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Saudi Purges and Duty to Act
by Caroline Glick
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RINO-McCain Goes Poetic and Philosophical –
Gets Hopelessly Lost In Saying Nothing
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{rickwells.us} ~ RINO-John McCain has never been very good at reading, often chewing his words and spitting them out as something largely unrecognizable, skipping and stumbling his way around and through his sentences... The video starts with him saying “we are asleep” and many in his audience likely were, if his speech lasted very long. RINO-McCain certainly sounded the part, like an elderly libtard who has just been disturbed from his afternoon nap. He told the audience at the Naval Academy, “We are asleep to the necessity of our worldship, of our le, leadership and to the opportunities and real dangers of this world.” Naturally RINO-McCain isn’t admitting his own shortcomings but merely disguising in the most obvious manner possible his attacks on President Trump. In describing the harsh personal reality for him created by the emptiness between his ears, RINO-McCain says, “We are asleep in our echo chambers, where our views are always affirmed and information that contradicts them is always fake.”...  https://rickwells.us/mccain-poetic-hopelessly-lost/
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Why Palestinian Delusions Persist
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by Daniel Pipes
{danielpipes.org} ~ In 1974, Second Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Imperial Japanese Army was still fighting for his emperor, hiding in a Philippine jungle... He had rejected many attempts to inform him of Japan's surrender 29 years earlier. During those long years, he senselessly murdered about one Filipino and injured three others per year. Only a concerted effort by his former commander finally convinced Onoda that the emperor had accepted defeat in 1945 and therefore he too must lay down arms. The Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza are Onoda writ large. They formally acknowledged defeat by Israel 24 years ago, when Yasir Arafat stood on the White House lawn and recognized "the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security." Trouble was, Arafat himself did not sincerely offer this act of surrender and most Palestinians rejected it. Accordingly, the war continues, with Palestinians emulating that grizzled, vicious Japanese soldier: they too battle on for a failed cause, murder senselessly, and ignore repeated calls to surrender...  http://www.danielpipes.org/18023/why-palestinian-delusions-persist?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=b002d731da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-b002d731da-33703665
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The U.S. Middle East Peace Plan?
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by Bassam Tawil
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Who said that Palestinians have no respect for Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arab countries? They do... Palestinians have respect for the money of their Arab brethren. The respect they lack is for the heads of the Arab states, and the regimes and royal families there. It is important to take this into consideration in light of the growing talk about Saudi Arabia's effort to help the Trump Administration market a comprehensive peace plan for the Middle East, the details of which remain intriguingly mysterious. Last week, the Saudis unexpectedly summoned Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to Riyadh for talks on Trump's "ultimate solution" for the Israeli-Arab conflict, reportedly being promoted by Jared Kushner... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11353/middle-east-peace-plan
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Send liar-nObama To China To
Rescue UCLA Shoplifting Basketball Players
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{rickwells.us} ~ There is a price that comes with arrogance combined with an overinflated view of one’s self, particularly when it’s combined with ignorance and is exhibited in a foreign country... No, privileged athletes, regular Americans don’t get the benefit of the coddling American justice system when they’re on another nation’s turf. That’s a lesson these three court-thugs in-training are now learning. They’ve got support among the anthem and America defiling NBA though, so we’ll see how far that gets them. Maybe they should’ve tried to be a little better versed on current events, like the Otto Warmbier case in North Korea. You should never steal in another country unless you want to see its underbelly firsthand. Three high profile UCLA basketball players became guests of China at a time when our President was likewise a guest, although under quite different circumstances. The basketball players were arrested for shoplifting from a Louis Vuitton store...They have been returned to the USA. They can thank Trump.  https://rickwells.us/obama-china-rescue-basketball/
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Commie Bernie Sanders – Trump Can’t Speak Truth
About liar-nObama Corrupted Intel Agencies
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{rickwells.us} ~ Leave it to Bernie Sanders to put the characteristic Pravda spin on the normal behavior and duty of a United States President... and attempt to turn it into something shady. John Dickerson questions comrade Sanders on a tweet of his earlier in the morning. The contemptible commie put his ignorance and corruption on full display, tweeting, “Well, at least Trump is consistent. Abroad he has never met a leader of an authoritarian nation Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Philippines that he hasn’t liked. At home he shows contempt for the US Constitution and democracy.” There’s a lot wrong with that tweet, not the least of which is the characterization of the Philippines, a constitutional republic modeled after our own, as an authoritarian nation. It’s not. They have a leader who is, unlike the globalist Democrats, also putting his nation first, challenging the drug epidemic, organized crime and state actors involved and the terrorists Democrats court...  https://rickwells.us/commie-sanders-trump-surrender/
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Saudi Purges and Duty to Act
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by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ For 70 years, Saudi Arabia served as the largest and most significant incubator of Sunni jihad. Its Wahhabist Islamic establishment funded radical mosques throughout the world. Saudi princes have supported radical Islamic clerics who have indoctrinated their followers to pursue jihad against the non-Islamic world. Saudi money stands behind most of the radical Islamic groups in the non-Islamic world that have in turn financed terrorist groups like Hamas and al-Qaida and have insulated radical Islam from scrutiny by Western governments and academics. Indeed, Saudi money stands behind the silence of critics of jihadist Islam in universities throughout the Western world.

As Mitchell Bard documented in his 2011 book, The Arab Lobby, any power pro-Israel forces in Washington, DC, have developed pales in comparison to the power of Arab forces, led by the Saudi government. Saudi government spending on lobbyists in Washington far outstrips that of any other nation. According to Justice Department disclosures from earlier this year, since 2015, Saudi Arabia vastly increased its spending on influence peddling. According to a report by The Intercept, “Since 2015, the Kingdom has expanded the number of foreign agents on retainer to 145, up from 25 registered agents during the previous two-year period.”

Saudi lobbyists shielded the kingdom from serious criticism after 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers were shown to be Saudi nationals. They blocked a reconsideration of the US’s strategic alliance with Saudi Arabia after the attacks and in subsequent years, even as it was revealed that Princess Haifa, wife of Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to Washington at the time the September 11 attacks occurred, had financially supported two of the hijackers in the months that preceded the attacks.

The US position on Saudi Arabia cooled demonstrably during the liar-nObama administration. This cooling was not due to a newfound concern over Saudi financial support for radical Islam in the US. To the contrary, the liar-nObama administration was friendlier to Islamists than any previous administration. Consider the liar-nObama administration’s placement of Muslim Brotherhood supporters in key positions in the federal government. For instance, in 2010, then secretary for Homeland Security Janet Napolitano appointed Mohamed Elibiary to the department’s Homeland Security Advisory Board. Elibiary had a long, open record of support both for the Muslim Brotherhood and for the Iranian regime. In his position he was instrumental in purging discussion of Islam and Jihad from instruction materials used by the US military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The liar-nObama administration’s cold relations with the Saudi regime owed to its pronounced desire to ditch the US’s traditional alliance with the Saudis, the Egyptians and the US’s other traditional Sunni allies in favor of an alliance with the Iranian regime.

During the same period, the Muslim Brotherhood’s close ties to the Iranian regime became increasingly obvious. Among other indicators, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated president Mohamed Morsi hosted Iranian leaders in Cairo and was poised to renew Egypt’s diplomatic ties with Iran before he was overthrown by the military in July 2013. Morsi permitted Iranian warships to traverse the Suez Canal for the first time in decades.

Saudi Arabia joined Egypt and the United Arab Emirates in designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group in 2014.

It was also during this period that the Saudis began warming their attitude toward Israel. Through Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and due to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leading role in opposing Iran’s nuclear program and its rising power in the Middle East, the Saudis began changing their positions on Israel.

Netanyahu’s long-time foreign policy adviser, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs president Dr. Dore Gold, who authored the 2003 bestseller Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism which exposed Saudi Arabia’s role in promoting jihadist Islam, spearheaded a process of developing Israel’s security and diplomatic ties with Riyadh. Those ties, which are based on shared opposition to Iran’s regional empowerment, led to the surprising emergence of a working alliance between Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE with Israel during Israel’s 2014 war with Hamas – the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

It is in the context of Saudi Arabia’s reassessment of its interests and realignment of strategic posture in recent years that the dramatic events of the past few days in the kingdom must be seen.

Saturday’s sudden announcement that a new anti-corruption panel headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and the near simultaneous announcement of the arrest of more than two dozen royal family members, cabinet ministers and prominent businessmen is predominantly being presented as a power seizure by the crown prince. Amid widespread rumors that King Salman will soon abdicate the throne to his son, it is reasonable for the 32-year-old crown prince to work to neutralize all power centers that could threaten his ascension to the throne.

But there is clearly also something strategically more significant going on. While many of the officials arrested over the weekend threaten Mohammed’s power, they aren’t the only ones that he has purged. In September Mohammed arrested some 30 senior Wahhabist clerics and intellectuals. And Saturday’s arrest of the princes, cabinet ministers and business leaders was followed up by further arrests of senior Wahhabist clerics.

At the same time, Mohammed has been promoting clerics who espouse tolerance for other religions, including Judaism and Christianity. He has removed the Saudi religious police’s power to conduct arrests and he has taken seemingly credible steps to finally lift the kingdom-wide prohibition on women driving.

At the same time, Mohammed has escalated the kingdom’s operations against Iran’s proxies in Yemen.

And of course, on Saturday, he staged the resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri amid Hariri’s allegations that Hezbollah and Iran were plotting his murder, much as they stood behind the 2005 assassination of his father, prime minister Rafiq Hariri.

There can be little doubt that there was coordination between the Saudi regime and the Trump administration regarding Saturday’s actions. The timing of the administration’s release last week of most of the files US special forces seized during their 2011 raid of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan was likely not a coincidence.

The files, which the liar-nObama administration refused to release, make clear that liar-nObama’s two chief pretensions – that al-Qaida was a spent force by the time US forces killed bin Laden, and that Iran was interested in moderating its behavior were both untrue. The documents showed that al-Qaida’s operations remained a significant worldwide threat to US interests.

And perhaps more significantly, they showed that Iran was al-Qaida’s chief state sponsor. Much of al-Qaida’s leadership, including bin Laden’s sons, operated from Iran. The notion – touted by liar-nObama and his administration – that Shi’ite Iranians and Sunni terrorists from al-Qaida and other groups were incapable of cooperating was demonstrated to be an utter fiction by the documents.

Their publication now, as Saudi Arabia takes more determined steps to slash its support for radical Islamists, and separate itself from Wahhabist Islam, draws a clear distinction between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Given Saudi Arabia’s record, and the kingdom’s 70-year alliance with Wahhabist clerics, it is hard to know whether Mohammed’s move signals an irrevocable breach between the House of Saud and the Wahhabists.

But the direction is clear. With Hariri’s removal from Lebanon, the lines between the forces of jihad and terrorism led by Iran, and the forces that oppose them are clearer than ever before. And the necessity of acting against the former and helping the latter has similarly never been more obvious.
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