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Netanyahu and Jewish Survival

Alan Caruba

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"Be careful where you stand"

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The Commando vs. the Community Organizer

In a much-anticipated and contentious address to Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday spoke bluntly about the threat posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons. He was downright presidential -- something our nation has sorely lacked for the last six years. Netanyahu's 45-minute speech recounted Iran's past acts of terror, its continued call for the destruction of Israel, its recent success in spreading malign influence and control through the Middle East, and its track record of cheating and lying to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Netanyahu drew a line in the sand, and Barack nObama's response will no doubt be on the wrong side. Indeed, nObama immediately claimed there was "nothing new" in the prime minister's speech, and in a sense he's right: The facts about Iran are not new, nor are they in dispute, even among those currently negotiating with Iran. The key point is that Netanyahu and like-minded people believe the deal toward which nObama is working rewards Iran with a path to nuclear weapons rather than preventing Iran from obtaining them -- something even the nObama administration still says would be "unacceptable." nObama obviously resents that a leader of Netanyahu's stature would attempt to upset the diplomatic apple cart by speaking the plain truth at a time when the nObama administration seems determined to ignore the truth in pursuit of a deal --any deal. -The Patriot Post

NO ENTITLEMENT REFORM: HILLY EMAIL SCANDAL REVEALS CORE WEAKNESS
If you were one of the many, many people running the second presidential campaign of Hilly Clinton, what is one thing you absolutely, positively, double-dog, by-jiminy would not want your candidate to be doing tonight? Other than perhaps hosting an event on electronic transparency for the exiled government of Libya, Clinton has found absolutely the worst place to be. She is going to attend a gala at a super-posh venue on Wall Street for her family foundation. Woof. Hitting what reportedly will be a glitzy event to raise more money from the global upper crust for a foundation at the center of a fundraising fiasco would be bad enough for the presumptive Democratic nominee even without the bizarre new and continually expanding scandal surrounding her private emails at the State Department. Prior to the new revelations, Clinton might have been able to blow off the press, schmooze with the .0001 percent and get back on the trail. But the revelations will turn tonight into a public embarrassment fitted like Versace gown for political attacks rather than a private indulgence. -Fox News

Enablers - One can’t blame Clinton for the bad timing. She certainly knew that dodging transparency and accountability measures would result in a scandal, but she couldn’t have known when. (When you are operating a “homebrew” server out of your house for official emails, you probably aren’t figuring it’s no big deal.) She must have imagined that she could ride out the bad press and that the disruption would be worth the advantages offered by secrecy and unaccountability. One cannot blame Clinton for the disastrous timing of this concatenation, but if she and her family can’t resist celebrating their Wall Street connections and big buckraking right now there is an evident lack of judgment at work. Through that lens, we get a better insight on why Clinton felt she could operate her own private email system when she worked for the government. Because she felt entitled to do so. As her campaign lumbers and lurches forward, we see entitlement at the core of many of Clinton’s problems. If there is not one of her many advisers who are able to convince Clinton that she must learn to live by the rules, this candidacy will be just as doomed as the last one.
Sauce for the goose… “At the end of the day, it looks like they were trying to avoid the records act ... by operating official business off the official systems,” –John Podesta, top adviser to Hilly Clinton, criticizing the Bush administration officials for using private emails in a 2007 WSJ interview. -Fox News

(WHITE) HOUSE OF PAIN: NO PLAN TO AID THOSE WHO COULD BEAR BRUNT IN nOBAMACARE CASE
With Supreme Court arguments today on a case that could blow the bottom out of nObamaCare and put policies for millions at risk, the president and his team is reverting to the Clubber Lang doctrine for such standoffs. Their prediction: Pain. As the NYT reports, the administration is intentionally refusing to consider any backup plans at the risk of signaling “to the justices that reasonable solutions existed.” And if past conduct is indicative, the president must also hope that by maximizing suffering in the short term, he can better block Republican alternatives and gain the upper hand on preserving his law in the eventual rescue operation. Meanwhile, no fewer than four Republican plans have emerged. The most recent is from by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and five co-sponsors, including Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. There are other, potentially complementary, plans already on offer including one includes financial assistance for individuals who would lose coverage, another that would offer tax credits and the one perhaps best suited for an emergency measure sponsored by Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb.
Government case rests in part on Jonathan Gruber’s honesty - WaPo: “MIT economist Jonathan Gruber first earned notoriety because of this challenge. Opponents of the law last summer circulated a 2012 video of him saying — contrary to the administration's argument — that states would deprive their residents of subsidies if they didn't set up their own exchanges. Gruber, who had widely been described as an architect of the ACA, later said the comments were a mistake.” -Fox News

Carpe diem - New in Fox News Opinion, former Romney policy adviser Lanhee Chen writes that Republicans should seize the opportunity to tackle the future of health care: “Liberal commentators are doing their best to portray a doomsday scenario for the American health care system if the plaintiffs in the case are victorious. And most importantly, President nObama is sure to blame Republicans if the impact of the case is lost coverage or higher premiums. There is a talented field of potential Republican candidates for the presidency in 2016, however, who should see the King case as an opportunity to make important arguments about the future of the American health care system.” -Fox News

dinky Reid Secured Subsidies for Aides’ Donors

(Lachlan Markay) - Corporate donors to a green energy nonprofit operated by Senate Minority Leader dinky Harry Reid’s (D., Nev.) former staffers and a current campaign operative...have received billions of dollars in federal loan guarantees and grant money as a result of dinky Reid’s advocacy. Fulcrum Bioenergy began contributing to the Clean Energy Project (CEP) in 2013. One year later, the Nevada Democrat steered tens of millions of dollars in federal grant money to the California biofuel company. Fulcrum is one of at least nine corporate donors to the Clean Energy Project (CEP) that have secured federal financing for themselves or a client due in part to dinky Reid’s behind-the-scenes advocacy—activity that watchdogs warn could be construed as unethical. http://americanactionnews.com/articles/senator-harry-reid-secured-subsidies-for-aides-donors

Ted Cruz Unveils nObamacare Alternative

(thehill.com) - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Tuesday offered the latest in a series of Republican nObamaCare alternatives ahead of a Supreme Court ruling that could gut the law...Cruz’s bill, called the Health Care Choices Act, would allow people to buy health insurance across state lines, long a Republican health policy goal. It would also repeal Title I of nObamaCare, which would undo much of the law, including the mandate to buy insurance, the insurance marketplaces and subsidies to help people afford coverage. Republicans are looking to show that they have a plan ready if the court strikes down subsidies for around 7.5 million people in the roughly three-dozen states using federally run marketplaces. The court will hear arguments in the case, King v. Burwell, on Wednesday. http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/234499-cruz-unveils-obamacare-alternative#sthash.fQy1li6U.dpuf

Feds Processed 7 Million Immigration - In One Year

(Tony Lee) - On Tuesday, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials revealed that the agency processed nearly seven million immigration-related applications in just one year alone (fiscal year 2014)...Because the agency does not have the resources to conduct in-person interviews with every applicant, officials noted that applicants for President Barack nObama’s Deferred Action for Childhood (DACA) program did not have to go though face-to-face interviews before being granted temporary amnesty. Potential applicants for President Barack nObama’s executive amnesty program for the illegal immigrant parents of U.S. citizens will also not be given in-person interviews if the federal government is allowed to proceed with its implementation after the court case against it is resolved. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/03/uscis-officials-reveal-feds-processed-7-million-immigration-related-applications-in-one-year/

Supreme Court Appears Split on ObamaCare Subsidies

Supreme Court Appears Split on nObamaCare Subsidies

(Raven Clabough) - Reports indicate that the Supreme Court appeared to be divided strictly along ideological lines on Wednesday during opening arguments in the King v. Burwell case, one in a series of lawsuits challenging portions of the Affordable Care Act (nObamaCare)... "Burwell" refers to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell, named as the defendant in the cases. A decision in the case is expected by the end of June, and would potentially impact eight million people. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C., is providing support for the challengers, including financial support in the King case. The focus is on language in the law regarding subsidies for those who purchase insurance on exchanges “established by the state.” The plaintiffs contend that the administration incorrectly interpreted the language to allow subsidies nationwide and that the language of the law explicitly establishes that the subsidies should only be available to those who live in states that established their own health-insurance marketplace. Why is the language so hard to understand for these Judges? http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/20284-supreme-court-appears-split-on-obamacare-subsidies?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=267754baa1-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-267754baa1-289778381

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NEW EMAILS Could Send Democrat Elijah Cummings to Prison
(Jim Hoft) - Last April House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) released a report implicating Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) in colluding with the IRS and Lois Lerner against the nonpartisan voters rights group “True the Vote.”...Engelbrecht said this during her testimony before Congress and Cummings, “Frankly, to sit before my accuser and be silent in the face of what he did was unconscionable.” This week the House Oversight Committee released more emails that prove the IRS was feeding Rep. Cummings withconfidential tax information on the voter fraud prevention group True the Vote. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWIhKbTJ0o4
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/03/new-emails-could-send-democrat-cummings-to-prison-for-targeting-voter-rights-group/

Fouad ElBayly

U.S. Justice Depart Hires Radical Imam Fouad ElBayly to Teach Inmates

(answeringmuslims.com) - An Egyptian-born imam who in 2007 said that Somali-born activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali should receive the death penalty for her criticism of Islam is now a Department of Justice contractor hired to teach classes to Muslims who are in federal prison...According to federal spending records, Fouad ElBayly, the imam at Islamic Center of Johnstown in Pennsylvania, was contracted by the DOJ’s Bureau of Prisons beginning last year to teach the classes to Muslim inmates at Cumberland Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Md. http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2015/03/us-justice-department-hires-radical.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+answeringmuslims%2FynNl+%28Answering+Muslims%29

Mark Levin – nObama Should Be Impeached

(rickwells.us) - Mark Levin asks some serious questions about how and why the story of Hilly Clinton’s emails became known as well but there are other concerns as well...He points out how not only was Hilly Clinton using private emails for all of her official, classified duties, but so are officials at the EPA and elsewhere, as a means of concealment of the anti-American and likely criminal conduct they are engaging in. He says it’s being done “For two reasons, so you can’t file a freedom of information act request and know what they’re doing, in clear violation of that federal statute. And so Congress, when it asks for emails and other documentation, never even thinks about asking for personal emails.” He asks, “This isn’t tyranny? Oh, this is tyranny. This is tyranny, Obama should be impeached, this whole damn operation should be shut down, this is a mob.” He’s got a message for Republicans and much more at this link. http://www.rickwells.us/mark-levin-obama-should-be-impeached-this-is-tyranny-this-whole-damn-soviet-style-mob-operation-should-be-shut-down/

Megyn Kelly Discusses Growing Hilly Clinton Email Controversy… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFKk1VvB_m0

Charles Krauthammer – Hilly Clinton Can’t Tell The Truth

(rickwells.us) - Charles Krauthammer quotes William Sapphire from the 1990’s, when he described Hilly Clinton in one of his New York Times articles as “a congenital liar.”...Krauthammer says Sapphire later cleaned it up a bit by saying, “No, it wasn’t genetic, it was acquired.” Krauthammer says “This is not a new story, and that’s the reason why the Democrats are so dismayed. This is sort of the replay of the game of the 1990’s. He says there are two reasons why Clinton can’t hold a two-hour press conference and clear the air. He notes, “Number one, she’s a Clinton. And what the Clintons do is never clear the air. They spend the first month or two, surrogates in the machine attacking the accusers as in the Lewinski scandal and then later if you have to confess, if you’re caught red-handed you admit it.” http://www.rickwells.us/charles-krauthammer-hillary-clinton-cant-tell-the-truth-anything-remotely-honest-is-self-indictment/

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Hilly the Hypocrite Trashed Bush Admin for Using Private Emails

On June 20, 2007, Hilly Clinton complained about Bush officials shredding the US Constitution by having secret email accounts...Two years later, as Secretary of State, Hilly Clinton set up a secret email account and secret servers in her basement for all of her official business. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DCwmYHr-_M

Netanyahu and Jewish Survival

Alan Caruba

(factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - In 1933, approximately 9.5 million Jews lived in Europe, representing 1.7% of the total European population which, in turn, was about 60% of the Jewish world population, estimated to have been 15.2 million.

By 1945, in the wake of the Holocaust, two out of every three Jews would be dead.

By 2012 the global Jewish population had reached 13.75 million. That is less than 0.2 percent of the world’s population.

The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics reported that 43% of the world’s Jewish community lives in Israel. Sharing Israel as their home were 1,636,600 Arabs and a diverse population of Christians and non-Jews, numbering around 318,000.

If the Iranians make good on their threat to “wipe Israel off the map”, presumably with nuclear weapons they would acquire by stealth and deception, the Jewish world population would be cut nearly in half.

All of this will be on Benjamin Netanyahu’s mind when, as the Prime Minister of Israel, he addresses a joint meeting of Congress. It will be his third such speech. On July 10, 1996, he said the world must act to prevent Iran’s nuclearization, since “the deadline for attaining this goal is getting extremely close.”

In 2011 he returned, saying “When I stood here, I spoke of the consequences of Iran developing nuclear weapons. Now time is running out. The hinge of history may soon turn, for the greatest danger of all could soon be upon us, a militant Islamic regime armed with nuclear weapons.”

So now it is 2015 and the only thing Netanyahu knows for sure is that the Iranians remain intent on being able to produce their own nuclear weapons.

The March 2nd edition of The Times of Israel reported that Yukiya Amano, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said “Iran has yet to provide explanations that enable the agency to clarify two outstanding practical measures”, a diplomatic way of referring to “alleged explosive tests and other issues related to research that may also be useful for military uses of atomic energy.” This is the same problem that the U.N. agency has with North Korea.

Netanyahu was worried about Iran’s nuclear weapons program in 1996, in 2011, and now in 2015; more than enough time for Iran to have made considerable progress toward their goal. At the heart of this third address to Congress is the survival of nearly half of all the Jews in the world because they live in Israel.

It’s no secret there is no love-loss between Bibi Netanyahu and Barack nObama, but this third effort to urge Congress to go on record supporting the survival of Israel is necessary because, for the first time since 1948, there is some cause to wonder whether a war-weary U.S. would come to Israel’s defense.

nObama has said in no uncertain terms that he wants to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. However, the world has learned that the gap between what he says and what he does is often wide or non-existent. It must be said, however, that past Presidents have decried North Korea’s acquisition of nuclear weapons, but that has not translated into any direct action because China entered the Korean conflict in the 1950s to defend it and no one wants a repeat of that.

Netanyahu does not speak for “all Jews.” He speaks for Israel and other than national survival the political divisions there are even more diverse than our own. The fact that he is running for reelection there is not a factor for his speech to Congress—timing is.

One suspects that the best intelligence both Israel and the U.S. have been able to secure suggests that, this time, Iran is very close to its goal of being able to produce its own nuclear weapons despite the sanctions that have been imposed.

Netanyahu is understandably concerned about the negotiations that nObama has relentlessly pursued with Iran, the result of which has alienated not only Israel, but Saudi Arabia and all of the Gulf nations. The P5+1 parties to the negotiations include Russia, China, France, United Kingdom and Germany. The negotiations have deadlocked in the past and may do so again despite the fact that both Russia and China have close ties to Iran.

Even if Iran agrees to terms that would supposedly slow or stop its nuclear weapons program, there is not a scintilla of evidence that they would fulfill their promises. Iran, after all, is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism worldwide.

The odds are that Netanyahu knows that Iran, this time, is very close to becoming militarily nuclear. Addressing Congress calls attention to the danger, not only domestically, but worldwide.

What Netanyahu also knows is that President nObama seems to have blind spot when it comes to the growing anti-Semitism that resembles what existed in the 1930s in Europe. When Jews in a French kosher supermarket were murdered, nObama referred to it as an act of “violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.”

Whoa! It wasn’t “a bunch of folks.” They were Jews buying food for the Sabbath meal. And those “violent, vicious zealots” were Muslims, just like the ISIS Muslims beheading, crucifying, burning, kidnapping, and enslaving those they don’t kill for being Christian, Jewish, Yazidis, or just not Muslim enough!

Netanyahu’s speech will, indeed, be historic. It may not be his last visit to the chambers of Congress.

http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2015/03/netanyahu-and-jewish-survival.html

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