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Obama Makes Up Facts - Again
by Douglas Murray
• February 9, 2015 at 5:00 am
The
Crusades -- gruesome as they were -- were not some early outbreak of
"Islamophobia." They were an effort, by Christian nations in
Europe, to defend Christians in the Middle East who were being slaughtered by
Muslim tribes, and specifically to take back the city of Jerusalem from the
Muslim armies who had invaded it.
It is a
very strange interpretation of history to put the blame for slavery on
Christians, but to ignore William Wilberforce, Abraham Lincoln and other
Christians who led the world in fighting to abolish it. Slavery is still
practiced by Muslims in Mauritania and, as recently seen, by Boko Haram.
Barack Obama is the President of the United States, but to judge from
his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast last Thursday morning, one might
get the impression that he thinks himself far more than that.
He and his speechwriters presumably realised with the news in America,
as in the rest of the world, dominated day in and day out with atrocious news
stories from Muslim communities in the Middle East, the President would
probably have to make a reference to Islamic violence.
President Obama described ISIS as "a brutal, vicious death cult
that, in the name of religion, carries out unspeakable acts of
barbarism." That "religion." rather than "Islam,"
was a notable nicety. Elsewhere, when he got into specifics, he indulged in a
line of spread-the-blame-around-a-bit. He went on to say:
Blaming the Jews for Fun and Profit
by Shoshana Bryen
• February 9, 2015 at 4:00 am
It is
Israel's head on the block, and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is weighing
the political fallout of irritating a President who is generally irritated
with Israel vs. nuclear fallout.
Thomas
Friedman suggests again that Israel subordinate its national security
concerns to American politics. Friedman remains a stalking horse for
President Obama's views.
If U.S.
military action in Iran were to fail, the blame should accrue to U.S.
strategy, planning and execution, and not to Israel's justifiable concern
that that it is #1 on the "hit list."
Perhaps
Friedman could please go protect somebody else?
Thomas Friedman of The New York Times does not want Israel
mucking in American policy-making toward Iran, and so counsels Prime Minister
Netanyahu to cancel his planned speech to the U.S. Congress. He seems to
believe Iran's determined march toward nuclear weapons and genocidal rhetoric
about Israel, in fact, has nothing to do with Israel, and that Israel should
avoid getting in America's way. But understand that Friedman is only trying
to protect Israel.
Personally, I'm still dubious that the U.S. and Iran will reach a deal
that will really defuse Iran's nuclear weapons program. Such a failure would
be very serious and could end up, one day, with the U.S. deciding it has to
use military force to set back Iran's program. We surely don't want Iran to
get a bomb that sets off a nuclear arms race in an already unstable Middle
East.
Palestinian Diplomatic Warfare Escalating West Bank Tensions
by Yaakov Lappin
• February 9, 2015 at 3:00 am
Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's chances of preventing violet clashes
between Palestinians and Israeli security forces have been decreasing by the
week.
As tensions in the West Bank between Israel and the Palestinians
continue to grow, the West Bank is now the least stable arena in Israel's
environment, and the risk of a new, large-scale wave of violence breaking out
in this area next month is rising steadily.
Already, IDF personnel serving in the West Bank have noted a significant
spike in violent incidents across their sector of operation.
In recent days, for example, an IDF unit in the West Bank spotted two
Palestinian men hurling firebombs at Israeli traffic near the city of Nablus,
and opened fire, killing one of the attackers and injuring the other.
Viewed on its own, the incident is a deadly, but isolated, clash that
did not result in any immediate aftereffects.
It is, however, exactly this type of development that, Israeli security
officials believe, ends up sparking larger clashes.
Several factors are colluding to make the West Bank the most likely
region to flare up in 2015.
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