Saturday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Much ado about
the wrong Israeli controversy
Steven J. Rosen  
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 SHIFT IN CHRISTIAN VOTERS HELPS EXPLAIN DEMS’ BIBI   SNUB 
There was a time that the idea of
nearly 60 Democrats boycotting a speech to Congress by the prime minister of Israel would have been unimaginable. Democrats were the staunchest supporters of the creation and defense of the Jewish state. Republicans were once lukewarm. Now, Democrats increasingly side against Israel, while Republicans are nearly unanimous in support. So how did we get here? Part of it is pique. Some of the speech snubbers are nObama loyalists angry at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt to scuttle President nObama’s pending nuclear deal with Iran. And as John Judis observed, part of it is rooted in political shifts in Israel and the U.S. and resultant changes in lobbying efforts and gamesmanship on both sides. But that still doesn’t fully explain why so many Democrats would risk a backlash from Jewish voters and supporters, who are overwhelmingly Democratic. The answer lies not with the politics of Jewish Americans, but those of Christians.
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WaPo: “In November 1945, [President Harry Truman] offered this riposte to American diplomats cautioning him against embracing the cause of Zionism: ‘I’m sorry, gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of Zionism: I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents.’”]  -Fox News
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 Sort it out -   As Christians have migrated in increasing numbers to the Republican Party and non-believers have aligned themselves mostly with Democrats, the political pressure points have changed. Social issues, particularly Democratic support for access to elective abortions, have been a major part of this sorting. And like other trends in partisanship, it has been self-perpetuating and self-intensifying. As Christians became more Republican, the Republican Party increasingly reflected their values. Those values, especially among the growing number of evangelical Protestants, include a belief that their faith is an outgrowth of Judaism and in the promise of a land set apart for the people to whom their God first chose to reveal himself. As Democrats become less Christian and Republicans become more Christian, expect the partisan prism on Israel so astonishingly displayed today to become commonplace.
          [In the latest Gallup poll, 45 percent of Americans view the Israeli leader favorably, up 10 points since 2012 and tying the highest rating recorded by Gallup over Netanyahu’s tenures.]
          “America’s bond with Israel is stronger than the politics of the moment…This is an important message at an important time and the Prime Minister is the perfect person to deliver it.” –Speaker backstabber John Boehner says in a new video previewing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress.  -Fox News
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 RYAN & CO. LOOK TO REASSURE JUSTICES ON nOBAMACARE 
Paul Ryan
, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, along with Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich. and Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., add another layer to the GOP plan to cover nObamaCare beneficiaries if Supreme Court justices opt to blow up the law. The budget hawks proposal comes in a WSJ op-ed and meshes with other proposals floated by Senate Republicans in recent days.  -Fox News
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 CROSSROADS KEEPS HITTING HASSAN 
NHjournal: “Following up its radio ad buy announced last week, the conservative issues group Crossroads GPS [today] will launch a $50,000 digital ad buy again criticizing Gov. Maggie Hassan [D-N.H.,] for a proposed budget it says includes ‘more spending, higher taxes, and no real innovation.’ Crossroads last week became the second out-of-state group to attack Hassan, who is viewed as a possible contender for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Kelly Ayotte, [R-N.H.]…. The new digital ad will be seen on Facebook, Twitter and search engine web sites, Crossroads said. Its script is similar to the radio ad, charging Hassan proposed a tax that ‘would hit lower income people hardest’ and ‘sizeable increases in business taxes.’”   -Fox News
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 AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES… 
“Nobody is asking for America to go to war. What the Israelis are asking, what a lot of Americans are asking – including the majority of Republicans – is real sanctions and to give the Israelis the green light to defend themselves. They have never asked for Americans to go to war on their behalf and they are not asking that today.”—Charles Krauthammer on “Special Report with Bret Baier” Watch here.   -Fox News
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 Did the administration lie about nObama's immigration action?  
(Byron York) - The administration's schedule shaped the schedule of those challenging the president's action. On Feb. 16, federal judge Andrew Hanen issued an order stopping the program...noting in his opinion that "the DHS' website provides February 18, 2015 as the date it will begin accepting applications under DACA's new criteria, and mid-to-late May for DAPA applications." Hanen barred the administration from implementing "any and all aspects or phases of the expansions (including any and all changes)" to DACA and also "any and all aspects or phases" of DAPA. So everyone involved knew the score. Changes to DACA, which had been scheduled to start Feb. 18, were on hold. DAPA was also on hold. And everyone assumed those dates to be accurate. But now, the administration is telling a different story. In a "Defendants' Advisory" filed with Hanen's court late Tuesday, the Justice Department notified the judge that it has already implemented significant parts of the Expanded DACA program, and indeed that it has already granted expanded DACA protections and work permits to "approximately 100,000" people. Amid accusations Wednesday that the nObama administration purposefully lied to a federal judge,  Texas Governor Abbott has called on the court to place him in contempt.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/did-the-administration-lie-about-obamas-immigration-action/article/2561037
 
 
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 The UN Is Recruiting Global Citizens, And Naive Young Americans  
(rickwells.us) - Anyone who believes that the United Nations is a benign force for good in the world doesn’t know the true nature of the world-government organization. They are primarily a carefully packaged instrument of wealth redistribution and power acquisition...both of which will ultimately result in the destruction of the United States as it exists today. They are also an instrument of manipulation, brainwashing and thought control. They are at the heart of the current for-profit emphasis on the hoax that is climate change as a means to subject the world to their authority, ultimately through a global government administered by them. Towards that end, they have been very successful in brainwashing the youth of America through school-mandated programming under the UN criteria associated with Agenda 21. This process not only includes mandatory viewing of the Al Gore fairy tale movie, but actual illegal foreign infestation in influencing local community issues across the United States through ICLEA, recently rebranded as “Local Governments for Sustainability.”       http://www.rickwells.us/the-un-is-recruiting-global-citizens-and-naive-young-americans-are-signing-up-sovereignty-is-so-20th-century/
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 Hilly’s Criminal Classified Record Mishandling And Suppression 
(rickwells.us) - Hilly Clinton has more to worry about now than just her criminal or at a minimum negligent conduct surrounding the attack on Benghazi...Her keeping of classified United States documents on a personal server at her home could land her in prison. Judge Andrew Napolitano joins Megyn Kelly to discuss the possible consequences and the nature of the violations. The Judge says that as of now he sees Clinton as having two separate criminal possibilities. He says, “One is, if she retained on her personal email account using the Clinton server…classified materials, classified documents, she arguably violated the same statute that General Petraeus has agreed that he will plead guilty to, which prohibits retaining classified information in a non-government, non-secured way.” Dana Perino also joins Kelly to discuss the political aspects.  http://www.rickwells.us/judge-napolitano-hillary-clinton-obama-criminal-classified-record-mishandling-and-suppression-real-potential-for-felony-charges/#prettyPhoto
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 Did Hilly Clinton Violate the Federal Embezzlement Law?  
(Andrew McCarthy) - Secretary of State Hilly Clinton’s systematic evasion of federal recordkeeping requirements involved both the use of private email addresses and a server system installed in her Chappaqua manse...The servers, according to the Washington Free Beacon, may have been set up by shady longtime Clinton lackey Eric Hothem – under a false name (Eric Hoteham) slightly varied from his true name. It may also have been designed to give users the ability to erase emails without a trace. Shannen Coffin’s excellent column today points out that Mrs. Clinton’s Clintonesque shenanigans not only appear to be a clear violation of the Federal Records Act; she may also have violated a federal penal statute that makes it a felony for the custodian of government records to conceal or otherwise tamper with them.       http://www.aim.org/guest-column/did-hillary-clinton-violate-the-federal-embezzlement-law/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email030515&utm_medium=email
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 Bring Back the Bush Doctrine—with One Addition  
(Andrew McCarthy) - What should be our strategy against ISIS? We ask the question without ever considering Iran...What concessions about centrifuges and spent fuel should we demand to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power? We ask the question never linking the mullahs’ weapons ambitions with its sponsorship of the global jihad . . . the only reason we dread a nuclear Iran. What should be the national-defense strategy of the United States against radical Islam, the most immediate and thoroughgoing security and cultural threat we face today?       http://www.aim.org/guest-column/bring-back-the-bush-doctrine-with-one-addition/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email030515&utm_medium=email
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 A desperate, lone-wolf president  
(Judge Andrew Napolitano) - Can the president rewrite federal laws? Can he alter their meaning? Can he change their effect? These are legitimate questions in an era in which we have an unpopular progressive Democratic president who has boasted that he can govern without Congress...by using his phone and his pen, and a mostly newly elected largely conservative Republican Congress with its own ideas about big government. These are not hypothetical questions. In 2012, President nObama signed executive orders that essentially said to about 1.7 million unlawfully present immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before their 16th birthdays and who are not yet 31 years of age that if they complied with certain conditions that he made up out of thin air they will not be deported. In 2014, the president took additional action that essentially made the same offer to about 4.7 million unlawfully present immigrants, without the age limits that he had made up out of thin air. A federal court enjoined enforcement of the 2014 orders last month.   http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/a-desperate-lone-wolf-president/
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 GOP leadership: Accomplices to nObama's crimes  
(Erik Rush) - Aint it great that the Republicans won so big in that midterm election …? That would be representative of the sarcastic refrain I’ve been hearing among Republicans in social media, blogs and email blasts these days. In the wake of the Mitch McCon-nell-led Senate and House Speaker backstabber John Boehner both acquiescing to Democratic demands and agreeing to pass Department of Homeland Security funding free of provisions to block President nObama’s controversial (and, oh yes, illegal) amnesty, the disgust has been practically palpable.       http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/gop-leadership-accomplices-to-obamas-crimes/
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 Dangers of the Turkish Bizarre  
(Burak Bekdil) - If Turkey were a person instead of a country, law enforcement authorities would probably require it to have psychiatric therapy. Pundits are asking: "What has become of us?" Good question. No one has offered a good answer...Earlier this month about 70 members of parliament spoke at a special parliamentary session. Each speaker, from government or opposition seats, condemned the widespread violence against women in the country. The audience applauded every speaker, from government or opposition seats. There was peace in the house. Three hours after the session closed, the deputies gathered to debate a controversial security bill. Chaos ensued as a brawl broke out. The session ended after five MPs were hospitalized.       http://www.meforum.org/5070/the-turkish-bizarre
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 nObama Admin: We Will Defend Muslim Jihadists If They Are Attacked 
(
Theodore Shoebat) - John Allen, a retired US general who works as nObama’s envoy to the international coalition that is combating ISIS, has made it very clear that the nObama administration will defend Syrian rebels, who are all Muslim jihadists, once they are in combat...He also made it clear that the US plans on training 15,000 of these jihadists over the next 3 years. As we read from the report: All of these terrorists will take the US training and protection as a means to their evil end: the destruction of Christianity and the establishment for an Islamic state in the Middle East. With that said, America right now has one of the most wicked governments in the world. They are empowering all of the Islamic world to pursue jihadism, and for this does it have an ocean of Christian blood on its hands.     http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2015/03/obama-administration-we-will-defend-muslim-jihadists-if-they-are-attacked/
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 A tax plan Republicans should learn to love  
(Ramesh Ponnuru) - Senators Mike Lee and Marco Rubio have come up with the most pro-growth tax reform since Calvin Coolidge’s presidency. That’s a point that could easily get lost in the intra-party debate over their plan...a debate that could shape the next presidential race and influence conservative policy for years to come. Some news coverage has treated this debate as a struggle between “supply-siders” and other conservatives. That’s a mistake. Both sides consider themselves supply-siders. Both sides, that is, believe that tax rates affect the amount of labor and capital supplied to an economy. They think lower tax rates would improve incentives to work, save and invest, and thus promote long-term economic growth.       https://www.aei.org/publication/tax-plan-republicans-learn-love/?utm_source=today&utm_medium=paramount&utm_campaign=AEIToday030515
Much ado about
the wrong Israeli controversy
Steven J. Rosen  
 
     (jewishworldreview.com) - The brouhaha over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's March 3 speech to Congress is diverting attention from more important U.S.-Israel controversies that will escalate soon after this comparatively minor contretemps fizzles out.

     At the U.N., the Palestinians and Europeans will press forward after the March 17 Israeli election, submitting draft United Nations Security Council resolutions that they postponed at the request of Secretary of State Hanoi John F. Kerry. They are pressuring the administration to join this effort to impose terms on Israel, and not to veto.

     In the Iran talks, there either will or won't be a framework agreement by the March 31 target date, and either way there will be a clash between friends of Israel and the nObama administration - either about the terms of the agreement, or about intensified sanctions in the absence of an agreement.

     At the International Criminal Court (ICC), the "State of Palestine" will achieve full membership on April 1, opening the way for potential war crimes complaints against Israel. By June, the total VAT and clearance revenues that the government of Israel is withholding from the Palestinian Authority will approach $1 billion. The United States and other patrons of the PA will argue that the resulting debt and unpaid salaries to civil servants and security forces are bringing the PA to the point of collapse. Yet, at the same time, the nObama Administration will be required by law to suspend $400 million in U.S. budgetary assistance to the PA.

     And the deadlock between the PA and Hamas that has impeded reconstruction of Gaza is likely to bring the enclave to a boiling point in about the same time frame. Some will blame Israel. After the Israeli election, a new package of sanctions against settlement products will be announced by the European Union.

     Israel will not have a fully functioning government for some weeks after the voting takes place on March 17, because, based on past experience, assembling a multiparty coalition to empower a viable government is not likely to be completed until about May 15. Most polls indicate that the next government will be headed by Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud, but there is uncertainty whether he will head a narrow government of the right and religious or a wider coalition including elements of the center-left. A deadlock is also possible, resulting in greater delays before control of the key ministries and the guidelines of the new government are decided.

     In Washington, shortly after March 17, President nObama will be making a series of fateful decisions affecting Israel, while the Jewish state is absorbed in sorting out its internal decision-making structure. Mr. nObama and Mr. Hanoi Kerry are likely to press Israel to turn over to the PA hundreds of millions in escrowed clearance revenues, at the very moment that the PA is seeking prosecution of Israel at the ICC and going to the Security Council in an effort to impose Arab demands on Israel.

     Mr. nObama may sign an accord that leaves Iran with 6,500 centrifuges, against the opposition of his most important Mideast allies in Israel and the Gulf states, even if a majority in Congress opposes the agreement. If there is no Iran agreement, Mr. nObama may still veto the Kirk-Menendez Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act, arguing that it will impede his "Plan B" policy of keeping the Joint Plan of Action as a de facto long term interim arrangement.

     At the United Nations, France plans to submit a resolution in cooperation with Germany and the U.K., because, in the words of Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, "pressure is required from the international community to help both sides ... take the ultimate step." It will propose "Clear parameters for resolving the conflict adopted by the international community in advance" and a firm timetable to "provide the basis for future negotiations." France is looking for a compromise resolution "which everyone can get behind" because the Americans have already said that they will veto the Arab draft.

     The E-3 draft calls for a comprehensive agreement "no later than 24 months after ... this resolution" instead of the 12 months in the Arab draft. It calls for "full phased withdrawal of Israeli security forces" from the West Bank and Gaza, but deletes the Arab draft's demand that this be completed by the end of 2017. It "looks forward to welcoming Palestine as a full member of the United Nations," but deletes the Arab draft's conclusion that this must occur by the end of 2017. While the Arab draft demands a resolution of the refugee question "on the basis of the Arab Peace Initiative and resolution 194," the E-3 draft requires only a "fair and realistic" solution. And the French draft recalls that General Assembly resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947 called for a "Jewish state," while the Arab draft studiously avoids this phrase.

     The administration has not commented publicly about the French E-3 draft. But some observers believe that Mr. nObama may allow it to pass or even vote for it, possibly using the U.S. vote as bait for American changes.

     But even with changes, the French draft endorses principles that will be problematic for the government of Israel: e.g., that borders should be "based on 4 June 1967 with mutually agreed limited equivalent land swaps"; that Israeli communities in eastern Jerusalem and the hills of Judea and Samaria "have no legal validity" and that Jerusalem should be the "shared" capital of two states.

     Most importantly, allowing a decision on this issue at the United Nations Security Council would be a victory for those who want the Great Powers to decide the outcome instead of leaving it to bilateral direct negotiations, a longstanding demand of the Arabs consistently opposed by Israel and, until now, by the United States.

     The bottom line: Mr. nObama has more opportunity to inflame U.S.-Israel relations on core issues in the next few months, than in any previous period since his ascent to the presidency.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0315/wrong_israeli_controversy.php3

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