Obama made a very deliberate decision to make tomorrow's election about the Jews. Dropping the chickensh*t bomb a week before the midterm election was no accident. Oh no. Obama wanted to get out the Jew-haters' vote.
Just as the disenfranchised and the America-haters had delivered for him before, he now believes that the Jew-haters (and he believes that there are many more of them than not) will deliver the Senate. Now he's playing a card he has not played before, but has been leading up to for some time.
It was no accident that Jeffrey Goldberg dropped the "chickensh*t" bomb. Goldberg is a notoriously anti-Israel uber-left reporter popular with the Obama White House. Goldberg has been trusted to break important stories on the Middle East for the White House. He has been interviewing Obama on the subject of Israel for seven years. This makes it clear that whoever made the "chickesh*t" comment was not a C-lister. This was a senior level official: Goldberg wouldn't quote anyone in a lesser position.
And there was more than just the profane insults. Goldberg said that he understood Obama's recent comments on Israel as a "veiled threat." Goldberg is the messenger here. According to Algemeiner:
Goldberg paraphrased Obama as saying, "Israel is growing more isolated and we can't defend it in the same way."
"I took it to be a little bit of a veiled threat, to be honest," Goldberg said. "It's almost up there with, you know, nice little Jewish state you got there, I'd hate to see something happen to it."
Almost? The man's got his blinders screwed down waaaaay too tight.
The response by the White House to this "leak" was a big yawn. This from the Obama White House that is notorious for punitively punishing leaks and going after reporters who print them, such as James Rosen of Fox News (they went through his phone records) and James Risen of the New York Times (they threatened him with jail), just to name two. They had no interest in pursuing this leak.
The White House knows who said it and has no issue with it. Obama and/or his administration never called Qaddafi or Putin or Assad or Mashaal or Sisi or Morsi or the leader of the Islamic State a "chickensh*t," but the Jew in charge of the Jewish state – he's a chickensh*t.
Obama has always been diabolical, sowing the seeds of hate and division. Demagoguery was key in both of his election wins. In my book, The Post American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America, I warned of his closeted antisemitism. It goes back years. In March 2007, the pro-Palestinian blogger Ali Abunimah at the website The Electronic Intifadah alleged that Obama adopted a pro-Israel position as a matter of political expediency as his national aspirations developed. "The last time I spoke to Obama," Abunimah recalled, "was in the winter of 2004 at a gathering in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. He was in the midst of a primary campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat he now occupies. But at that time polls showed him trailing."
When Abunimah greeted him, Obama "responded warmly," and volunteered an apology for not being more outspoken against Israel: "Hey," said the candidate to Abunimah, "I'm sorry I haven't said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race. I'm hoping when things calm down I can be more up front."
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Well why not? They have paraded out sexism, racism, Nazism, and now anti-semitism. I notice, however, they never include communism for some reason. I guess, it would hit too close to home base.
[DAWN] IN the aftermath of Sunday's devastating bombing near the Wagah border crossing, many questions have to be asked as dozens of families bury their dead and several more begin the long task of looking after the injured. Worryingly, few of the questions have any clear answers. To begin with, with the blowback from the North Wazoo military operation now seemingly gathering pace, how well is the country's intelligence and law-enforcement apparatus positioned to deal with the threat? The army-led security apparatus took a great deal of credit for so-called intelligence-led targeted operations in the cities and towns around the time Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... was launched in the summer, and they did seem to blunt the urban terrorist threat for a while at least. But the krazed killer threat ebbs and flow and without sustained, focused and relentless pursuit, the state will always find that a period of calm is followed by a period of intense attacks. Militant groups regenerate and, more problematically, tend to splinter over time, leading to ever-more virulent offshoots. Has the security apparatus of the state really kept up the pressure on urban krazed killer groups, in the same way it did in the early days of Zarb-e-Azb?
Next, both the site of the attack and the duelling claims of responsibility for Sunday's carnage present a fresh challenge. It does appear that the border Rangers at Wagah were the target and perhaps the jacket wallahwent kaboom! himself among civilians because he was unable to get closer to a bigger security target or larger group of security personnel. But the bomber did blow himself up among a large number of civilians, which means it cannot be ruled out that the so-called soft option -- civilian victims -- was the original plan. If soft targets and civilian-centric attacks are once again becoming the principal focus of krazed killers, then the country may have to brace itself for another wave of terror that will be fiendishly difficult to prevent. The only effective way of stopping a krazed killer attack on a civilian target -- necessarily open and accessible to the public -- is to find the krazed killer cells and dismantle them.
How far though have the state's resources, especially on the civilian-led law-enforcement side, really been developed to make that possible? Lahore, possibly the richest, best resourced and fawned over of all the historic provincial capitals, has suffered some serious attacks in recent years and yet further attacks continue to be a very real possibility -- as the Wagah episode has proved. Finally, with two separate groups claiming the Wagah attack, how much is really known about which groups are active in Pakistain and which krazed killer ideologies are proliferating? Perhaps, as some politicians have called for, the government needs to give parliament a detailed briefing on the state of militancy in Pakistain today. To fight the militancy threat, knowing its contours is a prerequisite.
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[DAWN] What percentage of the total population is Moslem? This was a question in a recent UK poll. The average number calculated from the replies given by respondents was 21 per cent. The actual figure is 5pc. This ignorance was even worse in the United States where people think Moslems make up 15pc of its total population when it's only one per cent.
The situation in La Belle France is even worse: people think 31pc of its population are Moslems when the figure is actually 8pc.
So what makes people overestimate the number of Moslems in their midst so wildly? While respondents in the opinion poll were also off the mark when it came to guessing the total number of immigrants as a percentage of the population, the difference between reality and their estimates was not as wide.
It would appear that the bigger the figure for Moslems in a person's mind, the greater his discomfort at their presence. Over the years, a number of factors have fed into an anti-Moslem prejudice and perceptions.
Firstly, Moslems in the West form a very visible community as a majority of the women wear traditional clothing, with many opting for either the full niqab or a headscarf; young men often grow beards. They thus stand out in a way other communities don't.
True in Britain, not nearly so common in America.
The community also preserves its cultural and religious practices by not going to pubs with colleagues and neighbours, and insisting on halal meat.
Again, much more of an issue in Britain than America.
Then there are many horror stories in the media about forced marriages and honour killings that take place in Moslem communities. Ummm... True horror stories...
After the famous fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the worldwide riots over the Danish newspaper cartoons, Moslems are also seen as violent and humourless people who cannot abide criticism of their faith, even in fiction. Reports about non-Moslems persecuted and even killed under the blasphemy laws reinforce this perception of an intolerant community. Nobody's done anything to alleviate this impression, either. Instead, Moslem governments have gone to the UN to try and have making fun of them outlawed worldwide.
People in the UK were appalled when Mohammed Asghar, a 70-year-old British citizen with a known history of mental illness, was condemned to death for alleged blasphemy. In a newspaper interview, his daughter expressed her rage over the fact that he had been shot while in jail. He actually wouldn't have been in jug in Soddy Arabia.
Even more damaging to the image of Moslems in Britannia have been the widely covered reports about gangs of mostly Paks who have been preying on vulnerable maidens of tender years for years. While the dictates of political correctness have prevented many here from openly viewing this in purely Moslem/Pak terms, there is little doubt that these horrifying events in towns like Rotherham and Rochdale have only reinforced existing prejudices. Pimping your neighbors' daughters is allowed if they're infidels. It's in the Koran, you know.
Perveen Qureshi, director of the United Multicultural Centre in Rotherham, talked to the media about how Moslem community elders hushed up the scandal instead of going to the police. Britannia was shocked and enraged to find out that over a 16-year period, around 1,400 maidens of tender years had been brutally pimped exploited by a gang of Moslem men. And why, precisely, are we required to welcome or even tolerate the presence of such scum in our countries?
A report prepared by Ann Coffey, a Labour MP and a social worker, termed the sexual exploitation of the young in the Greater Manchester a 'social norm'. Should I ask that question a second time?
Police, parents and social workers interviewed in the wake of this report were of the view that this was a nationwide problem, and it is only now that the police are taking it up seriously and arresting and prosecuting those involved. Is it a problem nationwide, or in places nationwide that had a large Pak community?
Earlier, the police failed to take allegations seriously as they thought that in many cases, the maidens of tender years were 'asking for it' by their clothing and behaviour. Often, the victims were under care, and their supposed carers ignored their plight. I don't believe in the outlook that sez a woman or girl should be able to walk down the street dressed like a hooker, or even naked, and not elicit masculine comment. Some reactions are on an instinctive level. I, for one, will look. But I'm also of the opinion that putting your hands on someone else is a different proposition from looking.
Such girls, some of them as young as 12, were tempted by the gifts lavished on them by cynical adults who then raped them and literally passed them around. Since it's fine to marry girls as young as eight under Islam, and just as fine to force infidel women into concubinage, none of us are surprised to find Moslem men happy to play grab ass with their infidel neighbors' underage daughters.
Although many non-Moslems have also committed similar crimes, in the public's perception, it is Moslems -- and specially Paks -- who prey on vulnerable young white girls. Because there aren't organized gangs of Irishmen running around corrupting the morals of minors.
And of course, the fear of home-grown terrorism is ever-present. Hardly a month passes without some plot being uncovered. Currently, the concern is about young MoslemDeath Eaters going off to Syria to fight with holy warrior groups like Al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , and then returning to launch attacks in the UK. And yet we're supposed to welcome the presence of these guys in our communities in the name of "diversity?"
Events in the Middle East also contribute to this Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... : when two British aid workers had their heads chopped off by the Islamic State, the videos of their vicious decapitation sent a wave of anger and revulsion across Britannia. Although many Moslemholy men in the UK have condemned the acts, the fact that hundreds of young British Moslems have opted to be on the same side as these jihadists has turned a large section of public against the community. A phobia is an irrational fear. A rational fear is something else again.
All these fears and prejudices If all the horses you've ever seen have four legs you're surprised when one shows up with five legs.
have combined to form a very negative image of Moslems in Britannia. But things are much worse in La Belle France and Holland where legislation targeting Moslem attire has been passed. It would seem that as attitudes harden, this will be the trend for the future. Probably so, since there's no end in sight.
Steadily, openly anti-Moslem voices have gained respectability and support. Bat Ye'or's 'Eurabia' concept has gained traction on the right, with figures like the Dutch politician Geert Wilders attracting a growing audience for his virulently anti-Islam diatribes. The Moslems haven't been able to kill him yet.
In Britannia, a liberal, tolerant majority has prevented extreme Islamophobia from going mainstream as it has done in La Belle France. But we've just seen described in fine detail why we should be working hard to rid our countries of this sort of human detritus. People worry about Moslems doing exactly the things just discussed. They're bad for any society. No one should be allowed to do them, and people who do do them should be expelled and never allowed back. Or shot out of hand. The fact that "all Moslems aren't terrorists" is overridden by the fact that virtually all terrorists are Moslem. The Baader-Meinhof gang is out of business. The Red Brigades are gone or they're marginalized. Jan Sobieski is grumbling in his grave.
The focus in the UK is immigration from EU member countries which has shot up in recent years. This has given rise to the UK Independence Party which is now threatening the dominance of the three major parliamentary parties. But question marks about the Moslem community remain.
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When the history of the Syrian civil war is written, future historians and documentary producers will doubtless be indebted to the fearsome Syrian GoPro equipped tank. For those who don’t know, the GoPro isn’t a missile but the hit consumer action camera that some enterprising person has mounted on Russian-built tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. It allows the viewer to “ride” along on the outside of the tank with actual combatants. and record the POV, almost like a shooter game, of real, live, historical action.
This video, for example, makes it possible to follow the actions of a platoon of tanks in Jobar, Syria, possibly in early 2014. Jobar is a town on the outskirts of Damascus, and a battlefield of the civil war. It was also the site of a reported chemical warfare attack by Assad forces.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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