Nationwide Campaign Called For As “Disinformation” Provades US Educational System
Press Release - Proclaiming Justice To The Nations (PJTN), June 18th, 2013(Nashville, Tennessee) -June 19, 2013 -Laurie Cardoza Moore, President of Pro-Israel organization Proclaiming Justice To The Nations (PJTN) is today taking the continuing debate to Capitol Hill in order to gain support for the removal of a textbook used statewide by high schools throughout the state of Tennessee for content it deems anti-Semitic.
Ms. Cardoza-Moore, Founder and President of PJTN is scheduled to testify today in Nashville before the Government Operations Sub-Committee in the Tennessee General Assembly during a hearing to address the concerns of a growing list of parents within the school district.
Following her meetings earlier this week with Williamson County Schools Superintendent, Dr. Michael Looney and the Williamson County Schools ad hoc committee, Ms. Cardoza Moore is now taking the issue to the state legislature to seek assistance in removing this textbook from Tennessee schools. "I was grateful to finally have the opportunity on Monday to present my concerns about the textbook in a formal hearing," noted Cardoza-Moore. "However, I am disappointed that the process is not being expedited, considering the deadline to order new textbooks is fast approaching."
Following her recent appearances on the Fox News Network to discuss the Tennessee textbook controversy, the awareness of her concerns has grown to enlist nationwide support from concerned parents around the country.
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A Half-Measure in Syria
Daniel Foster - National Review Online, June 17th, 2013The White House has announced that the president has authorized the “expansion of . . . assistance to the Supreme Military Council (SMC),” one of several military arms of the Syrian rebellion. This after a month of careful reflection on whether the Assad regime used chemical weapons and thus crossed the president’s “red line,” which, in fact, turned out to be more of a pinkish squiggle.
All indications are that this “expansion of assistance” will take shape as shipments of light weapons — rifles and other small arms.
There is little upside to this move. The Syrian rebels are already flush with Kalashnikovs (along with IEDs, the official weapon of global insurgency), and the Syrian regime has adapted to their guerrilla ambush tactics by holing up in well-defended fortresses dotting the countryside where the rebels are concentrated. As our own soldiers know well from Iraq and Afghanistan, you can’t defeat an insurgency from inside a holdfast. But neither can the insurgents dislodge the Syrian regime without the heavy weapons — anti-armor and anti-aircraft systems especially — that they really want from America.
The downside of arms shipments is obvious, and huge. The U.S. will no doubt try to restrict weapons shipments to the “more secular” or “more moderate” elements among the rebels, but that will certainly prove impossible, as it will require penetrating not just the fog of war but the fog of Islamism that has covered the entire Arab Spring. Some, perhaps most, of the arms will make their way to unfriendlies, which in some cases are directly aligned with al-Qaeda. Others will make their way across Syria’s borders and into the hands of terrorists in Iraq, or Lebanon, or Palestine....
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Peres endorses US plan to arm Syrian rebels
Unknown - ICEJ News, June 18th, 2013In an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of his 90th birthday party Monday, Israeli President Shimon Peres endorsed a recent decision by US President Barak Obama to arm rebel factions in Syria. But Assad himself told the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview published on Tuesday that the West would regret arming rebel factions battling his regime. "If the Europeans deliver weapons, the backyard of Europe will become terrorist and Europe will pay the price for it," he said. "Terrorists will gain experience in combat and return with extremist ideologies." Meanwhile, the Palestinian Islamist terror militia Hamas issued a statement Monday asking “Hezbollah to withdraw its forces from Syria and to keep their weapons pointed at the Zionist enemy, namely because their involvement in Syria has contributed to an increase of sectarian polarization in the region.”
"How can we allow Russia to continue to deliver arms to the Bashar Assad regime when the opposition receives very few and is being massacred?" French President Francois Hollande rhetorically asked colleagues at the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.
However, British Prime Minister David Cameron cautioned that “I am as worried as anybody else about elements of the Syrian opposition, who are extremists, who support terrorism and who are a great danger to our world."...
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Iran's new fanatic-in-chief
Michael Freund - The Jerusalem Post, June 18th, 2013Eleven years ago, a middle-aged, up-and-coming Iranian cleric sat down for a rare interview with ABC News. Though largely unknown to the West at the time, the bespectacled mullah served as chairman of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and was a key adviser to the Iranian president.
Despite knowing that he was appearing before a Western audience, the turbaned official made little effort to hide his uncompromising and extremist views. When asked why then-US President George W. Bush had included Iran as part of the "axis of evil," for example, the partisan Persian did not hesitate to invoke an anti-Semitic canard, blaming the Jews for America's policy.
"After September 11," he said, "the hardliners, especially the Zionist lobby, became more active and, unfortunately, influenced Mr. Bush."
A few minutes later, perhaps concerned that he had not gotten his point across, he went out of his way to reiterate that, "What we really see in the decision-making is the influence of the Zionist lobby. They are very influential in the administration as well as with members of Congress."...
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Feiglin: I Found the Money – We Spent It on Oslo
Maayana Miskin - Israel National News, June 18th, 2013The Oslo Accords, not Israeli “settlements,” are the real drain on Israel’s budget, MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud Beytenu) said Monday night, speaking from the Knesset podium.
Feiglin poked fun at Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid’s “where’s the money” election slogan, and at Lapid’s suggestion that Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria are a drain on Israel’s financial resources.
“As a resident of the settlements I decided to look for the money, in order to give it back,” he began. “I have an announcement: I found the money. I found 453 billion shekels.”
“You want to hear where the money is?” Feiglin continued. “86 billion over the past 20 years in Israeli transfers to the terrorist regime in Gaza called the Palestinian Authority.”...
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Palestinians Can Resolve Israeli Debate
Jonathan S. Tobin - Commentary Magazine, June 18th, 2013With the Palestinians stiffing Secretary of State John Kerry’s calls for them to rejoin talks with Israel without—as President Obama has asked them to do—preconditions, there really isn’t much to talk about what we call, for lack of a better term, the Middle East peace process. So instead the media is focusing on what is a purely theoretical argument between members of Israel’s government and claiming that this dispute, rather than the failure of the Palestinians to take advantage of President Obama’s advocacy for a two-state solution, is responsible for the impasse.
That’s the upshot of the furor over recent statements by Israel’s Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, who heads one of the parties that make up Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, and Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud, to the extent that the two-state solution is already dead and buried. According to Jodi Rudoren of the New York Times, this illustrates the deep division within Israeli society about both the desirability and the viability of the idea that peace will be achieved by creating a Palestinian state living alongside Israel. But the tempest over Bennett and Danon, both of whom would like Israel to begin to act as if there will never be a resolution of the conflict, isn’t really a new version of a decades-old internal debate about how peace can be achieved. That strategic argument was pretty much resolved in the last 20 years as even most of the political right that had long believed that Israel could settle all of the land west of the Jordan River as well as having peace came to understand that wasn’t going to happen.
Instead, what Israel is currently experiencing is a debate about tactics. Namely, should the country go on pretending as if peace with the Palestinians is possible to please Washington or call things by their rightful names and simply do what they want in terms of annexing part of the West Bank (Bennett’s solution) or simply stop talking about two states as Danon seems to want to do. The former position is more practical in terms of bolstering Israel’s diplomatic position, but the fact that Bennett and Danon are saying that there will be no two-state solution does not make it any less likely to happen if the Palestinians are willing to accept it. Those who claim these statements are actually damaging the prospects of peace don’t understand the facts of life in the Middle East or the realities of Israeli politics.
There is only one reason why Bennett and Danon are able to claim that the two-state solution is dead. It’s because they’re right....
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If you see something, say nothing
Andrew C. McCarthy - The New Criterion, June 1st, 2013...These are only the best-known aggressor verses. There are over 100 verses in the Koran that explicitly or implicitly endorse holy war. And that is what jihad, in the classic sense, is. Because jihad is a central tenet of Islam, authentic Muslim moderates must try to reinterpret it, to render it as a personal, internal struggle to become a better person—although even this overhaul means “better” not based on some universal standard of the good, but in the peculiarly Islamic sense of becoming more sharia-compliant. Still, the revisionist effort cannot bleach out the Koran’s jihad, which is incontestably forcible in nature. As Reliance of the Traveller succinctly teaches: “Jihad means to war against non-Muslims, and is etymologically derived from the word mujahada, signifying warfare to establish the religion.”
Warfare to establish the religion. Recall that establishing the religion—installing the laws of Islam—is what being an Islamist is all about. Warfare is just a method; it doesn’t change the underlying ideology. Indeed, if anything, it makes the ideology more pronounced.
This is why the Western depiction of jihadists is so risible. You are not to see them as “Islamists”; they are “violent extremists” . . . just make sure to avert your eyes from what it is that they are being extreme about. Violence, however, is a tactic, not an ideology; and appending “ism” to “extreme” cannot obscure that the word is an adjective in search of something to modify. That something is Islam. That is what the violence is about. Jihadists do not kill wantonly. They kill for a very specific purpose: to install the sharia legal system and societal framework. That this is a notoriously ruthless form of extortion does not mean it lacks extortion’s cold logic. The installation of sharia is what the Koran and hadith mean by “establish the religion.”
“It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated.” So taught Banna, the aforementioned Muslim Brotherhood founder. The mission of Islam, he elaborated, is “to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.” To achieve global hegemony, the Egyptian academic conceived a sophisticated plan for ground-up revolution, starting with indoctrination of the Muslim individual and family, building outward. The strategy was to pressure and infiltrate every influential institution of society, particularly academe, media, and government. A key goal, particularly in the early, strength-gaining stages, was for Islamists to ingratiate themselves with the society targeted for conquest. As internal Brotherhood memoranda seized by the FBI from the home of a top organization operative proclaimed, the American-based Islamists see their mission here primarily as “sabotage”—a “grand jihad” aimed at “the elimination and destruction of Western civilization from within.” But the specter of certain violence always hovers.
Banna called it the “art of death.” The laws of Islam could not ultimately be implemented without committing to the necessity of martyrdom and death. Not only does lethality directly clear the field of opposition; it terrorizes the infidel opponent. The extortionate effect, the fear of the next savage round, renders him more submissive to the jihad’s softer iterations—not least, the mere “political movement that favors reordering government and society in accordance with laws prescribed by Islam,” which our media and government are so anxious to bifurcate from Islamist violence....
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Moshe Arens on the 'demographic threat'
Unknown - Elder of Zion Blogspot, June 17th, 2013In Ha'aretz:
Many of the important decisions taken in the life of individuals or nations are not based on objective probabilities attached to future events. That information is usually nonexistent, and we may have recourse to game theoretic considerations or intuition in making decisions. When probabilities are introduced, they generally are on pretty shaky ground.
That is the case with the demographic projections that are promoted by those urging an Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria. Here we are advised by some that we should be prepared to cut out parts of the Land of Israel − Judea and Samaria, the biblical heartland − based on certain demographic prognostications indicating that in time the Jewish population would constitute a minority in the State of Israel unless this decision was taken now.
The Danish-Jewish physicist Niels Bohr famously said that prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. That is certainly true in this case. Most past demographic forecasts in Israel have turned out to be wrong.
If this was no more than an academic exercise, there would be nothing to get excited about; the forecasts could be published in an academic journal and we could revisit the data in another 10 or 20 years. But those using these demographic forecasts hold them as a Damocles sword above our heads, insisting that we take a decision now and abandon Judea and Samaria, a decision that would be irreversible....
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Obama's Snooping Excludes Mosques, Missed Boston Bombers
Editorial - Investor's Business Daily, June 12th, 2013Homeland Insecurity: The White House assures that tracking our every phone call and keystroke is to stop terrorists, and yet it won't snoop in mosques, where the terrorists are.
That's right, the government's sweeping surveillance of our most private communications excludes the jihad factories where homegrown terrorists are radicalized.
Since October 2011, mosques have been off-limits to FBI agents. No more surveillance or undercover string operations without high-level approval from a special oversight body at the Justice Department dubbed the Sensitive Operations Review Committee.
Who makes up this body, and how do they decide requests? Nobody knows; the names of the chairman, members and staff are kept secret....
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Betrayal in Benghazi
Colonel Phil Handley - FrontPage Magazine, May 30th, 2013The combat code of the US Military is that we don’t abandon our dead or wounded on the battlefield. In US Air Force lingo, fighter pilots don’t run off and leave their wingmen. If one of our own is shot down, still alive and not yet in enemy captivity, we will either come to get him or die trying. Among America’s fighting forces, the calm, sure knowledge that such an irrevocable bond exists is priceless. Along with individual faith and personal grit, it is a sacred trust that has often sustained hope in the face of terribly long odds.
The disgraceful abandonment of our Ambassador and those brave ex-SEALs who fought to their deaths to save others in that compound is nothing short of dereliction-of-duty. Additionally, the patently absurd cover-up scenario that was fabricated in the aftermath was an outright lie in attempt to shield the President and the Secretary of State from responsibility.
It has been over eight months since the attack on our compound in Benghazi. The White House strategy, with the aid of a “lap dog press” has been to run out the clock before the truth is forthcoming. The recent testimonies of the three “whistle blowers” have reopened the subject and hopefully will lead to exposure and disgrace of those responsible for this embarrassing debacle.
It would appear that the most recent firewall which the Administration is counting on is the contention that there were simply no military assets that could be brought to bear in time to make a difference… mainly due to the unavailability of tanker support for fighter aircraft. This is simply BS, regardless how many supposed “experts” the Administration trot out to make such an assertion. The bottom line is that even if the closest asset capable of response was half-way around the world, you don’t just sit on your penguin *** and do nothing. The fact is that the closest asset was not half-way around the world, but as near as Aviano Air Base, Italy where two squadrons of F-16Cs are based....
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