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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
The Marshall Islands' cautionary tale
Caroline B. Glick
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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If Hilly is the Democrats’ Romney, is Bernie her Ron Paul? - John Dickerson explains why Hilly Clinton is just ducky with having Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as a sparring partner: “When pressed about donations to the Clinton foundation, Sanders said it concerned him before quickly changing the subject to the Koch brothers and how much worse their influence is in politics. That is what Clinton allies do. If this continues to be the Vermont senator's approach, Sanders will be more of a help to Clinton's presidential chances than he will be to his own. … In 2012 Rep. Ron Paul and Mitt Romney had a symbiotic relationship in the Republican campaign. Paul elevated his own profile and gave his voters an outlet, but he never pointed out the yawning gaps between what he claimed to believe so deeply and the positions of the man who was on his way to being the party's inevitable nominee.” -Fox News
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Gowdy: Hilly could stop email probe - USA Today: “‘If she were, under some theory, able to say, ‘yes, I can promise you under penalty of perjury you have every single document you're entitled to,’ that would probably shut off that line of inquiry,’ he told Capital Download. ‘If she can, then it will be a short conversation.’” -Fox News
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BUDGET VOTE HOT SEAT FOR BLUE STATE GOP
The Republican budget plan passed Thursday by the House and headed for the Senate next week opens a political dilemma for some GOP members of the upper chamber. Facing the prospect that voters in the blue states they represent might give them the boot in 2016, vulnerable Republican Senators are on the spot. Senators like Mark Kirk, R-Ill., Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., Rob Portman, R-Ohio and Mike Toomey, R-Pa., will weigh how the budget blueprint – which boosts defense spending, slashes social welfare programs and targets nObamaCare – will play at home. With potential challengers and Democratic opponents ready to exploit incumbent voting records, the politically charged GOP plan is just one of many tests they face over the next 17 months. For those most vulnerable (Kirk tops the list) arm-twisting by Senate leadership will likely fall flat. And while some get-out-of-jail-free passes will allow politically pinched Senators to buck the party, how many and who gets them is up to Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell. -Fox News
The Republican budget plan passed Thursday by the House and headed for the Senate next week opens a political dilemma for some GOP members of the upper chamber. Facing the prospect that voters in the blue states they represent might give them the boot in 2016, vulnerable Republican Senators are on the spot. Senators like Mark Kirk, R-Ill., Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., Rob Portman, R-Ohio and Mike Toomey, R-Pa., will weigh how the budget blueprint – which boosts defense spending, slashes social welfare programs and targets nObamaCare – will play at home. With potential challengers and Democratic opponents ready to exploit incumbent voting records, the politically charged GOP plan is just one of many tests they face over the next 17 months. For those most vulnerable (Kirk tops the list) arm-twisting by Senate leadership will likely fall flat. And while some get-out-of-jail-free passes will allow politically pinched Senators to buck the party, how many and who gets them is up to Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell. -Fox News
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Jihadists Attack Texas Art Exhibit of Muhammad Images
The kind of terror jihadists unleashed when they attacked the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris because the paper mocked Muhammad came to Texas Sunday night. But instead of a massacre, the two attackers were killed by Garland, Texas, police officers. The American Freedom Defense Initiative held an art exhibit and contest for images of Muhammad at Garland's Curtis Culwell Center. On Twitter, followers of the Islamic State were writing their threats. One wrote last week, "Brothers in Garland Texas Please go to there with your weapons, bombs or with your knives. Threaten your enemies & the enemies of Allaah [sic]." The event was wrapping up around 7 p.m. when suspected jihadist Elton Simpson of Arizona drove up to the event with his roommate and opened fire. The duo wounded unarmed Garland ISD officer Bruce Joiner in the ankle before police officers returned fire. The American Freedom Defense Initiative paid $10,000 to hire 40 officers to provide extra security. President of the group Pamela Geller said in February, "That's what we call the high cost of freedom." Indeed, the Garland attack shows how the freedom of expression is protected from an assassin's veto only with the Second Amendment. More...
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Are the Charges Against the Baltimore Officers an Overreach?
The six police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray have been tried in the court of public opinion and have been found guilty. Marilyn Mosby, who is three months into her job as Baltimore City State's Attorney, threw the book at the six officers, pinning charges ranging from second degree depraved heart murder to second degree assault to false imprisonment. But those may be inflated charges carried along by the rhetoric of rioters in Baltimore's streets, as Hot Air's Jazz Shaw points out. As Mosby said at the press conference announcing the charges: "To the people of Baltimore and demonstrators across America, I heard your call for 'No Justice, No peace.'" Furthermore, Mosby has connections that may become conflicts of interest. For example, she has a professional and personal relationship with Gray's family lawyer. The Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police believed so strongly that an injustice was being committed with Mosby's overreach on charges, it wrote an open letter. "None of the officers involved are responsible for the death of Mr. Gray," president of the order Gene Ryan wrote. "To the contrary, at all times, each of the officers diligently balanced their obligations to protect Mr. Gray and discharge their duties to protect the public." In overcharging the officers, Mosby may have simply embittered a mob that will break out in violence if it doesn't receive what it demands. -The Patriot Post
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Could America Withstand Another Morally Rudderless President?
(Ted Cronn) - The Democratic Party these days seems to just be tossing things at the wall to see if they stick as it works out its 2016 presidential strategy...The party doesn’t seem to have a plan as its previous plan of “let Hilly crown herself queen” falls apart. Between revelations of possibly helping Vladimir Putin gain control of America’s uranium production, disclosure of her foundation’s non-disclosure of foreign donations, stories about her brittle personality, and whatever else can be dragged up from her closet full of skeletons, it’s a wonder that she hasn’t dropped out of sight or been hauled off in chains. Not a promising beginning for a long-awaited lady leader of the free world. http://politicaloutcast.com/2015/05/could-america-withstand-another-morally-rudderless-president/
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Weaponized IRS Targeting Victim Catherine Englebrecht
(rickwells.us) - Catherine Engelbrecht, president of True the Vote, a high-profile victim of the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, isn’t playing the government four corner offense any longer...They’ve gone into a sort of full court press of their own, which she describes and updates. She notes that her group is now appealing a decision they lost last summer when a court ruled against them in the mistaken belief that the IRS was honest in their assurances that the missing emails were unrecoverable. Since many have now surfaced and that assertion is now known to have been false, they are anticipating a reversal as a result. http://www.rickwells.us/time-for-irs-answers-prosecution-perp-walk-weaponized-irs-targeting-victim-catherine-englebrecht/
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Sessions Vs. backstabber Boehner, McCon-nell, Ryan, nObama TPP
(rickwells.us) - There aren’t many people in either house of Congress who fulfill their duty to represent and safeguard the interests of the American people as well as Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL)...There conversely are few who are as flagrantly self-serving tools of the establishment elite as Hussein nObama, and his comrades Mitch McCon-nell (R-KY), backstabber John Boehner (R-OH) and Paul Ryan (R-WI). Even if information as to how bad this deal is hadn’t leaked out, the track records of those on both sides of the issue is enough to tell us who benefits by its passage; special interests, including those wanting to import a workforce or voters, win and the American citizens lose. Common sense also tells us that if it were a good deal, the narcissistic politicians would be parading themselves in front of every available camera and microphone, spilling every detail in the effort to be recognized and associated with it. It is not difficult to ascertain what motivates their silence and secrecy and it speaks volumes. http://www.rickwells.us/jeff-sessions-vs-boehner-mcconnell-ryan-obama-on-tpp-whos-got-our-back-dumb-question/
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The Not-So-Public Business of HealthCare.gov
(sharylattkisson.com) - In 2009, when President nObama ordered federal agencies to be more open and err on the side of releasing material to the public, this can’t be what anyone had in mind...thousands of pages of HealthCare.gov public business conducted via email by public officials yet somehow deemed so sensitive, so secret in nature, that we are not to see it. These are just a few of the highly-redacted emails turned over to me so far in my Freedom of Information lawsuit against the federal government for its failure to respond lawfully to my 2013 request regarding HealthCare.gov. As you can see, even when the government is forced to belatedly produce public documents under the threat of court action, the end result is often useless. Public disclosure has gotten to be so bad that the overused b(5) exemption to turning over material has been nicknamed the “withhold it because you want to” exemption. https://sharylattkisson.com/the-not-so-public-business-of-healthcare-gov/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter hugs and kisses Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as they meet in Ramallah on May 2, 2015. Carter said the same day that he did not ask to meet Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to Israel and the PA, because "it would be a waste of time to ask."
Palestinians Need Reforms, Not Elections (Khaled Abu Toameh) - The Palestinian Authority (PA) has recently come under pressure from Western governments and politicians to hold long overdue elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...But those who are demanding that the Palestinians hold another free and democratic election are ignoring the possibility that Hamas will once again win the vote. The PA leadership in the West Bank is well aware of Hamas's strong chance of winning the election. That is why PA President Mahmoud Abbas and his ruling Fatah faction are not enthusiastic about the idea. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5686/palestinians-reforms
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The Anti-Cartoon Jihad Comes To America
(Matthew Vadum) - Two gunmen were killed by police Sunday night after they opened fire wounding a security officer at a Texas art competition featuring works depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad, a practice that is strictly forbidden in Islam...As of very early Monday morning, the identity of the two attackers was unclear, but it is hard to believe the assault was not carried out by Islamists. Watchdog group Judicial Watchhas claimed the Muslim terrorists of Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS or ISIL) are operating a training camp in Mexico about eight miles from the U.S. border near El Paso, Texas. The fact the event was attacked is proof that free speech needs protection in America, event organizer and author Robert Spencer told this writer in a late-night telephone interview. “The shooting shows how much the event was needed,” Spencer said. “The shooting shows freedom of speech is under violent assault in the United States. It shows that the jihadis are willing to kill to enforce our obedience to Shariah law.” http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/the-anti-cartoon-jihad-comes-to-america/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3b7f0741f3-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-3b7f0741f3-156509103
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House will struggle to pass spending bills that adhere to caps
(Susan Ferrechio) - It was supposed to be the easy one. A bill to fund military construction and veterans affairs for fiscal 2016 was expected to sail through the House on Wednesday...but at the last minute Republicans postponed a vote when it became clear a Democratic amendment to blow up the legislation actually stood a chance of passing with GOP support. The legislation was poised to eventually pass, Republican leaders insisted, but the floor struggle over the measure foreshadows what will be a difficult few months as Congress attempts to pass 12 spending bills that stick to federally-mandated spending caps that lawmakers in both parties despise. A bill to fund the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services as well as legislation to pay for the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development are expected to be impossible to pass, due to the mandated spending limit. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/house-will-struggle-to-pass-spending-bills-that-adhere-to-caps/article/2563851?utm_campaign=Prospect:%20Politics%20Today%20pmi&utm_source=Prospect:%20Politics%20Today%20pmi%20-%2005/04/15&utm_medium=email
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Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement
Cops Thru Out The Nation Being Demonized Due To Baltimore..
Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening - NYPD Officer Shot In Queens...
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Judge Jeanine Pirro - America's Power Grid In Danger...
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The Implications of the Dismissal of Stephen Coughlin
(Robert Spencer) - Stephen Coughlin Update. Here is an excellent summary piece on Coughlin’s firing, its implications, and what must be done next...This event on its own reveals that a senior U.S. advisor is being removed from his direct and critical role in the current war in which we are engaged solely because his message was defined as “extreme” by an advisor who caters to Islamist organizations in the U.S., not because it was factually incorrect. It is imperative that an investigation be open to determine the facts of this matter. If the investigation determines the facts of the matter to be true, provide the extent of the penetration within DoD, an assessment of the damage, potential violations of federal law, and recommended changes to Department policy and procedures to prevent a recurrence. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/01/the-implications-of-the-dismissal-of-stephen-coughlin-joint-staff-pentagon
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Retail apocalypse: Major chains closing 6,000 stores
(wnd.com) - The long feared “Retail apocalypse” may be hitting with little or no fanfare if a growing list of store-closing plans by major chains is any indication...Major U.S. retailers have announced the closing of more than 6,000 stores from coast to coast. The list includes only those retailers which have announced plans to close more than 10 outlets this year and next. For example, 1,784 Radio Shack stores are vanishing, 400 of the Office Depot/Office Max chain by 2016, and 340 Dollar Tree/Family Dollar stores. The growing list of stores getting shuttered coincides with the decline in discretionary consumer spending over the past six months. “Expect to see more storefronts closed at malls across the country,” one retail watcher told WND. “It’s getting ugly out there.” http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/retail-apocalypse-6000-chains-closing-stores/The Marshall Islands' cautionary tale
Caroline B. Glick
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(jewishworldreview.com) - On Tuesday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps forcibly commandeered the Maersk Tigris as navigated its way through the Straits of Hormuz. Iran controls the strategic waterway through which 40 percent of seaborne oil and a quarter of seaborne gas transits to global markets.
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The Maersk Tigris is flagged to the Marshall Islands. The South Pacific archipelago gained its independence from the US in 1986 after signing a treaty conceding its right to self-defense in exchange for US protection. According to the treaty, the US has "full authority and responsibility for security and defense of the Marshall Islands."
The Maersk Tigris is flagged to the Marshall Islands. The South Pacific archipelago gained its independence from the US in 1986 after signing a treaty conceding its right to self-defense in exchange for US protection. According to the treaty, the US has "full authority and responsibility for security and defense of the Marshall Islands."
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Given the US's formal, binding obligation to the Marshall Islands, the Iranian seizure of the ship was in effect an act of war against America.
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In comments to Bloomberg hours after the ship was seized, Junior Aini, chargé d'affairs at the Marshall Islands Embassy in Washington, indicated that his government's only recourse is to rely on the US to free its ship.
In comments to Bloomberg hours after the ship was seized, Junior Aini, chargé d'affairs at the Marshall Islands Embassy in Washington, indicated that his government's only recourse is to rely on the US to free its ship.
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Immediately after the incident began, the US Navy deployed a destroyer to the area. But that didn't seem to make much of an impression on the Iranians. More significant than the naval movement was the fact that the nObama administration failed to condemn their unlawful action.
Immediately after the incident began, the US Navy deployed a destroyer to the area. But that didn't seem to make much of an impression on the Iranians. More significant than the naval movement was the fact that the nObama administration failed to condemn their unlawful action.
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If the administration continues to stand by in the face of Iran's aggression, the strategic implications will radiate far beyond the US's bilateral ties with the Marshall Islands. If the US allows Iran to get away with unlawfully seizing a Marshall Islands flagged ship it is treaty bound to protect, it will reinforce the growing assessment of its Middle Eastern allies that its security guarantees are worthless.
If the administration continues to stand by in the face of Iran's aggression, the strategic implications will radiate far beyond the US's bilateral ties with the Marshall Islands. If the US allows Iran to get away with unlawfully seizing a Marshall Islands flagged ship it is treaty bound to protect, it will reinforce the growing assessment of its Middle Eastern allies that its security guarantees are worthless.
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As the Israel Project's Omri Ceren put it in an email briefing to journalists, "the US would be using security assurances not to shield allies from Iran but to shield Iran from allies."
As the Israel Project's Omri Ceren put it in an email briefing to journalists, "the US would be using security assurances not to shield allies from Iran but to shield Iran from allies."
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But President Barack nObama apparently won't allow a bit of Iranian naval piracy to rain on his parade. This week nObama indicated that he feels very good about where his policy on Iran now stands. And he has every reason to be satisfied.
But President Barack nObama apparently won't allow a bit of Iranian naval piracy to rain on his parade. This week nObama indicated that he feels very good about where his policy on Iran now stands. And he has every reason to be satisfied.
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With each day that passes, the chance diminishes that his nuclear deal with the mullahs will be scuppered.
With each day that passes, the chance diminishes that his nuclear deal with the mullahs will be scuppered.
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On the one hand, the Iranians are signaling that they are willing to sign a deal with the Great Satan. And this makes sense. For them the deal has no downside.
On the one hand, the Iranians are signaling that they are willing to sign a deal with the Great Satan. And this makes sense. For them the deal has no downside.
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First there's the money. Last week the State Department indicated that it won't rule out paying Iran a $50 billion "signing bonus."
First there's the money. Last week the State Department indicated that it won't rule out paying Iran a $50 billion "signing bonus."
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The $50b. would be an advance on Iranian funds that have been frozen in Western banks under the terms of the sanctions regime that would be lifted in the event a deal is concluded.
The $50b. would be an advance on Iranian funds that have been frozen in Western banks under the terms of the sanctions regime that would be lifted in the event a deal is concluded.
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Iran can do a lot with $50b.
Iran can do a lot with $50b.
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Iran is spending $3b. a month to finance its war in Syria. With $50b. in their pockets the ayatollahs can fight for another year and a half without selling a barrel of oil.
Iran is spending $3b. a month to finance its war in Syria. With $50b. in their pockets the ayatollahs can fight for another year and a half without selling a barrel of oil.
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According to a report earlier this week on Channel 10, during Syrian Defense Minister General Fahd al-Freij's visit to Tehran this week, he was instructed to enable Hezbollah to open a front against Israel on the Golan Heights. Iran's "signing bonus" would pay for Iran's new war against Israel.
According to a report earlier this week on Channel 10, during Syrian Defense Minister General Fahd al-Freij's visit to Tehran this week, he was instructed to enable Hezbollah to open a front against Israel on the Golan Heights. Iran's "signing bonus" would pay for Iran's new war against Israel.
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As for their nuclear weapons program, even nObama admitted that when his deal expires in 10 years, Iran will have the capacity to build nuclear weapons at will.
As for their nuclear weapons program, even nObama admitted that when his deal expires in 10 years, Iran will have the capacity to build nuclear weapons at will.
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Iran can get around the ideological issue of signing with its theological foe by focusing its hatred on the US Congress, something Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif did effortlessly at a press conference in New York on Wednesday.
Iran can get around the ideological issue of signing with its theological foe by focusing its hatred on the US Congress, something Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif did effortlessly at a press conference in New York on Wednesday.
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At home as well, nObama no longer faces serious opposition to his Iran policy. The Iranian Nuclear Agreement Review Act, the bill now being debated on the Senate floor, ensures that Congress will have no ability to stand in the way of the deal. In contrast to the provisions of the US Constitution that require a two-third Senate majority to approve an international treaty, the Senate bill requires a two-third majority of senators to block the implementation of nObama's nuclear deal with the greatest state sponsor of terrorism.
At home as well, nObama no longer faces serious opposition to his Iran policy. The Iranian Nuclear Agreement Review Act, the bill now being debated on the Senate floor, ensures that Congress will have no ability to stand in the way of the deal. In contrast to the provisions of the US Constitution that require a two-third Senate majority to approve an international treaty, the Senate bill requires a two-third majority of senators to block the implementation of nObama's nuclear deal with the greatest state sponsor of terrorism.
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nObama has successfully bullied centrist Democrat senators into abandoning their concern for US national security and supporting his deal.
nObama has successfully bullied centrist Democrat senators into abandoning their concern for US national security and supporting his deal.
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They in turn have convinced centrist Republicans — and AIPAC — to push forward the legislation and so turn Congress into partner in nObama's nuclear gambit.
They in turn have convinced centrist Republicans — and AIPAC — to push forward the legislation and so turn Congress into partner in nObama's nuclear gambit.
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Attempts by Republican senators, including presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, to attach amendments to the bill that would require Congress to either treat the deal as an international treaty, or at the very least require a simple majority to reject it, have been strenuously opposed not only by the Democrats, but by the Republican leadership as well.
Attempts by Republican senators, including presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, to attach amendments to the bill that would require Congress to either treat the deal as an international treaty, or at the very least require a simple majority to reject it, have been strenuously opposed not only by the Democrats, but by the Republican leadership as well.
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nObama's confidence that his deal will go through has freed him up to mark the next target of his foreign policy in what he recently referred to as the "fourth quarter" of his presidency: Israel.
nObama's confidence that his deal will go through has freed him up to mark the next target of his foreign policy in what he recently referred to as the "fourth quarter" of his presidency: Israel.
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According to a report in Foreign Policy, the administration is now seeking to delay anti-Israel resolutions at the UN Security Council — including a French draft resolution that would require Israel to surrender all of Judea and Samaria and northern, southern and eastern Jerusalem to the Palestinians — until after the deal with Iran is concluded at the end of June. According to the report, the administration doesn't want to upset pro-Israel Democrats while it still needs them to approve the deal with Iran.
According to a report in Foreign Policy, the administration is now seeking to delay anti-Israel resolutions at the UN Security Council — including a French draft resolution that would require Israel to surrender all of Judea and Samaria and northern, southern and eastern Jerusalem to the Palestinians — until after the deal with Iran is concluded at the end of June. According to the report, the administration doesn't want to upset pro-Israel Democrats while it still needs them to approve the deal with Iran.
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But nObama has no problem with marking the target.
But nObama has no problem with marking the target.
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And so, on Monday, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman did just that.
And so, on Monday, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman did just that.
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In an address before Reform Jews, Sherman issued a direct threat against Israel.
In an address before Reform Jews, Sherman issued a direct threat against Israel.
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In her words, "If the new Israeli government is seen to be stepping back from its commitment to a two-state solution, that will make our job in the international arena much tougher... it will be harder for us to prevent internationalizing the conflict."
In her words, "If the new Israeli government is seen to be stepping back from its commitment to a two-state solution, that will make our job in the international arena much tougher... it will be harder for us to prevent internationalizing the conflict."
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In an apparent attempt to soften the harsh impression Sherman's statement made on the Israeli public, on Wednesday US Ambassador Dan Shapiro gave an interview to Army Radio.
In an apparent attempt to soften the harsh impression Sherman's statement made on the Israeli public, on Wednesday US Ambassador Dan Shapiro gave an interview to Army Radio.
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Although his American-accented Hebrew is always a crowd pleaser, Shapiro's statements were simply a more diplomatic restatement of Sherman's threat.
Although his American-accented Hebrew is always a crowd pleaser, Shapiro's statements were simply a more diplomatic restatement of Sherman's threat.
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As he put it, "We are entering a period without negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and this leads us to two important challenges.
As he put it, "We are entering a period without negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and this leads us to two important challenges.
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One — how do we make progress toward the two-states for two-peoples solution, and two — negotiations have always been critical to preventing the delegitimization of Israel."
One — how do we make progress toward the two-states for two-peoples solution, and two — negotiations have always been critical to preventing the delegitimization of Israel."
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In other words, Shapiro signaled that the nObama administration expects Israel to make significant concessions to the Palestinians in return of nothing, in the absence of negotiations.
In other words, Shapiro signaled that the nObama administration expects Israel to make significant concessions to the Palestinians in return of nothing, in the absence of negotiations.
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And if we fail to make such unreciprocated concessions, we will have no legitimacy and the US will have no choice but to act against Israel at the UN.
And if we fail to make such unreciprocated concessions, we will have no legitimacy and the US will have no choice but to act against Israel at the UN.
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That is, by Shapiro's and Sherman's telling, Israel's unwillingness to bow to Palestinian and US demands for concessions to the Palestinians is what has caused and what feeds the international campaign to delegitimize its right to exist.
That is, by Shapiro's and Sherman's telling, Israel's unwillingness to bow to Palestinian and US demands for concessions to the Palestinians is what has caused and what feeds the international campaign to delegitimize its right to exist.
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For anyone who entertains the thought that Shapiro and Sherman are correct to blame Israel for the movement to delegitimize it, this week we received new proof of its falsity.
For anyone who entertains the thought that Shapiro and Sherman are correct to blame Israel for the movement to delegitimize it, this week we received new proof of its falsity.
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This week, the leaders of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement condemned Israel not for failing to make concessions to the Palestinians. This week they condemned the Jewish state for helping Nepal earthquake victims.
This week, the leaders of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement condemned Israel not for failing to make concessions to the Palestinians. This week they condemned the Jewish state for helping Nepal earthquake victims.
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Ever since the Israeli humanitarian aid mission set off for Nepal earlier this week, leading figures in the BDS movement have been working overtime to attribute ill and even demonic intentions to their mission.
Ever since the Israeli humanitarian aid mission set off for Nepal earlier this week, leading figures in the BDS movement have been working overtime to attribute ill and even demonic intentions to their mission.
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Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, tweeted on his Twitter account, "Easier to address a far-away humanitarian disaster than the nearby one of Israel's making in Gaza. End the blockade!" Max Blumenthal, a Jewish anti-Semite who has risen to prominence in the BDS campaign, tweeted, "For a country responsible for so many man-made catastrophes, natural disasters can't come often enough."
Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, tweeted on his Twitter account, "Easier to address a far-away humanitarian disaster than the nearby one of Israel's making in Gaza. End the blockade!" Max Blumenthal, a Jewish anti-Semite who has risen to prominence in the BDS campaign, tweeted, "For a country responsible for so many man-made catastrophes, natural disasters can't come often enough."
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Ali Abumiah, the editor of Electronic Intifada, intoned that Israel was racist to evacuate newborn infants born to surrogate mothers in Nepal and leave the surrogates behind. He also tweeted, "Propaganda operation goes into high gear to exploit Nepal earthquake to improve Israel's blood-soaked image."
Ali Abumiah, the editor of Electronic Intifada, intoned that Israel was racist to evacuate newborn infants born to surrogate mothers in Nepal and leave the surrogates behind. He also tweeted, "Propaganda operation goes into high gear to exploit Nepal earthquake to improve Israel's blood-soaked image."
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These assaults, which attribute malign, exploitative designs to Israel's humanitarian relief efforts, make clear that there is no connection between Israel's actions and hostility toward Israel.
These assaults, which attribute malign, exploitative designs to Israel's humanitarian relief efforts, make clear that there is no connection between Israel's actions and hostility toward Israel.
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The purpose of the BDS movement is not to pressure Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians.
The purpose of the BDS movement is not to pressure Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians.
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Its purpose is to delegitimize Israel's right to exist and delegitimize support for Israel's right to exist.
Its purpose is to delegitimize Israel's right to exist and delegitimize support for Israel's right to exist.
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If Israel is evil for sending hundreds of soldiers and relief workers to Nepal to rescue earthquake victims, clearly Israel will be attacked as evil for making concessions to the Palestinians that the Palestinians and the nObama administration will insist are insufficient.
If Israel is evil for sending hundreds of soldiers and relief workers to Nepal to rescue earthquake victims, clearly Israel will be attacked as evil for making concessions to the Palestinians that the Palestinians and the nObama administration will insist are insufficient.
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Shapiro's claim that negotiations between Israel and the PLO, or Israeli unilateral concessions to the Palestinians, protect Israel from its Western detractors is totally unfounded.
Shapiro's claim that negotiations between Israel and the PLO, or Israeli unilateral concessions to the Palestinians, protect Israel from its Western detractors is totally unfounded.
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There is a thread that runs between Obama's policy toward Iran and his policy toward Israel.
That common threat is mendacity. nObama's actual goals in both have little to do with his stated ones.
There is a thread that runs between Obama's policy toward Iran and his policy toward Israel.
That common threat is mendacity. nObama's actual goals in both have little to do with his stated ones.
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nObama claims that he wishes to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. But as we see from his willingness to allow Iran to become a nuclear threshold state while running wild in the Straits of Hormuz, committing mass slaughter in Syria, building an empire that includes Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, and threatening its Arab neighbors and Israel, the purpose of the administration's negotiations with Iran is not to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
nObama claims that he wishes to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. But as we see from his willingness to allow Iran to become a nuclear threshold state while running wild in the Straits of Hormuz, committing mass slaughter in Syria, building an empire that includes Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, and threatening its Arab neighbors and Israel, the purpose of the administration's negotiations with Iran is not to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
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The purpose of the negotiations is to build an American-Iranian alliance on Iran's terms.
The purpose of the negotiations is to build an American-Iranian alliance on Iran's terms.
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So, too, nObama says his goal is to advance the cause of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
So, too, nObama says his goal is to advance the cause of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
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But his pressure and hostility toward Israel does nothing to achieve this goal. The goal of a policy of acting with hostility toward Israel is not to promote peace. It is to distance the US from Israel and align America's Israel policy with Europe's preternaturally hostile treatment of the Jewish state.
But his pressure and hostility toward Israel does nothing to achieve this goal. The goal of a policy of acting with hostility toward Israel is not to promote peace. It is to distance the US from Israel and align America's Israel policy with Europe's preternaturally hostile treatment of the Jewish state.
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Three days after a ship sailing under their flag was seized by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, citizens of the Marshall Islands discovered that their decision to place their security in America's hands is no longer the safe bet they thought it was 29 years ago.
Three days after a ship sailing under their flag was seized by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, citizens of the Marshall Islands discovered that their decision to place their security in America's hands is no longer the safe bet they thought it was 29 years ago.
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Anyone who entertains the belief that Israel will gain diplomatic acceptance or even a respite from American pressure if it makes concessions to the Palestinians is similarly making a high risk gamble.
Anyone who entertains the belief that Israel will gain diplomatic acceptance or even a respite from American pressure if it makes concessions to the Palestinians is similarly making a high risk gamble.
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