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The Stories Behind the News


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Friday Afternoon Roundup - J Street's Anti-Israel Hate Fest Goes
off the Rails


Posted: 16 Oct 2009 03:00 PM PDT




The Pro-Hamas, Anti-Israel group J Street is holding
its first annual gala dinner and thanks to the Obama Administration's
backing, they've managed to bring a lot of congressmen on board. This is
meant to be a major coup for the Anti-Israel organization by bringing a
third of congress on board, giving them equal leverage to
AIPAC.

But their number is already dwindling. The Weekly Standard
helped
inform one of the few Republicans
on the list, Rep Mike Castle, of
just what kind of feast this was, and he dropped out... particularly when

told that one of J Street's featured speakers had a history
of making some very ugly
remarks.

This was followed by the
departure of New York Senator Schumer and his pet Gillibrand. Followed by
the
departure of Senator Cochran and Congressman
Mike Ross
. Most of them have said that they have no idea how their
names got on the list, which suggests that either J Street stupidly put
politicians on the list without checking first, or that they're having
second thoughts.

Today Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Reps.
Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Leonard Boswell (D-IA) also joined those
departing the J Street list.
Lincoln
again claimed not to know her name was on the list
.

So to pinch hit, J Street
has
brought in Obama's Saudi National
Security Advisor, James L. Jones, a
truly perfect figure to match with the likes of Al Franken, Robert Wexler
and Chuck Hagel. And of course you can't forget the Saudi backed hate
group MPAC...



Condemning America for “Terrorism”: In response to
America’s attack on terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan in August
1998, MPAC Senior Advisor Maher Hathout said: “Our country is committing
an act of terrorism. What we did is illegal, immoral, unhuman,
unacceptable, stupid and un-American.” He also said America’s
anti-terror action would be to blame for future hate crimes in the U.S.:
“If our country commits hate crimes, why should we not expect the
uneducated to do the same?” (Los Angeles Times, August 22,
1998)

“Hezbollah Members are Freedom Fighters”: “Hezbollah is
fighting for freedom…This is legitimate.” (MPAC Senior Advisor Maher
Hathout, at the National Press Club, June 18, 1998.)

“The Only
Thing They Can Do is Throw Bombs”: “The only thing [Arab terrorists in
Israel] can do is throw a bomb in a market or send somebody to suicide,
we don’t have enough ability to target real targets in Israel.” (MPAC
Senior Advisor Maher Hathout, in a Panel Discussion on Capitol Hill,
June 18, 1998.)

Defending Holocaust-denier Roger Garaudy: After
Garaudy was fined by a French court for denying the Holocaust: “Garaudy
is not the first one to question the holocaust…As usual, Muslim
organizations and leaders in the United States were silent on the
sentence imposed on Garaudy. The exception was the Muslim Public Affairs
Council that issued an immediate condemnation statement…to persecute him
for his right to express his opinion and question some events is a clear
violation of his basic human rights…Muslim organizations should have
taken the case to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.” (The
Minaret, Vol.20, No.3 [1998])

Accusing Israel of “Defaming
Mohammed”: “Israel created an environment of hate, and it bears
responsibility for dehumanizing Muslims, defaming the Prophet
[Mohammed], and supporting policies of Judaicizing [sic] the Holy Land.”
(MPAC Director Salam al-Marayati, MPAC Action Alert, July 7,
1997)

Comparing Muslim Terrorists to America’s Founding Fathers:
“Most Islamic movements have been branded as terrorists as a result of
the rising extremism from a handful of militants. American freedom
fighters hundreds of years ago were also regarded as terrorists by the
British.” (MPAC Director Salam al-Marayati, The Minaret, June
1996)


And that's only one speaker... and then there's Josh
Healy.

The dinner is essentially a festival of radical left wing
groups with appearances from names all too familiar to Israelis, such as
radical left wing thug "Rabbi" Arik Ascherman, who has harassed Israeli
farmers and whose group "Rabbis for Human Rights" vandalized farms and
vineyards, to promote the Arab takeover of these properties. There's
Colette Avital, JJ Goldberg of the Forward, a Fatah government minister,
Robert Malley, whose name came up during the election when the Obama
Administration was forced to sever ties with him
after
his contacts with Hamas became public
. There;s Hagit Ofran the
Director, Peace Now's Settlement Watch, whose ethnic cleansing goal is to
drive Jewish farmers beyond the green line off their land. There's a
representative from the fraudulent Breaking the Silence group, the
Jordanian Ambassador, Amir Peretz, who couldn't even look through
binoculars the right way... and Matt Yglesias.

Chuck Hagel, Saddam's Republican, heads up the festivities. I guess
Trafficant just couldn't make it.

If any of the following
Congresscritters is in your district, feel free to call or drop a line
telling him or her that they're supporting the well funded equivalent of
an ANSWER event by an Anti-Israel group which includes a speaker who
called for the destruction of the State of Israel.

The full list of
shame for now includes in the Senate "great Americans" like Al Franken,
Russ Feingold, Pat Leahy, Bernie Sanders, John Kerry and Jim Webb. And of
course the as of yet unconvicted Ron Buris and Chris Dodd.

Along
with...

Diane Feinstein, Jeanne Shaheen, Daniel Akaka, Sherrod
Brown, Maria Cantwell, Tom Carper, Bob Casey, Byron Dorgan, Kay Hagan, Tim
Johnson, Herb Kohl, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, Jeff Merkley, Mark
Pryor, Jon Tester, Mark Udall, Tom Udall, Sheldon Whitehouse

On the
House of Representatives side we have a few more criminals like Charlie
Rangel, then there's Barbara Lee, Russ Carnahan, CAIR stooge Keith
Ellison, Barney Frank, John Conyers, Jesse Jackson, Jr, who but for a
million would be Senator Burris, Sheila Jackson Lee, Dennis Kucinich,
Dennis Kucinich and the final Baghdad Boy, Jim McDermott.

But the
list also includes people who should have known better, like Carolyn
Maloney, Lynn Woolsey, Jane Harman and Steve Israel.

The full list
features, Leonard Boswell, Charles Boustany, Bruce Braley, Corrine Brown,
Lois Capps, Michael Capuano, Chris Carney, Andre Carson, Yvette Clarke,
James Clyburn, Howard Coble, Steve Cohen, Gerry Connolly, John Conyers,
Jim Cooper,
Elijah Cummings, Danny Davis, Susan Davis, Peter DeFazio,
Dianna DeGette, William Delahunt, Rosa DeLauro, John Dingell, Lloyd
Doggett, Mike Doyle, Steve Driehaus, Donna Edwards, Anna Eshoo, Eni
Faleomavaega, Sam Farr, Chaka Fattah, Bob Filner, Bill Foster, Neil
Abercrombie, Jason Altmire, Michael Arcuri, Brian Baird, Tammy Baldwin,
Brian Bilbray, Earl Blumenauer, John Boccieri, Gabrielle Giffords, Charlie
Gonzalez, Raul Grijalva, Luis Gutierrez, John Hall, Debbie Halvorson, Jim
Himes, Maurice Hinchey, Ruben Hinojosa, Mazie K. Hirono, Eleanor
Holmes-Norton, Rush Holt, Mike Honda, Jay Inslee, Steve Israel, Eddie
Bernice Johnson, Hank Johnson, Steve Kagen, Marcy Kaptur, Carolyn
Kilpatrick, Mary-Jo Kilroy
Ron Kind, John Larson, David Loebsack, Ben
Ray Lujan, Stephen Lynch, Betsy Markey
Ed Markey, Eric Massa, Michael
McCaul, Betty McCollum, James McGovern, Gregory Meeks, Brad Miller, George
Miller, Harry Mitchell, Dennis Moore, Gwen Moore
James Moran, Chris
Murphy, Scott Murphy, Richard Neal, Glenn Nye, John Olver, Solomon Ortiz,
Frank Pallone, Bill Pascrell, Ed Pastor, Donald Payne, Ed Perlmutter

Tom Perriello, Chellie Pingree, Jared Polis, David Price, Nick Rahall,
Ciro Rodriguez, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Bobby Rush, John Salazar, Loretta
Sanchez, Jan Schakowsky, Adam Schiff, Joe Sestak, Carol Shea-Porter,
Louise Slaughter, Jackie Speier, John Tanner, John Tierney, Mike Thompson,
Paul Tonko, Ed Towns, Nikki Tsongas, Diane Watson, Henry Waxman, David Wu,
John Yarmuth

Note, this list may change if more of the
congresscitters drop out of the J Street Hamaslympics.

The Weekly
Standard is to be credited for doing the reporting and creating the first
signs of the exodus from J Street's attempt
to
legitimize its pro-terrorist political influence
.

J Street is
predictably enough
shrieking
SWIFT BOAT
, and asking its members to call and beg the congressmen and
Senators who still haven't dropped out to stay. Though how exactly
pointing out that one of your speakers called for the destruction of
Israel... remains unclear.

That is at least slightly less
delusional than J Street chief Jeremy Ben Ami whining that Israeli
Ambassador Michael Oren doesn't want to attend an Anti-Israel event. Well
gosh, do you see the Iranian ambassador coming down to AIPAC or
ZOA.

For more J Street reading, see J Street'
Saudi
connection at Pajamas Media


Moving beyond J Street now, a
Washington Post article raises a whole new Constitutional question about
Obama. Namely
w
hether
Obama can legally accept the Nobel in the first place
.



Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution, the emolument
clause, clearly stipulates: "And no Person holding any Office of Profit
or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept
of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from
any King, Prince or foreign State."

The award of the peace prize
to a sitting president is not unprecedented. But Theodore Roosevelt and
Woodrow Wilson received the honor for their past actions: Roosevelt's
efforts to end the Russo-Japanese War, and Wilson's work in establishing
the League of Nations. Obama's award is different. It is intended to
affect future action. As a member of the Nobel Committee explained, the
prize should encourage Obama to meet his goal of nuclear disarmament. It
raises important legal questions for the second time in less than 10
months -- questions not discussed, much less adequately addressed
anywhere else.

The five-member Nobel commission is elected by the
Storting, the parliament of Norway. Thus the award of the peace prize is
made by a body representing the legislature of a sovereign foreign
state. There is no doubt that the Nobel Peace Prize is an "emolument"
("gain from employment or position," according to Webster).


...

Second, the president has indicated that he will give
the prize money to charity, but that does not solve his legal problem.
Giving that $1.4 million to a charity could give him a deduction that
would reduce his income taxes by $500,000 -- not a nominal amount.
Moreover, the money is not his to give away. It belongs to the United
States: A federal statute provides that if the president accepts a
"tangible or intangible present" for more than a minimal value from any
foreign government, the gift "shall become the property of the United
States."

This is at least the second time that Obama has run
afoul of the emolument clause. On June 3, 2009, the day before he gave
his speech in Cairo on relations with the Muslim world, he accepted (and
even donned) the bejeweled Collar of the King Abdul Aziz Order of Merit,
Saudi Arabia's highest honor, from the hands of King Abdullah.
(President Bush was awarded the Order in January last
year.)

Aside from whether a president shows questionable judgment
in accepting any preferment from the House of Saud named for its
anti-Semitic modern founder, there is another issue: The Collar is
clearly a chivalric "order" of the Saudi monarchy conferring a rank in
that system of titled royalty and nobility. It is not a mere decoration
or campaign ribbon. There does not seem to be any record of
congressional permission asked for, much less granted, for the president
to accept this bauble. Washington, Madison and Hamilton would have
clearly understood that the Abdul Aziz Order falls under the same ban
they had in mind for any public officials coveting awards made under the
honors system of the British monarchy.

Taking President Obama at
his word that the Nobel award is "an affirmation of American
leadership," Congress should allow him to accept the award. The prize
money, which legally belongs to the United States, ought to be applied
by Congress to some worthy cause, such as reducing the deficit.


The media in general is likely to sidestep yet another
violation of the Constitution by Obama.

Just as the media will
ignore the revelations about Anita Dunn , Obama's
Maoist White
House Communications Director








And then the third lesson and tip actually comes from
two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse Tung and Mother
Teresa, not often coupled together, but the two people that I turn to
most to basically deliver a simple point, which is, you're going to make
choices. You're going to challenge. You're going to say "why not."
You're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done
before.

But here's the deal — these are your choices. They are no
one else's. In 1947, when Mao Tse Tung was being challenged within his
own party on his plan to basically take China over, Chiang Kai Shek and
the nationalist Chinese held the cities that had the army. They had the
airport. They had everything on their side, and people said, "How can
you win? How can you do this? How can you do this, against all the odds
against you?" And Mao Tse Tung said, "You know, you fight your war, and
I'll fight mine."


The left, led by Media Matters has begun claiming that
Anita Dunn did nothing wrong, and that lots of people have quoted Mao. One
wonders if they would take that same position had a Bush White House
spokesman quoted Hitler or even say George Wallace, who unlike Mao didn't
kill millions of people. We all know the answer to that. Even Trent Lott
who didn't say anything nearly as inflammatory was forced out over
it.

In the case of Trent Lott, the media sold the assumption that a
pro-Thurmond comment was also a pro-segregation comment. In this case the
media is selling the double standard that Anita Dunn making positive
statements about Mao is not at all an endorsement of his views or actions.


Media Matters' lame counterattack has been to drag out a quote
from the campaign manager for Goldwater... of all people. That's a level
of desperate obscurity that suggests that the bad folks at Media Matters
are stretched very thin indeed. I suspect we should be grateful they
didn't begin analyzing any quotes from the sister's nephew of Theodore
Roosevelt.

The Media Matters
attack gets even lamer when you read it



In his recent book, How to Win an Election, Stephen C.
Shadegg cites a statement attributed to Mao Tse-tung: "Give me just two
or three men in a village and I will take the village." Shadegg
comments: " In the Goldwater campaigns of 1952 and 1958 and in all other
campaigns where I have served as consultant I have followed the advice
of Mao Tse-tung."


Now the Shadegg quote is not an endorsement of Mao himself,
but of his strategy. By contrast Anita Dunn called Mao her favorite
political philosopher and her retelling of his quote was framed by obvious
admiration for his cause.

Additional quotes draw on nonsense like
Bush telling Rove to read Mao's biography. Which again thoroughly ignores
context in favor of setting up a strawman by claiming that Beck is against
reading and or citing anything said by evil dictators, rather than that
Beck was pointing out that Anita Dunn was admiringly quoting
Mao.

Meanwhile continuing the roundup,
JammieWearingFool
reports that the
great stimulus plan created 54 jobs for New York...
at a cost of only 500 million dollars.

Which comes out to a dirt
cheap 9 million dollars per job.

Obama's real stimulus plan
accomplishment may have been to make welfare look like an economically
sound alternative, since at least it would be cheaper than spending 9
million per job.

Munz's Place has more from Glenn Beck

on the stimulus job creation scam


Continuing the roundup, Atlas
Shrugs has the unbelievable story that Russian
inspectors
will be inspecting US nuclear sites




The plan, which Fox News has learned was agreed to in
principle during negotiations, would constitute the most intrusive
weapons inspection program the U.S. has ever accepted.

Russia
and the United States have tentatively agreed to a weapons inspection
program that would allow Russians to visit nuclear sites in America to
count missiles and warheads.

The plan, which Fox News has
learned was agreed to in principle during negotiations, would constitute
the most intrusive weapons inspection program the U.S. has ever
accepted.


Talk about giving away the keys to the
store...

Thanks to Obama there will be no missile shield over
Eastern Europe, but there will be Russian agents in US nuclear
sites.

Little wonder that
Hillary
now has a better approval rating than Obama


Via Jihad Watch, the
story of renegade winemakers
in Hamas territory



Abu Mohammed goes to great lengths to enjoy his wine in
Gaza. Risking the wrath of the enclave's Islamist Hamas rulers, he
sneaks to the rooftop of an abandoned house to make his own
nectar.

Here in his secret hideaway, Abu Mohammed carefully turns
grapes into home-made vintages he savors only in the privacy of his own
home, far away from the disapproving eyes of Hamas police and Gaza's
conservative society.

Making own wine

"I started making my
own wine after Hamas took power," says the 40-something civil servant
who, like all the other Gaza bootleggers interviewed by AFP, declined to
give their real names for fear of being arrested.

"I asked
friends how to do it and I did some research on the Internet," he
says.

Abu Mohammed risks much to indulge his
palate.


I'm thinking that maybe Abu Mohammed should have
reconsidered voting for an Islamist party in the first place. Of course
since he's identified as a member of the US subsidized PA bureaucracy,
he's likely a Fatah henchman in the first place.

Steven Plaut has
the story of radical left winger
Joel
Beinin




Beinin may be best known within academia for his tour of
duty as president of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), a
position generally reserved for haters of Israel and enablers of
Islamofascism. Beinin’s publication record [1] is largely a hodgepodge
of books and articles smearing Israel or promoting Marxism [2], many of
them appearing in pseudo-academic and in non-scholarly political
magazines. (His book Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East,
said one critic, “could have been written by a Soviet flunky back in the
days of Comrade Brezhnev.”) Many academics, including some of Beinin’s
colleagues at Stanford, have scoffed at his academic credentials. At
least one Stanford professor has insisted [3] that Beinin never should
have been granted tenure.

Beinin has denounced American
“imperialism” [4] on Aljazeera, the network of choice for Osama bin
Laden. Just weeks after the 9/11 attacks, he published an article [5]
claiming that al-Qaeda’s hatred of America was a justified and
understandable reaction to America’s oppressive policies. Beinin
believes, in fact, that 9/11 was America’s comeuppance for its alliance
with Israel. “The American empire is going down,” Beinin
claims.


Sadly academia is all too full of trash like
him.

Muslims Against Sharia updates us on the status of Iran's
supposedly ailing or
perhaps deceased Supreme Leader

And now that Obama is moving toward
appeasing the Taliban, the Times has the interesting story
of
the consequences of Taliban appeasement




When ten French soldiers were killed last year in an
ambush by Afghan insurgents in what had seemed a relatively peaceful
area, the French public were horrified.

Their revulsion increased
with the news that many of the dead soldiers had been mutilated — and
with the publication of photographs showing the militants triumphantly
sporting their victims’ flak jackets and weapons. The French had been in
charge of the Sarobi area, east of Kabul, for only a month, taking over
from the Italians; it was one of the biggest single losses of life by
Nato forces in Afghanistan.

What the grieving nation did not know
was that in the months before the French soldiers arrived in mid-2008,
the Italian secret service had been paying tens of thousands of dollars
to Taleban commanders and local warlords to keep the area quiet, The
Times has learnt. The clandestine payments, whose existence was hidden
from the incoming French forces, were disclosed by Western military
officials.


The New Centrist may be leaving the blogging world

Steven Shamrak looks at the
madness of a self-destructive world



I can't understand how the family of Mohammed (be it in
Lebanon , Gaza , the West Bank, Syria , Jordan or Egypt ) can afford to
have 8 children. He and his wife have not worked a day of their lives.
They have been given a house or an apartment and food. Their children go
to school and even a college. For 60 years his family has been
benefiting from the generosity of the international community delivered
by the United Nations. The family has been receiving education and
medical care that most Arabs in the region can only dream about. The
family is a part of the so-called Palestinians refugees' scam. They
became the best-educated and looked after group in the Muslim
world!

Mohammed's father did not work either. The only thing he
had to do was to sit and smoke his pipe, as his son does now. Mohammed's
wife, as her mother before her, is a willing participant of this global
charade. Her main job is to reproduce and make more professional
refugees, like Mohammed, in order to boost the legitimacy of the bogus
claim of the fake Palestinian people and provide demographic ammunition
to an arsenal of the anti-Israel 'coalition'. And she is proud that some
of her sons, instead of finding a job, are willing to martyr themselves
at any time by killing Jews and bring perverted and warped honor to the
family, as well as money donated by Iraq in the past and by Saudi Arabia
and Iran now.

Sixty years have passed since Israel won her
independence. During this time Israel absorbed several millions of
Jewish refugees, including 850,000 from Muslim countries. When WW2
ended, 50 million refugees were scattered across Europe . All of them
have found a country where they can live and work, for themselves and
their families. All this time the international community has already
willingly and quite eagerly subsidized four generations of these
professional refugees. For some perverted, deeply imbedded anti-Semitic
reason, it makes sure that Mohammed and his family are the best cared
for refugees in the world!

Mohammed does not need to do anything
but sit and smoke his pipe and wait, as his father and grandfather did.
By doing so he gives permission to Islamic political expansionistic
machinery and traditional international anti-Semitism to make claims, on
his behalf, that Jews took his land, and to prevent Israel from
regaining full control over all Jewish land. Continuation of this
travesty gives them an opportunity to maintain instability in the
region, manipulate the price of oil at any time they wish, sell the arms
to the Muslim countries with a high profit margin, build nuclear
reactors for a huge amount of money, knowing that Israel will bomb them.
In return Mohammed receives free shelter, food, education for his
children and medical services. Not bad for a day of no work!

I
just would like to ask American and European taxpayers: Do all of you
receive free housing, food, education and medical treatment from your
own government? If not, why do you allow your government to subsidize
these professional international parasites? So-called Palestinians are
the nuts and bolts of a huge machine called Islamic expansionism.










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