Thursday, 20 September 2012




US should beg Israel to bomb Iran. Here’s why.  

TEL AVIV – It is hard to remember a moment when the United States’ foreign policy establishment showed as much unanimity as in its horror at the prospect of a unilateral Israeli strike on Iran.
In a September 10 report for Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, Anthony Cordesman warns,
    “A strike by Israel on Iran will give rise to regional instability and conflict as well as terrorism. The regional security consequences will be catastrophic.”
And a “bi-partisan” experts’ group headed by former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft and co-signed by most of the usual suspects states,
    “Serious costs to US interests would also be felt over the longer term, we believe, with problematic consequences for global and regional stability, including economic stability. A dynamic of escalation, action, and counteraction could produce serious unintended consequences that would significantly increase all of these costs and lead, potentially, to all-out regional war.”


Koch slams Obama  

Ed Koch Reverses Position, Slams Obama’s “Weakness” on Muslims
Former NYC Mayor, Democrat Ed Koch, on Rosh Hashannah: “No one understands what ‘we have Israel’s back’ means”.
At Park East Synagogue’s Rosh Hashannah High Holiday service, September 17, 2012, Former Mayor Ed Koch during his annual “sermon” from the pulpit, in front of over a thousand worshippers, said “I’m distressed.”
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Sarah Palin’s writing skills  

By Ted Belman
For those of you who still believe that Sarah Palin is intellectually challenged or worse, an idiot or bimbo, I recommend that you read her book review, published by Breitbart, which begins:
    I don’t normally read “true crime” books, and I’ve certainly never written a review of one, but Errol Morris’ new book, “A Wilderness of Error,” isn’t typical of the genre. It’s much more interesting and I think important. It’s a book about the failings of a legal system administered by very fallible human beings, and it’s a book about how we buy into false media narratives that tidy up uncomfortably complex stories and give us permission to call off any further search for truth – and, yes, Morris argues with refreshing clarity that objective truth is real and worthy of being sought after despite the pretentious nonsense preached in faculty lounges about all truth being relative. In fact, he argues passionately that the search for truth is what journalism and justice is all about.

Oslo is a double edged sword  

By Ted Belman
Over the weekend, Abbas Propose Canceling Oslo Accords. He sees the accords as imposing too many controls over the PA. The Accords provide what the PA and Israel can and cannot do, like a constitution.
Israel for its part prefers the Accords to remain in place because they favour Israel and mandate negotiations. Nevertheless the willingness of the Israelis to abrogate Oslo is growing because it restricts them from annexing Area C or more and the PA consistently violates them.
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World Bank: Israel should let PA develop Area C  

The World Bank, in asking for the development of Area A, is ignoring the Oslo Accords which make no provision for the development of Area C. The EU is likewise ignoring it and assisting the Arabs to steal land in Area C. It is disturbing that Israel is helping them to a degree in this endeavour.
As for the shortfall in the budget, why not ask them to stop all their worldwide propaganda and close all their so-called embassies.Ted Belman
Development of Area C is necessary for sustainable Palestinian economic growth,the World Bank said in a report it published Wednesday calling for donor countries to pledge $400 million to fix a shortfall in the PA’s 2012 budget when the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee meets in New York on September 23.
“Donors do need to act urgently in the face of a serious fiscal crisis facing the PA in the short term,” World Bank Country Director for the West Bank and Gaza Mariam Sherman said.
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Post-Arab Spring “moderate” Muslim regimes cornered by radicals  

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis September 15, 2012,
The United States is positioning military forces so that it can respond to unrest in as many as 17 or 18 places in the Islamic world, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced late Friday. “We have to be prepared in the event that these demonstrations get out of control,” he said.
Those words dashed hopes in Washington that the anti-US Islamist rampage by now sweeping 21 countries over a video deriding Islam had passed their peak. In fact, by their sixth day Saturday, Sept. 15,the street protests against American embassies and other US symbols of influence were growing more violent and more organized, threatening not only American lives but tearing up President Barack Obama’s entire outreach policy toward Arabs and Muslims. I
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Iran arrests 3 Fordo sabotage suspects who entered from Azerbaijan  

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 18, 2012, 9:27 PM
Reconstruction of explosion that cut Fordo power lines
Iran is holding three suspects who entered the country from Azerbaijan under intense grilling to discover their role in the mid-August explosion of the power lines to the underground uranium enrichment site at Fordo, DEBKAfile’s exclusive Iranian sources reveal. Tehran is also questioning the engineers, planners and company heads who built the facility to find out why it was not provided with an independent power generator.
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The Illusion of Egyptian Democracy  

By Matthew M. Hausman
There seem to be three generic responses to the election of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi as president of Egypt. The first is to herald the triumph of Egyptian democracy and ignore the Brotherhood’s goals of destroying Israel and reestablishing the Caliphate. The second is to fantasize that the Brotherhood was somehow moderated by its participation in the political process despite its adherence to jihadist aims. The third is to engage in cultural relativism and proclaim that even an election assuring a repressive Islamist regime is a democratic victory because it represents the Muslim popular will, and to insist that Morsi’s election be validated by those who find the Brotherhood’s doctrinal supremacism abhorrent. These positions are either naïve or delusional, and are the products of left-wing pretense, mainstream ignorance and the failure to grasp the totalitarian goals of the Islamist agenda and global jihad.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel


Steve Emerson on shameful US response to Islamist Riots  

Host: “Now this latest wave of violence in the Middle East has brought intense focus on American foreign policy. In fact that very topic seems to have supereceded the economy as the biggest issue in the presidential election, at least for now. Election issued aside, how the President handles this latest crisis is a topic for much debate. For more o0n this we’re joined via Skype by Steven Emerson. Steven is the executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Thanks for taking time to speak to us today Steven.”
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Romney sees no prospect for a two-state solution  

REMEMBER, MOTHER JONES IS A FAR LEFT ANTI-ISRAEL SITE
At a private fundraiser (in May), the GOP candidate calls Middle East peace “almost unthinkable” and says he would “kick the ball down the field.”
—By MOTHER JONES, Sep. 18, 2012
At the private fundraiser held May 17 where Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney candidly … discussed various foreign policy positions, sharing views that he does not express in public, including his belief that peace in the Middle East is not possible and a Palestinian state is not feasible.
Mother Jones has obtained video of Romney at this intimate dinner and has confirmed its authenticity. The event was held at the home of controversial private equity manager Marc Leder in Boca Raton, Florida, with tickets costing $50,000 a plate. During the freewheeling conversation, a donor asked Romney how the “Palestinian problem” can be solved. Romney immediately launched into a detailed reply, asserting that the Palestinians have “no interest whatsoever in establishing peace, and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish.”
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Of utmost importance  

Read both the Rubin article, The Syrian Tragedy and the McCarthy article on Obama and the first amendment published just below.

The Syrian Tragedy: Is the Proposed Cure Worse Than the Status Quo?  

The Syrian civil war has crossed a red line. Some people may think this happened a few weeks or months ago but at any rate it is clearly true now. The prospects for an Islamist (Muslim Brotherhood, Salafist, and Jihadist) takeover have risen high enough that it is better to freeze Western intervention. In other words, the West should not do more to aid the rebellion and should consider stopping its current efforts in that direction.
Here is a fact so shocking that it should be the centerpiece of any discussion over Syria. It is so important I’m going to put it in bold:
The Obama Administration is backing (Islamist) Turkey as the distributor of weapons supplied by (opportunistically pro-Islamist) Qatar. Turkey and Qatar want to give the Muslim Brotherhood a monopoly over receiving weapons even though most of the rebels are non- and even anti-Islamist. As this happens, the Obama Administration is thus working directly to install a revolutionary Islamist regime in Syria that will disrupt the region, help shred, U.S. interests, and battle with Israel for decades to come. A number of Republican senators see no problem with this strategy.
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Obama v The First Amendment  

 By Andrew C McCarthy, NROFIRST PUBLISHED SEPT 15TH
Outside the U.S. embassy in Cairo, September 11, 2012
Democrats and their sharky Obamedia defense lawyers are in a snit. For three dreamy convention days in Charlotte, they told themselves that, for the first time in decades, it was their guy who had the upper hand when it came to national security. Now that bubble has burst, the way contrived narratives do when they crash into concrete challenges. At that point, an airy president of the world won’t do; we need to have a president of the United States, a job that has never suited, and has never been of much interest to, Barack Obama. (Read more…)

The Pretextual President  

The Obama administration and the embassy rioters find common ground.
The photo of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula being led from his Cerritos, Calif., home has become an Internet sensation, giving rise, among other things, to a popularQuickMeme and a call from Glenn Reynolds for President Obama’s resignation:
    “By sending–literally–brownshirted enforcers to engage in–literally–a midnight knock at the door of a man for the non-crime of embarrassing the President of the United States and his administration, President Obama violated that oath . You can try to pretty this up (It’s just about possible probation violations! Sure.), or make excuses or draw distinctions, but that’s what’s happened. It is a betrayal of his duties as President, and a disgrace.”

“The Innocence of Muslims” revisited  

by Jerry Gordon, ICONOCLAST
Steve Klein, advisor to film The Innocence of Muslims
Last, Friday, Tom Trento of The United West did a Skype interview with Steve Klein, an advisor on the maligned film, The Innocence of Muslims on his Trentovision program that airs on WUNN 1470AM in Florida. The Huffington Post had a profile of Klein, see here. Because of the quality of the USStream video, we asked our colleague Vlad Tepes at theVladtepesblog.com to excerpt and clean up the audio portion of the interview with Klein. The excerpted interview with Klein has been posted this afternoon on the MRCTV channel. Klein has been interviewed by several international news organizations and characterized as an anti-Islam extremist.
Klein is a former Nam era Combat Marine officer and besides his insurance agency he had become a counter Jihadist educator in California working with Christian and former Muslim refugees from the Middle East. He notes in the Trentovision interview that some of the portrayals in the poorly made film were allegedly checked out by knowledgeable experts like Nonie Drawish to verify that the scenes complied with the Qur’an, the Hadith and Sunnah.
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Obama must be defeated  

by Barry Shaw.
Little did I suspect how prophetic my comments were following the attack on the US Embassy in Cairo. An Egyptian mob stormed the US Embassy in Cairo, tore down the American flag and destroyed it on the anniversary of 9/11 and replaced it with an Islamic flag associated with Muslim terrorists.
I asked then “How is democracy working out for you, America, with the new ‘Arab Spring’ you encouraged in the Middle East?”
Today came the tragic news of the murder of the American Ambassador at the US Consulate in Libya, and my question now demands a clear answer from the Obama-Clinton Administration whose foreign policy lies in tatters in the Middle East.
For two years I, and other Israeli experts, have insisted that the Arab Spring is, in reality, the Islamic Winter. We were right. You were wrong. (Read more…)

The Media is Obama’s ally  

By Ted Belman
Last week was sure depressing. Obama was rising in the polls to significant leads especially in the swing states. How could this be? What with the debacle on the convention floor with the vote on the platform amendment, the flow of negative info on the economy, QE3 and most importantly, the multiple attacks on US Embassies throughout the Arab world.
Yesterday the big story was that the Romney camp was going to switch strategy because of the polls. It was all over the media and I began to wonder if these article and the polls were intended as self fulfilling prophesies.
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September 17, 2012

Dupes of a false flag operation  

By James E. Horn, Author of EXPERIENCING ISLAM
I am a retired American Diplomat. I served my country abroad for twenty-five years, a ten of those in Islamic countries. I held the highest levels of TOP SECRET security clearances with Code Word access to Sensitive Compartmentalized Intelligence (SCI). I was awarded a medal for VALOR, for actions I took during the war in Cambodia in 1975. Among other things, I worked very successfully in embassy and diplomatic security, counter intelligence, and counter terrorism. Portions of my highly rated book, EXPERIENCING ISLAM were censored by the CIA.
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Obama’s Middle East Delusions  

The Premodern Middle East and Postmodern West Don’t Mix, Mr. President
Globalization certainly did not bring the premodern world of the Middle East closer together with the postmodern West — despite Barack Obama’s 2007 narcissistic vows that his own intellect and background could bridge such a gap. If anything, the more we know about each other, the more we sense we are back to Lepanto and the siege of Vienna. Since the 9/11 anniversary attacks, the Obama administration has seemed bewildered, petulant, and more or less shocked in Casablanca-style fashion about the hatred shown the United States — whether overt among the Arab Street, or implicit among Arab governments’ wink-and-nod inability to protect U.S. embassies. It apparently forgot some basic rules about how to deal with radical Islam, and instead regressed back to the old familiar appeasement that led to 9/11/2001. (Read more…)



Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel

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