The Cain Doctrine
Cain: I Would Attack Iran to Protect Israel
Ben Birnbaum – The Washington Times, July 18th, 2011
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain says he would attack Iran to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons or to respond to aggression against Israel. Asked if he agreed with former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton’s contention that the “only realistic alternative … is to use force preemptively against Iran’s nuclear weapons program” since diplomacy has failed, Mr. Cain said he did, with one caveat.
“There would be some other pieces of information I would need before I gave that order, but I’m saying that would be Option B,” Mr. Cain said during an interview with editors and reporters at The Washington Times. “Option A is, ‘Folks, we are not going to allow you to attack Israel’ … If they call my bluff, they already know — they will know — what Option B is.”
Mr. Cain said that, as commander-in-chief, he would “make...
Iranian Christ Killers Sentence Christian to Hang for Apostasy
Militant Islamic propaganda seeks frequently to demonize Jews as “Christ-killers,” e.g. a cartoon of an IDF soldier with exaggerated Semitic features about to bayonet Jesus in his mother’s arms. The truth is that a pair of Christ-killing Iranian religious judges recently sentenced a man to death for being a Christian.
Mr. Youcef Nadarkhani, son of Byrom, 32 years old, married, born in Rasht in the state of Gilan is convicted of turning his back on Islam, the greatest religion the prophesy of Mohammad, at the age of 19.
He has often participated in Christian worship and organized home church services, evangelizing and has...
Israel’s only two options
The Jewish state’s choices are to either annex Judea and Samaria or be destroyed by its neighbors.
Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas is in Europe this week seeking to convince the Spanish and Norwegian governments to support the Palestinian bid to sidestep negotiations with Israel and have the UN General Assembly recognize Palestinian sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem in addition to Gaza.
The Palestinians know that without US support, their initiative will fail to gain Security Council support and therefore have no legal weight. But they believe that if they push hard enough, Israel’s control over these areas will eventually unravel and they will gain control over them without ever accepting Israel’s right to exist.