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Inhofe: ISIS ‘Rapidly Developing a Method of Blowing up a Major US City’
on Breitbart TV 21 Aug 2014

(Are we all hostages now?-LS)

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), the highest-ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told Oklahoma City FOX affiliate KOKH 25 that because of the threat of groups like ISIS “we’re in the most dangerous position we’ve ever been in as a nation.”

“[ISIS], they’re crazy out there, and they’re rapidly developing a method of blowing up a major US city” he said.

Inhofe also criticized President Barack Obama’s handling of the ISIS threat, saying “he’s going to have to come up with something that we’re going to do, because they’re holding another hostage in place, and the problem is, the president, quite frankly, he says all these things and he never does them.” And expressed support for the NSA’s surveillance programs, arguing “you have to have an intelligence process going on to stop attacks on America.”

Relations are strained over Gaza but US support for Israel remains strong
By Chris McGreal in Washington The Guardian
Relations are strained over Gaza but US support for Israel remains strong, Sunday 10 August 2014 14.28 EDT

(Somehow I suspect America will be around long after Obama is just a smudge on the pages of American history.-LS)

Even before the smoke clears in Gaza, the damage assessment has begun.

On the face of it, relations between the Obama administration and Binyamin Netanyahu’s government, already marked by antipathy and distrust, have been driven to a new low by very public sniping over Israel’s bloody assault on the Palestinian enclave.

The administration’s public declaration that it was “appalled” by Israel’s “disgraceful” shelling of a UN school, which killed 10 people, and US secretary of state John Kerry’s unguarded mocking of Netanyahu’s claims to be carrying out pinpoint operations to avoid civilian casualties, was a marked break from the largely unquestioning support for military operations the Jewish state has come to expect from Washington. So was Barack Obama’s observation that the deaths of innocent civilians in Gaza “have to weigh on our conscience”.

In contrast, the US Senate gave unanimous backing to a resolution giving unequivocal support to Israel without even mentioning the loss of Palestinian lives.

In Jerusalem, Netanyahu railed against American pressure for a ceasefire, at one point calling the US ambassador to pass on a message to the White House “not to ever second-guess me again”. Israeli press quoted anonymous officials pouring contempt on Kerry.

All of this came after months of tension as the US secretary of state pressed a reluctant Israeli prime minister to take peace negotiations with the Palestinians seriously, and then watched his efforts collapse. The Israeli leadership’s true feelings were laid bare when the defence minister, Moshe Ya’alon, branded Kerry “obsessive and messianic”.

Kerry angered the Israelis further by warning, albeit in a private meeting, that the Jewish state risked becoming “an apartheid state” if it maintained the occupation.

Yet, even as what is now regularly described as a dysfunctional relationship between Obama and Netanyahu is increasingly played out in public, those who have viewed US-Israeli dealings from the inside say the airing of frustration and contempt will not, for now at least, change any of the fundamentals about how Washington deals with the Jewish state.

Daniel Levy, a former adviser to Ehud Barak, then Israeli prime minister, and an ex-delegate to peace negotiations with the Palestinians, said the US’s decision to resupply Israel with tank shells, mortars and other weapons to continue the very killings the president and Kerry were questioning said more than the criticisms thrown back and forth.

“The American support in munitions, even in the middle of the Gaza operation, when UN shelters and schools were being hit, and just as European countries were beginning to question their arms exports to Israel, speaks to the fact that we’re more in the arena of continuity than change,” he said.

Still, Levy added that the friction might not be entirely without cost to Israel. “I think there’s going to be far less American willingness to go out of their way to say: ‘How do we help the Israelis in this situation?’. When the cameras are on, America will still do what it feels it needs to do. But I think there are all kinds of areas where they could go the extra mile and they will be less enthusiastic to do that,” he said. “I feel it has weakened Israel’s position when it comes to Iran.”

Aaron David Miller, who served six US secretaries of state as an adviser on Arab-Israeli negotiations, said he has watched relations ebb and flow between several US administrations and Israel. The principal issue for Obama, he said, had been the scale of the killing seen on US TV screens.

“Civilian casualties is in essence the major problem the president has. Make the bad pictures of innocent Palestinians dying go away – that’s the pressure,” said Miller. “Unlike John Kerry, the president’s not interested in transforming this into some major peace deal. He’s preoccupied with so many other issues. He has less than a thousand days left in his presidency. He cares more about the middle class than he does about the Middle East.”

Obama told the New York Times last week that he was not optimistic about the chances of a peace deal because Netanyahu is popular with Israeli voters. The Israeli prime minister doesn’t feel the pressure to reach an agreement, while the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, is “too weak”. The president said that worried him because while he has no doubt Israel will survive, its “democratic and civic traditions” are threatened by continuing the occupation.

Kerry has not given up trying to revive long-term peace talks and may see the latest war in Gaza as the beginnings of a path to fresh negotiations. But Miller said there’s little enthusiasm in the White House for the peace process.

“It’s closed for the season right now,” he said. “The president’s seen this movie with Netanyahu before. It’s presented a losing hand to him every single time.”

Yousef Munayyer, director of the Palestine Centre in Washington, said he would be surprised if the US expended more effort on trying to engineer a peace agreement because Obama and Kerry have “learned the hard way that Netanyahu is not going to cooperate in any meaningful way” when much of his cabinet is either opposed to a Palestinian state or to the concessions necessary to bring it about.

“It’s hard to see it really happening again because current political trends in Israel are really on course for right wing governments for the foreseeable future. So there’s really no reason to expect that you’re going to have an Israeli government that’s more conducive to a peace agreement than the Netanyahu government that you have now – and he’s certainly not,” said Munayyer. “At the same time, the United States is not in a position yet where it’s ready to bear the political cost of putting the kind of pressure on the Israelis that’s necessary to get them to change their behaviour. The calculation that they’re probably making is that it’s not worth it to engage right now and that if the Israelis want to drive themselves into international isolation they’re not going to hold them back.”

But the assault on Gaza did highlight a trend that may come to change the political equation about Israel in the US.

Polls show a gradual shift in American public opinion, mostly generational. While a clear majority of Americans overall support Israel’s assault on Gaza as self-defence, a Pew poll last month showed diminishing support for Israel among younger Americans. Over-65s backed Israel over the Palestinians by nearly seven to one. Among young adults, aged 18-29, that support fell to just two to one in favour of Israel.

That appears in part to be because younger Americans are getting their news from sources other than mainstream television and newspapers. Israel’s 2009 assault on Gaza helped boost support for the Palestinian cause on US college campuses because the internet offered access to a much greater variety of reports, analysis and opinion, much of it from outside the US.

Technology widened the field further during the latest conflict in Gaza with many more pictures and eyewitness accounts from Palestinians living under the bombs.

“You have these forums where a girl in the Gaza strip who’s 16 years old can tweet images of bombs falling outside of her house to 160,000 people,” said Munayyer. “That kind of access to disseminating information has never existed before and it’s a game changer. That changes public opinion and ultimately that will change the way policymakers act on this issue but that’s a way down the road.”

That ISIS guy who promised to raise Islamic flag over the White House? He’s dead
posted at 2:41 pm on August 21, 2014 by Noah Rothman Via Hot Air

(Let’s just call it Karma.-LS)

The Islamic State’s Press Officer Abu Mosa became a figure of international notoriety overnight when he took on a starring role in a captivating Vice News documentary about ISIS in Syria.

“Don’t be cowards and attack us with drones,” he said. “Instead, send us your soldiers, the ones we humiliated in Iraq. We will humiliate them everywhere, God willing, and we will raise the flag of Allah in the White House.”

Instead of doing that, according to the U.S. State Department, he’s just going to be dead.

Mosa was reportedly killed near the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria, where much of Vice’s documentary was shot. His death comes as Islamic State forces mount a long-awaited assault on the Tabqa Syrian military airbase.

“The group in recent months has virtually eliminated the presence of President Bashar Assad’s military in Raqqa province, with the exception of Tabqa,” the Associated Press reported. “The air base is one of the most significant government military facilities in the area, containing several warplane squadrons, helicopters, tanks, artillery and ammunition.”

Mosa was a true zealot. His commitment to the cause of fundamentalist Islamic jihad took precedence over every other aspect of his life.

“I don’t return home for pleasure,” Mosa told Vice’s cameras. “The family, honestly, is the least important thing. There is a higher purpose.”

“No one would defend Muslims if we all sat at home with the family,” he continued.

He will not be missed. At least, not in the West.

(Besides, he’s probably real busy now, you know, all those virgins.-LS)

Retired Intel Officer: Foley Rescue Attempt Failed Because Obama ‘Dragged His Feet’
BY: Larry O’Connor August 21, 2014 12:57 pm Via The Washington Free Beacon

(For Sale: One President, slightly used. Only driven to golf course on Sundays. Make offer.-LS)

Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer (Ret.) is a CIA-trained former senior intelligence officer who wrote the book Operation Dark Heart about the Special Operations successes in the early stages of the Afghanistan war.

He also famously reported to Congress that part of the intelligence breakdown prior to the 9/11 attacks was due to communications failures between the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency’s “Able Danger” project which had identified Mohamed Attah’s terror cell in Brooklyn in 2000.

Thursday morning, Shaffer appeared on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C., to discuss the ISIS execution of American journalist James Foley earlier this week. He told me and co-host Brian Wilson that the recently revealed rescue attempt led by Special Forces earlier this summer failed because President Obama was slow to give the go-ahead:

I’m hearing from my friends in the Pentagon, they are giving him every single option way ahead of time. And let me give you a little secret here: The reason that raid into Syria failed to get Foley and those guys was because the president drug his feet. He waited too long, the intel got stale, and by the time we actually gave the “go” word it failed because we just didn’t react quick enough.

‘It feels like we’re moving backward’
Gadi Golan and Yehuda Shlezinger Wednesday August 20, 2014 Via Israel Hayom

A crater caused by a rocket that fell at Yad Mordechai junction, near Ashkelon | Photo credit: AFP

(Tuco: “When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.” from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).-LS)

Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi: “Any response other than cutting the head off the snake that controls Gaza should not be considered and would only make the current situation worse”

Mayors and community leaders in southern Israel are not prepared to take the renewed rocket fire from Gaza lightly, and are advocating an aggressive response to the cease-fire violation.

“We must respond strongly to the rocket fire, as if there were no negotiations in Cairo, and at the same time, we must continue trying to achieve a long-term deal in Cairo as if there was no rocket fire,” said Shaar Hanegev Regional Council head Alon Shuster.

Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi was similarly angered by the renewed Hamas aggression, saying, “We must deal Hamas a heavy blow that will decisively change the game. Any response other than cutting the head off the snake that controls Gaza should not be considered and would only make the current situation worse.”

These sentiments were also shared by Hof Ashkelon Regional Council head Yair Farjoun, who said, “We must act immediately and decisively to stop all rocket fire directed at us. We will not tolerate the threat of rocket fire, and we will allow the government to put forward a policy for continued calm.”

Eshkol Regional Council head Haim Yalin did not demand sweeping military action as did his colleagues, but rather expressed trust in the government’s ability to handle the situation. “We support and stand behind the cabinet as long as it continues to work toward long-term quiet along the Gaza border and in the south [of Israel],” he said.

“Now is the time to use military force wisely to win the diplomatic battle.”

Sedot Negev Regional Council head Tamir Idan said that he expects the government and the military “to respond forcefully to any escalation or fire on the communities of southern Israel.”

Meanwhile, Finance Minister Yair Lapid visited Sapir College near Sderot, where he outlined his solution to the ongoing conflict.

“Our commitment as a government is to provide quiet for residents of southern Israel, and we will continue to fight for that quiet,” he said. “We must wrap up this campaign with diplomatic success as well, and set up a regional committee that will allow for long-term quiet, and most importantly, we need you to know that we are with you, no matter what happens.”

Beersheba plans to go ahead with its White Night festival scheduled for Thursday, despite rocket fire directed at the city. The event will include performances by several leading Israeli singers and musicians.

On Tuesday evening, the Tel Aviv Municipality announced that it would reopen public bomb shelters in the city, due to the renewed rocket fire at central Israel.

“We don’t have to deal with [rocket] barrages the way they do in the south,” said Tel Aviv resident Yarin Galzar, “But, we still feel it very much, you notice it in the mood [around the city]. This past month, we went out much less — not because we were afraid, but because of the general mood — and this past week we had just started returning to our usual routine. People starting going out again to the bars, to the beach, people had parties.

“It feels like we are moving backward. On the other hand, maybe the time has come to teach them a lesson for once and for all, so that we don’t have to live week by week.”

Orit Shilon, a resident of southern Tel Aviv, was unconcerned by the renewed rocket fire. “We aren’t scared, it is something you can deal with. We already saw in the last round that it’s not so bad. The problem is constantly being vigilant, and that it just keeps repeating itself. I hope the army and the politicians will understand that we are not prepared to live like this, and that they will do what needs to be done.”

U.S. Has Not Expressed Concerns Over Hamas Leader in Turkey
BY: Adam Kredo August 20, 2014 5:00 am Via: The Washington Free Beacon

(Turkey may find itself swimming in its own gravy one day.-LS)

Turkish official says no ‘concerns’ expressed to Turkey following Hamas coup plot

The Obama administration has not expressed to Turkey any concerns over recent reports indicating that a senior Hamas operative operating in Turkey had been implicated in a coup plot to overthrow the Palestinian government in the West Bank and wage war on Israel, according to a Turkish official.

The State Department on Monday defended new missile sales to Turkey just hours after news emerged that Ankara is hosting a senior Hamas operative who Israel accused of hatching a plan to violently overthrow the Palestinian Fatah government in the West Bank.

(That’s just their way of thanking Obama for all that support. Afterall, the Palestinian goverment refused to play ball with his stooge Kerry so now Obama’s out for revenge.-LS)

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf did not respond yesterday to Free Beacon requests for comment on whether the Obama administration had related any concerns to Ankara over its reported sheltering of Hamas official Saleh Al-Arouri, who is said to have been responsible for planning the kidnapping of three Israeli teens who were killed by Hamas.

A Turkish official confirmed to the Free Beacon late Tuesday that the Obama administration has not reached out to express concerns over the reports about the alleged coup and rejected allegations that Turkey may be aiding Al-Arouri.

“Turkey strongly condemns and rejects such allegations. As a matter of fact Turkey’s strong support to the National Unity Government in Palestine and to the President [Mahmoud] Abbas himself is self-explanatory and refutes such accusations,” the official said.

The Turkish official further noted that “U.S. authorities are well aware” of Turkey’s support for Abbas and his government.

“Since U.S. authorities are well aware of Turkey’s aforementioned position, there has been no such concern [expressed by the Obama administration] as you mention in your email which has been conveyed to the Turkish side,” the official said.

Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs also addressed the controversy in a statement issued Tuesday in Turkish.

“Turkey is at the top of the list of countries that have supported the Palestinian reconciliation” between Hamas and Fatah, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said in the statement, which was translated for the Free Beacon by Merve Tahiroglu, a research associate for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). “In this regard, our country has welcomed and supported the Palestinian unity government that was formed on June 2.”

Turkey views this unity government as “an indispensible element” for peace in the region and “the welfare of the Palestinian people,” the statement adds.

Turkey maintains that is has not “overlooked any attempts to overthrow the Palestinian national unity government,” according to the statement. “We strongly reject and condemn such slander. Turkey’s close contact and strong cooperation with the Palestinian administration will, just as it has been in the past, continue with determination in the future.”

A heated back-and-forth between reporters and Harf broke out at the State Department’s daily briefing on Monday and Tuesday when questions emerged about why the administration is going through with the transfer of U.S. missiles to Turkey while simultaneously holding up similar weapons shipments to Israel.

Harf again on Tuesday ducked questions by reporters asking if the U.S. government had conveyed concerns to Turkey over the plot.

“Do you have any concerns at all about the apparent role of Turkey in this?” AP reporter Matt Lee asked Harf.

“I don’t have any more details on this, Matt. I’m happy to check with our team,” Harf responded.

(In other words, it’s none of your damned business, Matt….and no, I won’t get back with you.-LS)

“Okay. Because I did ask this yesterday. You weren’t aware of the incident, but … now, the Israelis say that this is all being planned and funded from Turkish territory,” Lee followd up.

“Well, as I said, I think it involves some Hamas militants and cash, but let me check on that piece of it. I certainly have nothing to confirm that,” Harf told Lee.

“I’m most curious to know if you guys are planning to raise any concerns with the—I don’t know, maybe you don’t have any concerns … if you’ll raise them with the Turks,” Lee responded.

Harf responded that she would “check on that.”

Harf maintained on Monday that the Turkish and Israeli arms shipments are completely separate matters.

“Turkey is also a NATO ally,” she told reporters. “So for all of us who are—talk a lot about the importance of the NATO alliance, particularly when it comes to Russia and Ukraine and what’s happening there, we think it’s important to provide our NATO allies with resources. We think that’s an important use of our resources. The two [cases] aren’t comparable, but those are the facts behind them, I would say.”

Additionally, Harf could not explain to reporters the exact process taking place behind the scenes regarding the hold up in Israeli arms shipments.

“I don’t know how the process specifically works in that granularity,” she said, when faced with questions about who in the government holds veto power over the arms shipments.

When asked later in the briefing to comment on reports about the Turkey-backed Hamas coup, Harf could not provide much information.

“I don’t have anything to confirm those [reports],” she said. “I hadn’t heard about that otherwise. I can check,” she told reporters.

Netanyahu: Hamas leaders are legitimate targets, no one is invincible
By JPOST.COM STAFF, HERB KEINON 08/20/2014 20:51

(It’s not over until it’s over.-LS)

PM says that Operation Protective Edge is not over; does not confirm or deny reports that Israel attempted to kill Hamas military leader Muhammad Deif; says Hamas and ISIS are “branches of the same tree.”

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday night during a televised address that “Operation Protective Edge is not over.”

He said this his main priority at this time was to protect the citizens of Israel and keep them safe. He said the fight against terror, including international terror organizations, is Israel’s biggest challenge.

“This is the hardest that Hamas has ever been hit since it was founded. I promise that we will not stop until the goal of security for our citizens is achieved.”

Netanyahu warned Hamas that “If you shoot, you will be hit back seven-fold.”

When asked if Israel had attempted to assassinate Hamas military leader Muhammad Deif, Netanyahu said, “the leaders of Hamas are legitimate targets, no one is invincible.”

Netanyahu compared Hamas to the Islamic State, saying that the organizations were “branches of the same tree.”

The Prime Minister’s comments came following a long security cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv discussing the developments in Gaza, and how to go forward.

The meeting came amid an escalation of the fighting in Gaza, with Hamas firing dozens of rockets at Israel throughout the day.

The meeting also took place amid growing public criticism among some of the key ministers of the way Netanyahu is managing the Gaza crisis.

For instance, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, in a posting on his Facebook page a few hours before the meetings, said “I hope that it is now clear to everyone that the policy of ‘quiet will be met with quiet’ means that Hamas is the one that takes the initiative and the one that decides when, where, and how many rockets it fires on Israeli civilians, while we make do with reacting. Even if our reaction is a strong it is still a reaction.”

“Hamas controls the intensity of the flames when it is convenient for it, it interrupts the daily routine of Israeli civilians, particularly those living in the South,” the foreign minister wrote. “It happened on [Tuesday], it’s happening today, and it is liable to happen on September 1st and also on the eve of Rosh Hashanah..”

“The proposals we have heard up until now, whereby there is no deal, no agreement, and no unequivocal commitment by the Palestinians to halt their fire forever means that we are in for a war of attrition, which is something that the State of Israel cannot be dragged into.” He slammed unilateral proposals suggested by “certain politicians suffering from memory lapse,” and said he wanted to “remind everyone about a unilateral measure known as ‘disengagement,’ that was already been carried out in Gaza, and which we are paying for until today..”

“Even if, Heaven forbid, [Meretz chief] Zehava Gal-On was prime minister and [Hadash MK] Dov Henin was defense minister, they, too, would ultimately order a wide-scale military operation to topple the Hamas regime,” Liberman wrote.

“So when people speak seriously about the security of the citizens of Israel, one needs to understand that there is no other viable alternative except for a determined Israeli campaign that leads to one thing – bringing Hamas to submission.”

Gal-On’s office issued a press release in response to Liberman’s post, calling the foreign minister’s claims “infantile.”

“Liberman is trying to sell us the delusion of liquidating Hamas for years now,” the Meretz chairperson said. “If the residents of the South are still vulnerable to rocket fire and shelling after a month of destruction and killing in the Gaza Strip, then apparently this operation didn’t change anything, and no military operation will change it.”

“Whoever calls for a more massive response and more assassinations in order to create deterrence and achieve a victory apparently has not learned the bloody lessons of the last month, during which 64 soldiers were killed on the Israeli side and 2,000 Palestinians were killed.”

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni also took public issue with Netanyahu’s policies, saying in a Ynet interview that the attempt to reach an arrangement with Hamas was “not right,” and that she was not willing to “pay Hamas,” or “establish Hamastan on our southern border that will send a message to Islamic State (IS), and Hezbollah, and all the other crazy groups in the region that we will be pay a price for quiet.”

Rather than come to an agreement with Hamas in Egypt, Livni is in favor of Israeli working with the US, EU, UN and Palestinian Authority to create different reality inside Gaza that would include demilitarization, massive humanitarian aid, and eventually transferring control of the Gaza Strip to the PA.

Meanwhile in Paris, French President Francois Hollande called on Israel and the Palestinians to resume truce talks, and said the demilitarization of the enclave and a lifting of a blockade should be part of a deal.

“We are at a critical point. France supports the Egyptian mediation,” Hollande told Le Monde in an interview. “Gaza can no longer remain like it is. The objective must be a demilitarization and a lifting of the blockade.”

“Demilitarization can only be done under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority. France with Europe can be useful in lifting the blockade at the Rafah crossing. Gaza must neither be an open prison or a military base,” Hollande said.

Hollande said if negotiations failed then the international community would have to take the lead to find a solution.

“We must do everything to ensure negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority resume to find a solution to the conflict. We know the parameters, the only solution is a two states living side by side,” he said.

Reuters contributed to this report

IRAQ: ISIS terrorists’ mass executions and beheadings of Iraqi soldiers and civilians
By Patricia Date August 9, 2014

(Another beheading video? Yes. If you want to see it, follow the above link. But that’s not what I want to present here. One video of a coward, a victim, and a knife is enough. What I want to present is the comment posted by someone calling herself Patricia. Great comment. I think you’ll agree.-LS)

From Patricia:

“Though these videos are extremely hard to watch & I could not stomach more than 3 of the beheadings, everyone, including Obama himself, needs to see what these devils are doing! These demon possessed PIGS are the scum of the earth!! They are raised to think & act like this from the time they learn to walk & talk so by the time they are 6 or 7 they are stating the fact that they cannot wait to behave in like manner as their heroes do & saw off the heads of every Jew & Christian throughout the world, be they man, woman or child!!

Someday we may finally know who is behind the curtain & making all the calls for this President (possibly Valarie Jarred who is usually at his side, but rarely no more than a few steps behind Obama). Obama himself has stated on numerous occasions that he only knew about such & such event after he read it in the paper or hears about it on the news. That being the case, who is behind the curtain & running things while Obama is off playing yet another round of golf as one disaster after another is taking place all around us?
As in the book, “The Wizard of Oz”, 3 of the main characters in this WH are the ‘Tin Man’ with no heart (for his job), played by Obama himself. Next we have the brainless ‘Scarecrow’ known as Joe Biden, who is forever putting his foot in his mouth. And thirdly we have the “cowardly Lion”, who is in reality the cowardly John Kerry. Kerry is a left over from the Vietnam days who showed his cowardly ways by giving aid & comfort to the enemy back then & today we see him once again giving aid & comfort to enemy Muslim terrorist groups (the PLO) against our true ally, Israel.

People may have been duped into voting for Obama the first time around by the cover-up that took place by the mainstream media & I considered those people to be IGNORANT! 4 years later those same people continued to be ignorant because they didn’t want to admit they had been wrong nor admit that Obama was destroying America, so they voted for him again. Or as in the case of most Democrats, and to quote my Democrat neighbor, “I only vote for Democrats no matter who they are!” (huh? Even if the person is the personification of Hitler himself??). So those who voted for him the 2nd time around, I cannot consider them to be ignorant, I now consider them to be nothing more than TRAITORS!!

Today we see the Tin Man still has no heart to be the leader of the (once) free world as he has continued to tear down America while turning his back to the be-headings and other murderous acts against Christians & Jews in Africa and elsewhere while catering to Muslims. He once more claims he knew nothing about what was taking place with Issis until 2 days he was informed that they were closing in on Mosul. If he had acted at the very beginning of Issis’ move, they would not be where they are today nor would they have beheaded children and Iraqi soldiers & civilians. As usual with this Tin Man, he is once again “a day late and a dollar short”. Now, in an attempt to quiet the cries directed toward him, the Tin Man “plays” at war by selectively dropping a few bombs here & there. If he had a heart for his job, he would eradicate these PIGS known as Issis from the world. He would order a 24 hour assault against Issis in order to wipe out every weapon at their disposal (due to the Iraqi army, who as usual, were too cowardly to stand & fight).”

(Now we see Obama and the rest of his filthy race-baiting cowards inciting riots in Ferguson. Scenes from this once peaceful community in the beautiful state of Missouri are beginning to resemble the ‘arab street’. Thanks a fucking lot for your lack of leadership you semi-retired President Obama.-LS)

Israel leaders’ stubborn belief in Hamas’ desire for war’s end led the country into war of attrition
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis August 19, 2014, 9:40 PM (IDT)

(Most Israelis were stunned….really? Note: Post number 100! yea!-LS)

Most Israelis were stunned Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 19, when rocket fire suddenly erupted from the Gaza Strip against Beersheba and Netivot, after they had been lulled into a sense of false security by the suspension of Hamas attacks for 135 hours. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon sent the air force straight back into action to bomb “terror targets’ across the Gaza Strip, and recalled Israel’s negotiators from the indirect talks taking place with Hamas in Cairo through Egyptian intermediaries.

After a month of tough fighting and painful losses, Israelis were aghast to find themselves dumped back in the same old routine, which their leaders had vowed Operation Defensive Edge would end once and for all.

The reversion to this routine is best categorized as a war of attrition.

So what went wrong?

debkafile reports that, as recently as Monday, Aug. 18, a senior intelligence source asserted that Netanyahu and Ya’alon were satisfied with the Cairo talks, because their outcome would refute their critics, ministers and security chiefs alike, by bringing Hamas to its knees.

Asked how this would come about, the source repeated the mantra heard day after day during the fighting: Hamas is looking for a way out of the conflict and wants to end hostilities, he explained. That is what we are banking on.

AMAN chief Maj.Gen. Aviv Kochavi is believed by some cabinet sources to be the author of this prescription, to which the prime minister and defense minister have stubbornly adhered, against all the evidence to the contrary. They therefore held back from inflicting a final defeat on the Palestinian fundamentalists.

Even the pro-diplomacy Justice Minister Tzipi Livni faulted them by warning repeatedly that negotiating with terrorists was a bad mistake. You have to fight them and beat them hollow, she said.

Yet each time Hamas violated a ceasefire – and it happened six times in all – there was the excuse that its leaders were divided against themselves, and the heads of the Gaza faction were reasonable and logical individuals who would prefer to stop firing rockets at the Israeli population – if only it was only up to them.

Even when the rockets started falling Tuesday around Beersheba, Netivot, Ashkelon, Shear Hanegev and the Eshkol district, some knowledgeable Israelis were still saying that Hamas knew nothing about it.

However, Netanyahu and Ya’alon are not about to change course, athough it is obvious even to them that they have led the country into the blind alley of a war of attrition. They seem to be operating on a different level from Hamas – and even from the general Israeli population, which is sick and tired of the uncertainty and on the verge of kicking back at its leaders.

Last Saturday, 30,000 demonstrators from southern Israel and their many sympathizers turned out in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, to make sure the government understood that their tolerance for the same old routine was at an end and the military must be allowed to root out the Hamas peril once and for all.

A sense of defiance is palpable in the streets of towns within regular rocket range from the Gaza Strip and even farther afield. Contrary to orders from the IDF Home Command, directions to open shelters have been issued by the mayors of Ashkelon, Ashdod, Rehovot, Rishon Lezion, Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Gedera, Kiryat Malachi, Sderot, Netivot and Beersheba. Some have cancelled public events and entertaiments.

Parents of places next door to the Gaza Strip, who spent the summer holidays holed up indoors or away from home, now say they will not send their children to school at the start of the term in two weeks, if the present situation does not change radically.

Hamas, Nation of Islam and New Black Panthers exciting violence in Ferguson, Missouri
August 16, 2014 By Dr. Rich Swier

(Where ever Islamo-facism goes, chaos ensues. The images from Ferguson look eerily like Gaza.-LS)

The Democrat Governor of Missouri Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon has decided to take the power to govern away from the Ferguson Mayor and City Council and keep the local Police Department from fulfilling their law enforcement duties. Missouri residents are asking Governor Nixon: Exactly what have you replaced them with?

Governor Nixon has invaded and taken over Ferguson and it now it belongs to him.

Governor Nixon placed Missouri Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson in charge of Ferguson. Chris Smith and Danielle Scruggs from Fox News 2 in St. Louis report, “Governor Nixon ordered an immediate curfew for the city of Ferguson to start Saturday night from Midnight to 5 am. The curfew will be enforced by the Missouri State Highway Patrol who has operational control of security in Ferguson. The governor also issued a state of emergency for Ferguson.”

The Examiner reports:

On Wednesday, Fox St. Louis reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned that a leader of the radical New Black Panther Party is in Ferguson, Mo., advocating violence against police.

“FBI confirmed document that says new black panther leader is in area encouraging violence against cops did indeed come from FBI,” tweeted Fox 2 reporter Roche Madden. Earlier in the day, he issued a tweet indicating that he was attempting to get confirmation of the document from the FBI. On Tuesday, he said rocks were being thrown at patrol cars and officers were targeted with death threats.

TPNN posted a picture of demands made by the NBPP and other groups, including the local Nation of Islam and the Organization for Black Struggle, an organization identified as pro-Hamas. The groups demand the officer involved in the shooting of Michael Brown be immediately identified, fired and charged with murder.

According to Madden, “Chawn Kweli and other members of the NBPP are in town” responding to the shooting. Kweli, according to his Facebook profile, is the National Chief of Staff for the NBPP.

The following information on these three groups who are now in Ferguson is provided:

1.The New Black Panther Party – Founded in 1990, the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBPP) is a militant black separatist organization, notorious for promoting racial violence against Jews and whites. According to an Anti-Defamation League report: “Much of the NBPP’s ideology derives from the notion that African-Americans continue to suffer as a result of a racist white power structure that has oppressed them politically and economically since slavery. The primary perpetrators of this institutional racism, according to the NBPP, are whites, whom it views as ultimately responsible for Black exploitation; Jews, whom it sees as wielding disproportionate control of political and economic affairs; and law enforcement, which it sees as facilitating racial injustice on the ground.”

2.The Nation of Islam led by Louis Farrakhan – On numerous occasions, Farrakhan has made alliances with avowed foreign enemies of the United States. In January 1996, for instance, he formed a partnership with Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi, who pledged $1 billion to help Farrakhan develop a Muslim political lobby in the U.S. According to Libya’s official news agency Jana, Qadhafi announced: “We agreed with Louis Farrakhan and his delegation to mobilize in a legal and legitimate form the oppressed minorities — and at their forefront the blacks, Arab Muslims and Red Indians — for they play an important role in American political life and have a weight in U.S. elections.” The Jana story further stated that Qadhafi and Farrakhan had pledged to fight America from the “inside.” “Our confrontation with America,” said Qadhafi, “was [previously] like a fight against a fortress from outside, and today [with the NOI alliance] we found a breach to enter into this fortress and confront it.”

3.The pro-Hamas Organization for Black Struggle – The Organization for Black Struggle Freedom Agenda states, “We will fight to advance beyond capitalism, which has demonstrated its structural incapacity to address basic human needs worldwide and, in particular, the needs of Black people… We will fight for a society in which every person and every community is free from state repression, including freedom from state-sponsored surveillance. We seek amnesty for, and the release of, all political prisoners… We recognize lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as full and equal members of society, and of our communities… We will fight for reparations… We will uphold the right of the African American people to self-determination (Black Radical Congress in June 1998)… We oppose the Human Genome Project in its current form and with its current leadership, and we oppose all sociobiological or genetic experiments that are spurred by, and help perpetuate, scientific racism .”

The pro-Hamas Organization for Black Struggle is demanding:

1.Community control of the police and a civilian review board with subpoena power.
2.A professional certified police department that looks like majority Black Ferguson.
3.An end to racial profiling. No more driving, walking, shopping while Black. Fight to get enforcement of penalties for racial profiling.
4.Black political empowerment and proportional representation.
5.Accountability of elected officials.
6.Jobs, home improvement, training opportunities, etc.

Governor Nixon needs to emulate what Governor Rick Scott did during the Trayvon Martin shooting, demonstrations and trail, keep your hands off and let the local officials deal with it. If they ask for help then give it to them. Otherwise let the community work it out.

In a press conference Governor Nixon appears to be partnering with the New Black Panther Party. He is allowing them to patrol the streets with the Missouri Highway Patrol.