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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Obama Offers Iran Sudetenland
I think you folks here at Rantburg will really appreciate the fairly new website http://www.preoccupiedterritory.com/. The motto of the website is "They only understand farce".

Another post: "Obama Cites Lack Of Polish Golf Courses In Skipping Auschwitz"
Posted by: Penguin || 02/13/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Jindal's Message[s]
Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal said Republicans in Congress should follow through on their campaign promise to repeal and replace Obamacare and not become €œcheaper Democrats.'
Become?
He also called on Muslim leaders to condemn radical Islamic terrorism.

...Jindal also said leaders of the Western world have a responsibility to insist on assimilation and integration for those who want to live in America.

“It’s somehow racist to tell people if you want to come to America, we insist that you come to be Americans — and to me, it’s nonsensical that we allow people to come into our society and use the freedoms we give everybody to undermine those very freedoms,' he said.

...Jindal called Common Core a violation of the 10th Amendment since it allows the federal government to make curriculum decisions. He criticized the No Child Left Behind Act, labeling the law a mistake.
If he not just talks the talk, I'm in love.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/13/2015 14:20 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Assad and Hezbollah are taking advantage of rebels' weakness
[Ynet] While Assad and Iran-backed Hezbollah forces are indeed advancing towards the Israeli-Syrian border, their inability to defeat the rebels is preventing them from reaching their next goal ‐ opening a front against Israel from Syria.

The onslaught being led by Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators...
together with Hezbollah and Iranian forces south of Damascus, in the direction of Israel's border, is intended to relieve some of the rebel pressure on his embattled capital city. For years, Assad has tried to uproot rebel strongholds and prevent the different Islamist rebel factions from uniting, especially the Nusra Front, which has planted itself firmly in the city of Daraa near the border between Jordan and the Syrian Golan Heights.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 02/13/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  .....[Assad's] next goal – opening a front against Israel from Syria.

Not sure I'm prepared to make that assessment just yet.

Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2015 6:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Assad has been the least-worst option for Israel since the civil war started. I doubt he wants to change that.
Posted by: Grunter || 02/13/2015 13:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Because Ron Ben-Yishai build his journalistic career on screaming "wolf".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/13/2015 14:18 Comments || Top||

#4  That reads like an article from IS Squire.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/13/2015 17:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Mainstreaming anti-Semitism in America
[Jpost] US President Barack Obama is mainstreaming anti-Semitism in America.

This week, apropos of seemingly nothing, in an interview with Mathew Yglesias from the Vox.com website, Obama was asked about terrorism. In his answer the president said the terrorism threat is overrated. And that was far from the most disturbing statement he made.

Moving from the general to the specific, Obama referred to the jihadists who committed last month’s massacres in Paris as “a bunch of violent vicious zealots,” who “randomly shot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.”

In other words, Ahmedy Coulibaly, the terrorist at Hyper Cacher, the kosher supermarket he targeted, was just some zealot. The Jews he murdered while they were shopping for Shabbat were just “a bunch of folks in a deli,” presumably shot down while ordering their turkey and cheese sandwiches.

No matter that Coulibaly called a French TV station from the kosher supermarket and said he was an al-Qaida terrorist and that he chose the kosher supermarket because he wanted to kill Jews.

...As subsequent statements from administration spokespeople made clear, Obama’s statement was not a gaffe.

...Today, the most outstanding example of Obama’s exploitation of anti-Semitic tropes to diminish US support for Israel is his campaign to delegitimize Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ahead of his scheduled speech before the joint houses of Congress on March 3.

...Loopholes in Obama’s interim nuclear framework deal with Iran from November 2013 have allowed Iran to make significant advances in its nuclear weapons program while still formally abiding by its commitments under the agreement.

...At the same time that Obama is facilitating Iran’s emergence as a nuclear power, he is doing nothing to stop its regional empowerment. Today Iran controls Syria, Iran and Yemen and holds sway over Lebanon and Gaza. It threatens Saudi Arabia, and its Muslim Brotherhood allies threaten Egypt and Jordan.

As for Obama’s allied campaign against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the largest beneficiary to date of the US-led campaign has been Iran. Since the US-led campaign began last fall, Iran has achieved all but public US support for its control over the Iraqi military and for the survival of the Assad regime in Syria.

The trajectory of Obama’s policies is taking the region is obvious. He is clearing the path for a nuclear armed Iran that controls large swathes of the Arab world through its proxies.

It is also clear that Iran intends to use its nuclear arsenal in the same way that Coulibaly used his Kalashnikov – to kill Jews, as many Jews as possible.

Perhaps Obama is acting out of anti-Semitism, perhaps he acts out of sympathy for Islamic fascism.

Whatever the case may be, what is required from Israel, and from Netanyahu, is clear. Speaking to Congress may be a necessary precondition for that action, but it is not the action itself.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/13/2015 02:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Overrated and over-reported by the media" ....to some possibly.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2015 5:29 Comments || Top||

#2  acting out of anti-Semitism, perhaps he acts out of sympathy for Islamic fascism.

Those two are not mutually exclusive. I think Obammer is acting out of both.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/13/2015 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  "...presumably shot down while ordering their turkey and cheese sandwiches"

Excellent snark by jpost.
Posted by: Penguin || 02/13/2015 9:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Academia has been mainstreaming it for a couple of decades. Not to be confused with socialists who identify themselves as Jewish for simple tribal tagging.
Posted by: P2Kontheroad || 02/13/2015 9:29 Comments || Top||

#5  He is clearing the path for a nuclear armed Iran that controls large swathes of the Arab world through its proxies.


Obama was an African Muslim which is Sunni (his father was a Muslim from Kenya). Why is he doing everything he can to allow a nuclear Iran which is Shiite? Just asking.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/13/2015 9:30 Comments || Top||

#6  John, because Valerie Jarrett is from Iran. And probably a Shiite.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/13/2015 10:34 Comments || Top||

#7  John. French Commies sabotaged French weapons and weapon factories during the Nazi invasion of France and American Commies supported isloationist movements and fomented strikes in factories working for the Mend Lease. That is until June 22, 1941. So Commies helped the Nazis against democracies. Why a Sunnni wouldn't help Chiites aganist democracies?
Posted by: JFM || 02/13/2015 11:12 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2015-02-13
  Thousands expected at funeral for 3 Muslims killed in US
Thu 2015-02-12
  France says it has dismantled 15 terrorist networks
Wed 2015-02-11
  4 Qaida Suspects Dead in Yemen Drone Strike
Tue 2015-02-10
  Obama, Family Confirm Death of IS Hostage Kayla Mueller
Mon 2015-02-09
  Top Pakistani Taliban leader injured in Afghanistan
Sun 2015-02-08
  '109 Boko Haram Fighters Dead' after First Attack on Niger Friday
Sat 2015-02-07
  Yemen rebels dissolve parliament, assume power
Fri 2015-02-06
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Thu 2015-02-05
  Jordanian King Personally Participating in Sorties Against ISIS
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  Drone Attack Kills Four Qaida Suspects in Yemen
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