There Will Be Heavenly Punishment For The Abuse Of Israel.

Rewarding Terrorists with US Tax Dollars

By Earl Cox June 19, 2014 , 12:49 pm

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Anyone paying the slightest attention is shaking their heads in disbelief over developments between two Middle East neighbors, the Israelis and Palestinians. The circumstances become more worrisome with a third party halfway around the world meddling in their affairs, the United States. Will President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry act according to US law or defy it?

First, in 2005, the United States of America helped to sway Israel into giving away a portion of her God given real estate, the Gaza Strip, which came to be governed by a political party–Fatah.  In 2007 Hamas, which is an internationally recognized terrorist organization, seized power from Fatah by force.  Since that time Hamas has been ruling Gaza through fear, through imposition of its radical version of Islamic law and through its charter that calls for the destruction of Israel through jihad.

Recently, Fatah and Hamas formed a unity government. As if it’s not confusing enough, ask yourself this question. “Which country gives its hard-earned taxpayer dollars to the sworn enemy of Israel which is their best and only friend and ally in the Middle East?”  Amazingly, the answer is the United States! Any person instantly understands this broken logic and clearly recognizes that, as a country, the moral compass of the United States is badly (and sadly) broken.

US legislators are finally detecting the absurdity of the terrorists-labeled-Big-Satan-America, who is the best friend of the terrorists-labeled-Little-Satan-Israel, giving money to fund their terrorist enemy, Hamas.  US Senator Rand Paul recently asked, “Are we okay with sending government money to an entity that includes Hamas?  Hamas not only does not recognize Israel but has as part of its charter the destruction of Israel.”

Legislation has been introduced stipulating that US foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority should be contingent upon behavior which means the United States should never give foreign aid without strings attached.  Referencing Egypt as an example, Senator Paul asked, “Should we give our foreign aid to the generals in Egypt who recently condemned 683 people to death in eight minutes?

If we are concerned about injustices, can we condone, by rewarding with money, a government with a justice system that allows 683 people to be condemned to death in only eight minutes?”

Current law concerning aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) stipulates that no direct aid may be provided to the PA without the PA taking steps to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure, without the PA acting to counter incitement of violence against Israelis, without the PA supporting activities which promote a peaceful coexistence and cooperation with Israel on security issues, and that no aid is permitted for Hamas or Hamas-controlled entities, and that no aid is permitted for a power-sharing PA government that includes Hamas or results from an agreement with Hamas and over which Hamas exercises undue influence.  Furthermore, the president of the PA government and all of the PA ministers must accept the following two principles:  1. recognition of the Jewish state of Israel and, 2.  acceptance of all previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements.

On the surface, these last two conditions sound good but they fail to go far enough.  The PA should be required to not only recognize the Jewish state of Israel, but must also recognize Israel’s “right to exist as a Jewish state.” If you carefully examine the words, the differences are important.

For there to be peace, obviously there must be peaceful coexistence between neighbors.  US law confirms this by requiring the Secretary of State to certify that the governing entity (of the PA) demonstrates a firm commitment to a peaceful coexistence with the State of Israel and that it is taking appropriate measures to counter terrorism and terrorist financing in the West Bank and Gaza in cooperation with Israel and others.  Do thousands of rockets plummeting Israel’s population centers almost daily look like terrorism has been countered and there is an air of peaceful coexistence? Emphatically, No!

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. First, there is a new US House Resolution calling for the cessation of funds to the new PA/Hamas Unity Government.  Second, many members of Congress are calling for enactment of new US law prohibiting funding of foreign terrorist organizations.  Third, enter a Democratic Congresswoman who could become the ultimate roadblock to Hamas:  Congresswoman Nita Lowey, who is also the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, has vowed to put a strangle hold on the annual flow of tax dollars (meant to encourage the peace process) to the PA (almost $5 billion has already been gifted.)  One of several existing legal bars to continued funding is The Consolidated Appropriations Act, Section 7020, Subsection F, entitled “Prohibition to Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization.” It unambiguously declares: “None of the funds appropriated … may be obligated or expended for assistance to Hamas, or any power-sharing government of which Hamas exercises undue influence.”

Congresswoman Lowey says she would be willing to break with her Democrat party and the Obama Administration to stand for the laws already on the books and in opposition to what Kerry and the Obama Administration seem to propose: unrestricted funding of the PA/Hamas Unity Government. As a Democrat, will she be able to stand strong under pressure from the Obama administration on her position to stop rewarding Hamas terrorists with US tax dollars or will she cave in to pressure for the sake of politics?

President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have some hoops to jump through to reconcile their words and actions with United States law. This is especially true considering their overt meddling into the affairs of two Middle East neighbors. A united Hamas and Fatah government represents a significant threat to their neighbor Israel and ultimately to the United States of America. Negotiating with terrorists is dangerous enough, but rewarding terrorists with tax dollars seems treasonous. In the long run, it won’t matter what the words in black and white say on the law books if America’s leadership fails to govern ‘by the people and for the people’ choosing instead to ignore law and the wishes of the people in favor of ruling by fiat, executive orders and by bureaucratic regulations as has become the norm for the current administration in Washington DC. It is, indeed, time for change.  Hopefully the US Congress will exercise their lawful power and put a stop to Mr. Obama’s consideration to unlawfully provide funding from US tax dollars to terrorists bent on destroying Israel and the United States.

World, Including US, Getting More Anti Semitic.

Ignoring the Elephant in the Room

By Caroline Glick June 19, 2014 , 12:49 pm

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The boys deserve whatever they get, according to the media, because they are Jews.

Three Jewish boys were abducted by Palestinian terrorists while trying to catch a ride home from school Thursday night. And as far as the foreign press is concerned, it’s their own damned fault.

As Honest Reporting documented, everyone from The Guardian to CNN, to Sky News to the Christian Science Monitor blamed Eyal Yifrach, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Frankel for their victimization.

The boys deserve whatever they get, according to the media, because they are Jews and Jews have no right to be located anywhere that the Palestinians demand be cleansed of Jewish presence. And the Palestinians demand that Gush Etzion be emptied of Jews. So the boys, who dared to be located in Gush Etzion, had it coming.

And the blame doesn’t end with the victims. In trying to rescue them, the Israeli government is also committing an unpardonable crime – against Palestinian unity, no less.

According to The New York Times’ Israel bureau chief Jodi Rudoren, by searching for the boys, Israel has “further destabilized Israeli-Palestinian relations, and challenged the new Palestinian government’s ability to hold together disparate political factions and reunite the West Bank and Gaza after a seven-year split.”

As Seth Mandel wrote in Commentary, “If the unity government can survive only by being permitted to carry out terrorism against Israel without response or consequences, it is not so much a government as a sadistic terrorist gang.”

Mandel understated the problem. There is no conditionality. The Palestinian government is “a sadistic terrorist gang.” “The disparate political factions,” Rudoren was referring to are Fatah and Hamas.

Hamas, as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said, kidnapped the teenagers. Hamas is a jihadist movement recognized by the US State Department and the EU as a foreign terrorist organization.

Its declared goal is the genocide of world Jewry. And to advance its aim, it has murdered Jews, and incited, trained and indoctrinated Palestinians to murder Jews every single day since it was founded in 1988.

As for Fatah, since Frankel, Shaer and Yifrach were taken on Thursday night, Fatah has glorified and celebrated their capture on its official Facebook page and its official newspaper. Fatah’s Facebook page depicted the boys as rats, reeled in by a fishing pole.

The Palestinian Authority’s daily newspaper Al Hayat al Jadida published a mock World Cup logo in which three hands held three people who held their hands up in surrender.

And Fatah activists posted a revealing directive on Facebook after the boys were abducted.

No, Abbas’s “moderate” faction of the Palestinian unity government, so energetically supported by the US, the EU and the western media, did not call for the public to quit celebrating the abduction. Nor did it condemn the brutal assault.

The Fatah activists called for shopkeepers in the vicinity of the kidnapping to destroy any footage their security cameras filmed in the 24 hours following the operation to prevent the IDF from seizing the footage and using it in its efforts to locate the boys.

That makes Fatah an accessory after the fact to the attack. And yes, that means that the PA – which is comprised of Fatah and Hamas – is in fact one great big terrorist organization.

When Rudoren and her colleagues in the media look in the mirror, they don’t see themselves as enablers of murderers and champions of terrorists.

They see themselves as right-minded people who seek peace.

The same of course goes for the EU, which celebrated the formation of the Fatah-Hamas unity government, and has so far refused to condemn the kidnapping.

It also goes for the Obama administration which raced the EU to recognize the Fatah-Hamas government and promised that the US would continue funding the PA in breach of the letter of US law.

They all say they just want peace, for the betterment of all.

Taking them at their word, it is mystifying why they are so unconcerned with the behavior of Palestinian leaders.

All the two-state champions view PA President and Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas as either the head of a state or as the head of a state-in-the-making. And as such, they perceive him as someone who represents the Palestinians, and as Rudoren wrote, someone who is unifying “disparate political factions and reunit[ing] the West Bank and Gaza after a seven-year split.”

Abbas himself encourages this view by among other things presenting himself as the “President of Palestine,” by signing international agreements for the “State of Palestine” and by demanding that the world community pressure Israel to submit to his territorial and political demands for the benefit of “Palestine.”

Yet when Israel does what he supposedly wants, and holds him responsible, as the head of the Palestinian government, for the abduction of its children by his coalition partner, Abbas cries foul and says Israel has no right to hold him responsible.

Rather than demand that Abbas take the responsibility he claims to carry, and convince his coalition partner to return the children they stole, the two-stater peaceniks blame Israel. And the kidnapped boys.

Maybe there is something else going on here.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but perhaps the media and the governments championing Palestinian unity are less motivated by geopolitical concerns than they would have us believe? In one of those ironic coincidences that happens every so often when events converge to expose patterns and relations between seemingly unrelated events, in the two weeks before the Palestinians abducted Yifrach, Shaer and Frankel, the American Jewish community discovered that the object of the largesse of many an American Jewish patron of the arts – New York’s Metropolitan Opera – has gone full-on anti-Semitic.

In its fall line-up, the Met will produce the acclaimed-by- anti-Semites opera, The Death of Klinghoffer. Not only will they stage the show at Lincoln Center, the Met is going to broadcast it through its HD broadcast program to 2,000 theaters in 66 countries reaching a potential audience of millions.

The Death of Klinghoffer romanticizes the lives and times of the PLO terrorists who hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise liner in 1985 and murdered wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old Jewish American.

Among its other catchy tunes, the soon-to-be-seen worldwide opera includes this snappy ditty: “Wherever poor men – Are gathered they can – Find Jews getting fat – You know how to cheat – The simple, exploit – The virgin, pollute – Where you have exploited – Defame those you cheated – And break your own law – With idolatry.”

Ah, the arts. Unfortunately, the Met isn’t operating in isolation.

Throughout elite circles in the US, opinion is moving in an aggressively anti-Jewish direction.

University administrators and professors routinely side with anti-Semitic leftist and Muslim activists against their Jewish victims.

And led by the Presbyterian Church, mainline Protestant churches, as well as growing numbers of Evangelical churches are becoming openly hostile to Israel and the very notion of Jewish rights, including human rights.

The American elite are playing catchup with their European counterparts.

Under the guiding hand but blind eye of Europe’s elites, over the past 20 years anti-Semitism has become endemic in the political systems of EU member states as well as in the EU bureaucracy. Jew hatred serves as the one sentiment that unites leftists, rightists and Muslims.

And in Europe today, anti-Semitism doesn’t merely serve to justify Palestinian violence against Israelis. It also empowers Muslim Jew haters to believe that they can attack Jews violently with impunity on the streets of Europe. Over the past week alone, Jews in Paris were subjected to four violent attacks. Jewish teenage boys were chased by a man wielding ax. Other teenagers were sprayed with tear gas. Another Jewish teenage boy was tasered. And on Sunday, two men approached a synagogue while shooting a submachine gun and a handgun.

Outside the Jewish media, the events were barely reported. This, but a few weeks after the Belgian government refused to acknowledge that the massacre of four people at the Jewish museum in Brussels by a French jihadi was an anti-Semitic assault.

Jewish teenagers are kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists in Israel, and it’s their fault.

A old, handicapped Jewish man was thrown over the deck of a cruise ship, and America’s premier opera house says it’s art. Jewish teenagers are violently assaulted on the streets of Europe, and Europe yawns. There is a pattern here. And it has nothing to do with peace.

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/16849/ignoring-elephant-room/#dw21CgookYTuq7VM.99

Two Endings, Same Result.

US Citzenship Plus Loads Of Benefits For Illegal Alien Children. Only In America!

Missing IRS Emails From/To Lois Lerner Will End Up Leading To Presidency. It Can Go No Where Else!

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Trail Of Lost IRS Emails Might Lead To White House

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Were the offices of Rep. Elijah Cummings and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse part of a conspiracy to obstruct justice? View Enlarged Image

Scandal: One of the seven people, including Lois Lerner who lost emails from the period of Tea Party targeting by the IRS, served as chief of staff to former IRS head Steven Miller. She also made 35 visits to the White House.

The funny thing about emails is that they are never orphans. When you send one, there's always a recipient who has his or her own copy. The "lost" Lois Lerner emails had recipients. How about subpoenas to all of them during the Tea Party targeting period? That should help find what we need to know — or maybe not.

It seems six more IRS officials have lost critical emails from that period, a seeming statistical impossibility that shouts out a conspiracy to obstruct justice, and more violations of the Federal Records Act, which requires paper copies of these emails to be printed and stored just in case of computer problems.

One of those officials who received Lerner emails and also lost them was Nikole Flax, chief of staff to former IRS Commissioner Steven Miller. Miller, who was fired in the wake of the targeting scandal, visited the White House more than most Cabinet members.

Flax, as the Daily Caller reports, "made 31 visits to the White House between July 12, 2010, and May 8, 2013, according to White House visitor logs."

While not quite as numerous as another former IRS Commissioner, Douglas Shulman, who made some 118 visits — including one he testified was for the Easter egg roll on the White House lawn — Flax's visits dovetail nicely with key points in the IRS scandal.

The visits started just as the IRS' targeting of the Tea Party began; the last occurred two days before the scandal broke in May 2013. On the day of her last visit, according to the Daily Caller, Flax got an email from Lerner seeking advice on a plan to coordinate with the Justice Department to criminally prosecute conservative activists.

Responding to this email, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Judicial Watch, Flax gave the green light to Lerner's plan to coordinate criminal prosecutions with DOJ, a suggestion that had been made by Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse.

We also know that Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings' staff was in contact with Lerner about the conservative group True the Vote.

Whitehouse and Cummings might be two of the "Democratic offices" referred to in a statement from the House Ways and Means Committee when it derided IRS' claims that "it cannot produce emails written only to or from Lerner and outside agencies or groups, such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices."

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Do It Yourself Police Action Captures Two From Home Burglary. It Is Time For Citizens To Become Deputized And Take On The Bad Guys.

A Texas Dad Came Home to See Burglars Leaving His House. He Chased Them — And Then They Turned On Him.

Jun. 21, 2014 9:30am Zach Noble

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A Houston plastic surgeon came home from a business trip to see a frightening sight: a strange truck backing out of his driveway and speeding down the street.

The surgeon and his daughter sped right after them.

The daughter filmed the pursuit with her cell phone camera and called police.

The chase quickly turned ugly, KHOU-TV reported, as the suspected burglars realized they were being followed and started backing into the surgeon’s car.

Eventually, the burglars turned and charged.

Image source: screengrab via KHOU-TV

The wreck threw the suspects into a ditch, KHOU-TV reported, and police arrested two of the alleged burglars — a third suspect got away.

While cops don’t usually recommend such DIY law enforcement, the surgeon said he was moved to action because his neighborhood has seen a string of burglaries recently and he was tired of putting up with it.

“I’m tired of these people taking advantage of us,” said the victim, who did not wish his name to be made public. “We’re not going to tolerate it anymore in our neighborhood.”

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Texas Father and daughter chase down burglars caught leaving their home

A plastic surgeon coming back from a business trip caught a group of burglars leaving his south Houston home. While some people may have simply called the police, he and his daughter took things a step further — they chased the suspects. view full article

The surgeon’s daughter suffered whiplash but has been released from the hospital, according to KHOU-TV, and the family was able to retrieve some of their stolen belongings from the burglars’ truck.