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Column One: Bibi and the true believers  

By CAROLINE B. GLICK, JPOST

In bowing to US pressure and approving the release of 104 terrorist murderers from prison, Netanyahu behaved like a coward.

Standing next to US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday morning, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni gushed that through his indefatigable efforts to bring Israeli and Palestinian officials to Washington, Kerry proved that “nothing can stop true believers.”

As usual, the cognitively challenged Livni told us something she hadn’t intended to say. The term “true believer” was coined by Eric Hoffer in his classic work The True Believer from 1951, which Livni has obviously not read. Hoffer’s epic study of the psychological roots of fanaticism described a true believer as a person so fanatically committed to a cause that no amount of reality can make him abandon it.
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Thanks to Syria, Timing of Looming Iran Crisis Is Fortuitous  

By Evelyn Gordon, commentarymagazine.com

As I noted yesterday, the coming months will be decisive with regard to Iran’s nuclear program. This is an issue on which everyone would prefer if crunch time were never reached. But if a showdown must come, the timing couldn’t be more fortuitous-because it’s impossible to imagine a better geostrategic moment for military action against Iran than now.

One of the biggest concerns that opponents of military action in both Israel and America have always raised is the havoc Iran could wreak in response an attack. For Israelis, the main fear is massive missile attacks by both Iran and its allies; for Washington, the main concern is Iran’s ability to disrupt oil trade from the Gulf and attack American allies in that region.
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Lawmakers Question Qatar’s Support for Hamas  

By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill petitioned the Qatari ambassador on Friday to explain his government’s “expanding diplomatic and economic ties” with Hamas in a letter that highlights the increasingly strained ties between the United States and Qatar.

The lawmakers call on Qatar’s ambassador to Washington, Mohammed Bin Abdullah al-Rumaihi, to explain why the oil rich country has pledged to give the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip $400 million, money they fear will go to fund terrorism.
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Morsi Was Neither Democratically, Nor Duly, Elected  

By Josh Goodman & James Parks, Breitbart

In recent weeks, the international outcry that followed the overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi serves to confirm how fundamental the lie that Morsi was democratically elected has become in our perception of the Egyptian government. This oft-repeated inaccuracy is entirely unfounded in facts, and it is imperative that we understand what it actually means to be duly elected.

This fact is made all the more important with the backdrop of the manic attempts to avoid calling the military overthrow a “coup” in the debate over Section 7008 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2012; it provides, in part, that funds shall not be made available to the government of a country whose “duly elected head of government,” is deposed by military coup d’etat or decree.
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Into the Fray: Resign, just resign!  

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT

By Martin Sherman

Recent developments reveal a dramatic erosion in Netanyahu’s strategic perspectives that makes it impossible to justify his continued incumbency.

Prisoner releases only embolden terrorists…they encourage precisely the terrorist blackmail they are supposed to defuse. – Binyamin Netanyahu, Fighting Terrorism (1995)

What sort of people and government would agree to free the murderers of its own children and do it in the name of a presumed “goodwill” toward irreconcilable enemies? What might this people and government be thinking, especially when its hoped for quid pro quo is an obvious delusion? – Prof. Louis Rene Beres, “A crime without a punishment,” July 16, 2013

Binyamin Netanyahu must resign or be induced to do so.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel