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Friday, May 29, 2009

Defeating a Hitler with nukes: Nothing else matters

James Lewis

May 25, 2008: Kim Jong-Il explodes his first full-sized nuclear
bomb . This day shall live in infamy.

North Korea helped build a secret nuclear power plant in Syria,
which was destroyed by the Israeli Air Force in 2007 while the CIA
was still asleep. North Korea sells nuclear and missile technology to
Iran and Pakistan. Kim can easily sell his nuclear Bomb in the
Middle East; today his bomb also threatens Japan, South Korea,
Taiwan, and China. Like it or not, we are being dragged into the Second Age of Nuclear
Terror.

Nothing else matters now.

Forget Obama's grabbing the banks and the car companies. Forget
his eleven trillion dollars of new debt for the next generation. Forget
his egomania. Eight years after the jihad assault of 9/11, 2001, on
New York City and Washington, D.C., we are back to national life
or death. Americans were suckered into believing that the world
was suddenly a safe place, and elected a grossly unqualified
Chicago pol to lead the nation, because he looked good on TV.
That is a mistake we may come to bitterly regret.

Four days ago, Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs, told the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee:

"I'm one who believes that Iran getting a nuclear weapon is
calamitous for the region and for the world ... neighbors ... (who)
feel exposed, deficient (will) then develop or buy the capability
themselves ... (it) is absolutely disastrous."

Obama is the worst person to have in the White House at this time.
At least John McCain, for all his faults, understands that this is an
extremely dangerous world. So do Dick Cheney and George W.
Bush. But we have no hintwhatsoever that Barack Hussein Obama
is intellectually or morally equipped to cope with the nuclear
proliferation we are seeing today. Just the opposite. We are seeing
the most foolish, ignorant, and self-obsessed administration since
Jimmy Carter.

All of Obama's foreign policy advisers believe in cringing to tyrants.
They think we just haven't been nice enough to
malignant regimes in Tehran and Pyongyang. That isn't even for
grown-ups; it should have been left behind long ago in summer
camp. But Bill Clinton's SecState Madeleine Albright was
photographed toasting Kim Jong Il, the pudgy tyrant of North
Korea, who starved a million of his own people to death to divert
resources to a gigantic army and nuclear program. For his part,
Obama has already bowed down abjectly, in public, to the medieval
King of Saudi Arabia. The symbolism is unmistakable.

Those two iconic photos capture the Left's understanding of
international danger. Nobody who is so completely ignorant can
ever be charged with protecting our national welfare. But here they
are again.

Kim's Hiroshima-type Bomb is big enough to wipe out Tokyo, and
in a few years, San Francisco. For decades the West has begged and
pleaded with Kim, bribing him with vast gifts of oil and food. Kim
always suckered the West and just kept starving his own people for
better nukes and missiles. Today, he's got his Bomb and the means
to deliver it to Japan, South Korea, and China.

Iran is next.

This is the Second Age of Nuclear Terror. The first one started
when Stalin used stolen secrets from the Manhattan Project to build
a Soviet Bomb. Even Stalin's closest associates were terrified that he
would start a suicidal nuclear war. According to one history
Lavrenty Beria and Nikita Khruschev assassinated Stalin to stop that
from happening.

After Stalin's death the Soviet Union and the West were able to
establish a balance of terror. Both sides thought the other was
rational, and no rational actor would ever use nuclear weapons.

Today's Second Age of Nuclear Terror is different, because Kim
and Ahmadinejad don't act like rational leaders. Ahmadinejad is a
Twelver, a fanatical member of an Armageddon cult that believes
the Twelfth Imam will return to earth after the destruction of the
enemies of Islam -- which means everybody on earth who isn't one
of them. That's why the Arabs next door are running scared of
A'jad's nukes and missiles. They are Muslims, but the wrong kind,
according to Ayatollah Khomeini, who founded the modern mullah
state in Tehran.

Khomeini tried to overthrow the Saudi regime by stirring riots
during the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Today the Iranians are still
stirring up Shiite Muslims in the oil provinces of Saudi Arabia. They
control a "Shiite Crescent" from Iran to Syria and Lebanon and
Gaza. Everywhere they go they preach jihad and martyrdom. Their
target is Israel, yes, but also Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and
especially the secular. According to Islamists atheists are much
worse than Jews and Christians: Off with your heads, infidel swine!

So an ego-tripping rookie from Chicago is now supposed to protect
us from mortal danger. Good luck to all of us.

There are only two rational strategies for sane nations in the Second
Age of Nuclear Terror. Obama has spoken out against both of them.

The first is preemptive strikes. If somebody is pointing a gun at you,
threatening to kill you, you have to kill him first. George W. Bush
made it work with Saddam Hussein. For his great wisdom and
courage George W. Bush was hysterically abused for eight solid
years by the Democrats and their saboteur brigade in the media. In
1981 Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin also acted
preemptively by destroying Saddam Hussein's Osirak nuclear power
plant.

Those two preemptive military actions helped to postpone the
Second Age of Nuclear Terror that Kim's nuclear bomb has just
ushered in. They kept us safe for more than two decades.

SecDef Robert Gates has pretty much ruled out preemption: The
Iraq War was too costly, he believes.

What else can we do? The second rational strategy is anti-missile
defense.

But the SecDef just announced 1.4 billion dollars in cutbacks to our
missile defense program. Thanks to very active development
culminating in the Bush Administration, the United States now has
the makings of an effective defense against nuclear-armed missiles.
That was never possible before. The First Age of Nuclear
Terror had no defenses. That's why it was terrifying. But we are
well within reach of an effective defense.

Every other sane nation in the world is trying to rush anti-missile
defenses, including the Russians, the Chinese, the Japanese, South
Korea, Israel, and all the Arab nations. If we cut back they will just
go into high gear and do it without us. Nobody is going to wait for
Obama to change his mind, least of all Japan, the Arabs, India, and
Israel. Their homes and children are on the line, just as much as
ours.

A US retreat on missile defense would be clinically insane. Not
only has North Korea exploded a nuclear bomb, it also helped Syria
to build a nuclear plant on the Euphrates River that the Israeli Air
Force knocked in 2007. Iran's Armageddon regime is closely allied
with North Korea, and with Pakistan's nuclear proliferation network
headed by AQ Khan -- who was educated as a nuclear engineer in
the West. There are thousands more like him around the world.

In his last days in the Führer's bunker, Hitler still had control over
the world's most advanced weapons of 1945, including V3 missiles,
jet planes, poison gas bombs, and incipient nukes. At the end, Hitler
was staging his ownGötterdammerung, the Twilight of the Gods,
and it suited his sense of drama to commit suicide with a bullet in
the back of his brain. For a man as revenge-driven as Hitler, dying
in nuclear bomb explosion along with his enemies would have been
preferable.

Japan's Emperor worship cult might well have done the same if the
nuclear bomb had been invented just a few years before it was. We
lucked out -- again.

So we have the recent historical example of two deadly enemies
who likely would have risked their own survival at the end of World
War Two in order to destroy the United States and the West.

What makes us think that today's fanatics are not different? How
often does Ahmadinejad have to threaten genocide for us to take it
seriously? How many Sudanese Africans have to be killed by their
jihad regime for us to take that seriously? How many North Koreans
have to be starved to death by their own government for us to see?

Most people live in denial of clear and present dangers. We know
this administration is full of such people. Obama's Chicago gang just
told Israel not to defend itself. But the Israelis are a lot more morally
serious about such things. It is simply not imaginable that they will
allow the mad mullahs to have their own Armageddon weapon.

When Israel strikes out against its genocidal enemy the Obama
gang may try to punish them. But Menachem Begin showed the
morally serious decision to make in such a case: You defend your
people first of all.

Being approved by this Chicago Mob isn't even a close second.

© American Thinker 2009
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/defeating_a_hitler_with_nukes.html

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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