The World's Democratic Way Of Life Is Under Attack. Are They Willing To Combat It Or Will They Capitulate?

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Will Democracies Combat Terror? by Jagdish N. Singh January 31, 2016 at 4:00 am http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7308/democracies-combat-terror 74   Comment Many extremist Islamic groups are still shielded by states such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran. These countries have so far not severed their links, overt or covert, with these outfits. The United States and other members of the free world need to take corrective measures not only against terrorist groups but also against the states that sponsor them. Washington, in its relationship with Tehran and Islamabad, among others, is on the wrong track. Its approach towards a rogue Iran is not likely to "bring it in from the cold," but to embolden it even further in its various terror activities the world over. Sadly, major world powers, including the United Nations, have not appeared serious about fighting terrorism or the Islamic State (ISIS, IS) or similar terrorist groups. UN Security Council Resolution 2170 (August 15, 2014) called on member-states to take "national measures to prevent fighters from traveling from their soil to join the IS and deny it any arms or financial support. The resolution also "expressed readiness to consider putting on the sanctions list those who facilitated the recruitment and travel of foreign fighters." The continued growth of the Islamic State, however, shows that the UN's member states have done little to fight it. According to an intelligence estimate more than 20,000 fighters have arrived in Syria and Iraq to fight for the IS. Of these, about a quarter hail from North America, Australia and Europe. Clearly, such a movement of IS fighters would not have been possible if the member states had been conscientious about implementing the UN resolution. Sadly, the conduct of the UN Security Council does not seem any different today. Of late, four of the five permanent members of the Security Council -- the United States, France, Russia and Britain -- have been bombing IS locations, but the major powers seem to have divergent objectives in their war on ISIS. Washington's policy in the Middle East has been among the major reasons for the rise of the Islamic State. But today it is not clear what the United States wants, except for the next president to clean up the mess being made by this one. Beijing, for its part, continues to back Syrian President Bashar Assad. In the past, China extended support to the Assad regime: even in the midst of allegations of chemical weapons attacks and slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, China, together with Russia, repeatedly blocked sanctions attempts against the Syrian regime. Russia, one of Syria's biggest arms suppliers, seems to have as a key goal blocking American efforts to shape the region. China appears more concerned with its financial ties with Syria. Today, the presidents of Russia and Syria "have bound themselves together in an alliance that reflects not only the urgent priority of salvaging the crumbling central government in Syria, but also each man's eroded standing on the international stage." And possibly at home. If you are a dictator and feel your popularity slipping, it might seem better to start a war. The main fight against the Islamic State probably needs to be waged with "boots on the ground." Saudi Arabia and its allies do not seem to be serious about targeting the Islamic State. The Saudis seem opposed to IS only to the extent that it has been a threat to them in their internal struggle for power. The Saudis would probably prefer IS to be "part of the Sunni forces that are fighting Shia forces in this regional sectarian conflict." The Sunni states seem to perceive themselves to be "in an existential battle" with both the Iranian and Syrian regimes. Syrian rebel groups do not appear either united or strong enough to resist. In the recent past, some have chosen to flee, leaving behind whatever arms and ammunition they had been provided with to fight IS. Turkey has also allegedly been complicit with IS in facilitating its trade in oil. Turkey has "failed to seal its border, thereby facilitating ISIS oil exports" and "profit[ing] at stages of the supply chain." The Kurds have fought hard against IS on the ground. But Turkey has been bombingthe Kurdish rebels on its Syrian border. * * * One wonders why India is downplaying the threat that the Islamic State currently poses. Recently, India's Home Minister, Rajnath Singh, said at a ceremony in Lucknow, India, "Presently the world confronts the challenge of ISIS, but in India there is no threat from it. Because the high values of life refrain our youths from joining this organization." Given the ideology, agenda and notorious terrorism of the Islamic State, it is a threat to all of modern civilization, including India. According to a report supposedly based on the information from India's intelligence agencies, more than 150 Indian youths may already have been influenced by the Islamic State's ideology. About two dozen Indians are now fighting in Syria, and many more have been intercepted trying to reach IS-held territory. Given recent reported activities, such as the appearance of IS flags in India's troubled province of Jammu and Kashmir, the actual number of the Islamic State's supporters may be far greater than current official estimates. New Delhi would do well to take steps to prevent the spread of ISIS before it arrives in full force. India needs to strengthen its own internal intelligence and security mechanisms, and also see to it that no Indian citizen who goes abroad to fight for the Islamic State is allowed back in. India has already banned the Islamic State under its Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. Now New Delhi needs to implement that Act. In 2014, this photo of Muslim ISIS supporters in India's Tamil Nadu state went viral on Twitter. The nations of the free world might benefit by coming together and fighting the war against the Islamic State and similar terrorist groups wholeheartedly. Otherwise, even if IS is taken down, other extremist Muslim groups will rise up to take its place. Will democratic countries realize that in this war against the Islamic State, it is preserving values of individual liberty that is at stake? Other dangerous, "asymmetric," Islamist threats that need addressing include Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Nusra Front, Islamic Jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East; Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram and like-minded groups in Africa; and the Tablighi Jamaat, Ahle Hadith, Jamaat-e-Islami and allied terror outfits in Pakistan. The ultimate objective of these groups has been effectively the same as that of the Islamic State -- the destruction of modern pluralistic civilization and its replacement by an extremist Muslim entity. Some groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, seem to have as their goal, as recommended by Hassan al Banna, ofinfiltrating the West. Through infiltration, they often attract a following that is even greater and a penetration in the West even more successful than IS. Many extremist Islamic groups are still shielded by states such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran. These countries have so far not severed their links, overt or covert, with these outfits. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force has been behind terror militias such as Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Houthis in Yemen and others. Unfortunately, the West -- especially the U.S. and Europe -- is cultivating Iran. The U.S. has led the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) into a surrender to Iran's nuclear weapons program. They are even rewarding Iran's repeated violations of its commitments not to build nuclear weapons under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by handing Iran up to $150 billion. The United States and other countries of the free world urgently need to take corrective measures not only against terrorist groups but also against the states that sponsor them. Washington, in its relationship with Tehran and Islamabad, among others, is on the wrong track. Its approach towards a rogue Iran is not likely to "bring it in from the cold," but to embolden it even further in its various terror activities the world over. As for Pakistan, Washington might at least try to use whatever influence it has to see how the top brass in the Islamabad establishment could rein in those elements within the Pakistani Army and military-operated Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) who seem to have been aligned with the radical Islamist groups and terror outfits in the country. Reining in Pakistan-based Islamist schools and their India-specific terror groups would be very much in the world's best interest. The Pakistani terror outfits are hostile not only India but to the United States and its close allies as well: Pakistan's ISI chief at the time, General Mahmoud Ahmed, wired $100,000 to the lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta. When will Washington and the world's democracies start to grasp that to win any victory over terrorism today, the threat by radical Islamists of all stripes -- including Wahhabi-Salafism, Khomeinism, al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State -- has to be combated. These groups may superficially clash with each other but they all share a common ideology and goal: to roll back modern civilization and its shared values. The expansion of any of these proponents of radical Islam is detrimental to humanity. Jagdish N. Singh is a senior Indian journalist based in New Delhi. © 2016 Gatestone Institute. All rights reserved. No part of the Gatestone website or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied or modified, without the prior written consent of Gatestone Institute.

ISIS Is Coming To Israel, Gaza, West Bank. Who Is Going To Stop Them?

ISIS Threatens Hamas, Fatah and "State of the Jews"

By Ahuva Balofsky July 2, 2015 , 9:30 am

(Photo: Breaking Israel News)

The Islamic State (ISIS) has produced a video threatening Hamas, Fatah and what it calls “the state of the Jews”.

The video was published Tuesday and targets “Hamas dictators” in Gaza. According to Reuters news agency, a masked individual warns, “We will uproot the state of the Jews (Israel) and you and Fatah, and all of the secularists are nothing and you will be over-run by our creeping multitudes.”

The ISIS member continues, “The rule of Sharia [Islamic law] will be implemented in Gaza, in spite of you. We swear that what is happening in the Levant today, and in particular the Yarmouk camp [in Syria], will happen in Gaza,” referring to the besieged Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus.

Tensions between Hamas and ISIS supporters in Gaza have been on the rise. Last month, an ISIS supporter was killed during an attempted arrest, leading to a spate of bombings against Hamas, as well as rocket fire on Israel aimed at drawing it into the conflict.

Despite this, Israeli Intelligence minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) told a security conference Tuesday, Hamas and ISIS were seen cooperating in the Sinai Peninsula, a claim Hamas vehemently denies.

“There is cooperation between them in the realm of weapons smuggling and terrorist attacks. The Egyptians know this, and the Saudis,” Katz said. “At the same time, within Gaza, ISIS has been flouting Hamas. But they have common cause against the Jews, in Israel or abroad.”

Although ISIS does not have an operational presence in Israel, it has many supporters in Gaza among those who feel Hamas is too “soft” on sharia law and on the Jewish state. Last week, the ISIS flag was seen flying on the Temple Mount and fliers signed “ISIS Palestine” were posted around Jerusalem.

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/44489/isis-to-israel-hamas-pa-youre-next-jerusalem/#ia8Gj6uWDRdlLfVe.99

If Israel Accepts The Saudi Peace Plan, It Will Be Very Stupid And Could Devastate The Country.

Why Israel Cannot Ignore the World Any Longer

Shifting Geopolitical Sands Make Status Quo Unsustainable

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By J.J. Goldberg

Published December 27, 2014, issue of January 02, 2015.

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It was in April 1955, at Israel’s seventh independence day celebration, that founding prime minister David Ben-Gurion issued perhaps his most famous dictum: The Jewish state’s future, he said, depended “not on what the goyim say” — that is, the nations of the world — “but on what the Jews do.”

If that was ever true — and Ben-Gurion was far too canny to believe his own rhetoric — it certainly hasn’t held up. In today’s interconnected world there are no independent players. Nations need each other for markets, credit, landing rights, raw materials, spare parts and countless other exchanges. They’re vulnerable to each others’ germs, material shortages, migratory pressures and cyber-punks. A bad wheat crop in Russia can spark a revolution in Tunisia and topple a regime in Egypt.

Heading into 2015, Israel and the Jewish communities around the world will be buffeted by forces that are beyond their control and essentially have nothing to do with them — yet will shape their destiny in unique and profound ways.

The biggest of these forces is the price of oil.

Over the past six months the price of crude oil has undergone one of its most traumatic adjustments in decades. From $114 per barrel last June, it’s fallen nearly in half to $59 per barrel in mid-December. It’s given a huge lift to the American economy, while sending the Russian ruble into a tailspin. It’s also wreaked havoc on the Iranian economy, which was already reeling from sanctions.

Why this has happened is complicated, and tells you a lot about the state of the world today. Why people think it’s happened may be even more important, because even perceptions can shift the global balance of power.

The basic cause is global oversupply. Increased stability and safer exports from oil-rich Libya and Iraqi Kurdistan are one factor. Another is brisk production from American shale and Canadian tar sand deposits, where new technologies became cost-effective over the past decade as China’s boom raised prices. Yet another is falling global demand, due to slow economies in Europe and now China. There’s too much oil and not enough buyers.

Normally, oversupply and falling prices are a cue for OPEC to cut production. But Saudi Arabia, which dominates OPEC as the world’s largest producer, has kept the taps open and let the price keep dropping. Experts say that’ s because the Saudis are alarmed at their declining share of the American market. They’re hoping a year or so of rock-bottom prices will drive some American shale producers out of business. Besides, cutting production has backfired on them in the past, reducing market share that they never regained.

And yet, the damage to Russia and Iran has been so dramatic that many observers around the world — including some senior politicians and respected pundits — are convinced the Saudis are colluding with Washington to drive the price down, in order to bring Russia and Iran to their knees. Both are under sanctions already, Russia because of its Ukraine mischief, Iran because of its nuclear project. Add to that the collusion of Russia and Iran in keeping the murderous Assad regime afloat in Syria, and Washington and Riyadh have every reason to want to cripple the two rogues by jamming their oil revenues. It almost doesn’t matter that it’s not true.The biggest winner from the oil glut is President Obama. Between the humming U.S. economy, the Russian collapse and signs of new Iranian flexibility on the nuclear front, the president enters 2015 with more political feathers in his cap than he’s had in months, if not years.

It’s not clear how much this will help him with congressional Republicans. Many will dismiss his successes as dumb luck. The GOP is divided between those who want to govern, which requires finding common ground with the White House, and those who just want to say no — whether for ideological reasons or to discredit Democrats in 2016. But much of the public will give the president credit for the success of his policies. That will put pressure on Congress to work with him. And if Republicans resist, it will make it that much easier for him to work around them. The price of oil has given him a mighty tailwind. His exercise of power — the mobilizing of sanctions — wasn’t solely responsible for bringing down the ruble, but the collapse of the ruble has given him new power.

The biggest losers, obviously, are Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, along with a handful of other petrobullies like Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro.

Many others will be caught in the crosswinds, though. And nowhere will those winds blow more strongly than in Jerusalem. Israel’s diplomatic and security environment is in extreme flux, what with the Palestinian statehood bid to the United Nations Security Council, the renewed violence on the West Bank, the rising momentum of the boycott and sanctions movement and the growing impatience of Europe, which is still Israel’s largest trading partner. Too many pieces are in motion for the situation to remain static.

Washington and Riyadh may not have teamed up to crash the Russian and Iranian economies this fall, but now that the deed is done, they’re sure to use their new clout to tackle some new challenges.

The Obama administration is working to stall any further pressure on Israel until after the March 17 Knesset elections. The Palestinians can’t be held off much longer than that, though. Neither can the Europeans. In very short order, Jerusalem will face a “diplomatic tsunami,” in the words of the newest recruit to the Israeli peace camp, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

Lieberman told a closed business forum at Tel Aviv University December 23 that Israel urgently needs to seize the diplomatic initiative before the storm hits. Otherwise, he said, it will end up like Russia, isolated, sanctioned and economically battered.

His solution is a “regional peace agreement.” In current Israeli political discourse, that’s code for a settlement with the Palestinians under the aegis of the Saudis and the Arab League. That’s roughly the same plan that Yair Lapid, Tzipi Livni and a brigade of former IDF generals, Mossad and Shin Bet directors and police commissioners have been calling for since the summer.

As long as he’s in office, Prime Minister Netanyahu will be working furiously to head off any such initiative. He’ll mobilize an army of American Jewish organizations to descend on Washington and demand that the administration leave Israel alone. They’ll respond loudly and enthusiastically, as they always have. If Netanyahu is returned to office after the election, they’ll keep it up for months. If he loses, a new Israeli government will take office that will throw itself urgently behind the initiative, and Israel’s friends here will end up looking very silly.

At that point, it won’t matter what the Jews say, but what the nations do.

Read more: http://forward.com/articles/211721/why-israel-cannot-ignore-the-world-any-longer/?p=all#ixzz3NEjY75H2

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Baghdad Coming Under Threat Of Attack By ISIS. Will US Embassy Be Emptied And Americans Turn Tail And Run?

ISIS NOW CAPABLE OF DOWNING AIRLINERS AT BAGHDAD AIRPORT

Fall of Saigon scenario ready to unfold at U.S. embassy

Image Credits: Fall of Saigon: Hubert van Es in the public domain

by KURT NIMMO | INFOWARS.COM | OCTOBER 11, 2014

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The U.S. embassy in Baghdad may soon fall prey to ISIS.

The embassy – the largest and most expensive diplomatic complex in the world, nearly as large as Vatican City – has maintained a corridor to Baghdad International Airport. In June Obama ordered the deployment of an additional 200 troops to reinforce security at the embassy and airport.

“The presence of these additional forces will help enable the Embassy to continue its critical diplomatic mission and work with Iraq on challenges they are facing as they confront (ISIS),” Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby said at the time.

Security at the embassy and airport now face a serious threat from ISIS as it advances within striking distance of Baghdad. Earlier this month the U.S. and Gulf Emirate created terror army advanced as far as the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib, a mere eight miles from the airport. “Daash [ISIS] is openly operating inside Abu Ghraib,” an Iraqi soldier told McClatchy on October 3.

Jason Ditz noted on Friday:

ISIS now not only has the anti-aircraft weapons the Saudis provided to various Syrian rebel factions, but also everything they looted in the takeover of Mosul. That means, just a stone’s throw from the airport, they have shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles capable of downing the airliners.

Despite the threat to travel in and out of the airport, the United States is confident it can defend Baghdad.

“It’s not plausible at this point to envision ISIL taking control of Baghdad, but they can make Baghdad so miserable that it would threaten the legitimacy of the central government,” Richard Brennan, an Iraq expert with RAND Corporation and former Department of Defense policymaker told The Associated Press on Saturday.

ISIS domination in Anbar province and its capture of dozen of cities and towns – most recently Hit and neighboring Kubaisa which sent Iraqi troops scrambling in retreat as they abandoned a military base and its stockpile of weapons – put into question the ability of the Iraqi army to defend the capital city.

The situation developing in Iraq is reminiscent of the Fall of Saigon in 1975 as portrayed in an iconic photograph by Hubert van Es (see above). The rapid evacuation of U.S. personnel and a mass exodus of refugees signaled a communist victory and the establishment of nominal authority of the Viet Cong over South Vietnam.

“Our humiliation in Iraq, unless things change drastically, will be even deeper, because our president now is feckless,” writes Thomas Lifson. “One big difference: The Vietnamese Communist Party had no interest in exporting its fight with us to our homeland.”

US Monkeying In Middle East, Causing More Problems Than Solutions.

'Thank God for the Saudis': ISIS, Iraq, and the Lessons of Blowback

U.S lawmakers encouraged officials in Riyadh to arm Syrian rebels. Now that strategy may have created a monster in the Middle East.

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ISIS fighters at a checkpoint in the northern Iraq city of Mosul (Reuters)

“Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar,” John McCain told CNN’s Candy Crowley in January 2014. “Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends,” the senator said once again a month later, at the Munich Security Conference.
McCain was praising Prince Bandar bin Sultan, then the head of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence services and a former ambassador to the United States, for supporting forces fighting Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria. McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham had previously met with Bandar to encourage the Saudis to arm Syrian rebel forces.
But shortly after McCain’s Munich comments, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah relieved Bandar of his Syrian covert-action portfolio, which was then transferredto Saudi Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef. By mid-April, just two weeks after President Obama met with King Abdullah on March 28, Bandar had also been removed from his position as head of Saudi intelligence—according to official government statements, at “his own request.” Sources close to the royal court told me that, in fact, the king fired Bandar over his handling of the kingdom’s Syria policy and other simmering tensions, after initially refusing to accept Bandar’s offers to resign. (Bandar retains his title as secretary-general of the king’s National Security Council.)
The Free Syrian Army (FSA), the “moderate” armed opposition in the country, receives a lot of attention. But two of the most successful factions fighting Assad’s forces are Islamist extremist groups: Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the latter of which is now amassing territory in Iraq and threatening to further destabilize the entire region. And that success is in part due to the support they have received from two Persian Gulf countries: Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Qatar’s military and economic largesse has made its way to Jabhat al-Nusra, to the point that a senior Qatari official told me he can identify al-Nusra commanders by the blocks they control in various Syrian cities. But ISIS is another matter. As one senior Qatari official stated, “ISIS has been a Saudi project.”
ISIS, in fact, may have been a major part of Bandar’s covert-ops strategy in Syria. The Saudi government, for its part, has denied allegations, including claims made by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, that it has directly supported ISIS. But there are also signs that the kingdom recently shifted its assistance—whether direct or indirect—away from extremist factions in Syria and toward more moderate opposition groups.

“ISIS has been a Saudi project,” one Qatari official said.

The United States, France, and Turkey have long sought to support the weak and disorganized FSA, and to secure commitments from Qatar and Saudi Arabia to do the same. When Mohammed bin Nayef took the Syrian file from Bandar in February, the Saudi government appeared to finally be endorsing this strategy. As The Washington Post’s David Ignatius wrote at the time, “Prince Mohammed’s new oversight role reflects the increasing concern in Saudi Arabia and other neighboring countries about al-Qaeda’s growing power within the Syrian opposition.”
The worry at the time, punctuated by a February meeting between U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice and the intelligence chiefs of Turkey, Qatar, Jordan, and others in the region, was that ISIS and al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra had emerged as the preeminent rebel forces in Syria. The governments who took part reportedly committed to cut off ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra, and support the FSA instead. But while official support from Qatar and Saudi Arabia appears to have dried up, non-governmental military and financial support may still be flowing from these countries to Islamist groups.
Senior White House officials have refused to discuss the question of any particular Saudi officials aiding ISIS and have not commented on Bandar’s departure. But they have emphasized that Saudi Arabia is now both supporting moderate Syrian rebels and helping coordinate regional policies to deal with an ascendant ISIS threat.
Like elements of the mujahideen, which benefited from U.S. financial and military support during the Soviet war in Afghanistan and then later turned on the West in the form of al-Qaeda, ISIS achieved scale and consequence through Saudi support, only to now pose a grave threat to the kingdom and the region. It’s this concern about blowback that has motivated Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to encourage restraint in arming Syrian rebels. President Obama has so far heeded these warnings.
John McCain’s desire to help rebel forces toss off a brutal dictator and fight for a more just and inclusive Syria is admirable. But as has been proven repeatedly in the Middle East, ousting strongmen doesn’t necessarily produce more favorable successor governments. Embracing figures like Bandar, who may have tried to achieve his objectives in Syria by building a monster, isn't worth it.

Saudi House Scene Of Possible Human Trafficing

Wonder how the Obama Administration is going to play this one? Probably let them have a free pass!
Conservative Tom

EVIDENCE OF POSSIBLE HUMAN TRAFFICKING REPORTEDLY FOUND…AT SAUDI DIPLOMATIC COMPOUND

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A compound in McLean, Va. is now the focus of a possible human trafficking ring — a Saudi diplomatic compound.

Federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided a compound on the 6000 block of Orris Street in McLean that is said to be home of a “Saudi military attaché,” WUSA-TV reports.

The station also reports that federal agents rescued two women from the Philippines in the raid. A “source close to the investigation” told WUSA-TV that both women speak English and they were in the U.S. legally with passports.

Federal officials were tight-lipped about the case and would only confirm that they are looking into the instance as a possible human trafficking case.

“It’s unclear who alerted the authorities to these woman, but they are said to be safe in their care,” the station adds.

However, no charges have been filed and investigators are still trying to figure out who, if anyone, was holding these women and why. Even if investigators find someone is responsible for human trafficking, they might be eligible for diplomatic immunity because the alleged crimes occurred on sovereign soil.

A full investigation is underway.

Trading US Security for Palestinian State

The following post is one of the best in laying out the situation that exists in the Middle East and the threat that it poses not only to Israel but the US.

Conservative Tom

Trading U.S. security for Palestinian state

By Lee Kaplan, senior analyst, communications director

5 January 2013:  If U.S. security analysts take a hard look at the so-called “peace movement” going on in the Middle East, it becomes clear that after 20 years of coddling Arab terrorists and overseas dictators the U.S. is heading for a fall here at home. The Iranian nuclear threat is real; Iran continues to build ICBM’s that can reach further against Europe and that will eventually reach here.

Most American citizens, even ones of Jewish or Arab descent have limited frames of knowledge over what is going on in the far off Middle East. Even as a potential nuclear showdown looms with Iran, government leaders are pursuing a no-win situation with the same idiotic fervor begun 20 years ago between democratic Israel and its fascist neighbors.

The news wires recently announced that Al Jazeera, the Arab world’s pro-terrorist propaganda television network, will enter U.S. markets riding on the back of the former Link TV network, the Emir of Qatar’s propaganda TV network, that will run through cable providers like Comcast and Direct TV.  To an uneducated viewer this is just more entertainment to watch; to television executives it’s more money. But to American national security, it’s an open door for promoting terrorism through propaganda and disinformation in the United States and normalizing the terrorist mentality in the Middle East within American culture.  Al Jazeera is already here in the U.S. illegally using taxpayer dollars by getting some of its broadcasting carried by public broadcasting in defiance of U.S. law. And they are not alone. RT, or Russia Today is operating on American air waves despite having no FCC license to do so. Even more incredibly, Press TV, which is Iranian propaganda TV, is also broadcasting in the U.S.

Imagine if Hitler had a broadcasting network across America during World War II about how well the war effort would have gone back then. All of these broadcasters function as media arms of overseas totalitarians and even terrorist groups. It used to be immigrants and their following generations who came to America from totalitarian regimes overseas embraced being Americans and rejected any support for those totalitarian regimes particularly when those regimes opposed democratic Western allies. Today, we see younger second generations of Arab Americans cheering on Hamas and Fatah, and favoring war or annihilation against the democratic state of Israel, a U.S. ally.  Boycotting Israel is against U.S. Law, but our government under both parties ignores the Law.  Few people realize that a movement designed to starve the Jews out in Israel, or even just the West Bank, is merely a repetition of the Third Reich campaign for fascist domination of the world. Yet it thrives because indoctrination and propaganda as practiced in the Arab totalitarian world has been brought to the American college system as practiced in these educational and cultural systems of these same fascist countries.  Adding Al Jazeera to the mix will be a way to bring this indoctrination to the American community-at-large, not just the next generations of college students.

The fascist Arab world targeted our colleges and universities long ago to teach the same Arab propaganda taught in the totalitarian Arab world. Today there is a movement to boycott and divest from a fellow democracy, Israel, in order to force Arab and Muslim terrorist groups to get what they want. And that isn’t a Palestinian state where “Palestinians” can lead normal democratic lives. That’s the spin. The goal is to increase Arab totalitarianism in that part of the world. This is being done at the behest of the Saudis and the likes of the Emir of Qatar. We’re leaving the barn door open.

The Disengagement for Gaza by Israel proved the situation is unworkable for creating a Palestinian state, particularly one that is not de-militarized (to the contrary, it would be funding the most powerful terror movement in history).

For the first time in history a country, Israel, deported its own population and turned an area over to a terrorist group in the name of democracy, but that only increased war and totalitarianism. Rival terror gangs, Fatah and Gaza fought over the easily won new turf and Gaza won.  Today, despite propaganda of a “siege” on Gaza, the area is flowing with money as part of one of the biggest welfare scams in history. The US funds UNWRA, the Palestinian “refugee” camps as part of the ultimate scam. Tons of aid are even pouring in not just from the U.S. and EU but from Arab charities, black marketing and radical socialist groups intent on expanding that terrorist network. Hamas could make a paradise there (and nearly has for its corrupt Arab leadership as usual) but needs to shoot missiles into Israeli communities over the border because that’s what totalitarian regimes do to reflect from their own shortcomings: they make war. Meanwhile, the American taxpayer continues to fund this by claiming the funds are to promote “peace.” The West Bank is headed for this same scenario in the next few years only now we have the added equation of a nuclear Iran.

The logic of Israel’s leadership back then was that if Israel deported the Jewish population from Gaza as a good will gesture, then if the Arabs attacked them the world would be on Israel’s side. I opposed the Disengagement back then as insanity, particularly such logic.  Needless to say, the world did not take Israel’s side. In fact, when Israel finally sent its army in to neutralize the attacks (10,000 rockets over eight years) in the recent Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel came under unending attacks from the rest of the world. It is reassuring that the U.S. agreed still that Israel had a right to self-defense. But how can the U.S. disagree to common sense publicly while continuing to fund the same terrorist leadership  it has been funding the last 20 years?

The West Bank is 76% vacant and could absorb both Jews and Arabs, yet Arab media propaganda in our colleges and on television and the Internet  falsely tell  Americans that Israel is creating “bantustans” as were found in Apartheid-era South Africa. The purpose is to deceive western audiences to support totalitarian movements thinking they are embracing democratic principles.  But it  is the Arabs, including the Palestinians, who insist no Jews can live in any part of a Palestinian state and who take this further insisting Jewish towns and communities there must all be dismantled as in Gaza before there can be “peace”. There is even a law on the books in the Palestinian Authority that metes out a death sentence if an Arab sells his land to a Jew and the law has been enforced even retroactively. Yet we do not demand this law be rescinded before releasing American tax dollars to the terrorist thugs who enacted it. It doesn’t stop there either. Both the PA leadership under Abbas and the Hamas under Haniyah continue to say they will take all of Israel in the future–by force.  Common sense would tell anyone that what occurred with Gaza is proof this current system after 20 years will not work to bring peace. In fact, it will only move the terror network closer to the heart of Israel for rocket attacks and create another terror state that will eventually be a proxy for Iran like the Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Why does it all continue? It isn’t called the Saudi Peace Initiative by the Arabs over there for nothing while western media euphemistically calls it The Road Map.  The Saudis know how to use their oil money to fund “peace” camps, some even manned by “Jews” to push the phony peace agenda.

The solution would be simple were the totalitarians of the Middle East sincere about peace. A Palestinian state could be created where Jews already there could live as Palestinian citizens. At the same time, this state would have a civil society police force and network to enforce laws against terrorism against the Jews already there. But the truth is Palestinian culture and Arab culture will never do this because Jew-hatred is part of the endemic culture of totalitarian Middle East state. Palestinian police officers today are mostly members of known terrorist groups who vie to show who can be more anti-Israel with their government leaders’ blessings. A PLO terrorist employed as a police officer can make $50,000 a year that comes from foreign aid the American taxpayer is paying.  Some of this philosophy comes from the Koran, but more comes from the need of totalitarians to have “the other” to deflect their populations from what the leadership is stealing.

Don’t think the Iranians aren’t eying a potential Palestinian state in the West Bank for the future where they can send troops, weapons, their revolutionary guards and ultimately another Hezbollah to harass the Little Satan, Israel, as a first step to dominating the Big Satan, America.  The Saudis see this threat to some degree, but not enough to stop funding their Jew-hatred and exportation of their own fascist culture. Their strategy, as usual, is to use oil money to buy their way out of any situation. Even if it means purchasing nuclear weapons from China to negate an Iranian threat.

This why there must not be a Palestinian state in the West Bank. By pushing this agenda we are building up what will be an Iranian beachhead on the only reliable western democratic ally in the Middle East and only encouraging what could be disastrous for us in the next 20 years.

And that will only lead to more war, not less.