to disentangle itself from its established system of alliances with countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel and Turkey.”

Panetta and other senior nObama administration officials told Samuels that nObama ignored their advice, using them as “cover” to push through his radical foreign policy agenda.

Netanyahu understood all of this intuitively. But Dagan refused to see it. Driven by his personal animus toward Netanyahu and by egomania, he chose to trust Panetta, and through him, nObama, more than he trusted the man he was legally bound to serve.

And so, Dagan willfully subverted the premier’s authority. He unlawfully revealed Israel’s most classified operational secret to nObama’s puppet. Through his action, Dagan cleared the final obstacle to nObama’s pursuit of his anti-Israel agenda.

Since his final interview was broadcast, Dagan’s many supporters have argued that his behavior is beside the point. It is Netanyahu’s fault that Israel didn’t attack Iran at the time or since. Netanyahu, they say, could have fired Dagan and replaced him with someone who agreed with his assessments.

Although valid in theory, these arguments insult the intelligence of even a casual observer of the routine insubordination of senior security officials with dovish conceits toward right-wing politicians.

Netanyahu allowed Dagan to retire with honor from the Mossad despite his appalling behavior.

And still, the minute he was out the door, Dagan denounced Netanyahu. Projecting his own behavior on the prime minister, Dagan castigated him as irresponsible, untrustworthy and dangerous. Perhaps hoping to help nObama’s reelection, on the eve of the 2012 election, Dagan told Dayan that he had informed the Americans of Netanyahu’s planned attack on Iran’s nuclear installations.

Far from being punished for his espionage, Dagan was the toast of the town. He was the hero of the Left and a star of the international lecture circuit.

Like Golan, the Left celebrated him as a guardian of Israel’s “democratic values.”

The Left’s response to Dagan and Golan shows the real balance of power between a right-wing prime minister and left-wing, insubordinate generals.

Had Netanyahu fired Dagan, he would have acted just as he did upon his retirement. And he would have been idealized as a martyr just as he was upon retiring. Perhaps Netanyahu hoped that by not firing Dagan he had a better chance of being able to attack Iran’s nuclear installations after he was gone. Whatever the case, the blind Dagan was more powerful than the clear-sighted Netanyahu.

It is difficult to assess the damage Dagan caused Israel’s security. But it is clear that harm he did us was immense, strategic, long-term and multi-dimensional.

And national security wasn’t the only victim of Dagan’s behavior. His insubordination, like that of his comrades on the General Staff, struck a devastating normative blow to the country as well.

From the perspective of democratic norms, the worst part of Dagan’s subversion is that he was proud of it.

By insisting his final interview be broadcast posthumously, Dagan showed that he wanted his subversion of the government to be his legacy. Dagan’s final act was to tell his countrymen that it is legitimate to place themselves above the law and above the lawful government and take independent actions that will obligate the entire country.

Ironically, there is no substantive difference between Dagan’s actions – or the generals’– and the actions of the so-called Hilltop Youth in Samaria whom the generals continuously condemn as the greatest threat to Israel.

Like the generals, right-wing extremist teenage outlaws reject the authority of the government. Like the generals, denizens of “the state of Judea” believe that they know how to advance Israel’s national security better than our elected officials.

True, the damage the generals cause the country by revealing state secrets to foreign governments and libeling the nation of Israel as Nazis is several orders of magnitude greater than the damage wrought by fanatical teenagers who vandalize Arab property. Indeed it is far greater than alleged acts of murder that a handful of Hilltop Youth stand accused of committing.

And by acting lawlessly and showing bottomless contempt for our elected officials, Dagan, Golan and their comrades tell the Hilltop Youth and the rest of us that the law is what they say it is.

Sixty-eight years ago, after declaring Israel’s independence, David Ben-Gurion set about dismantling the underground militias to ensure the survival of the state as a coherent political unit.

Sixty-eight years later, it works out there are still competing gangs trying to obligate the rest of us with their unlawful, anti-democratic and immoral behavior. If Israel is to survive for the next 68 years, we need to act firmly and forthrightly to end this state of affairs.


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