The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
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Defending Ourselves to Death
by Caroline Glick
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The Reason liar-Clinton Was Never Indicted
Paul Albaugh: Move along, nothing to see here. That is what liar-Hillary Clinton hoped would happen regarding her gross mishandling of classified information and her illegal use of a private email server. In July, FBI Director James Comey declared the FBI investigation complete and announced that there would be no charges. Let's just move along with the election process, shall we?
As baffling as this fiasco is to most Americans, there didn't appear to be any logical reason why the FBI didn't recommend charges against liar-Clinton. But on Friday, following 189 additional pages of reports from the FBI's yearlong incursion into the scandal, the reason has been uncovered. And it should not bode well for the sitting U.S. president or for liar-Clinton.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy reports that liar-Clinton's closest aide and confidante Huma Abedin was shown an email exchange between then-Secretary liar-Clinton and a second person whose name she did not recognize. Abedin exclaimed, "How is this not marked classified?" Then the FBI agents did something that they should not do during an interview with an individual who is part of an investigation: They revealed the name of the pseudonymous person — the president of the United States, Barack nObama.
McCarthy reasons that this "obviously suggests that his recklessness may have been more widespread." Further, he notes, "Still, the difference in scale is not a difference in kind. In terms of the federal laws that criminalize mishandling of classified information, nObama not only engaged in the same type of misconduct liar-Clinton did; he engaged in it with liar-Clinton. It would not have been possible for the Justice Department to prosecute liar-Clinton for her offense without its becoming painfully apparent that 1) nObama, too, had done everything necessary to commit a violation of federal law, and 2) the communications between nObama and liar-Clinton were highly relevant evidence."
But because the president of the United States was involved, there had to be a massive cover-up. Some might even call it the "liar-Hillary Coverup Operation." If liar-Clinton were to have been charged for mishandling classified information then her defense lawyers surely would have pointed out that the president must be charged likewise. All they would have needed to look to was the case Nixon vs. the United States and they would have won the argument.
McCarthy notes that the FBI violated protocols by disclosing to Abedin the name of the person using the pseudonym. "The point of an FBI interview is for the interviewee to provide information to the investigators, not the other way around. If agents give information to potential witnesses, the government gets accused of trumping up the case."
But, as McCarthy point out, this only becomes a problem if there is going to be a case. We now know why there never going to be a case. Because if there was, then there would have been public embarrassment and discredit brought upon nObama himself, as well as the Justice Department and the FBI. It might be a little late to be worried about that.
We now have a better understanding as to why back in April, nObama sought to influence the FBI "investigation" and the potential security threat that liar-Clinton posed, all while insisting that's not what he was doing: "I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI — not just in this case, but in any case." He then had the audacity to lecture, "Nobody is above the law, how many times do I have say it?"
And yet, he declared, "I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security. Now what I've also said is that — and she has acknowledged — that there's a carelessness, in terms of managing emails, that she has owned, and she recognizes."
There you have it. Her carelessness was not a threat to national security, so it's no big deal. Except that nObama was involved in the same "carelessness."
So with the latest revelations, we can conclude that we have a sitting president who not only broke the law, but also has once again jeopardized our national security. And we have a presidential candidate who also broke the law and jeopardized national security. If this information is not enough to derail her bid to succeed nObama then nothing else will be. ~The Patriot Post
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The FBI's Crime Stats and the Ferguson Effect
After years of a steady decline in crime, FBI data released Monday showed violent crime in the U.S. spiked in 2015. The report stated that violent crime across the nation rose by almost 4% and murders rose by a staggering 10.8%. The percentage of increase was the sharpest in almost half a century. Much of the increase in crime was located in some of America's largest cities, with Chicago leading the way. The question is, why this sudden increase in violent crime?
The Left likes to blame it on the supposed lack of so-called "common sense" gun laws, as liar-Hillary Clinton did when questioned about the rise in crime in last night's debate. But this has little to do with the problem, as many of America's cities like Chicago have some of the nation's most restrictive gun laws. Could the answer lie more in what some have referred to as the "Ferguson effect"? The police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson ignited protests and riots that in turn birthed the Black Lives Matter movement with its racist, anti-police message. That has spread to many of the nation's larger cities. The Leftmedia and several leftist politicians, having celebrated rather than condemned BLM, have successfully advanced a narrative which has produced a chilling effect on law enforcement. This "Ferguson effect," although denied by some within the law enforcement community, does appear to be the most plausible explanation for this sudden rise in violent crime. As racial tensions have only increased and law enforcement across the country find themselves as the target of racist rhetoric and even violence, it's not a stretch to reason that law enforcement has become cautious and reactionary rather than proactive in its policing. That has allowed crime to worsen, and it illustrates exactly why the BLM movement is so dangerous. ~The Patriot Post.
Rigged Election?
by Reid Wilson
{conservativebyte.com} ~ State officials are reassuring members of Congress that the integrity of November’s elections is secure amid growing concerns over cyberattacks by foreign actors tied to Russia... In an open letter to Congress, the National Association of Secretaries of State warns against damaging public confidence in the electoral process. The group, made up of bipartisan election administrators across the nation, says security measures currently in place are sufficient to guarantee an accurate vote count. Vote-counting systems “have their own fail-safes and contingency solutions that would make it highly difficult to leverage them for changing outcomes,” the association said. “Poll books, printed records, back-ups and back-ups of back-ups all provide multiple layers of security around this part of the process.”... http://conservativebyte.com/2016/09/rigged-election/
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Anti-Patriot Media Purge- Michael Savage
Knocked Off Of 400 Stations
by Ricks Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The liberal controlled media, the same octopus that controls all of the national mainstream outlets and the Internet monopolies of Facebook, Twitter, Google and Yahoo, has been going after those who oppose their destruction of the United States... That has in the past and presently continues to happen in the form of bias and knocking down the posts and accounts of little guys, censoring our reach so that our message doesn’t get out and our ability to earn a living is jeopardized. Matt Drudge warned Alex Jones last year that the government was coming to shut them down this year in the same manner. Today those warnings came true in the form of an attack against one of the premier voices in the liberty, anti-global fascism movement, Michael Savage. As Savage reports, today he was knocked from his position at WABC radio in New York. The offense that resulted in his elimination was apparently a discussion of liar-Hillary Clinton’s health, a topic that he was actively engaged in at the time the plug was pulled. That’s what got Drew Pinskey fired at CNN. Perhaps nobody will even be able to cover the topic if she were to die from one of her seizures for fear of losing their platforms... http://rickwells.us/anti-patriot-media-purge-michael-savage-knocked-off-of-400-stations/
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ISIS 'dead set' on using chemical weapons,
US military official says
by foxnews.com
{foxnews.com} ~ A Pentagon spokesman said Monday that Islamic State militants are “dead set” on using chemical weapons and will likely try to use them against Iraqi forces as they prepare its siege on Mosul... ISIS fighters are believed to have attacked U.S. and Iraqi forces last week, a U.S. official told Fox News. Tests showed that initial reports of a "mustard agent" turning up on the rocket were incorrect, military officials said Tuesday. No one was hurt in the attack. According to Reuters, the U.S.-led coalition conducted an air strike on an ISIS chemical weapons factory Friday near Qayyara, the second attack on such a facility this month... http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/09/27/isis-dead-set-on-using-chemical-weapons-us-military-official-says.html
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433K people die every year because
they sat for too long
by Michael Harthorne
{foxnews.com} ~ You might want to sit down for this. On second thought, keep standing. A study published last month in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that sitting for more than three hours per day is responsible for 3.8%—or approximately 433,000—of all deaths worldwide every year... At this point, it's old news that sitting for long periods of time is bad for your health. But who knew it could be this deadly? According to a press release, researchers looked at data collected from 54 countries between 2002 and 2011. They found that more than 60% of the world's population sits for more than three hours per day, with the average being approximately 4.7 hours. The highest amount of sitting-related deaths were in the Western Pacific and parts of Europe, AFP reports... http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/09/26/433k-people-die-every-year-because-sat-for-too-long.html
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ACLU Rushes To Defend Bombing
Suspect Ahmad Rahami
by A. Griffee
{dennismichaellynch.com} ~ The ACLU announced on Monday that they were coming to the defense of Ahmad Khan Rahami, claiming that “denying Rahami’s right to a lawyer violates the Constitution and needlessly sacrifices civil liberties in the name of national security.”... Rahami has been charged by federal prosecutors in both New York and New Jersey in connection with the shootout with police, for federal terror crimes and attempting to murder police officers. He shot two police officers who both received minor injuries. Rahami has been hospitalized since the shootout, and has undergone surgery for his wounds. Officials say he is still incapacitated and remains unconscious...
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Has Climate-change Alarmism Backfired?
by Steve Byas
{thenewamerican.com} ~ “I believe climate change is real,” liar-Hillary Clinton asserted in her acceptance speech at this year’s Democratic National Convention, while Republican nominee Donald Trump did not mention the issue during his own speech at the Republican National Convention, although he has dismissed human-caused climate change as largely “a hoax.”... Senator John McCain, the 2008 Republican nominee, mostly accepted the claims of the alarmists. But now, after several years of outlandish doomsday scenarios pushed by those who argue, as does liar-Clinton, that climate change is “real,” could this issue hurt her chances in November? In the past several years, the gloomy predictions made by global warming alarmists have signally failed to come to pass. In 2006, Al Gore claimed that we were reaching the point of “no return” unless the world dramatically reduced greenhouse gases. In the movie based on Gore’s book, An Inconvenient Truth, James Hansen bluntly declared, “We have at most ten years — not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.”... http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/24153-has-climate-change-rhetoric-backfired
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Was liar-Hillary wired for Trump debate?
by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ Images have emerged following Monday night’s 2016 presidential debate between Democratic Party nominee liar-Hillary Clinton and GOP nominee Donald Trump that are fueling widespread speculation online that liar-Clinton may have been wired for the event... And some say she may have been wearing a battery pack, an earpiece, a microphone and a wire. Charisma News cited a Reuters image that it said appeared to reveal a flesh-colored earpiece in her left ear... http://www.wnd.com/2016/09/was-hillary-wired-for-trump-debate/
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FBI's Comey: A 'Terrorist Diaspora' Coming
'Like We've Never Seen Before'
by Mark Tapson
{truthrevolt.org} ~ At a hearing Tuesday of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, Republican senators pressed FBI Director James Comey on whether anything more could have been done to prevent recent acts of terrorist violence, according to an AP report... Comey conceded that the FBI is fallible and transparent about its mistakes, but not that anything should or could have been done differently. That lame admission of incompetence must be comforting to the survivors of recent jihadist violence, and to Americans who are potential victims of future attacks. Comey was testifying along with Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Nicholas Rasmussen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, at a hearing examining threats to national security 15 years after the 9/11 attacks. Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire expressed alarm that both Orlando gunman Omar Mateen and Manhattan bomber Ahmad Khan Rahami had at one point been on the FBI's radar but were not intercepted. "What more do we need to do? What are the lessons learned, and if you need additional support, we need to know about it very quickly," Ayotte said... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/fbis-comey-terrorist-diaspora-coming-weve-never-seen
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Who is responsible for Iran’s
pre-deal nuclear progress?
by Michael Rubin
{aei.org} ~ During the first debate between Democratic and Republican nominees liar-Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, liar-Clinton defended the nuclear deal initiated under her tenure at the State Department... by saying that it used diplomacy to neutralize Iran’s nuclear program, which had grown significantly during the tenure of President George W. Bush. But was Bush’s policy toward Iran the reason that the Islamic Republic managed to increase its centrifuges exponentially? liar-Clinton is wrong to embrace the straw man argument that the only alternative to a deal was war, especially since Iran’s economy had shrunk 5.4% in the year prior to the deal and its accompanying bail out. The point? There is always a time and a place for diplomacy, but neither Europe’s mercantilism nor the State Department’s aversion to leverage will achieve good deals; rather, they will only empower adversaries. This was the case under Bush and, alas, it has been the case under nObama as well... http://www.aei.org/publication/who-responsible-irans-pre-deal-nuclear-progress/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=092816
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Media Bias is Alive and Well
at the Presidential Debate
by CHIP MCLEAN
by CHIP MCLEAN
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The first presidential debate between Donald Trump and liar-Hillary Clinton has come and gone. So who won? That's a harder question to answer than "who lost?" The loser in this case was journalistic integrity... The "performance" by so-called moderator Lester Holt could be likened to that of the interfering third party in a pro wrestling event. Anytime Trump was pounding away on liar-Hillary, Lester Holt was there to jump in the ring and hit Trump over the head with a metaphorical chair or other foreign object. Vince McMahon couldn't have scripted a better two on one match - especially as this added the plot-twister of the referee being the one who interfered. Lester Holt fed liar-Hillary Clinton softball question after softball question with virtually no follow-up to her scripted answers - answers that while sounding smooth, were also as often as not untruthful... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/media-bias-is-alive-and-well-at-the-presidential-debate?f=must_reads
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Defending Ourselves to Death
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ A week ago, Makor Rishon led its weekend paper with a startling headline: “Following a long period of desecration, a cemetery in the Sharon is being moved.”
Moshav Hagor is located in the center of the country.
Successive IDF chiefs of General Staff, Lt. Gen. (ret.) Dan Halutz and Lt. Gen. (ret.) Gabi Ashkenazy hail from the farming community established in 1949 by veterans of the Palmach.
Along with their neighbors in Moshav Yarchiv, for the past decade, the farmers of Hagor have been subjected to the continuous desecration of their communal cemetery by their Muslim neighbors from Jaljulia, a Muslim town of ten thousand located between the two moshavim.
Adjacent to a school in Jaljulia, Hagor’s cemetery has been subjected to abuse of all kinds. Residents regularly find animal carcasses at the entrance to the cemetery. Garbage is routinely dumped on graves.
Human and other feces are frequently smeared across headstones.
One night, all the headstones on all the graves at the cemetery were broken.
Residents mourning their dead are harassed.
After a decade of constant abuse, Hagor’s residents despaired of ever restoring the security to their cemetery and decided to take matters into the own hands. With the halachic approval of then chief rabbi Shlomo Amar, they built an alternative cemetery in another area of their moshav. Families paid thousands of shekels to reinter their loved ones at the new site. Today the only bodies remaining in their original graves are the ones with no living relatives to pay to move them.
Several years ago, Moshav Yarchiv’s cemetery was rezoned to become a new neighborhood in Jaljulia.
An attempt by Yarchiv’s residents to fence off the cemetery failed.
The day after they installed the fence it was stolen.
The rabbinate has refused on halachic grounds to permit Yarchiv’s residents to exhume and reinter their dead. But even if they had rabbinic permission, they have nowhere else to bury them. Due to bureaucratic hurdles, Yarchiv hasn’t been able to find an alternative burial ground.
Jaljulya once had good relations with its Jewish neighbors. But over the past decade, the town has become a hotbed for Islamic radicalism. Residents built a new massive mosque in the town. Despite repeated complaints from their Jewish neighbors, the mosque’s loudspeakers, which face Hagor, deliberately blast the call to prayer in the middle of the night.
Last October, Nedal Salah of Jaljulia paraglided into Syria from the Golan Heights and joined Islamic State. Following Salah’s action, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) discovered a cell of six more town residents who had transferred their loyalties to Islamic State, which they intended to travel to Syria to join.
In the Makor Rishon report, Hagor’s farmers voiced their despair at the failure of the government and its agencies to protect them, their dead and their property from their Muslim neighbors.
“There is no law enforcement against criminals from Jaljulya,” one resident said angrily.
Former local council head David Cohen explained that protecting the cemetery would have required the moshav to place a guard on site 24 hours a day.
Hagor lacks the resources to take such action, or similar action to defend its fields.
And so Jaljulya’s residents continue to assault their Jewish neighbors and spread feces on their graves.
Sunday morning, residents of Efrat awoke to the news that a terrorist from a neighboring Palestinian enclave had infiltrated the community in the middle of the night. At around 6 a.m. the terrorist, Baha al-din Odeh, stabbed and moderately wounded an IDF officer.
Efrat, a suburban community of 10,000 residents, is the largest community in the Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem. Unlike Hagor, Efrat is guarded heavily by the municipality’s security department, financed by its residents.
Among other things, the community has deployed security cameras all along its perimeters.
The camera footage is monitored continuously.
When the terrorist approached the community just before 2 a.m. on Sunday, the security department detected him and immediately notified the IDF. The officer Odeh wounded Sunday morning was deployed to the community with his soldiers to locate him.
In a meeting Sunday night with community members, Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi and Judea Brigade Commander Col. Roman Gofman explained at length the concerted actions taken in the early morning hours to protect the community’s residents.
Gofman acknowledged though that no matter how hardened a community’s defenses may be, and how determined the IDF is to defend it, a motivated terrorist will figure out a way to get inside.
Last weekend, the IDF deployed an Iron Dome battery along the border with Syria for the first time.
The move followed repeated mortar fire into Israel from the Syrian Golan.
Until now, military and civilian authorities viewed mortar rounds falling on the Israeli side of the border as errant rounds. But after three mortar rounds fell into Israel in two days, those same authorities began worrying that Syrian government forces, fighting with their Hezbollah and Iranian bosses may have decided to begin deliberately bombing Israel. And so they deployed the Iron Dome battery.
To be sure, Israel faces different challenges in the Sharon around Jaljulya, in the Bethlehem-Hebron area around Gush Etzion and in the Golan Heights along the border with war-torn Syria. But Israel’s responses to all these threats share a common, destructive feature.
Israel’s strategies for defending its civilians in all three areas are overly reliant on defensive measures.
No one has the financial wherewithal to fortify cemeteries or agricultural fields – which are regularly torched – with armed guards.
But vandals from Jaljulya aren’t vandalizing cemeteries, burning fields and blasting their mosque loudspeakers because their Jewish neighbors don’t have guards everywhere. They are taking these aggressive actions because Israeli authorities are not making them stop.
It is the job of the government, the police and the courts to make clear that crime doesn’t pay. It is their failure to drive home this message consistently that empowers radicalized thugs from Jaljulya to spread feces on Jewish graves.
Likewise, the problem in Gush Etzion isn’t that area communities haven’t taken the necessary steps to protect their residents or that the IDF suffers from a manpower shortage. The problem is that Palestinians in Odeh’s middle-class community, which overlooks Efrat, and in surrounding villages feel free to plan terrorist attacks against their Jewish neighbors as they sit in their living rooms and watch genocidal broadcasts on Hezbollah, Hamas and Fatah TV.
As for the Golan Heights, sooner or later, Hezbollah and Syrian government forces, along with their Iranian overlords can be depended on to open a new front against Israel in the Golan Heights if they become convinced that Israel’s main countermove will be to permanently deploy a missile defense battery along the border. Missile defense batteries don’t scare enemies away. They merely challenge their ingenuity.
No one doubts that the government wants to defend Israel’s citizens – alive and deceased. But despite their good intentions, our leaders are failing us. Our political, military, police and bureaucratic leaders are failing us because our foes – at home and abroad – have come to believe that we aren’t willing to do what is necessary to defeat them.
Our leaders are failing us because they refuse to act on the sure knowledge that an over-reliance on defensive measures does not deter aggression. It invites aggression.
Moshav Hagor is located in the center of the country.
Successive IDF chiefs of General Staff, Lt. Gen. (ret.) Dan Halutz and Lt. Gen. (ret.) Gabi Ashkenazy hail from the farming community established in 1949 by veterans of the Palmach.
Along with their neighbors in Moshav Yarchiv, for the past decade, the farmers of Hagor have been subjected to the continuous desecration of their communal cemetery by their Muslim neighbors from Jaljulia, a Muslim town of ten thousand located between the two moshavim.
Adjacent to a school in Jaljulia, Hagor’s cemetery has been subjected to abuse of all kinds. Residents regularly find animal carcasses at the entrance to the cemetery. Garbage is routinely dumped on graves.
Human and other feces are frequently smeared across headstones.
One night, all the headstones on all the graves at the cemetery were broken.
Residents mourning their dead are harassed.
After a decade of constant abuse, Hagor’s residents despaired of ever restoring the security to their cemetery and decided to take matters into the own hands. With the halachic approval of then chief rabbi Shlomo Amar, they built an alternative cemetery in another area of their moshav. Families paid thousands of shekels to reinter their loved ones at the new site. Today the only bodies remaining in their original graves are the ones with no living relatives to pay to move them.
Several years ago, Moshav Yarchiv’s cemetery was rezoned to become a new neighborhood in Jaljulia.
An attempt by Yarchiv’s residents to fence off the cemetery failed.
The day after they installed the fence it was stolen.
The rabbinate has refused on halachic grounds to permit Yarchiv’s residents to exhume and reinter their dead. But even if they had rabbinic permission, they have nowhere else to bury them. Due to bureaucratic hurdles, Yarchiv hasn’t been able to find an alternative burial ground.
Jaljulya once had good relations with its Jewish neighbors. But over the past decade, the town has become a hotbed for Islamic radicalism. Residents built a new massive mosque in the town. Despite repeated complaints from their Jewish neighbors, the mosque’s loudspeakers, which face Hagor, deliberately blast the call to prayer in the middle of the night.
Last October, Nedal Salah of Jaljulia paraglided into Syria from the Golan Heights and joined Islamic State. Following Salah’s action, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) discovered a cell of six more town residents who had transferred their loyalties to Islamic State, which they intended to travel to Syria to join.
In the Makor Rishon report, Hagor’s farmers voiced their despair at the failure of the government and its agencies to protect them, their dead and their property from their Muslim neighbors.
“There is no law enforcement against criminals from Jaljulya,” one resident said angrily.
Former local council head David Cohen explained that protecting the cemetery would have required the moshav to place a guard on site 24 hours a day.
Hagor lacks the resources to take such action, or similar action to defend its fields.
And so Jaljulya’s residents continue to assault their Jewish neighbors and spread feces on their graves.
Sunday morning, residents of Efrat awoke to the news that a terrorist from a neighboring Palestinian enclave had infiltrated the community in the middle of the night. At around 6 a.m. the terrorist, Baha al-din Odeh, stabbed and moderately wounded an IDF officer.
Efrat, a suburban community of 10,000 residents, is the largest community in the Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem. Unlike Hagor, Efrat is guarded heavily by the municipality’s security department, financed by its residents.
Among other things, the community has deployed security cameras all along its perimeters.
The camera footage is monitored continuously.
When the terrorist approached the community just before 2 a.m. on Sunday, the security department detected him and immediately notified the IDF. The officer Odeh wounded Sunday morning was deployed to the community with his soldiers to locate him.
In a meeting Sunday night with community members, Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi and Judea Brigade Commander Col. Roman Gofman explained at length the concerted actions taken in the early morning hours to protect the community’s residents.
Gofman acknowledged though that no matter how hardened a community’s defenses may be, and how determined the IDF is to defend it, a motivated terrorist will figure out a way to get inside.
Last weekend, the IDF deployed an Iron Dome battery along the border with Syria for the first time.
The move followed repeated mortar fire into Israel from the Syrian Golan.
Until now, military and civilian authorities viewed mortar rounds falling on the Israeli side of the border as errant rounds. But after three mortar rounds fell into Israel in two days, those same authorities began worrying that Syrian government forces, fighting with their Hezbollah and Iranian bosses may have decided to begin deliberately bombing Israel. And so they deployed the Iron Dome battery.
To be sure, Israel faces different challenges in the Sharon around Jaljulya, in the Bethlehem-Hebron area around Gush Etzion and in the Golan Heights along the border with war-torn Syria. But Israel’s responses to all these threats share a common, destructive feature.
Israel’s strategies for defending its civilians in all three areas are overly reliant on defensive measures.
No one has the financial wherewithal to fortify cemeteries or agricultural fields – which are regularly torched – with armed guards.
But vandals from Jaljulya aren’t vandalizing cemeteries, burning fields and blasting their mosque loudspeakers because their Jewish neighbors don’t have guards everywhere. They are taking these aggressive actions because Israeli authorities are not making them stop.
It is the job of the government, the police and the courts to make clear that crime doesn’t pay. It is their failure to drive home this message consistently that empowers radicalized thugs from Jaljulya to spread feces on Jewish graves.
Likewise, the problem in Gush Etzion isn’t that area communities haven’t taken the necessary steps to protect their residents or that the IDF suffers from a manpower shortage. The problem is that Palestinians in Odeh’s middle-class community, which overlooks Efrat, and in surrounding villages feel free to plan terrorist attacks against their Jewish neighbors as they sit in their living rooms and watch genocidal broadcasts on Hezbollah, Hamas and Fatah TV.
As for the Golan Heights, sooner or later, Hezbollah and Syrian government forces, along with their Iranian overlords can be depended on to open a new front against Israel in the Golan Heights if they become convinced that Israel’s main countermove will be to permanently deploy a missile defense battery along the border. Missile defense batteries don’t scare enemies away. They merely challenge their ingenuity.
No one doubts that the government wants to defend Israel’s citizens – alive and deceased. But despite their good intentions, our leaders are failing us. Our political, military, police and bureaucratic leaders are failing us because our foes – at home and abroad – have come to believe that we aren’t willing to do what is necessary to defeat them.
Our leaders are failing us because they refuse to act on the sure knowledge that an over-reliance on defensive measures does not deter aggression. It invites aggression.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/glick-defending-ourselves-death
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