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Insider Report from Newsmax.com Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories):
1. Democrats Veto 'Obamacare' Word in GOP Mailings Democrats have been vetoing use of the word "Obamacare" in taxpayer-financed mailings, saying it violates rules against using the franking privilege for "personal, partisan or political reasons." The bipartisan franking commission reviews official mail, email and social media for overtly political content. Gregory Abbott, the Democratic spokesman for the commission, told Roll Call "there has been a long-standing agreement" that the shorthand reference for the healthcare reform law "does not meet this standard." And Republican spokeswoman Salley Wood conceded: "A bipartisan commission means bipartisan consent." But other Republicans are irked by the move. One GOP House aide told Roll Call: "It's telling that Democrats are fearful of taking ownership of the president's signature piece of legislation. "The White House and Congressional Democrats exhausted all of their political capital and a Congressional majority to move the bill across the finish line and into law. You would think given how much it cost them, that they would embrace the end result and proudly attach the president's name to it at every opportunity." Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, charged that Republicans were trying to exploit Obama's unpopularity to make the healthcare law unpopular as well. In June, House Democrats objected when Republicans stopped them from saying in official mass mailings that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's GOP budget would "end" Medicare. 2. US to Defund UNESCO Over Palestinian Bid The United States will be required by law to withdraw all funding for the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) if it votes, as expected, to approve the Palestinian Authority's full membership in the agency. Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestinian Authority, has applied for U.N. recognition by the Security Council, and is moving ahead with applications to join individual U.N. agencies as the P.A. awaits the Council's vote. The vote on UNESCO membership is set for Monday. If successful, the bid would force the Obama administration to cut funding to the agency. Public Law 101-246, passed by the Democratic-controlled Congress in 1990, states that "no funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or any other Act shall be available for the United Nations or any specialized agency thereof which accords the Palestine Liberation Organization the same standing as member states." Public Law 103-236 Title IV, passed in 1994, prohibits "voluntary or assessed contribution to any affiliated organization of the United Nations which grants full membership as a state to any organization or group that does not have the internationally recognized attributes of statehood." UNESCO receives 22 percent of its operating budget from the United States, about $80 million a year, according to CNS News. Americans for UNESCO co-chairs Esther Coopersmith and Richard Arndt wrote in a letter to supporters earlier this month about the possible U.S. funding cutoff: "Senior budget officers at UNESCO, analyzing the consequences, foresee immediate slashes in program activity, layoffs in personnel beginning in January, and other credible threats, including [to] UNESCO's pension system." During the 1980s, the U.S. and Britain withdrew from UNESCO, accusing the agency of mismanagement and an anti-Western political agenda. Britain returned in 1997 and President George W. Bush restored the U.S. relationship in 2002, citing wide-ranging reforms. A cutoff of American funding for UNESCO over the Palestinian issue would no doubt please Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who has been an outspoken critic of the U.N. She chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which has approved a bill that would give America discretion over how, or even whether, it pays for U.N. activities. In an exclusive interview with Newsmax in September, she pointed out that American taxpayers last year gave $7.7 billion to the United Nations, accounting for 22 percent of its operating budget and 27 percent of its peacekeeping operations. "What are we getting in return? We're getting an agency that votes against us at every opportunity," she said. "I say let's change this around. If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose cafeteria style which groups we want to help." 3. Solo Commuting Up Despite High Gas Prices Gasoline prices soared 46 percent during the decade from 2000 to 2010, raising expectations of increased carpooling and mass transit use. But a new report instead shows a continued growth in the number of Americans who drive to work alone. Solo commuting now accounts for 76.5 percent of the nation's workers, up from 75.6 percent in 2000. That's the highest this figure has ever been since it was first measured in 1960, according to the 2010 American Community Survey conducted by the Census Bureau. While 97.1 million Americans drove to work alone in 2000, 104.8 million did so in 2010. "In view of the much higher gasoline prices that prevailed in 2010, it might have been expected that driving alone would lose market share from 2000," the New Geography website observed. "But this did not -- despite many media and academic claims that it would or was already taking place -- occur." In 2000, 12.2 percent of workers -- 15.6 million -- used a car pool to get to work. Those figures dropped to 9.7 percent and 13.2 million by 2010. Furthermore, mass transit systems saw only a small gain in overall usage, from 4.6 percent of workers in 2000 to 4.9 percent in 2010. In 1960, 12.1 percent of workers used transit. "Only an 8 percent increase in the transit market share occurred at the same time as gasoline prices increased a real 46 percent (adjusted for inflation)," New Geography noted. A Brookings Institute report pointed to one significant reason why mass transit usage remains low: Less than 10 percent of the jobs in major metropolitan areas can be reached within 45 minutes using mass transit, compared with a 21-minute median commute time for solo drivers. The percentage of Americans who work at home, 4.3 percent in 2010, is expected to surpass the percentage using mass transit before the year 2020. 4. Nurse Makes $270K on California's Overtime Binge A state employee in California earned $269,810 last year working as a nurse at a men's prison by tripling her regular pay with overtime hours. Jean Keller worked 2,450 extra hours in 2010 at a prison near San Luis Obispo, Bloomberg.com reported. Some of those hours were required, but many were volunteered. California's public workers collected $1.7 billion in extra pay last year, more than half of it in overtime pay and the rest for unused vacation time and union-negotiated benefits such as clothing allowances. State taxpayers shelled out the additional wages -- enough to pay the average salaries of about 25,000 teachers -- even as California faced a $19 billion budget deficit and cut school spending and services for the elderly. "It's fiscal insanity," Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, a Republican, told Bloomberg, criticizing "this notion of spending money and paying people more than we need at a time when every department is broke, when we are starving our local schools and we are cutting public safety." Ironically, requirements that workers take three unpaid days off each month, instituted during Arnold Schwarzenegger's tenure as governor, increase the workloads for remaining employees and the need for overtime hours. Keller was far from the only public employee to reap huge sums in extra pay last year. Among them: A prison doctor cashed out more than $590,000 in vacation time when he retired, and the head of the state gambling commission received $169,623 in unused holiday pay. "The extra compensation underscores a broader trend in California, where government workers are paid more than in other states for similar duties," Bloomberg observed. For example, firefighters in Los Angeles are paid twice the national mean. The average state worker in California earned $58,340 in total pay last year, while per-capita income for all employees in the state, public and private, was $42,578. New York, with about half the population of California, gave state workers about $1.5 billion in extra pay last year. |
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OBAMA PERSONAL APPROVAL LOWER THAN EVER "This was dumb, it was useless and it was lethal."
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When Barack Obama employs the term "smart power" to describe his foreign policy philosophy, what he really meant was "no power". Because he subscribes to the hard-left nostrum that America is the source of evil in the modern world, and that the world would be better off without an assertive, engaged U.S. hyperpower exerting the full weight of its global influence, he has done everything in his power to downgrade America's role on the world stage.
Combine this factor with his naked hostility towards Israel and repeated attempts to bulldoze Benjamin Netanyahu towards committing national suicide in the name of "peace," and you get the following story:
The Obama administration is making a last-ditch effort to head off a major diplomatic embarrassment over the looming Palestinian request for recognition of its statehood at the United Nations.
The United States is applying diplomatic pressure on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to persuade them to reopen negotiations before the United Nations can take action.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said he will take the request for full recognition as a state to the U.N. Security Council in the coming week.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sent special envoys David Hale and Dennis Ross to the region to hold talks with Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Guardian reported.
And State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said on Tuesday that Washington would "leave no stone unturned" to avoid a U.N. vote and get the Israelis back into peace talks, according to the Telegraph.
"Washington is keen to avoid carrying out a threat to veto a Palestinian request for full membership of the U.N., a move likely to further damage America's already battered reputation in the Middle East, particularly following its strong backing for moves toward self-determination in the region this year," the Guardian observed.
What's that? America's reputation in the Middle East is "battered"? But, but, how can this be? Weren't we told by President Awesome that America's reputation in the Middle East had been damaged nearly beyond repair by George W. Bush's War On Terror? That we were seen as rampaging, torture-mongering imperialists bent on stamping out Islam worldwide and looting the Arab world of its oil resources? That the one and only guaranteed way of rebuilding the U.S.'s stature in the "international community" was to embark on a global groveling tour apologizing for our many unforgivable sins and hunker down in a fetal crouch of meekness and humility as "just another country" and let the rest of the world pursue its own respective self-determinations unfettered by American "interference"? And that the rest of the world would fall in love with us as result?
Well. How's that gambit working out? Just as a lot of us expected it would. Iran's still building its nuclear arsenal, which is encouraging its Arab neighbors to jump into a regional nuclear arms race; the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood has taken over Egypt, and al Qaeda is absorbing Libya, both thanks to Red Barry's moronic assistance; the only thing checking these regional powderkegs is Turkey's Islamist/neoOttoman ambitions, except that they all are vying to be the lead Muslim power in annihilating Israel and finishing the genocidal job Adolph Hitler started.
And then there are the "Palestinians," a fictitious ethnicity and group of pawns that have been manipulated and exploited by the Islamic world for decades as the principle means of eroding Israeli national security and will from within. And whence cometh this drive by the Pals for official UN recognition? Because King Hussein gave them every reason to believe that he shared that goal and would back them to the hilt. Between his calls for a universal halt to any and all Israeli settlement construction even in East Jerusalem and his demand that Israel withdraw to the indefensible pre-1967 borders - which, if you'll recall, encouraged three separate pan-Arab attacks upon the Jewish State - Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas alike have been encouraged to raise their expectations of what they could get out of the Obama Regime diplomatically.
All this turmoil, unrest, and instability is what happens when a power vaccuum is introduced into an inherently volatile region. It's the nature of international politics: the currency of the world stage is military power and the willingness to use it. It's what provides the leverage for states to use diplomacy and economic sanctions as alternative tools of statecraft. It is the source of a country's respect abroad. Or, in plain, non-Vulcan English, it is far better to be feared than liked.
Barack Obama has gone out of his way to convince the rest of the world, most especially enemies like Iran, Syria, Russia, Red China, North Korea, Venezuela, and newly converted foes like Egypt and Turkey, that American power will not stand in the way of their respective ambitions, and will soon no longer exist at all. And whaddaya know, the rest of the world bought it - and all the bad guys are acting accordingly.
The only thing I don't understand is why the Regime is even considering vetoing the Pals' UN statehood bid. Isn't this what The One wanted? Doesn't it fit hand-in-glove with his whole "Arab spring" gimmick?
Oh, yeah. Because after all, what the world needs most of all is four more years of the Obamidency.
And so the Middle East, free of that suffocating, meddlesome American hegemony, spins further into chaos:
The Financial Times reported on Thursday that Netanyahu plans to address the U.N. General Assembly on the same day that Abbas delivers a speech calling for Palestinian statehood.
"The General Assembly is not a place where Israel usually receives a fair hearing," Netanyahu said. "But I still decided to tell the truth before anyone who would like to hear it."
According to the Times, "the announcement suggests that the Israeli government now has little faith in the last-ditch effort by U.S. and European negotiators to stop the Palestinian drive for statehood at the U.N."
But hardline Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned on Wednesday that there would be "harsh and grave" consequences if the Palestinians go ahead with their plan to seek statehood, although he did not specify what those consequences might be.
The Pals want a "one-state solution," the Israelis will not allow themselves to be "wiped off the map," and thanks to his goosing the expectations of the former and pissing in the face of the latter, Barack Obama has neutered his influence with both.
Congratulations, Barry, on a "smart power" mission accomplished.
If you think the Downgrade Heard 'Round The World was just a shot across the American bow, guess again, Riddler:
Standard & Poor's Managing Director John Chambers said Sunday there is a 1-in-3 chance of a further U.S. credit rating downgrade over the next six months to two years.
"We have a negative outlook . . . from six months to 24 months," he said on ABC's This Week.
"And if the fiscal position of the United States deteriorates further or if the political gridlock becomes more entrenched, then that could lead to a downgrade. The outlook indicates at least a one in three chance of a downgrade over that period."
Chambers said that it would take some time for the United States to recover its AAA rating.
"It would take a stabilization of the debt as a share of the economy and eventual decline. And it would take, I think, more ability to reach consensus in Washington than what we're observing now," he said.
A classic case of demanding the ends yet denying the means. Given that the American Left wants precisely the collapse to which Mr. Chambers refers in order to "fundamentally transform" America once and for all, the White House and congressional Dems have the green light to obstruct fiscal reform to the gates of hell and beyond.
Almost as if this was a not-so-coded signal.
And you know on whom they will blame it when it happens, right?
The only miracle in my mind is that Mr. Chambers sets the odds of another downgrade so low, unless this is a tacit recognition of the Chicago Cherubim's plummeting re-election chances.
Meanwhle the Tel Aviv stock exchange plunged 7% at its Monday opening bell in reaction to the downgrade, and a remarkable odd couple has been christened:
Publisher Steve Forbes says S&P’s downgrading of U.S. credit was a political and “outrageous move.” However, Forbes said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union that, if other credit rating agencies don’t downgrade, the effect of S&P’s action on U.S. stock markets will be minimal.Appearing on the same show, former economic adviser to President Barack Obama Larry Summers also condemned S&P’s move but blamed the credit rating agency’s rationale behind the downgrading on the House GOP majority.Forbes said S&P’s action was surprising, in light of the fact that the government can meet its credit obligations.“I think in a narrow sense it is a political move . . . an outrageous move,” Forbes said. “The government can pay its debts, it is legally obligated to do so, its got the wherewithal to do it. In a larger sense about the economy, I think the U.S. economy is in a perilous state, this recovery has been the worst from a severe recession since the Great Depression.“But I am surprised S&P would play politics — the U.S. government can pay the interest and principal on the bonds — but in a broader sense we do have severe economic troubles, but we will be able to pay the interest and principal on the bonds,” the one-time GOP presidential hopeful said.
Perhaps a tacit recognition on Forbes' part of what Glenn Beck is saying, that S&P is "in on it" as the triggerman for the beginning of George Soros' grand final endgame? Only his hairdresser knows for sure. As to Summers, it's too late to beg his way back onto the U.S.S. Obamatanic.
Actually, though, I wasn't referring to Summers with that Odd Couple crack above:
I seem to recall Warren Buffet being a big proponent and fan of Red Barry and his "green energy" wet dream back in '08. But, heck, it's not like Obamanomics can touch him, at least until the mobs come to string him up from the nearest lamppost next to Mr. Forbes.
Now THAT's a crucifixtion conversation I want to here.
My friends, I will believe it only when I see it. And this doesn't meet that threshold:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be willing to resume talks with the Palestinians on the basis of the 1967 boundary line, which would mean withdrawing from West Bank territory, Israel’s Channel Two television said yesterday.
An Israeli official, speaking anonymously because of the sensitivity of the subject, said that as part of Israel’s effort to return to peace talks and counter a Palestinian bid for UN recognition, Israel is willing to accept a U.S. proposal on borders. Netanyahu had publicly rejected U.S. President Barack Obama’s call to use the 1967 boundaries as a starting point for negotiations when the two leaders met at the White House May 21.
That has every telltale of a Labor/Kaditha leak designed to outflank Bebe's firm, principled stance, knock him off-message and onto the defensive, and ultimately become a self-fulfilling prophecy of Israeli national suicide. Kinda like leaks prior to the Reykavik summit in 1985 that had President Reagan agreeing to compromise with Mikhail Gorbachev on SDI. Reagan walked out rather than agree to slit his own country's strategic throat in the face of Soviet nuclear superiority. So will Prime Minister Netanyahu on retreating to the accurately described indefensible 1967 frontiers.
It's literally a matter of life and death.
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Why the Government is Releasing Prisoners from Jail This is probably the most shocking story you will read all year. If you care at all about our current way of life in America... and the safety of your family and friends, I encourage you to watch this presentation right away. Click here for the full story. |
A Very Liberal ChristmasBill O'Reilly:
Since the forces of good overwhelmed the anti-Christmas brigades a few years ago, the annual yuletide controversies have been rather muted. This year, the always-reliable ACLU threatened schools in Tennessee with doom if they promoted Christmas, and there were a few other atrocities. ... more
Reaganomics 2.0 in the Driver’s SeatLarry Kudlow:
The new Tea Party GOP must maintain a message of economic growth. ... more
Failure Equals Success in Looking Glass World of CancunRedmond Weissenberger:
"Success" would have crippled the global economy and kept poor nations impoverished ... more
Stay-at-Home Moms are the Real WorldKathryn Lopez:
For all too long now we have acted as if the woman who is a media mover and shaker or business mogul is somehow superior to the woman who moves to Wisconsin with the man she loves. ... more
Eric Holder's Briefs Are In a BundleJanet M. LaRue:
The Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has voted 212-206 to ban the Obama administration from spending any funds to try terrorism suspects in civilian court instead of military commissions. Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly all miffed and vexed. ... more
Bringing Bibi DownCaroline Glick:
Over the past week, two writers published columns in foreign newspapers. One received wall to wall coverage in Israel. The other was completely ignored. ... more
Union Leaders: Tenure Automatic, Even For Unsatisfactory TeachersKyle Olson:
Teacher union leaders have been known to bark back when their strongest job protection – tenure – is referred to as a job for life. ... more
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How Big Should Government Be? Andrew Tallman:
Where do you find the largest, most intrusive and liberty-violating form of government? ... more
Teddy Bears Rich Galen:
Just when you think the whole world is - or should be - spinning into oblivion, a story gets your attention and reminds you that this is all fixable. ... more
Pentagon Report: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" About Religious Liberty Problems Daniel Blomberg:
The recent Pentagon "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" report only gives lip service to the key issue of religious liberty. ... more
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Why the Government is Releasing Prisoners from Jail This is probably the most shocking story you will read all year. If you care at all about our current way of life in America... and the safety of your family and friends, I encourage you to watch this presentation right away. Click here for the full story. |
A Very Liberal ChristmasBill O'Reilly:
Since the forces of good overwhelmed the anti-Christmas brigades a few years ago, the annual yuletide controversies have been rather muted. This year, the always-reliable ACLU threatened schools in Tennessee with doom if they promoted Christmas, and there were a few other atrocities. ... more
Reaganomics 2.0 in the Driver’s SeatLarry Kudlow:
The new Tea Party GOP must maintain a message of economic growth. ... more
Failure Equals Success in Looking Glass World of CancunRedmond Weissenberger:
"Success" would have crippled the global economy and kept poor nations impoverished ... more
Stay-at-Home Moms are the Real WorldKathryn Lopez:
For all too long now we have acted as if the woman who is a media mover and shaker or business mogul is somehow superior to the woman who moves to Wisconsin with the man she loves. ... more
Eric Holder's Briefs Are In a BundleJanet M. LaRue:
The Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has voted 212-206 to ban the Obama administration from spending any funds to try terrorism suspects in civilian court instead of military commissions. Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly all miffed and vexed. ... more
Bringing Bibi DownCaroline Glick:
Over the past week, two writers published columns in foreign newspapers. One received wall to wall coverage in Israel. The other was completely ignored. ... more
Union Leaders: Tenure Automatic, Even For Unsatisfactory TeachersKyle Olson:
Teacher union leaders have been known to bark back when their strongest job protection – tenure – is referred to as a job for life. ... more
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Why the Government is Releasing Prisoners from Jail |
How Big Should Government Be? Andrew Tallman:
Where do you find the largest, most intrusive and liberty-violating form of government? ... more
Teddy Bears Rich Galen:
Just when you think the whole world is - or should be - spinning into oblivion, a story gets your attention and reminds you that this is all fixable. ... more
Pentagon Report: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" About Religious Liberty Problems Daniel Blomberg:
The recent Pentagon "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" report only gives lip service to the key issue of religious liberty. ... more
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Coasting to the LeftBill O'Reilly:
If this week's election returns demonstrate that the vast majority of the country is moving to the right, why do the West Coast and the Northeast continue to embrace liberalism, especially when it has led to economic disaster? ... more
GOP Poised to Reap Redistricting RewardsMichael Barone:
Let's try to put some metrics on last Tuesday's historic election. Two years ago, the popular vote for House of Representatives was 54 percent Democratic and 43 percent Republican. ... more
Top Democrats in DenialJonah Goldberg:
Rep. Barney Frank seems simply aggrieved during his victory speech that he was forced to take a race seriously. ... more
A More Colorful GOPRob Schwarzwalder:
This week, roughly twice as many blacks voted Republican as in 2008. Latino Republican voters also increased, albeit more modestly. ... more
A Mixed Election For WomenKathryn Lopez:
You win some, you lose some; We've seen that idea playing out in these midterm elections. ... more
We Are Not for SaleCaroline Glick:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is playing with fire. And Israel is getting burned. ... more
Obama's Re-ElectionRich Galen:
We're pretty much done with that pesky election of 2010, so here is my analysis about President Obama's chances to be re-elected. ... more
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I guess he really has decided to go the Jimmy Carter route - with an Iranian twist:
Mrs. Clinton said the [Israeli-Palestinian] talks are due to begin on September 2 and will be hosted by President Barack Obama. She said she hoped a comprehensive peace agreement can be reached within one year.
"There have been difficulties in the past, there will be difficulties ahead. .. I ask the parties to persevere, to keep moving forward even through difficult times and to continue working to achieve a just and lasting peace in the region," Mrs. Clinton said.
The leaders of Egypt and Jordan also have been invited to attend the first session.
In a statement, the Quartet - the EU, the UN, the US and Russia - said its members reaffirmed direct negotiations between the parties, "which can be completed within one year."
The historical parallel with the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, "hosted" by Mr. Peanut, couldn't be more obvious. Given that his foreign policy has been as inept and disastrous as its domestic counterpart, Red Barry is clearly looking for some actual accomplishment that will be generally acknowledged as such to give him something to hang his 2012 re-election hat on, especially since otherwise all he'll be seen as doing is obstructing the dismantling of all the unpopular garbage the GOP congressional majorities were elected to repeal, cut, and replace. A Rose Garden photo-op with Netanyahu and Abbas grinningly sharing a three-way handshake with His Majesty wouldn't necessarily be any magic electoral elixir, but it'd be a big step in the direction he wants to go.
But then there's the aforementioned "Iranian twist":
Coincidentally, according to today’s front-page administration-fed NYT story, one year is also the timeframe U.S. officials are now claiming Iran has before it achieves nuclear breakout capacity. The idea of this two-step media offensive, presumably, is to put pressure on Israel not to do anything “rash” before the new round of peace talks plays out, especially with news set to break tomorrow that the Bushehr reactor is ready to go. That’s consistent with the White House’s thinking all along: They’ve always believed that settling the Palestinian issue first will make it easier to deal with Iranian nukes by denying the mullahs an opportunity to exploit the great Muslim grievance. If a peace deal is struck, then theoretically the goodwill it’ll generate towards Israel and America among Sunni nations will neutralize the Muslim solidarity that Iran wants to exploit when the confrontation over its nuke program finally comes.
In plain, blunt terms, B.O. will be holding the Israelis hostage on the mullahs' behalf against the IDF doing what has to be done to at least buy time towards the Jewish State's very survival, which is only necessitated by our refusal to "disarm" Tehran ourselves.
Eeyore accurately previews the inevitable endgame:
Hamas will play no role in the peace negotiations and has no interest in ceding Gaza to its enemies in the Palestinian Authority in the event that a peace deal is hashed out. On the contrary, with Iran’s full support, they’ll inevitably accuse Abbas of having sold out the Palestinian nation in order to inflame the same sense of Muslim grievance and solidarity that the peace talks are meant to mute. In fact, if O shocks the world and the talks start making serious progress, I assume Iran and Hamas (and Hezbollah, of course) will simply precipitate some sort of crisis in order to derail them. Which is to say, how can you expect any deal to hold as long as Tehran and its proxies still have fangs?
And once they have nuclear fangs (again, as always, assuming they don't have them already) what Muslim entity will even heed, much less cooperate with any U.S. initiative once incineration from Tehran becomes the likely outcome?
Yes, triumphal photo-ops and re-election definitely are driving this umpteenth doomed-from-inception "peace process" wank. But the regime's strategic objective remains: Dismantle Israel as the implacable enemy of "Middle East peace," not Iranian Islamist theocratic apocalyptic fanaticism, which can be "won over" to "peace and friendship" with an "extended open hand.
You know, just like Imam Rauf and Park51 (and Barack Obama and the Pelosi Politburo) have been SO open to compromise on the site of the Islamic Victory Monument.
What could go wrong?
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