Obama’s Speech To Israeli Leftists Mirrors Cairo Speech

March 22, 2013 Leave a comment

President Obama has been gallivanting around Israel the past few days. His visit is interesting in that it parallels a visit to Egypt in 2009. In his Cairo visit, Obama held a speech at a university filled with hand picked radicals including the Muslim Brotherhood. Rather than speak to the Knesset, Obama chose to speak to another group of hand picked university radicals. In Cairo he included the Muslim Brotherhood, in Israel he spoke to a room where only half stood and cheered when Obama said Israel had a right to statehood. One wonders what Obama’s end game is here in Israel. In Egypt he empowered the Arab Spring radicals. Who is he empowering now?

Obama’s flowery rhetoric for the press can easily be ignored. He suggested the difference between the Palestinians and Israelis is no different than the Canadians and Americans. Last I checked, Canada wasn’t launching rockets on the daily into the United States. It’s easy to dismiss this sort of nonsense argument, as it is easy to dismiss Obama’s positive rhetoric about Israel. Are we to believe he’s done a 180 on Israel in the last few months?

What is interesting about this trip is who he’s speaking to. Like in Egypt he wants to speak to the “leaders of tomorrow” at a hand picked university speech. He even referenced his Cairo speech, telling the crowd of radicals he spoke to people “just like you.” No doubt, they are as they were all hand selected radical leftists. He also said the following:

And let me say this as a politician — I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks.  You must create the change that you want to see.  Ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things.

In this line he’s essentially telling a group of radical leftists to push their government to “take some risks.” He said largely the same thing to the Cairo university, which included leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. They took his words to heart and started a revolution. Don’t think Obama doesn’t know exactly what he’s doing here. He’s signaling to the radical left in Israel and the Palestinians that the United States will do nothing to help Israel if there is a leftist revolution.

Like in Egypt, the Israeli leftists and Palestinians were watching and listening closely to what Obama said in this speech. He’s made it clear that he wants them to push Israel, he’s made it clear the US won’t help the current state of Israel. What these radicals do with this news is anyone’s guess. One would think this was a call for a Palestinian uprising supported by radical Israeli leftists. Israel is perhaps in a better position to defend itself than Egypt was, so who knows which side will come out victorious. World opinion of Israel has turned sharply against the state in the last decade, so perhaps the Palestinians can count on world support. (remember just a decade ago it was “anti-Semitic” to oppose Israel or anything Jewish? Now the media openly attacks the state. Why?)

Hopefully Obama’s speech won’t amount to anything. But in a year when Israel is in turmoil, we can look back to this speech as the start of whatever is taking place. Obama may be over playing his hand in Israel, but look for the Palestinians to start something big at some point. They’ll look to the US for support and odds are they’ll get it indirectly from this administration. They’ll get it directly from our media who will pretend like it’s some sort of spontaneous uprising when in reality it will be a planned event. An event, that has ties directly to the President. We need to be paying attention here, Israel will be the next major world crisis.

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Israel On The Brink Of War

November 15, 2012 2 Comments

While everyone in the US is paying attention to the salacious details of the David Petraeus fornication scandal, there are other things going on in the world. (in fairness, there are other things going on with Petraeus as well) Israel has launched a handful of bombs on Syria and perhaps more importantly has launched several bombs on Gaza killing a top Hamas commander. The Gaza attack is being described by Israel as a major offensive. Israel has already hit 20 underground rocket sites in Gaza. The Israeli army has declared they are prepared for a major ground offensive in Gaza should it be necessary.

Rather unsurprisingly Hamas has fired several rockets into Israeli border towns. Hamas is of course associated with Iran, which in response to the attacks on Gaza are conducting massive drills in preparation for war with Israel. Egypt, formerly an ally of Israel under Mubarak, is supporting Hamas and threatening to get involved. Obama’s response has largely been silent, though he allegedly called Israel and Egypt trying to talk them off the ledge. None of these events are particularly surprising. They’re a direct result of Obama’s foreign policy which has done little more than placate radical Islam at the expense of our ally Israel.

Obama refuses to get tough with Iran then we’re supposed to be shocked when Hamas fires rockets into Israel at will. Obama has consistently looked the other way as Iran has armed Hamas. In Egypt, Obama actively supported the overthrow of Mubarak knowing full well the anti-Israel Muslim Brotherhood would take control of the country. The Muslim Brotherhood is on record wanting to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. Did Obama think he’s amazing oratory would be able to convince the Brotherhood not to do that? Obama continues to fund the Egyptian Army to the tune of over $1 billion annually. We’re essentially funding the army that will attack our ally in Israel. (message to the GOP House: Cut foreign aid funding for Egypt)

Obama’s apology tour in 2009 did exactly what it intended to do. It demonstrated American weakness in the middle east. It told radical Islamic groups that the United States would be largely unwilling to get involved in disputes involving Israel. It set the stage for Arab Spring in which radical Islamic groups overthrew relatively pro-American regimes and replaced them with vehemently anti-Israel regimes who do little more than pay lip service to the United States. Now we’re on the brink of war in the middle east, a war which can hardly be called unforeseeable. Iran has been threatening war for years with Hamas as its puppet. Egypt has longed for war ever since the Muslim Brotherhood took over. Obama’s foreign policy has been a success, if we define success as weakening America and achieving Obama’s personal goals.

Obama is going to go through the motions of trying to avoid a war. Odds are he will not get US troops involved in any meaningful way. He doesn’t want to support Israel and he doesn’t have support at home to join the Brotherhood and Iran. He’ll pay lip service to Israel while doing very little in their defense. The result of that is that the war, if one should occur, will be particularly nasty and bloody. Without the backing of its major ally, don’t be surprised if Israel uses its nuclear weapons if it feels like its backed up against a wall. While everyone here in the US is focused on Petraeus’ adultery, we’re not focused on a potential war in the middle east to say nothing of the Benghazi cover up. It’s time for us to start paying attention.

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Obama Thinks Israel’s Concerns About Iran Just “Noise”

September 24, 2012 2 Comments

On 60 Minutes Obama said he believes that Israel is “one of our closest allies in the middle east.” One wonders what nation is closer to the US than Israel. In fact, one wonders what middle eastern country even comes close to Israel. Is it Egypt, with its staged Embassy attack two weeks ago? Perhaps Saudi Arabia with its network of terrorists. Iraq maybe? No, Obama wouldn’t want to give Bush credit for something like that. So what nation in Obama’s mind is closer to the United States in the middle east than Israel. We of course got no follow up question from CBS on the matter.

It gets better though. According to Obama, Israel’s concerns about Iranian nuclear capabilities is just “noise.” In Obama’s world Benjamin Netanyahu is the annoying ankle biter across the street who won’t stop yapping. Like an ankle biter or similarly annoying barking dog, Obama has tuned Netanyahu out. We sort of knew that already since Obama is refusing to meet with the Israeli PM this week. For a nation that’s supposedly a close ally, Obama sure seems willing to ignore their concerns. Israel’s concerns aren’t exactly unfounded. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is on record wanting to wipe Israel off the map. When Israel objects, that’s just noise to Obama.

Interestingly Obama isn’t the only one to use the term noise when it comes to Israel. Ahmadinejad used the same term ‘noise’ in an article published yesterday by the Washington Post. It doesn’t appear as though Obama and Ahmadinejad are copying one another. Obama gave his 60 Minutes interview a few days ago but it wasn’t released until last night. The Ahmadinejad article appeared Sunday morning. Still, it’s interesting that both Obama and Ahmadinejad use the same terminology when it comes to Israel. Obama really believes that Israel is just making noise. Ahmadinejad knows Obama doesn’t like Netanyahu and is probably taunting both the US and Israel.

Obama must think he has this election in the bag. He’s clearly not interested in whether he offends Jewish voters. Maybe he already has their money and doesn’t care anymore. Or perhaps he realizes that most Jewish voters live in New York and California which will be blue states whether Jews vote Obama or not. Evangelical voters, who foolishly believe modern Israel is some sort of reincarnation of Biblical Israel and thus support Israel without question, aren’t of much interest to Obama either. Odds are most evangelicals weren’t going to vote for Obama. So perhaps Obama doesn’t think there is any political risk in downplaying Israel’s importance and dismissing their concerns.

The problem though is that Obama seems to be looking at this from a purely political standpoint. There is more to foreign policy than Obama’s re-election. By dismissing our longtime ally, we’re sending two messages to the middle east. First, being our ally doesn’t have any perks because the President will dismiss you without cause at his whim. Second, we’re signaling to nations in the middle east who want to see Israel destroyed that we won’t do much to help them if they are attacked.

The consequences of both these messages are troubling. Why would any nation in the middle east want to be an American ally when we dismiss our longtime friends so quickly and without cause? For those nations who want to destroy Israel, they must be licking their chops. Even if Obama helps defend Israel, it’s likely to be a half hearted effort. He clearly cannot stand the Israelis. He’s basically giving countries like Iran permission to attack. After all, our President isn’t much concerned about those Jews yapping in the back ground.

Israel should not be supported without question and at all cost. But when they are threatened with nuclear annihilation by a country that we know is trying to obtain nuclear weapons, it might be wise of us to listen to Israel’s concerns. If we allow our only long time, largely unquestioned ally in the middle east to be destroyed then we will have no influence in that region whatsoever. Nations in the middle east would view the destruction of Israel as the destruction of the United States. They wouldn’t listen to us anymore, much less care to be allies with us. Obama doesn’t seem concerned about any of this but voters should be.

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Obama’s Foreign Policy Failure On Display in Egypt, Libya

September 12, 2012 6 Comments

The US Ambassador to Libya is dead. Our embassy in Egypt yesterday was attacked by Muslims. Both of these nations were stable when Obama took office. Then he decided to support the Islamic socialists in the Muslim Brotherhood. The so-called Arab spring took place and now both of those countries are in chaos. It should come as no surprise that the Muslim hordes have turned on the Americans who supported them. This is all entirely predictable. Thanks to Obama’s absurd foreign policy we have a dead ambassador and two destroyed embassy’s. How’s that Arab spring working out?

Apparently the Islamic socialists are all worked up about an amateur film which is disparaging of Mohammed. The film was made by Egyptian expats, so of course the US is responsible. The US Embassy in Cairo had the following to say about yesterday’s attack:

The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.

In other words, the United States apparently rejects the idea of free speech so long as that speech ‘hurts’ those of religious faith. In other words, our government opposes films or other speech produced against Mohammed. We’ll pretend that the same government didn’t have a problem funding “art” which amounts to little more than a crucifix in a jar of urine or other forms of “art” which attacks the Christian faith. No, it’s only Mohammed that cannot be spoken against, lest our Cairo Embassy be outraged. The administration is trying to walk back from the Embassy statement but the damage is already done. The Embassy represents the United States in Egypt, they made the statement, once it’s made it represents our country.

The madness doesn’t stop there. Obama refuses to meet with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Apparently the President’s schedule is just too full to meet with the PM of our only ally in the middle east. While our Embassy in Egypt burns and our ambassador’s are dying, Obama will have a moment for an appearance on David Letterman’s silly show. Now that’s some leadership eh? Obama has allowed things to devolve to the point where he’s openly feuding with Israel while his pals in the Muslim Brotherhood are burning down our Embassy’s and killing our ambassador’s. One wonders if we have any allies in the middle east thanks to Obama.

Obama has aided and abetted the destabilization of North Africa and the middle east. He supported the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, which overthrew a stable pro-US government. He supported the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya, who was marginally pro-US and in the very least stable. Elsewhere he’s been inconsistent, sometimes supporting Arab revolution and other times not supporting it, even when the Muslim Brotherhood is involved. In Iran, he refused to support real democracy demonstrators. In Syria he’s been all over the place. Obama doesn’t have a core foreign policy outlook other than he hates everything the US has ever done in the middle east. Unfortunately that isn’t a very good basis for consistent foreign policy.

Obama’s lack of consistent policy and his lack of a serious core objective is now rearing its ugly face. He’s openly feuding with our only long term ally in the region. The two countries he openly supported in revolution have turned on the United States, destroyed our embassy’s and killed one ambassador. The rest of the region isn’t any better, Obama has no idea what to do in Syria, Afghanistan is an absolute mess and Iran continues to threaten to nuke Israel. But of course, Obama can’t be bothered to meet with the Israeli PM to discuss the matter. Meanwhile the voice of our government in Egypt condemns free speech and supports the Muslims attacking them. Which of course means that Obama has no control over his embassy’s.

Obama’s first term hasn’t just been an economic disaster for the country, it’s been a foreign policy disaster as well. We’re seeing that today. Obviously the economy is going to be the number one issue this November, no one will pretend that this election will be a repeat of 2004. But it is important to note what a disaster Obama has been for this country internationally. It isn’t just his 2009 apology tour, it’s his active policy that is hurting us. We now have two destroyed embassy’s and a dead ambassador all thanks to Obama’s support for Islamic socialists in the Muslim Brotherhood. Do we want four more years of this?

UPDATE: The corpse of American ambassador Christopher Stevens is being paraded around by the Muslim mobs. What an absolutely disgrace.

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Some Thoughts On The London Olympics

July 28, 2012 4 Comments

The Olympics are a fascinating event. The London Olympics began last night with an opening show that included an ode to socialist medicine. Yet the Olympics tell us to put politics aside for two weeks. That doesn’t happen of course. A Greek jumper was thrown out of the Olympics for a supposedly racist tweet but the South African flag bearer won’t be punished for walking into the stadium last night flashing the black power sign. An Iranian is claiming a “gut” injury so he won’t have to play Israel. The Olympics claim they will clamp down on this sort of nonsense but then they refuse to have a moment of silence to remember the 1972 Munich attack 40 years ago. Also, somehow Palestine is a nation yet it isn’t. And here we thought this was a non-political event.

Our Olympic team looked ridiculous last night. Nothing says American like beret’s and outfits that make the fellas look like men of leisure circa 1935 and the ladies look like stewardesses. Everyone made such a deal over the fact that these outfits were made in China. The real problem is that they’re ugly and they have nothing to do with the United States. All the other countries wore outfits that in some way represented their nation. What exactly about the American outfit represented the US? Just because an American designed them doesn’t mean they represent the country. Where are the cowboy hats or stetson’s? Where are the cowboy boots? Why do our ladies look like stewardesses?

Mitt Romney is over at the Olympics. Apparently he hopes to see his wife Ann’s horse in one of the equestrian events. He suggested earlier in the week that London wasn’t ready to host the games. He’s right of course, London has all sorts of problems heading into this week. Not the least of which is a taxi strike that forced Romney to hoof it across London to speak with Irish leaders. They also have a threatened customs officials strike scheduled for this weekend. Traffic is a major concern, as is public transportation. They’re having security issues as well. So no, London isn’t all that prepared for these disasters. But still, what was the point of saying the obvious? Romney is overseas to spread good will, get a little good press, smile and be looked at. Even if his comments were right, they distracted from his goals.

How many people know the Nazi origins of the Olympic torch race? Everyone views the torch race is an Olympic tradition, one of these absurd little events where we pretend there is solidarity within a nation and between nations. The fact though is that the torch race is an invention of the Nazi’s who used it as a massive propaganda tool for the 1936 Olympics. Hitler had the torch race start in Olympia, complete with a German band and swastika’s flying. It wound it’s way north to Berlin, where only the very best looking blonde haired and blue eyed Aryan’s carried the torch to the Stadium. It makes you wonder why the torch race has become an Olympic tradition.

I hope the Americans do well in London. For the next two weeks we’ll be subjected to hours of sports we never knew we cared about (think: swimming and weight lifting) and hours of sappy NBC created story lines. Let’s face it though, all the sappy stories are dreadful and the Olympics themselves have lost a lot of their importance in our lives. The Cold War made the Olympics important. It was the United States vs. Soviet Union. It was Western freedom vs. Eastern communism. The Olympics have never been as interesting since the fall of communism, not that we would give that up for two weeks of amusement every four years. Still, deep in your heart you know these Olympics won’t be as exciting or as interesting as they were 24 years ago. Now, someone wake me up when the tennis is on. I want to see Venus and Serena on Centre Court again  beating down their opponents.

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Dems Lose NY-9; Should Be Concerned About Losing Jewish Vote

September 14, 2011 Leave a comment

The GOP scored an upset win in New York’s 9th district last night. Rep. Weiner’s old seat has been held by Democrats since 1923. That didn’t stop Dem spin doctors like Debbie Wasserman-Schultz from declaring that NY-9 is a “tough district for Democrats.” I guess in her mind losing once every 88 years makes for a tough district. This was not so much a Republican victory as it is a Democrat defeat. Make no mistake, the GOP will lose this seat if not next year than in 2014. Yesterday’s vote was a vote against Obama, which does not bode well for him or his party.

Why did NY-9 vote against Obama and the Democrats? No doubt a down economy is really hurting Obama right now. But one thing that should be noted about NY-9 is that it has a large number of Orthodox Jews and they aren’t particularly happy with Obama’s position on Israel. I’m not sure that Orthodox Jews living in Queens and Brooklyn are alone enough to swing a district that Weiner won by 20 points, but they clearly aren’t pleased.

Obama’s foreign policy is not well thought out. Obama makes a lot of grand sweeping statements and gestures that sound great at the time they’re said. But they aren’t thought out and as a result they’ve created more problems for this administration and our nation. Obama has gone over to the middle east several times to appease Muslim countries. He’s gone so far as to support a Palestinian state with the 1967 borders. He’s even demanded a September 2011 vote on Palestinian statehood in the UN.

No doubt these statements have made Muslim leaders happy. But Obama’s problem is that they weren’t thought out. Now we’re approaching the September vote in the UN and the administration is scrambling to stop the vote. Why? We can begin with the fact that the Palestinians are still run by terrorists who continue to launch bombs into Israel as well as kidnap Israeli citizens. The Muslim nations Obama has tried to appease are currently attacking Israeli embassy’s. Obama’s appeasement made these leaders happy at the time but now they want to move to the next stage in the destruction of Israel and Obama isn’t ready for it yet.

Obama’s foreign policy has been inconsistent and it leaves everyone wondering what he’s really up to. His administration is full of Muslim Brotherhood supporters who at the end of the day want to wipe Israel off the map. Obama has spent most of his administration appeasing these people and opposing Israel. But the flip to that is that Obama relies on Jewish financiers here in the US for his election. He on some level depends on a Jewish vote that is overwhelmingly Democrat.

Obama is now in trouble because his poorly thought out middle east policy is hitting him in the pocketbook and at the ballot box. Who does he support, the Muslim Brotherhood supporters who want to destroy Israel (not to mention capitalism and western society) or does he support Israel and reap the campaign cash and votes that come with it? His base position is more in line with the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks to destroy not only Israel but also capitalism and western society. My guess is that he will make a big show of suspending the UN vote until after the November 2012 election. He’ll try to patch up his Jewish base while continuing to bow to the Muslim Brotherhood types.

In the end, it likely won’t work. Obama is clearly on record supporting the 1967 borders, which is unacceptable to Israel or most American Jews. In fact, bizarrely, it isn’t acceptable to a legion of evangelical Christians who foolishly believe that modern Israel is the reincarnation of ancient Israel. The 1967 borders are unacceptable for the simple fact that the Palestinians continue to bomb Israel and the old borders only allow Israel an 8 mile stretch of land between the northern and southern portions of the state. It’s a military disaster in the making for Israel, independent of any theological or emotional reason one might have to oppose the old borders.

Obama is clearly losing the support of his base Democrats. He cannot afford to lose the Jewish vote for if Obama loses the Jewish vote he may lose it for the Democrats forever. Obama probably doesn’t care about this, Democrats should. Democrats should especially be concerned after yesterday’s election. Obama is trying to suspend the Palestinian statehood vote, likely until after the election. If it becomes clear that Obama isn’t going to win, it’s entirely possible he’ll push for statehood before he leaves office. Democrats should oppose this across the board. If Obama allows a Palestinian state, American Jews and their money will forever leave the Democrat Party. As a Republican, I’m happy to have more people join the party and spend their money on our pro-Israel candidates. The Democrats should be very, very concerned about this. Obama is no longer simply an economic liability, he’s turned into a foreign policy and fundraising liability for the Dems.

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Obama Throws Israel Under The Bus; Supports Islamic Radicals

May 20, 2011 4 Comments

Yesterday the President threw long time ally Israel under the bus by bowing to Palestinian demands for a separate state with the old 1967 borders. This decision by Obama is absurd on its face. If you’ll recall in 1967 the Palestinians, aided by their Muslim allies, went to war with Israel. Israel won, which created the current border situation. Why ever would Israel agree to return to the borders that created a war is beyond all logic. Israel of course has rejected Obama’s demand and is prepared for confrontation with him.

In making yesterday’s announcement it has become clear that Obama is not the moderate liberal that he’s attempted to make himself out to be. He is the same radical socialist that he was when he was a community organizer in Chicago. All of the radicals he has known, from Jeremiah Wright to Bill Ayers to Van Jones and so on, were not just random people in Obama’s life. He has intentionally surrounded himself with radical socialists and communist because he in fact is one himself. It’s been no secret that the radical left in the United States supports the Islamic socialist revolutions taking place in the middle east. Obama’s announcement yesterday proves that Obama is a radical leftist and it proves that this whole Arab spring is a big orchestrated fraud.

What is the goal of the radical Islamic socialists in the middle east? To kill the Jews. Egypt, days after their successful revolution, saw massive rallies in the streets cheering war with Israel. Kill the Jews, Jews are vermin, this is what the rallying cry has been in Egypt. Hamas has been exactly the same, they want to kill the Jews. Iran wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. It is the 1930′s all over again and our President isn’t just sitting idly by like FDR did, he’s actively supporting the destruction of Israel.

It’s hard to say whether Obama is an out right anti-Semitic Jew hater or if he’s just a socialist ideologue going along with the plan. My guess is the latter. The socialists have long hated the Jews because of their ties to capitalism. This dates back to the National Socialists in Germany, even the Communists in Russia persecuted the Jews. It should come as no surprise that a group of people tied to capitalism are under attack by socialists. What’s most disturbing about this though is that relatively recent history saw the murder of 5 million Jews at the hands of National Socialists and untold thousands more at the hands of Stalin. For all the talk about the Jewish Holocaust in schools and all the remembering that we are forced to do, it seems history is repeating itself.

History really is repeating itself. The Muslim Brotherhood had ties to Hitler and the National Socialists, as do any number of other radical Islamic groups. During the Second World War the middle east was largely controlled by the British and thus the German’s and the radical Muslims became allies. The Germans began the final solution, it appears the Islamic socialists want to finish what their ally started. What’s amazing is that our President is supporting what amounts to the beginning of the end of Israel.

Make no mistake, if the 1967 borders ever become reality there will be a war in the middle east. The radical Muslims want to kill the Jews and they will prepare for war. Israel will have to face the Palestinians, Egyptians and probably the Syrians all at once. Iran of course will be involved, if not officially than in the background. Whether Israel can hold its own remains to be seen. If they cannot, the entire nation will be destroyed and there will be a massacre of Jews. Muslims around the world will hail this as a great thing and we here in America will sit back on horror wondering how it could have happened. It will have happened because we chose to look the other way, once again, when people said they wanted to kill all the Jews. It will have happened because our radical, socialist President threw our ally under the bus.

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Radical Leftist Activists Disrupt Church, Book Signing

May 18, 2011 Leave a comment

I’ve been struck over the last two days at the difference between conservative/Tea Party protesters and protesters on the left. When Pelosi was Speaker the left made a big deal out of a handful of townhall meetings that got a little out of control. Conservatives had the audacity to show up and ask tough questions, not letting liberal Congressmen get away with not responding or telling half truths. Recently radical homosexual activists threw glitter on Newt Gingrich, presumably because he opposes homosexual marriage. In Texas, anti-Jewish leftists disrupted a church service of a pastor who is apparently pro-Israel. The difference between the two forms of protests are telling about each side of the debate.

As evidenced by my post yesterday, I am no fan of Newt Gingrich. However I find it outrageous that some wicked, homosexual activist has disrupted a book signing by throwing what appears to be a bucket of glitter on the former House Speaker. There is a time and a place to disagree with pols, but a private book signing is not the place. Throwing things and disrupting events isn’t the way either. I’m sure the glitter thrower thinks he’s doing something terribly profound but in reality he just comes off as a moron. Anyone who cannot engage in dialogue and has to resort to dramatic, staged antics like this isn’t worth listening to and his position isn’t valid. But no doubt on the radical left, particularly among the radical, degenerate homosexual activists the glitter thrower will be hailed as a hero. It suggests something about their position.

In Texas a church service was disrupted by anti-Jewish protesters who one by one got up and shouted anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli statements. The church is pastored by John Hagee. I am no fan of his. I detest his theology and believe is end times induced support of modern Israel is badly misplaced and leading many Christians astray. But that doesn’t give me the right to stand up in his church and disrupt his church services. Are we no longer safe at church from self-absorbed protesters who want to stick their precious little issue in our face? Are Americans not free to hold church or other events to discuss our mutual agreements without fear that radical leftist protests will show up and disrupt the entire meeting?

If you disagree with Gingrich, Hagee or anyone else you’re free to do any number of things. You can take to the internet and write about your disagreements or you can produce You Tube videos discussing your disagreements. If you must, you can hold a peaceful demonstration outside of their church or headquarters. You can also confront these people in open forums, such as townhall meetings.

Had the anti-Jewish protesters simply held a demonstration on the sidewalk in front of Hagee’s church they would have been well within their right to protest. Had the homosexual protesters held a demonstration in front of the book store where Newt was signing his book they would have been well within their rights. Instead they disrupted activities, including a church service. This is the opposite of anything the Tea Party or other protesters on the right have done. The right has always voiced their opinions directly at townhall and other such meetings or in lawful and peaceful demonstrations on public property. We have never overtaken a church and destroyed a church service so that we can get our precious little points across. The radical left apparently will not even respect a House of God when they want their so very important personal opinions heard.

Americans must reject these in your face and disruptive forms of protest. Protest and disagreement are great and it’s important for the country to engage in peaceful political dialogue. But we cannot and should not tolerate disruptions at churches or other speaking engagements and we should not tolerate protesters disrupting events by throwing objects at people. When protesters do such things, their precious little issues are proven to be irrelevant and/or their arguments weak.

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Arab Spring Erupts: Israel Under Attack On All Fronts

May 16, 2011 Leave a comment

The fruition of the grand Arab Spring has begun. With all its grand talk of democracy, the revolutions held in Egypt and the attempted revolutions elsewhere in the middle east haven’t given the people freedom, a better life or for that matter democracy. The goal of the revolutions was never democracy or freedom, the goal was to get rid of current regimes and install Islamic Socialist states with strong ties to Iran. Iran’s goal of course is to rid the world of Israel and create an Islamic caliphate if not throughout the world than at least throughout the middle east.

Over the weekend Israel came under attack by protesters seeking to illegally enter the country through Lebanon, Syria and Gaza. This has been the goal of the democracy protest organizers all along. Egypt is preparing to elect a leader from the Muslim Brotherhood, which of course has strong times to Hamas. Hamas wants Israel wiped off the face of the Earth. Keep in mind, Hamas is one of the bigger groups representing the Palestinians, a group that is apparently going to have a vote in the UN over whether to recognize Palestine as a state in September.

Israel is under attack on all fronts and there is no telling what Obama is going to do about it. The media is trumping up Obama’s foreign policy after the Osama killing but when it comes to actual foreign policy, the media has largely ignored his errors. Israel is facing attacks at their borders today, Hamas has been launching rockets into Israel for years. Now Israel is facing serious political attack at the UN. If the UN votes to give the Palestinians statehood, Hamas and other radical groups will be able to conduct full scale war against Israel and will be able to secure official backing by other Muslim states.

The big question is whether Obama will use America’s veto power at the UN. All indications seem to point towards him not  using the veto. This is a vote that is coming up in September, so there’s still time for Obama to do the right thing. But assuming he does not, Israel will be stuck responding to the UN’s creation of a Palestinian state. It likely will not be supportive of the UN’s actions, which of course the Muslims want. That will give Egypt and other Muslim states the excuse to in the very least break their peace agreements with Israel and at worse go to war with Israel.

The grand Arab spring that Obama and other leftists so joyfully welcomed is turning out to be little more than a preparation for war with Israel. The people in Egypt are no better off than they were under Mubarak, in fact polls indicate that they may be worse off. They’re essentially exchanging one tyrant for another. All of these protests and revolutions were little more than fronts for Iran backed groups like the Muslim Brotherhood. It’s been amazing to watch American leftists get in bed with these people, all because of their mutual love of socialism and their hatred for Israel and the United States.

This summer is going to be very difficult on the foreign policy front. Israel is going to face increasing attacks and increasing political pressure to accept a Palestinian state. Hopefully they will resist because a Palestinian state will not be a peaceful state. The left-wing media will no doubt treat Israel like they’re the bad guy when in fact they are seeking to protect their citizens from war. We must recognize what’s going on here and reject the media and the left’s support for totalitarian Islamic socialist dictatorships masquerading as democracies. We must support the one free country in the middle east: Israel.

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Why I Support Israel Over Islamic Socialism

April 12, 2011 1 Comment

I support Israel and am shocked at the Obama administration’s move away from supporting Israel as an ally. There are a lot of Christians out there who support the current state of Israel because they believe it to be the reincarnation of the Israel of scripture. Such people tend to believe that Israel’s existence is a sign of upcoming end times. I couldn’t disagree with such a position more. The current state of Israel is not the reincarnation of scriptural Israel. It is little more than a secular country filled with people who need Christ just like the people in Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere.

I do however support Israel and desire the United States to have a closer diplomatic relationship than it currently does under Obama’s leadership. This is because Israel is the lone nation in the middle east with a free and republican form of government. They are a strategic ally in the middle east and a nation that closer shares our values than the Muslim nations in the middle east. Israel is the lone nation of freedom in a part of the world that loves tyranny and barbarity more than anything else.

Make no mistake, the leaders of the Muslim world are brutal. They kill women for not wearing enough clothing, they deny their people freedom of speech, religion etc. Israel is the opposite, they are a western country that shares our western values. It is important for the United States to be allied with them. Especially so in the face of the Islamic socialism that is currently sweeping the middle east.

Egypt has long been an ally with Israel. It has for quite some time been a moderate Muslim nation. However today thanks to the Muslim Brotherhood, aided by the Obama administration, Egypt is no longer an ally with Israel they have as a nation moved towards a more radical and extreme version of Islam. The Brotherhood wants to go to war with Israel. Meanwhile the current government in Egypt is busy locking up bloggers. Conditions aren’t any better in Egypt, they’re in fact worse. Tourism has been destroyed and people are starving. This has only made the move to radical Islam more extreme.

Meanwhile Iran is busy building 4-5 nuclear reactors.  This is a nation that wants to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth and no one seems to be saying anything about Iran continuing forward with their nuclear program. If you think for a second that they aren’t going to build a bomb to drop on Israel you’re bananas. There is no doubt that, if given the opportunity, Iran will nuke Israel.

The UN recently declared that the Palestinians are ready for statehood. The UN is going to push hard for Palestinian statehood as there is a vote coming up in September on this subject. The Palestinians are busy launching rockets into Israel and murdering Israeli families in cold blood. The Palestinians celebrated by handing out candy in the streets over the murders. Just a few weeks ago Palestinians bombed a bus in Jerusalem. This sounds like a group of people who are ready for statehood, if of course statehood means they get to immediately declare war on Israel.

Who happens to be the Palestinians biggest ally? Iran of course. What does Iran want to do? Wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. A Palestinian state will do little more than allow Iran to further wield power in in the region. Iran will use the new state to launch attacks on Israel, be the attacks nuclear or conventional.

This is important for the United States. We need to stand against Islamic socialism throughout the world. Make no mistake, these radical Muslims want to create a global caliphate and they’re beginning in the middle east. The last thing we want to deal with is a caliphate of radical Muslims with a socialist bent. The more broken up the Muslim world is, the easier it will be for the United States to buy oil and conduct business. The minute the Islamic world is able to unite in a caliphate is the minute oil because more expensive than any of us can afford. It is important for the US to remains allies with Israel because they are the only nation blocking the caliphate. A Palestinian state will lead to the destruction of Israel and with Israel out of the way Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood will be free to create a caliphate.

Our interests are at stake in Israel. This is why it is maddening to watch President Obama turn his back on our longtime ally. Israel is important, not because it’s some sort of reincarnation of ancient Biblical Israel but because it is the one thing blocking an Islamic caliphate. We must stand with Israel against the radical Islamic socialists.

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