At War with Islam
In 2006, View from the Right posted an article called Separationist. A year later it went one better and asked Is Separationism Too Liberal .
In the following article, “Westerner,” arguing that the Separationist policy does not go far enough, lays out a new, radical strategy for defending the West from Islam. As I have been saying since VFR started, I am interested in all reasonable proposals—meaning proposals based on reasoned argument, no matter how extreme they may appear—on how to protect our civilization from the religion of Muhammad.
DEALING WITH THE ISLAMIC THREAT In recent years, several knowledgeable writers—including Serge Trifkovic (The Sword of the Prophet) and Ibn Warraq (Why I am Not a Moslem)—have described what Islam is actually like, both in theory and in practice. It is not a religion of peace, but rather an intrinsically expansionist movement, and serious Moslems wish to establish the rule of Islam over the entire globe. They will accept temporary truces, but are resolutely determined to continue their struggle until total victory, and will utilize whatever methods are necessary to achieve that goal. (Read more…)
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Why Failed Terror Attack in Jordan Matters to U.S.
Jordan disrupted a major terrorist attack in Amman this month, and security services reportedly arrested 11 jihadis who intended to attack multiple targets – including the U.S. embassy and popular shopping areas – with heavy weaponry including car bombs and machine guns.
That the attack was thwarted comes as good news for this American ally, where King Abdullah’s rule has come under increasing pressure amid the Arab Spring. But the failed operation was also, in many respects, a witch’s brew of America’s most vexing policy challenges, raising questions about the path ahead.
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The Real Foreign-Policy Failure
Its the (Islamic) ideology, stupid.
Last week, Doug Feith and Seth Cropsey co-authored a very interesting and important op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, “A Foreign Policy Failure to Acknowledge the Obvious.” It is about President Obama’s denial of the Islamist threat. In it, they zero in on two “strategic misjudgments” the administration has made:
- First is the refusal to accept that the terrorism threat is part of a larger problem of Islamist extremism. And second is the belief that terrorism is spawned not by religious fanaticism but by grievances about social, economic, and other problems for which America bears fault.
Whitewashing 9/11, Whitewashing Saudi Arabia
The Clintons with racehorse owner and Saudi Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, one of the three Saudi princes featured in Walid Shoebat’s report (below) who were thought to be financiers of 9/11, and who died within days of each other in 2002.
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Walid Shoebat’s absolutely must-read report on the drastic omissions in the 9/11 Commission’s report breaks new ground with the story of the three Saudi princes named by Abu Zubaydah under interrogation who all met unlikely ends within days of each other in 2002 — as though in response to US private pressure on the Saudis to take care of the 9/11 “problem” themselves. But that’s just the sickening beginning.
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Obama could be complicit in death of Amb Stevens
Obama wanted an October surprise that would assure him of reelection. He made a deal with Morsi to emable Islamists to kidnap Stevens (by having weak security at the consulate) and then he would negotiate his release prior to Nov 6 in exchange for the Blind Sheik. Sounds plausible to me.
Presidential Politics, Jewish Voters and the Capacity for Partisan Self-Deception
By Matthew M. Hausman
As the presidential election draws near, it seems appropriate to assess whether Jewish political priorities have evolved since the Democratic National Convention, where controversy erupted over the removal of pro-Israel language from the party platform. The response of Jewish Democrats at the time illustrated the capacity for partisan self-deception. Deleted from the platform was language acknowledging Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, identifying Hamas as a terrorist organization, guaranteeing that Israel would not be expected to withdraw to pre-1967 armistice lines known as the “Auschwitz borders,” and assuring the United States would never pressure Israel to accept an Arab right of return that would bring about her demographic destruction. After three oral votes from the floor – video of which clearly showed booing and catcalling at the mention of Israel – the plank supporting Jerusalem was reinserted despite the conventioneers’ raucous disapproval. The other redacted passages, however, were cast to the winds.
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Elkin: Netanyahu Wants to Adopt Levy Report ASAP
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has expressed interest in adopting the conclusions of the Levy Report as soon as possible, coalition chairman MK Ze’ev Elkin told Arutz Sheva on Sunday.
The Levy Report concluded that there is no “occupation” and international law allows Jews to live in Judea and Samaria, as its status was not that of a nation in 1967. It was presented to Netanyahu this past summer after months of study by former High Court Justice Edmund Levy and two other legal experts.
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Strange bedfellows
By Ted Belman
By a strong majority, Likud members have approved the merger of lists with Yisrael Beiteinu. But what strange bedfellows they make.
YB is anti-Arab and believes the less Arabs in Israel the better. Their slogan is “Only YB understands Arabic.” Now Liberman is on record of supporting accepting the Levy Report. Netanyahu is on the fence but most of his party want to accept it. Related to this is the question of annexation which raises the question of whether to enfranchise the Arabs in the event of annexation.
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The new Kach? Ben-Ari, Marzel, Ben Gvir form party 
Activists say they are filling void left by Liberman on right, adopting old Yisrael Beytenu slogan: Only we understand Arabic.
Twenty-four years after Kach was banned from the Knesset, Rabbi Meir Kahane’s disciples are running for the 19th Knesset as their own party.
MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) announced on Sunday night that he would be running with right-wing activists Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben Gvir to fill “the void left on the right by Avigdor Liberman when he decided to run with the Likud.”
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Hamas aims Grad at Dimona reactor – payback for Khartoum raid
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 28, 2012, 12:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
Less than 24 hours after Sudanese President Omar Bashir pledged “decisive steps against Israeli interests which are now legitimate targets,” for the destruction of the Iranian missile plant in Khartoum, Palestinian rocket teams early Sunday, Oct. 28, fired Grad missiles as target finders against Israel’s nuclear reactor in Dimona. This is reported exclusively by DEBKAfile. They exploded on open ground in the Ramat Negev district southwest of the town of Dimona.
The nuclear plant is only 42.5 kilometers as the crow flies from the southern Gaza Strip. Saturday night, the Israeli Air Force struck a Palestinian rocket team in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younes, killing one Hamas operative and injuring a second critically.
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Is a General losing his job over Benghazi?
Is an American General losing his job for trying to save the Americans besieged in Benghazi? This is the latest potential wrinkle in the growing scandal surrounding the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack that left four men dead and President Obama scrambling for a coherent explanation.
On October 18, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta appeared unexpectedly at an otherwise unrelated briefing on “Efforts to Enhance the Financial Health of the Force.” News organizations and CSPAN were told beforehand there was no news value to the event and gave it scant coverage. In his brief remarks Mr. Panetta said, “Today I am very pleased to announce that President Obama will nominate General David Rodriguez to succeed General Carter Ham as commander of U.S. Africa Command.”
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Ted Belman
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