Wednesday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
In Israel’s hour of need
Carline B. Glick
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
~~~lll~~~
 
 
 GOP Rends Over Immigration Fight  
Congressional Republicans tried to defund Barack nObama's unconstitutional immigration actions through a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, but instead they suffered a political defeat that leaves the party uncertainly plotting the next move. As the Friday deadline loomed, Republicans taking a hard line on the immigration fight helped defeat House Speaker backstabber John Boehner's bill to fund the department for three weeks. It was Nancy Pulosi who saved the night, telling Democrats to support a bill funding DHS for a meager seven days. Now, there are rumblings that some Republicans will try to force backstabber Boehner from his speaker position. And House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suggests the Senate should simply press the red button and deploy the nuclear option. That's the wrong answer. A Wall Street Journal editorial concludes, "Republicans need to do some soul searching about the purpose of a congressional majority, including whether they even want it. If they really think Mr. backstabber Boehner is the problem, then find someone else to do his thankless job. If not, then start to impose some order and discipline and advance the conservative cause rather than self-defeating rebellion." This weekend showed Republicans have leadership issues, which nObama continues to exploit. More...  -The Patriot Post 

 Left Changes Tone as Netanyahu Arrives in Washington  
Just a few weeks ago, the White House threatened there would be consequences for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Congress. This Sunday, Netanyahu touched down in Washington to talk about the U.S.'s deal with Iran, and everybody has put on their politician smiles. Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry essentially denied the nObama administration was plotting to undermine both the event and Netanyahu's administration. "The prime minister is welcome in the United States at any time," Hanoi Kerry told ABC. "We have an unparalleled close security relationship with Israel, and we will continue to. I talk to the prime minister regularly, including yesterday. We don't want to see this turned into some great political football. Obviously, it was odd, if not unique, that we learned of it from the speaker of the House and that an administration was not included in this process. But the administration is not seeking to politicize this." Politicize this? Democrat legislators have issued sound bite after sound bite saying Netanyahu doesn't speak for them, or that they'll boycott the speech. And that's not to mention nObama's political shenanigans. No, the Left has already succeeded in making a foreign policy speech by one of America's closest allies into a partisan brouhaha. More...  
-The Patriot Post 

 Lerner's Email Cover-Up 'Potential Criminal Activity'  
Timothy Camus, Treasury deputy inspector general, told the House Oversight Committee "there is potential criminal activity" in how the IRS refused to give Congress Lois Lerner's emails when it was investigating the agency's political targeting of conservative groups. The Daily Caller reports, "Treasury Department inspectors general testified Thursday that they cannot provide any relevant information related to their search for Lois Lerner's missing emails. But at least three bits of information came out: the investigation is on hold over software issues, there is potential criminal wrongdoing, and nobody at the IRS even asked for Lerner's backup email tapes from the people in New Martinsville, West Virginia, who had them." The IRS told Congress Lerner's emails were destroyed and irretrievable. But the IG got the emails after two weeks of searching, and that may warrant a criminal investigation. It's perhaps confirmed one thing that Americans have long suspected, though: The IRS is run by criminals. Oh, and by the way, one of Lerner's emails to a colleague was this gem: "No one will believe your hard drive and mine crashed within a week." No, no one will believe that. More...  -The Patriot Post 

 Durbin: Constitution Was 'Fatally Flawed'  
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) defended Barack nObama's executive amnesty in the Senate by declaring nObama was just doing what was necessary to save the Constitution from itself. "Before any of us can serve in the United States Senate, we stand in the well of the Senate chamber and publicly take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States," Durbin said. "I know we all take that seriously, as we should." (Pause for laughter.) He continued, "This is not just another government document. It is really the inspiration of this government and it still governs our actions to this day. Yet, if we view this document with honesty, we know that it was fatally flawed from the start. It got the issue of slavery wrong, in addition to some other issues. It got the issue of race wrong. And since the days when the document was drafted and signed, we have struggled as a nation to right that wrong. It has taken a long, long time." There's no question that the Constitution, as a human document, has its flaws. That's why our Founders set up an amendment process. But Durbin and his fellow Democrats think they are more enlightened than the Founders and, therefore, can do whatever they want with the Constitution -- abandoning the legitimate amendment process altogether. And then they have the gall to claim they take their oaths seriously.  -The Patriot Post 

 Who Vets Fox News 'Experts'?  
STUPID, particularly when it comes to the Second Amendment, is almost exclusive to the Left, but occasionally it slips under the wire on the Right. That is certainly the case with this analysis from Tucker Carlson's Fox News "2A expert" Regis Giles. Commenting on the absurd ATF ban of 5.56 M855 AR-15 rifle cartridges, Giles' remarks were so profoundly ignorant that FNC should have preceded her segment with one of their ubiquitous "FOX NEWS ALERT!" graphics.
          According to Giles, "To say that this [5.56 M855 round] is going to pierce through the armor of cops is ridiculous because it's a tiny bullet like this big [demonstrating the size with her fingers]. And to say that the cop's Kevlar isn't tough enough to handle that ammunition is ridiculous. And, like the FBI said, no one has used this in a handgun to shoot a cop."
          Who vets Fox News guests? Giles must have been smoking "green tips."
          Now, for the record, according to the ATF and FBI, there IS NO RECORD of a police officer being murdered with a 5.56 M855 round -- and, of course, the ATF ammo ban really has nothing to do with "protecting police" and everything to do with nObama's incremental encroachment on the Second Amendment. But come on Carlson -- giving a platform to Giles did nothing to help 2A rights.  -The Patriot Post 

 
 
 
1.
 Pro-Palestinians in Europe actually Isis sleeper cells called to rise up  
(themuslimissue.wordpress.com) - Pro-Palestinian rallies and groups are being used to aid the rise of Islamic State (ISIS) in Europe, according to a book the group released this month – united under the front of “bringing down Zionsim.”...The book, Black Flags from Rome, encourages European Muslims to rise up and aid ISIS from within, according to a report on the PJ Media website – and notes that terror cells have already been formed. “There were small armies of the Islamic State within every country of Europe by late 2014, and the intelligence agencies didn’t even know about it!” the book exclaims.       https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/islamic-state-pro-palestinians-in-europe-are-actually-isis-sleeper-cells-called-to-rise-up-conquer-rome-by-2020/
2.
obama_iran_crossed_fingers_4-20-14-1
 Will nObama’s Iran Deal Be the Worst Deal Ever Made?  
(Roger L Simon) - It seems hyperbolic to say that nObama’s nuclear agreement with Iran — if Ayatollah Khamenei, in his “wisdom,” allows it to happen — will be the worst deal ever made. But if what we have been learning about it is true, it almost certainly will be...To begin with, the agreement is said to have a sunset clause of 10-15 years.  Whatever the number turns out to be, that tells us that Iran is free to do anything it wants in the nuclear weapons field after a set amount of time, assuming that it hadn’t disobeyed the strictures of the agreement before then — a monumental assumption given past history. (Ironically, in this one way Iran is not unlike other states, all of which, to my knowledge, do their best to hide their nuclear programs, including the U.S.).      http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2015/03/01/obamas-iran-deal/
3.
secret science
 Liberals Defend Secret Science for EPA  
(Mark Horne) - Why is Congress considering a bill to outlaw the EPA from using secret science as the basis of their regulations? Because we live in an insane dictatorship...We live in a country where the President and the security agencies operate on secret interpretations of laws about which the people who passed the laws had no clue. Naturally, the Environmental Protection Agency has been developing it’s version of secret law.  I assume the EPA can’t enforce secret regulations. (Or maybe they can! Is it possible they could tell a specific company to change their practices and threaten them with penalties if they tell anyone?) But their regulations are only legitimate to the extent that they are truly protecting the environment. That requires reliable scientific findings about what does or does not damage the environment. Otherwise, they are no longer the Environmental Protection Agency, but rather the Environmental Control Agency.       http://politicaloutcast.com/2015/03/liberals-defend-secret-science-for-epa/
 
 
4.
075 mark levin 940
 nObama, LaRaza Plotting To Replace Americans  
(rickwells.us) - We all know there’s undeniably something un-American about Hussein nObama. In fact, the list of what is American about him would very closely resemble a blank sheet of paper...Susan Payne, a contributor to WCBM Baltimore and co-host of the Pat McDonough Radio Show, reveals to Mark Levin how she was able to listen in on a conference call in which the Marxists of the nObama regime, including a representative of each of 16 cabinet secretaries, as well as Cecilia Munoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and representatives of the Latino racist organization LaRaza, were gathered to discuss their plot to destroy America from within. She references an nObama creation called the “Task Force on New Americans.” Munoz also is chairperson of that task force, more accurately described as “The Task Force on Replacement Americans.”     http://www.rickwells.us/mark-levin-smoking-gun-of-treason-conference-call-whistle-blower-obama-laraza-plotting-to-replace-americans-with-country-within-a-country/
5.
075 rick wells john kerry nuclear 940
 “Trust-Verify”, Hanoi Kerry’s Trust Because They Won’t Let Us Verify  
(rickwells.us) - The future of the world is being negotiated by a person who is naïve enough, if we are to believe his words, to trust the supposed science of global warming, in spite of overwhelming evidence of fraud and data manipulation by the IPCC on behalf of the UN...If he’s not just gullible, then he’s a lying political opportunist promoting a false agenda through his connections and power, forcing the world into a state of carbon compliance slavery. Giving Hanoi Kerry the benefit of the doubt that he is only an inept boob or that he deserves more time to prove irrefutably that he’s digging us into a political pit is a risky proposition. Hanoi John Kerry is the next to last guy that should be negotiating an agreement which could determine the life and death of untold numbers of people, and offers the potential for nuclear war. Hussein nObama is the last.       http://www.rickwells.us/from-reagans-trust-but-verify-to-kerrys-trust-because-they-wont-let-us-verify-americas-nuclear-weakness-in-negotiations/
6.
 ISIS Captures 350 Christians, Kills 15 Of Them  
(Theodore Shoebat) - Theodore Shoebat on ISIS capturing 350 Christians, killing 15 of them, and their plan to create major killing fields...       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coib3Z-egPc
7.
Sheldon-Adelson.jpg
 Iran behind cyber-attack on Adelson’s Sands Corp. 
(Robert Spencer) - Adelson is “a leading U.S. supporter of Israel and of Republican political candidates.”...Since nObama is relentlessly courting Iran and making concession after concession to the mullahs, this is unlikely to be taken in the highest circles in Washington as a belligerent act. After all, they hate Adelson, too. The top U.S. intelligence official confirmed for the first time that Iran was behind a cyber attack against the Las Vegas Sands Corp. last year.       http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/03/iran-behind-cyber-attack-on-adelsons-sands-corp?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=ac33a0115c-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-ac33a0115c-123451509
8.
 Netanyahu’s Full AIPAC Speech: “This is a Bipartisan Issue”  
(nicedeb) - “Ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of my address to Congress, tomorrow, is to speak up about a potential deal with Iran that could threaten the survival of Israel,” Netanyahu explained...He pointed out that Iran is the foremost state sponsor of terrorism around the world, and went on to say that he has a “moral obligation” to warn against the dangers of an American nuclear deal with Iran.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34uE1affLl4
9.
Obama_Keystone-08896-1576.jpg&w=1484
 nObama’s claim that Keystone XL oil ‘bypasses the U.S.’  
(Glenn Kessler) - President nObama, seeking to explain his veto of a bill that would have leapfrogged the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline, in an interview with a North Dakota station repeated some false claims...that had previously earned him Pinocchios. Yet he managed to make his statement even more misleading than before, suggesting the pipeline would have no benefit for American producers at all. he Fact Checker obviously takes no position on the pipeline, and has repeatedly skewered both sides for overinflated rhetoric. Yet the president’s latest comments especially stand out. Let’s review the facts again.
10.
963.jpg
 Hero of the Middle East: King Abdullah II of Jordan  
(Bassam Tawil) - King Abdullah II is not like U.S. President Barack nObama, who is afraid to fight Islamic terrorism and afraid of an Iran that aspires to be nuclear, even as it threatens all of us, including the U.S. ...What does President nObama, leader of the greatest power on earth, think Iran is building intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) for? Iran does not need them to strike Israel, or ISIS or the Sunni countries of the Middle East. It can already do that without ICBMs. Yet His Majesty King Abdullah ibn Hussein, king of one of the smallest countries in the world, is ready to fight heroically to protect his people. ISIS sleeper cells are in place throughout Jordan. It is now clear to Jordanian security officials that because of religious and ideological ties, the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan is now ISIS's fifth column.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5297/king-abdullah-jordan-hero
In Israel’s hour of need
Carline B. Glick
 
     (.aim.org) - It is hard to get your arms around the stubborn determination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today. For most of the nine years he has served as Israel’s leader, first from 1996 to 1999 and now since 2009, Netanyahu shied away from confrontations or buckled under pressure. He signed deals with the Palestinians he knew the Palestinians would never uphold in the hopes of winning the support of hostile US administrations and a fair shake from the pathologically hateful Israeli media.

     In recent years he released terrorist murderers from prison. He abrogated Jewish property rights in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. He agreed to support the establishment of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River. He agreed to keep giving the Palestinians of Gaza free electricity while they waged war against Israel. He did all of these things in a bid to accommodate US President Barack nObama and win over the media, while keeping the leftist parties in his coalitions happy.

     For his part, for the past six years nObama has undermined Israel’s national security. He has publicly humiliated Netanyahu repeatedly.

     He has delegitimized Israel’s very existence, embracing the jihadist lie that Israel’s existence is the product of post-Holocaust European guilt rather than 4,000 years of Jewish history.

     He and his representatives have given a backwind to the forces that seek to wage economic warfare against Israel, repeatedly indicating that the application of economic sanctions against Israel – illegal under the World Trade Organization treaties – are a natural response to Israel’s unwillingness to bow to every Palestinian demand. The same goes for the movement to deny the legitimacy of Israel’s very existence. Senior administration officials have threatened that Israel will become illegitimate if it refuses to surrender to Palestinian demands.

     Last summer, nObama openly colluded with Hamas’s terrorist war against Israel. He tried to coerce Israel into accepting ceasefire terms that would have amounted to an unconditional surrender to Hamas’s demands for open borders and the free flow of funds to the terrorist group. He enacted a partial arms embargo on Israel in the midst of war. He cut off air traffic to Ben-Gurion International Airport under specious and grossly prejudicial terms in an open act of economic warfare against Israel.

     And yet, despite nObama’s scandalous treatment of Israel, Netanyahu has continued to paper over differences in public and thank nObama for the little his has done on Israel’s behalf. He always makes a point of thanking nObama for agreeing to Congress’s demand to continue funding the Iron Dome missile defense system (although nObama has sought repeatedly to slash funding for the project).

     nObama’s policies that are hostile to Israel are not limited to his unconditional support for the Palestinians in their campaign against Israel. nObama shocked the entire Israeli defense community when he supported the overthrow of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, despite Mubarak’s dependability as a US ally in the war on Islamist terrorism, and as the guardian of both Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel and the safety and freedom of maritime traffic in the Suez Canal.

     nObama supported Mubarak’s overthrow despite the fact that the only political force in Egypt capable of replacing him was the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks the destruction of Israel and is the ideological home and spawning ground of jihadist terrorist groups, including al-Qaida and Hamas. nObama then supported the Muslim Brotherhood’s regime even as then-president Mohamed Morsi took concrete steps to transform Egypt into an Islamist, jihadist state and end Egypt’s peace with Israel.

     Israelis were united in our opposition to nObama’s behavior. But Netanyahu said nothing publicly in criticism of nObama’s destructive, dangerous policy.

     He held his tongue in the hopes of winning nObama over through quiet diplomacy.

     He held his tongue, because he believed that the damage nObama was causing Israel was not irreversible in most cases. And it was better to maintain the guise of good relations, in the hopes of actually achieving them, than to expose the fractures in US-Israel ties caused by nObama’s enormous hostility toward Israel and by his strategic myopia that endangered both Israel and the US’s other regional allies.

     And yet, today Netanyahu, the serial accommodator, is putting everything on the line. He will not accommodate. He will not be bullied. He will not be threatened, even as all the powers that have grown used to bringing him to his knees – the nObama administration, the American Jewish Left, the Israeli media, and the Labor party grow ever more shrill and threatening in their attacks against him.

     As he has made clear in daily statements, Netanyahu is convinced that we have reached a juncture in our relations with the nObama administration where accommodation is no longer possible.

     nObama’s one policy that Netanyahu has never acquiesced to either publicly or privately is his policy of accommodating Iran.

     Since nObama’s earliest days in office, Netanyahu has warned openly and behind closed doors that nObama’s plan to forge a nuclear deal with Iran is dangerous. And as the years have passed, and the lengths nObama is willing to go to appease Iran’s nuclear ambitions have been left their marks on the region, Netanyahu’s warnings have grown stronger and more urgent.

     Netanyahu has been clear since his first tenure in office in the 1990s, that Iran’s nuclear program – as well as its ballistic missile program – constitutes a threat to Israel’s very existence. He has never wavered from his position that Israel cannot accept an Iran armed with nuclear weapons.

     Until nObama entered office, and to an ever escalating degree until his reelection in 2012, preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons has been such an obvious imperative among both Israelis and Americans that Netanyahu’s forthright rejection of any nuclear deal in which Iran would be permitted to maintain the components of its nuclear program was uncontroversial. In some Israeli circles, his trenchant opposition to Iran’s acquisition of nuclear capabilities was the object of derision, with critics insisting that he was standing strong on something uncontroversial while buckling on issues like negotiations with the Palestinians, where he should have stood strong.

     But now we are seeing that far from being an opportunist, Netanyahu is a leader of historical dimensions. For the past two years, in the interest of reaching a deal, nObama has enabled Iran to take over Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. For the first time since 1974, due to nObama’s policies, the Golan Heights is an active front in the war against Israel, with Iranian military personnel commanding Syrian and Hezbollah forces along the border.

     Iran’s single-minded dedication to its goal of becoming a regional hegemon and its commitment to its ultimate goal of destroying the US is being enabled by nObama’s policies of accommodation. An Iran in possession of a nuclear arsenal is an Iran that can not only destroy Israel with just one or two warheads. It can make it impossible for Israel to respond to conventional aggression carried out by terrorist forces and others operating under an Iranian nuclear umbrella.

     Whereas Israel can survive nObama on the Palestinian front by stalling, waiting him out and placating him where possible, and can even survive his support for Hamas by making common cause with the Egyptian military and the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, the damage nObama’s intended deal with Iran will cause Israel will be irreversible. The moment that nObama grants Iran a path to a nuclear arsenal – and the terms of the agreement that nObama has offered Iran grant Iran an unimpeded path to nuclear power – a future US administration will be hard-pressed to put the genie back in the bottle.

     For his efforts to prevent irreparable harm to Israel Netanyahu is being subjected to the most brutal and vicious attacks any Israeli leader has ever been subjected to by an American administration and its political allies. They are being assisted in their efforts by a shameless Israeli opposition that is willing to endanger the future of the country in order to seize political power.

     Every day brings another serving of abuse. Wednesday National Security Adviser Susan Rice accused Netanyahu of destroying US relations with Israel. Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry effectively called him a serial alarmist, liar, and warmonger.

     For its part, the Congressional Black Caucus reportedly intends to sabotage Netanyahu’s address before the joint houses of Congress by walking out in the middle, thus symbolically accusing of racism the leader of the Middle East’s only liberal democracy, and the leader of the most persecuted people in human history.

     Radical leftist representatives who happen to be Jewish, like Jan Schakowsky of suburban Chicago and Steve Cohen of Memphis, are joining Netanyahu’s boycotters in order to give the patina of Jewish legitimacy to an administration whose central foreign policy threatens the viability of the Jewish state.

     As for Netanyahu’s domestic opponents, their behavior is simply inexcusable. In Israel’s hour of peril, just weeks before nObama intends to conclude his nuclear deal with the mullahs that will endanger Israel’s existence, Labor leader Yitzhak Herzog insists that his primary duty is to defeat Netanyahu.

     And as far as Iran is concerned, he acts as a free loader ad a spoiler. Either he believes that Netanyahu will succeed in his mission to derail the deal with or without his support, or he doesn’t care. But Herzog’s rejection of Netanyahu’s entreaties that he join him in Washington next week, and his persistent attacks on Netanyahu for refusing accommodate that which cannot be accommodated shows that he is both an opportunist and utterly unworthy of a leadership role in this country.

     Netanyahu is not coming to Washington next Tuesday to warn Congress against nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran, because he seeks a fight with nObama. Netanyahu has devoted the last six years to avoiding a fight with nObama, often at great cost to Israel’s national security and to his own political position.

     Netanyahu is coming to Washington next week because nObama has left him no choice. And all decent people of good will should support him, and those who do not, and those who are silent, should be called out for their treachery and cowardice.

http://www.aim.org/guest-column/in-israels-hour-of-need/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email030215&utm_medium=email

E-mail me when people leave their comments –

You need to be a member of Command Center to add comments!

Join Command Center