[Ynet] Catherine Ashton and others find it difficult to understand that Israel is not global jihad's target. The target is the free world.
In his book "While Europe Slept," Bruce Bawer described the processes Moslems in Europe are going through. They were not born radical, but the appeasing Europe allowed the turbans of all people to become a leading force.
There are Moslems trying to warn. One of them is Imam Hassen Chalghoumi from Drancy, near Gay Paree, who has turned repeatedly to the French authorities and warned against mosques funded by the Gulf states which have become hotbeds of radicalization. There, they preach hatred of Jews, Israel and the free world.
His calls remained like a voice crying in the wilderness. Europe prefers illusions over reconciliation and multiculturalism. Everything will be okay.
Europe has known for years that hundreds of young people travel to Syria. A very small minority of the millions of young people. But it doesn't take more than a minority. Europe knows that in the mosques they received the theory stage. In Syria they move on to the practice. There was no need to wait for Mehdi Nemmouche's act of terror to know that this would be the result. Why there have been hundreds of reports about the jihad journeys.
The young people are not joining the Syrian opposition. They usually join bodies affiliated with al-Qaeda, like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL), another weed of the global jihad. Most of the acts of horror of beheading and crucifying heretics take place in the areas controlled by the jihad. Whoever returns from there is a ticking time bomb. But Europe is still sleeping.
Bawer was not the only one to warn: Melanie Phillips wrote "Londonistan"; Mark Steyn wrote "America Alone"; Ed Husain, who was an activist in a radical group in Britannia, revealed the processes from within in his book "The Islamist"; Christopher Caldwell wrote "Reflections on the Revolution in Europe." There is not a shred of racism in these books. They were written before the inrush to Syria. Europe knew, but preferred the sweet sleep.
Professor Anthony Glees studied the influence of the huge capital, 233 million (about $390 million), which came from the Gulf states to Islamic study centers in eight leading universities in Britannia. The goal was to integrate young Moslems into the academia. In the name of academic freedom of expression, they did whatever they wanted there. It led to an opposite outcome: Radicalization.
In one area, Europe is completely alert. The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... has a huge fortune, and part of it reaches the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict as well. The declared goal is advancing human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... -- an important and superior goal. But part of the money reaches radical bodies which support the BDS campaign demonizing Israel.
German funds, for example, reach an organization supporting the destruction of Israel through the right of return. EU funds reach an organization whose leader, Jeff Halper, supports the BDS campaign and tells the world about dark schemes of the leaders of Israel and Arab states to oppress the masses.
So it's a two-headed monster. On the one hand Islamic funding, on the other hand European funding. The goals are allegedly different, but there is one direction. There are those in Europe who think that turning Israel into a monster we'll exempt them from the rage of jihad. Even EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton once compared between the murder of Jews in Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... and what Israel does in Gazoo. So terror receives justification.
Ashton and others are finding it difficult to understand that Israel is not the global jihad's target. The target is the free world. The jihad representatives say so. Europe refuses to listen. It continues to fund bodies which are part of the red-green coalition of the far left and jihad.
Mehdi Nemmouche is another product among many of the same coalition. The result of incitement and propaganda against Jews, against Israel, against Europe, against the free world. But Europe is still sleeping.
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The pro-Islam John Brennan and other senior political operatives may have pushed for it, but I doubt Chiefs of Station, seasoned operators in the field or in the operations directorate thought much of the idea.
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Allof us on the National Security team were unanimous in supporting and recommending that we take this opportunity, National Security Advisor Susan Rice told CNN Friday. But then again Ms. Rice's [not to be confused with Condoleezza] veracity gets more in doubt every time she opens her pie hole.
[DAWN] A MONTH and a half since the Geo-ISI controversy erupted, Pemra has finally delivered its verdict: Geo News has been suspended for 15 days and a multi-million rupee fine has been imposed. Leave aside whether the decision was right or wrong for a minute and focus on the procedure adopted. Unlike the earlier attempt by some Pemra members to hijack the verdict against Geo while the channel was being muscled off air by the powers-that-be via pressure on local cable providers, Friday's verdict had an air of propriety to it. There were no theatrics, no grossly inappropriate statements, no attempt to overtly curry favour with certain institutions. Geo's broadcast on April 19 after the attack on Hamid Mir in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... clearly did contravene many of the basics of fair and responsible journalism. Whatever the heightened emotions of that day and the long-standing suspicions about the army-led intelligence apparatus, some transgressions were committed. Whether those actions ought to have been punished with a vitriolic campaign afterwards and now with a suspension of Geo News's licence is a more debatable issue.
What isn't debatable though is the need for an overhaul of the electronic media's regulatory system. Geo has been forced to pay for its mistakes, but day after day, news channels across the board routinely violate the most basic of rules of good and responsible journalism. Regulation is not the same as censorship. Because of its nature, the media has certain responsibilities and duties -- both to the public it seeks to inform and the people and institutions it reports on. Sometimes, as happened when incendiary religious accusations were trotted out against Geo, the conduct of sections of the electronic media has been borderline criminal. Surely, better regulation -- clearer rules, better enforcement, more transparency and fairness -- is needed. The way ahead is also clear: the government can move parliament to consider a thorough re-examination of the existing Pemra-based regulatory framework and then, after meaningful consultation with the main stakeholders, a new regulator with new rules and new powers can be created. It can be done; indeed, it should be done.
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[DAWN] WHEN they asked the tribal elders on Friday to expel foreign Death Eaters from North Wazoo, the KP governor and the corps commander seemed to forget that tribal elders and maliks no more exercise the moral and temporal authority they once did. The tribal elders would love a return to the halcyon days of yore but they feel helpless as all power in North Waziristan rests with the outlawed Taliban. In separate meetings with the elders of the Utmanzai tribe on Tuesday, Governor Mahtab Ahmad Khan and Lt-Gen Khalid Rabbani gave the jirga 15 days in which to expel the foreign bully boys. Failing this, the army would act. Surprisingly, the rustics had met them for the opposite reason: they asked the governor and corps commander to postpone the military operation they believed was in the offing. The elders' apprehension of a crackdown on foreign bully boys, who together with the local elements have dispossessed them of their authority, betrays their anxiety. The rustics aren't sure that a crackdown will be successful or launched with such force that all the Death Eaters will be wiped out. No wonder they should fear for their safety in the aftermath of an operation which may not succeed or turn out to be a half-hearted job whose failure could result in a ferocious backlash for those loyal to the state.
The sea change in the tribal belt's socio-political milieu over the last two decades has destroyed the system crafted by the British for a peaceful relationship with the tribal people. The system, revolving round tribal maliks and the political agent, worked well and served colonial interests, although Pakistain inherited what indeed was an oppressive system in which it was the tribal chiefs rather than the people who mattered. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, the influx of millions of refugees and the US-sponsored 'jihad' upset the socio-political equilibrium and unleashed jihadist forces that wrested powers from the maliks, and defied the writ of the Pak state. Since 2007, North Waziristan and other parts of the tribal belt have been the bastion of Death Eaters with horrendous consequences for Pakistain and its people.
Today, foreign Death Eaters have acquired such power that they object to the sight of Pak flags flying in North Waziristan. Clearly, the elders do not have the power to dislodge local and foreign -- especially the Uzbek -- Death Eaters in the area. Basically, it is the army's job, though the people will observe how the civilian and politicianships behave after the end of the 15-day deadline. At stake is the credibility of Pakistain's security forces' resolve to end the violence.
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[Ynet] Reality turns out to be much more complex than the simple picture often posited of the history of the Paleostinians.
The failure of American-mediated peace talks between the Israelis and the Paleostinians and the likely creation of a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-Fatah government in the Paleostinian West Bank and Gazoo Strip have cast deep shadows over the Middle East.
Harry Truman once said that the only new history is the history that we have forgotten. This is especially true of the Paleostinians, whose history has been forgotten by many.
When the 1948 war between Israelis and Arabs is bathed in the color of a Paleostinian "nakba" (catastrophe), few remember that the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... in November 1947 by a 33-12 vote adopted Resolution 181 that called for the creation of a Jewish state and a Paleostinian state. The 650,000 Jews in British Paleostine declared independence in May, 1948 and won their battle for statehood.
The United States and the Soviet Union immediately recognized Israel, followed by leading European countries. In 1949 Israel, by an even larger 37-12 vote, was admitted to the UN General Assembly, and in 1950 Mohammedan Turkey and largely Hindu India recognized Israel. Today 160 states recognize Israel.
By contrast, the Paleostinians were the only people who ever turned down statehood. They joined with five Arab states to try to destroy the new Jewish state. Why did they do this?
Lacking a strong national consciousness, they followed the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... . As the Jews lacked an army, tanks, airplanes or cadre of professional officers, had a vulnerable 9-mile waist and no history of martial valor, this seemed to be a safe bet. The victories of the Arab forces from December 1947 to March 1948, the numerous British bases handed over to Arab forces as the British evacuated Paleostine, British weapons sold to Jordan and Iraq and professional British military leadership of the Jordanian Legion reinforced these notions. Too, 1.2 million Paleostinian Arabs greatly outnumbered 650,000 Jews. The Arabs also knew that most experts (including Marshal Bernard Montgomery) believed that Arab victory was inevitable.
Arab rejectionism, long a part of Paleostinian identity before 1948, was reinforced by the refugee camps after the defeat in 1948. During the fall of 1949 an American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) staffer reported a large sign in a refugee camp that read:
"1. Send us back home. 2. Compensate us. 3. Maintain us until we are refreshed."
This is the epitome of Palestianism on the lam.
From 1948 to 1967, during Egyptian rule of Gazoo and Jordanian rule of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, there was no serious Arab effort to create a Paleostinian state. Except for Jordan, the Paleostinians were denied citizenship, discriminated against by Arab states and often maltreated in the refugee camps.
After the Israeli victory in the Six-Day War, up to 150,000 Paleostinians in the occupied territories crossed the border to work and traveled freely in Israel. This ended with the first intifada (1987-1991) and second intifada (2000-2005). By 2005 the Israelis withdrew from Gazoo, which two years later came under the control of radical Hamas.
The Arab world, seeing Paleostinians as potentially disruptive of their political order, has done little for the Paleostinians. Egypt and Jordan, which signed peace treaties with Israel in 1979 and 1994 respectively, saw national concerns trumping political concerns. Most aid for the Paleostinians has come from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the United States, not the Arab states. During the Arab Spring, there has been almost no mention of the Paleostinian issue by Arabs of any political stripe.
And what about the Paleostinians who remained in Israel after 1948? During the first period of Israeli rule (1948-1965), the Paleostinians were not treated well under military rule. Freed from military rule in 1965, there remains significant job discrimination and a condescending Israeli attitude.
But there has also been significant progress. The 156,000 Israeli Paleostinians of 1948 have grown to 1.6 million people. The average Paleostinian, who had two years of education in 1948, today has 11 years of education, while women are the majority of high school graduates. Fully 12% of Israeli university students are Paleostinians.
Israeli Paleostinians are Israeli citizens with passports, access to Israeli hospitals, schools, social welfare and courts. Paleostinian life expectancy of 79 years is almost 10 years higher than life expectancy in the Arab world while Paleostinian income per capita ($15,000/capita) is 50% higher than in the Arab world.
There are a dozen Paleostinians in the 120-seat Knesset (Israeli parliament), several in the Israeli foreign service and one on the Israeli Supreme Court. Progress has been slow but real.
Polls show that most Israeli Paleostinians, like East Jerusalem Paleostinians, would stay in Israel rather than move to a Paleostinian state once created.
The reality, both good and bad, turns out to be much more complex than the simple picture often posited of the history of the Paleostinians.
About the authors: Jonathan Adelman is a professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and Asaf Romirowsky is the executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and co-author of "Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Paleostine Refugee Relief."
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Also deep under the clouds of intentional obscurity, for some reason Jordan and Egypt never recognized the lands now identified as Palestinian until well after they lost control of them in the '67 war to Israel. About as long as it took them to realize they'd never get them back militarily.
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Just ask yourself "who benefits from the continued conflict and discord, the lack of agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, and the formation of a Palestinian state?"
If you can answer that, you might understand why this has drawn on so long.
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Forthcoming? Never happen. Redacted bits painfully released over time, more likely.
How does it go? "Defy, delay, and obfuscate," That's been this administration's method from the beginning. Remember when they were called on the carpet by Congress for Operation Fast & Furious? When they were called on the Congressional carpet for the IRS harassing exclusively conservative and tea party groups? When they were called on the carpet for... [your event here]? And what real punishment have they suffered, pray tell? I can't remember any, but I'd be willing to bet a rather large sum that they got laughs at the club when they told the tale to their Progressive little friends. Still, if they lose even more Congressional seats over it in November, that would be a real consequence -- losing their place at the trough.
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Besides - what can Congress do? Demand that the Taliban 5 be brought back to Gitmo?
Yeah - the house can impeach him, if they want to be labeled the worst racists since forever. And it won't do any good, cuz there is no way the Republicans will win enough of a majority in the Senate to convict him.
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what they can do is refuse funding for his escapades
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He'll just mint some magic trillion dollar coins and give them to the Fed so they can issue new money and pay the bills with. Congress? We don't need no steenkin' Congress.
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The problem isn't impeachment. The problem is that we'll be to the point where we'll all sit on our hands when someone/something takes them all out. The jokers don't understand that their base is not the type to 'give the last full measure of devotion' to the last. They might stuff a ballot box, might write a check, might march in the street, but ask them to die? That is real history, time and again. That's the day their universe changes.
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I think you're not quite right, P2K. The Left always has a cadre that will resort to violence. They may not intend to give the last full measure in that they intend for US to die, not them.
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Please, please, please make it true. That would be Hope and Change to get behind (Turley is one of the ONE's supporters--a left leaning donk.)
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Suggest Congress stays in full session with the following changes implementing technology that would make Congress far more effective.
1) Meet only 30 days a year, around the time of the State of the Union speech. 2) Representatives will have their offices in the state capitals and will assemble and vote via teleconference. 3)Mandatory meetings with constituents via local town halls on a mandatory schedule. (Makes it harder over paid lobbyists for special interest to influence Congress and people in Alaska can actually see their rep locally rather than he/she being thousands of miles away). 4) The beltway establishment is eliminated.
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I have no doubt they can find cannon fodder, but the cadre are truly few in number who direct from the rear, not lead from the front lines. Once you burn off the expendables, their elan diminishes. The recent narcissist on the Left Coast is a model. Damage a lot of people, but in the end when 'they' are coming for you, self-destruct. Wo ist Steiner?
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[Ynet] Catherine Ashton and others find it difficult to understand that Israel is not global jihad's target. The target is the free world.
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[Ynet] Reality turns out to be much more complex than the simple picture often posited of the history of the Paleostinians.
