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Death Penalty For Selling Land to Jews

Enlightened Europe and the American Left demand immediate peace and two=state "solution" with our Palestinian partners. Should it be called the final "final" solution? When the Left is supporting savages, they show very clearly, that they are savages themselves. It was National Socialists who came up with the first final solution. Now their offspring are on the march.
Hitler (his name should be blotted) planted the seeds of Islamo-nazism through Jerusalem Mufti. Communists and European socialists embraced Mufti's nephew Arafat.
Now they watch the poisonous results of their work.
We wonder when the United Nations will proclaim selling land to the Jews a crime against humanity. We probably won't have to wait for too long.

Maan News Agency via Israelycool:

Date: 28 / 04 / 2009  Time:  13:54

[Ma'anImages]

Hebron – Ma’an – A special Palestinian Authority (PA) military court in Hebron in the southern West Bank sentenced a Palestinian man to death by hanging after he was found guilty of selling land to Israeli settlers on Tuesday.
This is the first time a Palestinian court has handed down a conviction for treason in a case relating to land sales. The suspect is from the Hebron area.
Presiding over tribunal was judge Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Al-Masri. The jurists were the judge Major Mihriz Atyani, and Major Nabil Jabir. Head of military prosecution in Hebron Issa Amr attended the sentencing as well as the military prosecuting attorney in Hebron Hani Al-Heih, the court’s clerk Abdul-Rahman Fannun. Lawyers defending the suspect were also present.
The military court held a hearing session on 21 April, on the charge of “leaking lands to Israel.”
The PA announced just over a week ago that it is investigating Palestinians who sell land to settlers.
PA courts have convicted Palestinians for collaborating with Israel in the past, usually for providing information about resistance fighters to the Israeli intelligence services. These convictions are based on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Revolutionary Code. [link]

Jurists, mind you, no less.

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Obama Has Paralyzed the CIA

Newsmax:

Monday, April 27, 2009 9:48 AM
By: Ronald Kessler

In September 1995, John Deutch, the director of Central Intelligence, bowed to congressional pressure and fired two CIA officials because they had recruited Guatemalan military assets who had been involved in political assassinations.

Inside the agency’s amphitheater, known as the “Bubble,” Deutch then told CIA employees that despite the firings, they should continue to take risks in the service of their country. That brought snickers from many of the clandestine officers in the audience.

Deutch laid down the law that recruitment of assets or spies with so-called human rights violations would require high-level approval. Yet who else would know about terrorists and our enemies except those who were themselves involved in treachery?

The message was clear: Stay away from informants who are not politically correct.

Deutch’s effort to recruit Boy Scouts as spies was chilling.

“People retired in place or left,” says William Lofgren, who headed the Central Eurasian Division, which included Russia. “Our spirit was broken. At the CIA, you have to be able to inspire people to take outrageous risks.”

That risk-averse atmosphere, in turn, contributed to the failure to detect the 9/11 plot that killed 3,000 Americans and sent the economy reeling.

Now, President Obama’s release of memos on harsh interrogation tactics and his condemnation of those tactics — though approved by President Bush, the Justice Department, and key members of Congress — is sending an even greater shudder through the intelligence community.

By their very nature, intelligence officers who obtain secrets of other countries or of terrorist organizations are at risk. This is no amusement park.

They meet with terrorists in dark alleys to try to enlist them to spy for the agency. They break into foreign embassies to steal secret codes and install listening devices in homes of terrorists. They pick up top secret military plans from clandestine hiding places. They recruit arms dealers to report on efforts to steal nuclear weapons.

If their work is uncovered, they may be arrested by a foreign power or murdered by a terrorist.

Back when the forerunner of the CIA started in 1942, its first director, William J. Donovan, called it an “unusual experiment.” For his Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the best and the brightest were recruited to embark on a dangerous mission: to penetrate the enemy, learn its secrets, and disrupt its operations through covert means, including sabotage and assassination.

The enemy then was Nazi Germany and Japan, and the nascent intelligence agency was charged with preventing another Pearl Harbor.

Indications of imminent war, properly pieced together, would have compelled President Roosevelt to place the U.S. military on alert and disperse ships at Pearl Harbor. But the strike caught the military by surprise. The attack killed 2,388 people.

In the parlance adopted after Sept. 11, there was a failure to connect the dots. Still, that may not be enough to thwart an attack.

What is needed is penetration of the enemy. Such a penetration usually entails inserting spies into the heart of an organization or government so that its innermost plans and secrets are passed along. That is the job of the CIA.

When George Tenet became director of Central Intelligence in July 1997, he tried to overcome what Deutch had done to the agency. If employees “don’t believe that you believe in them and the mission, you can articulate all the strategy you want and nothing will happen. You can’t do it by yourself: They have to implement it,” Tenet would say.

Within two months of taking over, Tenet established himself as a champion of the agency and a leader who appreciated what is now called the National Clandestine Service. But it would take time to change the culture. Since 9/11, and especially under CIA Director Michael Hayden, the CIA has been operating on all cylinders.

Now Obama has demonized CIA officers for following instructions from the highest levels of the U.S. government. He has raised the specter of prosecutions, saying it would be up to Attorney General Eric Holder whether to charge those who gave legal opinions authorizing the tactics. [Read more]

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Mahmoud Abbas: "I do not accept the Jewish State"

Meet Mahmood Abbas, the last hope of the supporters of "peace process". Israel is continuously being urged to sign an agreement while he is around. Now, let's hear what Mr. Abbas has in mind.

Palestinian Media Watch:

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

 
Palestinian Authority president and Fatah chairman Mahmoud Abbas stated unequivocally Monday that he does not accept the Jewish state.
 
"I say this clearly: I do not accept the Jewish State, call it what you will," he said at a preliminary conference of the Palestinian Youth Parliament in Ramallah.
 
At the end of the conference, Abbas was presented with a large framed map of "Palestine," covering the entire area of Israel.

The photo of the map being held aloft by a smiling Abbas was featured in a prominent front-page position in both PA daily newspapers. Note that the word "Palestine" appears on the map in English.

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Staten Island Civic Meeting: Not Another Russian Thing ...

SILIVE.com:

Staten Island civic meeting hears opposition to 'Russian' community center

by Staten Island Advance

Thursday April 23, 2009, 11:44 PM

Staten Island Advance/Jim RomanoAssemblywoman Janele Hyer-Spencer (D-Mid-Island/Brooklyn) spent much of two hours earlier tonight trying in vain to assure old-time South Beach residents that a proposed community center is for all Staten Islanders.

It was supposed to be a slam dunk: $4 million in state funding for a community center in family-friendly South Beach, on the site of a long-shuttered former arcade.

Instead Assemblywoman Janele Hyer-Spencer (D-Mid-Island/Brooklyn) spent much of two hours earlier tonight trying in vain to assure old-time residents, who used the proposed new tenant's Russian heritage to vent their frustrations over the changing makeup of their neighborhood.

"We don't want it. If it's 10 more duplexes [instead], that's fine," lifelong South Beach resident Joanne Bennetti, 64, told Ms. Hyer-Spencer after the neighborhood civic association meeting. "This is just going to be another damn Russian thing ... you don't know what it is to feel like a foreigner in your own neighborhood."

The proposed building would be built by the Staten Island Community Center, a nonprofit based in Dongan Hills run by Arkadiy Fridman, a leader in the borough's Russian community, and would be funded through $4 million in state capital improvement dollars secured by Ms. Hyer-Spencer.

The assemblywoman had hoped to assure 40 skeptical members of the civic association, many of them older, longtime residents who remember a South Beach of a different era, that the center would be for all residents and not be devoted to a single ethnic group. It would also include a universal pre-kindergarten school.

"This is not a Russian community center. If it was I wouldn't have busted my butt to get this money," said Ms. Hyer-Spencer, a point she would repeat several times. "It's a Staten Island community center ... we need a place for our kids to go."

Ms. Hyer-Spencer has said in the past that her biggest concern is that people understand that the new center is for all Islanders, not just the Russian community spearheading the effort.

"SICC has been catering to every kind of multicultural walk of life on Staten Island, including the burgeoning Pakistani population, and the Russian, and Jewish population," she has said. "They were running arts programs, music and language programs. This is a base of operation, an entity in our community doing community-based work."

"We want to give back to the Island," Fridman, president and CEO of SICC has said.

Arkadiy is part owner in the Jefferson Avenue building that currently houses the SICC. The non-profit organization shares space with a for profit day care center.[link]

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Why No Film About Gulag?

Welt Online:

The 40 DAYS OF KENGIR - Why is there no film about the gulag?

von Hannes Stein, Autor der WELT und WamS
27.04.2009 - 00.34 Uhr

I was a bit late in seeing „Slumdog Millionaire“ but I enjoyed this film of multile Oscars immensely: a greatl from-rags-to-riches-stories set in Bombay/Mumbai rich with Dickensian overtones which made my Anglophile heart leap with delight. I love the cinema. What a great art form!

Now the following has nothing to do with „Slumdog Millionaire“. But coming home from this movie I couldn’t help but remember once more that there is an awkward silence, a black hole – as it were -- at the centre of the Hollywood film industry. One might even speak about a taboo subject. It is more exotic than India, more challenging than poverty and brutality in a Third World countrz, and it is right there in front of our noses.
I am, of course, referring to the gulag. Dear reader, please prove me wrong: but I seriously believe there is not one film about this horrific chapter of 20th century history. „Dr Zhivago“? Puh-leaze. In this film, we are merely TOLD about stalinism, and only in the vaguest possible terms.
Thus the average American – the average child of Western cilvilization – has no mental image of the gulag. It has simply remained invisible. Only those select few who worked their way through the three vast volumes of Solshenizyns „Gulag Archipelago“ or through Vassili Grossman’s monumental novel „Life and Fate“ – and how many are they? – are in a position to conjure up some sort of mental picture.
This, by the way, should forever put to rest all discussions whether one may popularize-trivialize-fictionalize-sentimentalize the holocaust. Please fancy there were only Primo Levi’s and Elie Wiesel’s books. No „Holocaust“ TV series, no „Schindler’s List“ (however faulty and inept these adaptations may be). How many people on this planet would even be aware of the fact that six million Jews were murdered because they were Jews??
Very few. And thus only a handful of people now shudder when reading the four letters „NKVD“.
So here is my modest proposal to The Anonymous Hollywood Mogul. Dear Sir or Madam – whoever you may be – I offer you three stories from the gulag which could immediately be turned into major motion pictures. The thugs who are ruling Russia at present will be screaming at the top of their lungs. But who cares?
1. „The 40 Days of Kengir“. This is a story which basically tells itself. In 1954, the criminal prisoners made a pact with the political prisoners in Kengir, a camp located in Kazakhstan. Together they managed to defeat the NKVD guards. (Germans might take some pride in the fact that this camp revolt was inspired, at least in part, by the Berlin uprising of 1953. The prisoners of Kengir said: If the Germans can do it, we can do it as well!) The „zeks“ managed to hold democratic elections. Couples were married. Religious services of all denominations were being performed. Pictures were painted, poems written. The „zeks“ even built a radio and broadcast anti-Soviet informations to the outside world.
The ending, needless to say, was not happy. Soviet tanks rolled in and literally crushed the uprising. This being a Hollywood flick, one would have to make up a couple that somehow escapes the carnage and lives happily ever after in, say, New Jersey. But this should not pose a major challenge to any accomplished script writer.
2. „Duranty“. Here I am less certain how the story would work but the material is quite compelling. The film would tell the story of the Liverpool-born, one-legged, womanizing, hard drinking journalist Walter Duranty (I very much see Alec Baldwin in this role) who was the Moscow correspondent of the „New York Times“ from 1921 to 34. Duranty managed not to report the holodomor – the mass murder, by hunger, of 6 to 12 million Ukrainians, most of them children -- at the end of the 1920ies. He was flown in from the US for the fake Moscow show trials and reported back that all the accused – Buckharin, Kamenev, Sinoviev -- were guilty as charged. During his stint in the Soviet Union Duranty drove around in a car with a siren which had been supplied by the NKVD. One scene in the film should definitely show how Duranty/Baldwin decides to visit friends at 4 in the morning – dead drunk, of course. Knocking at his friends’ door in Moscow, he discovers they all tried to hide under the stairs – hearing the NKVD siren, they expected the worst.
The film could be organized in flashbacks around the Pulitzer award ceremony that took place in New York City in 1932. The director could contrast the glitzy scene in New York with images from the Ukraine. Perhaps one could even imagine one of Duranty’s mistresses dying during the great famine?
3. „Baseball in Luna Park“. This would be the story of two normal working class families that decided to settle in Soviet Russia during the Great Depression. As I learned from Tim Tzouliadis’ book „The Forsaken“, there were hundreds such families in the 30ies. The film would concentrate on the children of the families: one a family of devout communists, probably Jewish, the other just plain unideological folks who weren’t able to make a living in Detroit and tried their luck on foreign shores.
At first, everything would be perfect. Wonderful. The Americans were popular in Moscow. They even had their own schools where their children were taught that the Soviet system was the logical continuation of the Founding Fathers’ dreams. There even was, quite literally, a baseball team in Luna Park. All team members ended up in the gulag. After 1937 foreigners were treated as spies by comrade Stalin (unless they agreed to spy on their fellow countrymen, and even then they could not be certain). The film’s bete noir would have to be Joseph Davies, the US ambassador at the time, who did not care about his fellow countrymen at all. Actually, he directed a film himself in which he extolled the progressive virtues of the Soviet regime.
So basically we could show these two families perishing in the meat grinder and the children – who never made the decision to come to the Soviet Union in the first place – would be caught up in the mess, but this being Hollywood, they would somehow make it and walk away had in hand toward the sunset. Never say die! After all, even „Schindler’s List“ and „Holocaust“ end on a hopeful note.
I’m quite serious about this modest proposal. And I hope that I will live to see a film on these horrors lest our blindness becomes permanent. [link]

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Russian Jewish Capital -- Missing Father of Modern Israel

Arutz Sheva:

Israel Was Not Born of Socialism

by Joel Bainerman

Socialists didn't redeem the land of Israel.

A very important book to read is The Business of Settlement: Private entrepreneurship in the Jewish settlement of Palestine, 1900-1914 by Yossi Katz, a Professor at Bar-Ilan University. For one thing, it explains why there are so
Why there are so many streets in Tel Aviv named after non-socialists.
many streets in Tel Aviv named after non-socialists such as Meir Dizengoff, Zalman Levontin, Menachem Sheinkin, Arthur Ruppin and Eliahu Kaplan.

Professor Katz explains that, from 1900 until the beginning of British rule in Palestine after World War I, wealthy Russian Jews set up investment companies to buy land in Palestine. This was after the French Rothschilds started to invest in the 1870s in Zichron Yaacov, Rishon Lezion and Rosh Pina, but by 1900, had given up. We can assume that the reason the French Rothschilds stopped investing and supporting unsuccessful economic enterprises in Palestine is that by the first years of the 20th century they had secured the Suez Canal. A friendly force and future supply lines in Palestine right next door was not so critical anymore.

The names of the investment companies that bought the land were Geulah, Jewish Colonization Association, Palestinian Land Development Company (PLDC), Nahalat Sadeh, Netaim Association, HaElef Association and Dorshei Zion Settlement Association.

During this crucial period of 1900-1917 in early Zionist history arose the "Estate Companies" through which land was bought and crops planted, so that when the investors came to Palestine they would be moving to a profitable enterprise. These Estate Companies was where most of Israel's moshavim shitufiim came from. Seventeen of these Estate Companies were registered in the US and Canada, 45 in Russia and 56 in Eastern Europe. Once a viable economy was built on these lands, the new immigrants would make Aliyah. Still other types of land settling operations were strictly for profit, such as those created by the Geulat HaAretz organization.

The entire urban landscape of modern-day Israel - the entire coastal plain, Haifa and the Krayot - were created after these land purchases, which allowed land to be parceled out and sold to entrepreneurs who built apartment blocks, commercial and industrial areas. Today, the names of areas built with private capital include Rosh Pina, Migdal, Karkur, Metulla, Gan Yane, Poriya and Raanana.

The process is called "urbanization" and had these investment companies not been as committed to building up Eretz Yisrael as they were, it is doubtful if the national economy would have ever developed to the level at which it is able to support millions of residents. Already by the early 1960s, only about 5% of Israelis lived on kibbutzim and moshavim. Without its urban centers, Israel would not be the country it is today.

The Zionist historical record needs to be corrected: the economic foundation of the State of Israel is not based on socialism.[link]

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Operation Cast Lead Explained

Power Line Blog:

the IDF released a brief animated video as part of the recap of the conclusions of investigations into the Gaza operation earlier this year, illustrating the terrorist tactics that Hamas employed. Run time is slightly more than five minutes.

The video provides background on the IDF's Operation Cast Lead, depicting the terrorist tactics that Hamas employed in the war. It shows how Hamas smuggles in weaponry in order to arm itself and how it employs the civilian population and infastructure in order to carry out terrorist attacks against Israel. Hamas' use of human shields during operation Operation Cast Lead of course caused civilian casualties.

Iran has reportedly resupplied Hamas since the termination of Operation Cast Lead and the sickening tactics depicted in the video remain Hamas's modus operandi. The IDF video seeks to explain the extraordinary challenge Israel faces in confronting an utterly monstrous enemy that exploits the humanity of its enemy.

          Watch the video

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Dovid Margolin: To Live, or To Die

Dovid Margolin:

This week the Torah portion begins by discussing the aftermath of the death of Nadav and Avihu, the two sons of Aharon, the Kohen Gadol [the High Priest]. Nadav and Avihu had entered the innermost chamber of the Mishkan, the Holy of Holies, and a G-dly fire had consumed them. So what was it that they had done wrong that they deserved to pass away like this? The Midrash explains that a few of the reason for this were that they had entered the Holy of Holies,they were not wearing the proper attire, they had no children, and they were not even married. They had sinned, and therefore their souls left their bodies.

How is it possible, though, that such lofty and holy individuals as Nadav and Avihu could commit such a sin? In fact, after their death, Moshe said “Aharon, my brother, I knew that the Mishkan would be sanctified by those who were beloved and close to G-d. Now I see that they -- Nadav and Avihu – are greater than you and me.” If they were so great, then how could they do this?

Chassidic Philosophy explains that the sin of Nadav and Avihu was not a sin in the simple sense of the word. Their sin lay in the fact that they had let their tremendously great love and connection to G-d carry them to a level where they could no longer stay within the confines of a physical body, and they simply passed away. And this was considered to be their sin, because even though each person wants to further their own service and connection to G-d to the point where they have no more connection to the physical world around them, they still need to understand that the mission is to serve G-d within the physical world. When there is such a strong yearning towards G-d and such a withdrawal from the world, a person must remember that he must have a return too, he must remember that the service that he was  placed upon this world to do, was specifically to serve G-d as a soul within a physical body. This is why, even though Nadav and Avihu were extremely holy people, they committed the sin of withdrawing from the world, and not returning to continue their mission.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe explains that we can now understand why entering the Holy of Holies and why not wearing the clothing of a Kohen were considered to be sins for Nadav and Avihu. They entered the Holy of Holies; they entered the Mishkan and proceeded to spiritually climb higher and higher, not giving any thought to returning. They also lacked the proper attire; clothing does not only mean physical clothing, but it means the vehicles that are used to perform Mitzvos. Mitzvos are spiritual, but they are “dressed” in the “clothing” of physicality, and that's why Tefillin are made out of leather, Tzedaka is performed with money etc. Similarly marriage and having children are Mitzvos “clothed” in physicality. 

So what is the lesson for us? What is the lesson for people who are not at the spiritual level of Nadav and Avihu? We all have our struggles, but one of them does not seem to be having as intense a love for G-d as Nadav and Avihu. The Rebbe answers that every Jew has points when he is spiritually awakened. It may be Shabbos, or it may be Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur, but there is a time where he stands higher then his everyday self. At that moment he must remember that that moment should be used out for its proper purpose. It should not remain a spiritually uplifting time with no physical accomplishment to show for it. He should harness that feeling to his everyday life, and go out and do actual physical Mitzvos. When we will do this, we will all fulfill our mission in this world to transform it into a physical dwelling place for G-d, with the coming of Moshiach, now.

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Should IDF Have Bombed This Hospital?

Jerusalem Post:

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh operated a command and control center inside Shifa Hospital in downtown Gaza City throughout Operation Cast Lead in January, the IDF revealed on Wednesday.

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh

Photo: AP

IDF probes opened following the offensive discovered that Haniyeh and other senior Hamas commanders took over a ward of the hospital, the Gaza Strip's largest, and set up a command center for the duration of the campaign.

Hamas believed that Israel would not target the hospital due to the high risk of collateral damage.

Guards were posted at the entrance to the ward and field commanders took advantage of the humanitarian corridor and cessation of action that the IDF instituted every day for several hours, to enter the hospital and meet with senior Hamas officials to receive instructions.

Senior Hamas commanders also set up a command center in a Red Crescent Society clinic in Khan Yunis and used it as a detention center.

An IDF investigation, conducted by Col. Erez Katz, focused on the targeting of health facilities, vehicles and medical teams. The probe discovered that out of seven medical personnel claimed to have been killed by the IDF, five were Hamas operatives, including a nephew of the Hamas health minister. Two were civilians.

Palestinians carry a wounded man into Shifa Hospital in Gaza City during Operation Cast Lead.

Photo: AP [file]

The probe also uncovered a number of cases during which Hamas used ambulances to transport operatives. Testimony by a Gazan medical worker and obtained by the IDF revealed how Hamas forced the Red Crescent to hand over medic and nurse uniforms for its operatives.

During the probe, the army also looked into a complaint filed by the United Nations that the air force had bombed an UNRWA vehicle in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in southern Gaza City. The probe revealed that the vehicle was bombed since it did not have markings and was driving at night in an area off limits to civilian vehicles.

Furthermore, the UN vehicle was used to transport a Palestinian anti-tank squad and was bombed after it unloaded the squad. The driver was wounded; he was later identified as the former driver of Hamas co-founder Ahmed Yassin, who was killed by Israel in 2004.

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Mitt Romney: Obama Is No Freedom Fighter

National Revew Online:

A Timid Advocate of Freedom
President Obama has failed his early foreign-policy tests.

By Mitt Romney

At last week’s Summit of the Americas, President Obama acquiesced to a 50-minute attack on America as terroristic, expansionist, and interventionist from Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega. His response to Ortega’s denunciation of our effort to free Cuba from Castro’s dictatorship was that he shouldn’t be blamed “for things that happened when I was three months old.” Blamed? Hundreds of men, including Americans, bravely fought and died for Cuba’s freedom, heeding the call from newly elected president John F. Kennedy. But last week, even as American soldiers sacrificed blood in Afghanistan and Iraq to defend liberty, President Obama shrank from defending liberty here in the Americas.

In his first press interview as president, he confessed to Arabic television that America had “dictated” to other nations. No, Mr. President, America has fought to free other nations from dictators. And in Strasbourg, the president further claimed that America has “showed arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.” London’s Daily Telegraph observed that President Obama “went further than any United States president in history in criticizing his own country’s action while standing on foreign soil.” Of course, it was not just the Daily Telegraph that was listening: People around the world who yearn for freedom, who count on America’s resolve and support, heard him as well. He was heard in China, in Tibet, in Sudan, in Burma, and, yes, in Cuba.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to “tear down this wall,” a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire. It was the same confidence that had been ignited decades earlier when John F. Kennedy declared to a people surrounded by Communism that they were not alone. “We are all Berliners,” he said, because “freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s confident commitment, spoken as he led us into the war that would free millions in Europe, inspired not only Americans but freedom fighters around the globe: “The American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.” Such words of solidarity, of confidence, and of unwavering conviction that America is indeed “the last best hope on earth” are what freedom’s friends would have expected to hear from our president when our nation was slandered. Instead he offered silence, smiles, and a handshake.

Even more troubling than what he has or has not said is what he has not done. Kim Jong Il launched a long-range missile on the very day President Obama addressed the world about the peril of nuclear proliferation. As one of the world’s most oppressive and tyrannical regimes is on the brink of securing the “game changing” capability to reach American shores with a nuclear weapon, the president shrinks from action: no seizure of North Korean funds, no severance of banking access, no blockade.

Not to be outdone by Kim Jong Il, President Ahmadinejad announced that his nation has successfully mastered every step necessary to enrich uranium, violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty it has signed. So, like North Korea, Iran will have changed the world’s equation for peace and security: It will be capable of devastating Europe and America, and of annihilating Israel. And as with North Korea, the Obama administration chooses inaction — no new severe sanctions, no hint of military options. Ahmadinejad can act with confidence that the forceful options once on our proverbial table have been shelved. [link]

Why did we nominate John McCain? We could have done so much better with Mitt Romney.

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