Ahmadinejad
in Ramadan speech: "Anyone who loves freedom and justice must strive
for the annihilation of the Zionist regime in order to pave the way for
world justice and freedom"
From: Jihad Watch
Ramadan kareem in Iran: the
destruction of Israel would lead to a new genocide of the Jews, while
Islamic supremacist Jew-haters in the U.S. like Hussein Ibish and Reza
Aslan continue their self-righteous posturing and don't say a word about
the Iranian President's bloodlust. "Ahmadinejad: World forces must
annihilate Israel," by Joanna Paraszczuk for the Jerusalem Post, August 2 (thanks to all who sent this in):
In Ramadan speech to Islamic country ambassadors, Iranian president says liberation of Palestine will solve all world problems.
In a speech published on his website Thursday, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the ultimate goal of world forces must be the
annihilation of Israel.
Speaking to ambassadors from Islamic countries ahead of 'Qods Day'
('Jerusalem Day'), an annual Iranian anti-Zionist event established in
1979 by Ayatollah Khomeini and which falls this year on August 17,
Ahmadinejad said that a "horrible Zionist current" had been managing
world affairs for "about 400 years."
Repeating traditional anti-Semitic slurs, the Iranian president
accused "Zionists" of controlling the world's media and financial
systems.
It was Zionists, he said, who were “behind the scene of the world’s main powers, media, monetary and banking centers.”
"They are the decision makers, to the extent that the presidential
election hopefuls [of the USA] must go and kiss the feet of the Zionists
to ensure their election victory,” he added.
Ahmadinejad added that "liberating Palestine" would solve all the
world's problems, although he did not elaborate on exactly how that
might work.
“Qods Day is not merely a strategic solution for the Palestinian
problem, as it is to be viewed as a key for solving the world problems,"
he said.
He added: "Anyone who loves freedom and justice must strive for the
annihilation of the Zionist regime in order to pave the way for world
justice and freedom.”
The Iranian president said that Israel reinforced "the dominance of
arrogant powers in the region and across the globe" and that Arab
countries in particular - he cited Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Syria and
Turkey - were affected by Israel's "plots."
Ahmadinejad, who has called the Holocaust a myth, has previously
called for Israel's annihilation, in a 2005 speech in which he used a
Persian phrase that translates literally as "wiped off the page of
time."
Why Are We Handing Muslim Extremists the House Keys?
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the handful of House Republicans, led by
Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who sent letters in June to
inspectors general at five government departments, asking them to
investigate evidence of Muslim Brotherhood influence on U.S. government
policymaking. The Muslim Brotherhood is a global Islamic movement
engaged, according to the group's own internal document, on a "grand
jihad" in North America to destroy "Western civilization from within."
To date, the inspectors general haven't responded.
Nonetheless, Bachmann and her colleagues -- Trent Franks of Arizona,
Louie Gohmert of Texas, Tom Rooney of Florida and Lynn Westmoreland of
Georgia -- have focused attention on the disastrous policy of bringing
members of known Muslim Brotherhood fronts and their associates into
Uncle Sam's policymaking chain. The representatives' letters went to
inspectors general at State, Justice, Defense, Homeland Security and the
Office of the National Intelligence Director. These government nerve
centers are increasingly advancing policies American leaders once would
have excoriated for supporting the enemies of this country.
Is it by chance, for example, that director of national intelligence
James Clapper, reading from prepared notes, absurdly described the
Muslim Brotherhood to the House Intelligence Committee last year as a
"largely secular" organization? Is it an accident that in June the State
Department issued a visa to Hani Nour Eldin of Egypt to meet with
senior White House officials? Eldin is a member of Gama'a al-Islamiyya, a
terrorist organization once led by Omar Abdel Rahman, "the blind
sheikh" convicted of the first attack on the World Trade Center. In the
person of Rahman's successor, Refai Ahmed Taha, the group is one of the
five signatories of Osama bin Laden's February 1998 "World Islamic Front
Statement Urging Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders." Isn't it imperative
to review the policy mechanism that permitted a member of bin Laden's
jihad front into the White House?
According to our elected officials, the answer is no. Not one House
member, Democrat, Republican or tea party, has come out in solidarity
with the National Security Five. Typically, the mainstream media have
reacted not by digging up facts themselves (what are they,
journalists?), but rather by throwing mud on Michele Bachmann. "Stop
'witch-hunting' Huma Abedin, top aide to Hillary Clinton," is the war
cry from CNN to USA Today. Many conservative outlets, such as Fox and
The Washington Examiner, are strangely silent.
To be sure, one of the Bachmann letters notes the case of Huma Abedin
-- a confidante of the secretary of state whose family has dense ties to
Muslim Brotherhood organizations. She has become the human face used to
distract from the overarching national security issue. Honest answers
to the wide array of questions the House members have asked would expose
high elected officials in both parties as dupes of our enemies, at
best. The American people would find out how Uncle Sam came to support
al-Qaida in Libya; Muslim Brothers in Egypt; and, now, al-Qaida and
Muslim Brothers in Syria. An honest investigation would spotlight the
internal process that led Uncle Sam to sponsor a new international
counterterrorism organization without Israel. The shameful fact is, our
power-elites don't want these questions answered because the answers
would threaten their hold on power.
Bachmann & Co. haven't alleged wrongdoing on Abedin's part. Rather,
their question turns on the process that permitted a person with close
family ties to an array of world Islamic movements and figures hostile
to the United States to gain the security clearance Abedin requires to
serve alongside the secretary of state.
I looked over the lengthy Form 86 that federal employees fill out to
apply for national security positions. One portion is devoted to an
applicant's relatives, with a question about relatives' affiliations
with any "foreign movement." If Abedin answered fully -- and there are
stiff penalties for failing to do so -- she would have noted, for
starters, that her mother, Saleha Abedin, belongs to the Muslim
Sisterhood (the Brotherhood's auxiliary, primarily for relatives of
prominent Brothers) and serves on the board of the International Islamic
Council for Dawah and Relief, a group banned in Israel for supporting
Hamas. Saleha Abedin has been a representative of the Muslim World
League, whose affiliates have been charged by the U.S. government with
funding terrorism. Any ensuing investigation would turn up Saleha's work
with the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, where she edits the
journal that Huma, too, worked on for a dozen years.
That same institute
was founded by Huma's father in Saudi Arabia with the assistance and
long-term involvement of Abdullah Omar Naseef. Naseef was
secretary-general of the Muslim World League and also founded the Rabita
Trust, a U.S.-designated international terrorist organization with ties
to al-Qaida.
There's more, but just imagine the light dawning on the
background-checker: So, Ms. Abedin, let me get this straight: Your
folks, and you, too, worked with a guy who founded a terrorist
organization linked to al-Qaida, your mom's on the board of a group
banned in Israel for supporting Hamas, and you want top-secret clearance
to work for the secretary of state.
When Justice Roberts folded and held the Obamacare law
constitutional, he upheld the individual mandate. But he gave us all
an individual mandate: To defeat Obama and repeal this horrible law!
But the Romney campaign -- and the Super PACs -- have
not put this issue in play against Obama. We need an avalanche of ads
explaining how the health care law will force rationing of medical
services, worsen the shortage of doctors, tax young people out of one
month's income, and raise all of our health care premiums.
Since everybody knows the law has passed but many
don't realize that it has not yet taken effect, a lot of voters regard
the predicted harms from the new law as matters of conjecture and wonder
if they are real or not. By 2014, they will know darn well that they
are real but it will be too late to do anything about it.
Voters still oppose the health care law by the same
39-54 margin (Rasmussen) that they always have. But it is muted by the
absence of public discussion. Romney has done well in making the
economy the issue, but has not made Obamacare a second national focus.
His supporters -- both those with checkbooks and
those without -- need to rally to bring this issue front and center to
our politics as the presidential campaign enters its final stage.
Justice Roberts gave us a gift as well as a challenge when he put the
issue squarely before the voters in the fall elections. Whether he was
right or wrong to leave the heavy lifting to us, we must rise to the
occasion and beat this law.
The New York Times has just recently discovered that
you cannot treat thirty million new people and have a diminishing supply
of doctors and expect medical care to remain the same. We need to
elaborate this conclusion and explain what is at stake.
IF Obamacare is not repealed, seniors will not be
able to get the care they need because they do not have enough QLYs
remaining (Quality Life Years). The authoritarian regime of math will
take over. Does your hip replacement cost $300,000? But are you 84 and
have only three QLYs left? Our guidelines do not permit us to spend
$100,000 per QLY. Permission denied.
Do you want Avastin to treat your cancer? It costs
$80,000 a year. Denied. Take the second best medicine instead and hope
for the best.
These are the kinds of Draconian choices which loom
ahead under Obamacare. We have to spread the word, mobilize and beat
the law by beating Obama.
“Our only weapons in this fight are the weapons of Rev. King: truth
and love and courage,” said Rev. Williams Owens. A man who says this
will never back down.
This stance by Rev. Owens, the president of the Coalition for
African-American Pastors (CAAP) sums up the problem Barack Obama has
with his African American base.
By any measure, Rev. Owens, who has called Barack Obama “Judas”, is preaching to his choir.
By their own description, African Americans (79%) are much more
religious than the rest of America (56%).
Fifty three percent say they
attend church at least once a week, and 76% report praying daily. Fifty
nine percent are members of the Churches represented in Rev. Owens’
black pastors association. Almost 9 of every 10 black Americans are
“absolutely certain God exists”, and 55% believe the Bible is the
literal word of God.
In general, African Americans express opposition to homosexuality at a
rate of 46%, but among the more religious, that number climbs to 58%.
Nevertheless, by a lopsided 64% to 27%, blacks are against gay marriage.
In May, when Obama decided to support gay marriage, among other black
clergy, Rev. Owens was shocked and angered. He demanded a meeting with
Obama, the man he and his congregation worked so hard to elect, and
since then, he has been ignored.
The CAAP immediately went on the offensive. Regardless of how Obama
and his people have tried to frame the issue, they have not been able to
talk this problem away. When they tried to claim that gay marriage is a
matter of civil rights, Owens responded, “I didn’t march one inch, one
foot, one yard for a man to marry a man and a woman to marry a woman. We
will not take it back, we will not back down, and we are going to take
action across this country.”
On Tuesday he declared: “He [Obama] has not done a smart thing and it
might cost him the election. There are more people that want marriage
to be right than there are homosexuals.”
Eid-ul-Fitr, the Muslim holiday celebrating the end of Ramadan, was
an appropriate setting for a panel discussion today on the threat of an
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) attack on the United States today.
The live event, hosted by Florida-based The United West was presented to raise awareness of the looming threat.
The warning contained was startling: A crude nuclear device placed on
top of a 50-year-old SCUD missile and launched by a tramp steamer could
cause the collective collapse of the nation’s power grid in a matter of
minutes.
It is estimated that Iran could launched such an attack in just a few
years, and it would leave the U.S., essentially, in the “Stone Age.”
Tom Trento, the founder of The United West, called an EMP attack the equivalent of an “Electronic Armageddon.”
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and its supreme leader,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, both believe that the coming of the last Islamic
messiah, the Shiites’ 12th Imam Mahdi, is near and that Iran is called
upon to bring about his arrival.
They believe that Iran must lead the way for the world-wide Islamic
revolution. Leaders in the Iranian government have stated that the
Islamic revolution is moving forward, advanced by the Arab Spring, and
will reach the shores of America for an eventual takeover.
Intelligence sources have indicated that Iran is within two years of
bringing the revolution to the United States in the form of an EMP
attack.
Ambassador R. James Wooley, former director of the CIA during the
Clinton administration, told the webcast that an Iranian nuclear attack
would not have to be sophisticated or complicated. He cited the damage
from a crude device mounted atop a SCUD and launched from somewhere near
the U.S. shores.
“It [the missile] need not be accurate, it just needs altitude” to
result in a successful attack. He went on to say that the effects of EMP
already are known, because the nation already has experienced them.
“Starfish Prime” was a high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the
United States of America on July 9, 1962, before the 1963 Nuclear Test
Ban treaty banned nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere.
A two megaton nuclear device (approximately 100 times the power of
the bomb dropped on Hiroshima) was launched via a Thor rocket was
exploded 250 miles (400 km) above a point 19 miles (31 km) southwest of
Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean.
The results included surprises, and raised still-unanswered questions.
Dr. William Graham, another member of the panel, said the EMP was 100 times larger than predicted and no one understood why.
Sophisticated electronic equipment on the island of Oahu, almost 900
miles away, was severely damaged, but vacuum-tube based devices were
unharmed. Over 300 streetlights stopped working, burglar alarms were
activated and one telephone company’s microwave link was destroyed.
“The street lights on Ferdinand Street in Manoa and Kawainui Street
in Kailua went out at the instant the bomb went off, according to
several persons who called police last night,” as reported on July 9,
1962, in the “Honolulu Advertiser.”
The same article reported that a brilliant flash turned Hawaii’s
night into day, with the “spectacular pyrotechnic aftermath” lasting for
seven minutes.
“It was like turning on all the lights all over the Hawaiian Islands for a super-super athletic contest.”
A city-county streetlight department official in Honolulu also
attributed blown circuit fuses in nine areas to the energy released from
the bomb.
Today’s worldwide nuclear arsenal is much more powerful.
According to the Brookings Institution, nuclear bombs have been
constructed that range in size of 0.02 megatons (about 1 kiloton) to 15
megatons, seven times larger than the Starfish Prime warhead.
Iran would not need anything nearly as large as a 15 megaton bomb to
destroy the U.S. infrastructure. A nuclear device built using 1940s
technology would suffice. Iran’s nuclear program is already capable of
building such a device.
Woolsey said, “All this discussion about whether they [Iran] have a
[nuclear] program ignores the fact that in enriching uranium up to 20
percent [purity], you have done 85-90 percent of the work you need.”
He went on to note that when Iranians say they are not interested in nuclear weapons, they are “lying through their teeth.”
With a nuclear device in hand, either produced locally or purchased from North Korea, all Iran would need is a delivery system.
As Woolsey noted, a SCUD would do the job.
Since an EMP pulse only affects electronics within its line of sight,
the higher the detonation, the larger the affected area. A device
detonated 100 miles over Indianapolis would put 70 percent of the
population of the United States in the dark.
Such a missile could be launched from a fishing boat off the East Coast.
The Aegis missile system is designed to only fire at a target at mid-course or in its terminal (reentry) phase.
Woolsey claims that President Obama has made it harder to design the
missile system to strike targets in the ascent phase due to promises he
has made to the Soviet Union.
Graham, a member of Department of Defense’s Defense Science Board and
President Reagan’ science adviser, saw firsthand the effects of an EMP
on critical infrastructure.
In 1962 Graham went on active duty to look at the data generated from
the last of the above ground nuclear tests. He concluded that an “EMP
super-weapon” would not need to generate a large blast. It could be a
small weapon that would effectively neutralize conventional forces.
He concluded that an EMP attack would result in “Government by Disaster.”
During the webcast, Fritz Ermarth, former chairman of the National
Intelligence Council, said that EMP has changed the face of modern
warfare.
“While the Cold War strategy of blasting cities is still in
portfolio” EMP is getting new emphasis. A major advantage they have is
that they are cheap and easy to produce. He went on to say that because
of their lack of preparation, the United States is way behind in terms
of defense against an EMP threat.
He claims that the United States is “tremendously vulnerable to catastrophic blackmail.”
Ermarth painted the following scenario: President Ahmadinejad calls
the United States president and says Iran has enough nuclear material to
make several bombs and they have deployed them in ships and trucks
around the country. He then goes on to say that Iran intends to destroy
Israel and then invade Saudi Arabia.
He threatens the American president
that if the United States responds, Iran will launch its missiles.
Ahmadinejad claims that at least two or three missiles will get through.
Even without a demonstration, Iran’s threat has to be taken seriously, he said.
The president would ask his advisers, “Is it a plausible threat?” To
which the advisers would have to say “yes,” given the state of Iran’s
nuclear enrichment program and access to ballistic delivery systems.
(This would also hold true for any bioweapon which could be transmitted by air.)
“What do you think the U.S. will do?”
Ermarth concluded his remarks by saying “Don’t discount coercion and blackmail as a weapon.”
Ambassador Henry F. Cooper, director of the Department of Defense’s
Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, concluded his own remarks by
saying that EMP is an “existential problem” and it is “ludicrous that
our representatives are not providing comprehensive defenses that are
needed.”
Media Takes Aim at Jerusalem
by Rabbi Shraga Simmons / United With Israel
Jews have experienced repeated attempts to obliterate Jerusalem as
the eternal capital of the Jewish people. On the Jewish calendar, this
is month (Av) that commemorates the destruction of Jerusalem and its
centrality in Jewish life. How apt, therefore, that this week BBC – the
world’s largest broadcaster – has taken aim at this very same idea.
In its high-profile Olympic Games website, BBC left out any reference to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
BBC did, however, list “East Jerusalem” as the capital of “Palestine.”
(Following complaints, BBC amended the site, coldly listing Jerusalem as
the “Seat of Government.”)
As a response, perhaps we should all stop referring to London as the
capital of England. We’ll call it instead “the seat of track and field.”
Israel
designated Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, yet most countries
maintain their embassies in Tel Aviv due to ongoing political debate
with the Palestinians. This has given rise to an unprecedented situation
whereby a sovereign state – Israel – is denied the diplomatic right to
choose the location of its capital city.
The U.S. Congress sought to reverse this travesty with the Jerusalem
Embassy Act of 1995, passed by overwhelming bipartisan majority in both
the House and Senate. The act states that “Jerusalem should be
recognized as the capital of the State of Israel and the United States
Embassy in Israel should be established in Jerusalem no later than May
31, 1999.”
Since then, a parade of U.S. presidents have promised to uphold this pledge. But with a congressional act allowing the President to implement a waiver at
six-month intervals, that’s exactly what has happened every six months
since 1995.
As documented in my book, “David & Goliath: The Explosive Inside
Story of Media Bias in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” the media
repeatedly denies that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel – an honor it
has held continuously for over 3,000 years.
A few months ago, the Washington Post printed this ditty:
Obama’s more aggressive message this year reflects the increasing
concern in Washington, Tel Aviv and other capitals about Iran’s
enrichment program, which Israel believes will be used to produce a
nuclear weapon.
Similarly, the Wall Street Journal has referred to Israel’s capital
as Tel Aviv, noting the “strains between Washington and Tel Aviv”
(“U.S., Israel Spar in Public, But Defense Ties are Strong,”
May 4, 2010), while CNN referred to “an explosion in the Israeli
capital of Tel Aviv” (“Blast in Israeli Capital,” January 22, 2006).
This one really takes the prize: The London Guardian correctly
referred to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital – but then printed this
retraction:
The caption on a photograph featuring passengers on a tram in
Jerusalem… wrongly referred to the city as the Israeli capital. The
Guardian style guide states: “Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel;
Tel Aviv is.”
It’s all part of a greater campaign to deny the Jewish connection to
Jerusalem. London’s Daily Telegraph (“Middle East Peace Process ‘in
Danger of Collapse,’” October 25, 2009) referred to “the Temple Mount,
where the two Jewish temples of antiquity are believed to have been
built,” and Time magazine identified the “Dome of the Rock, where Jews
believe Solomon and Herod built the First and Second Temples.” Not an
indisputable fact of history; just something that “Jews believe.”
Jerusalem is mentioned 500 times in the Bible, though not once in the
Muslim Koran. And yet, the media downplays the Jewish connection by
promoting the Arabic names of holy sites. In referring to the Temple
Mount, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, et al, typically cite the
Muslim-Arabic name – “Haram al-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary.” But did you
ever see the Temple Mount referred to by its Hebrew name, “Har
Habayit”? A Lexis-Nexis search of tens of thousands of mainstream news
articles relating to Jerusalem revealed – aside from direct quotes –
just one single reference to “Har Habayit.”
I’m not sure what can be done about all this, but one young man has
taken the fight to court, and the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that
American citizens born in Jerusalem can list their birthplace as
“Israel.”
Even presidential hopeful Ron Paul, long known as a critic of Israel, made this recent statement:
“If Israel wants their capital to be Jerusalem, then the United States should honor that.
How would we like it if some other nation said, ‘We decided to recognize New York City as your capital instead, so we will build our embassy there’?”
Over the millennia, many wars have been fought over Jerusalem. All
told, the city has been destroyed and rebuilt no less than nine times –
with each conqueror further attempting to obscure the glorious Jewish
past.
But the Jewish people have never abandoned Jerusalem – praying in
its direction thrice daily, invoking Jerusalem at every wedding
ceremony, and concluding both the Passover Seder and Yom Kippur services
with the yearning cry, “Next year in Jerusalem!”
And now, in an outrage of Olympic proportions, thousands of years of
uncontested history are being brazenly erased on news sites everywhere.
Op-ed:
Obama again sides with the muslim brotherhood
By: Diane Sori
BiBi Netanyahu and the Israeli military best be on their
guard because Barack Hussein Obama is no longer hiding his intentions of outwardly
and unabashedly trying to surround Israel with muslim brotherhood controlled governments.Case in point is the deliberately leaked ‘secret order’ that Obama recently signed that sanctions U.S. support for the Syrian
rebels who are trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad and his government.
This ‘secret order’ gives permission for the CIA and other
U.S. agencies to provide intelligence and other support to the rebels, which now amounts to what is the
Obama administration’s outwardly supporting Assad's opposition.
While Assad is NO angel by any means, having slaughtered
thousands of his own people over this past year alone, at least he was able to
keep Syria’s chemical weapons out of the hands of terrorists, and in this day and
age that is a big plus for him.While Assad
has publicly stated that under his control these weapons will only be used against
foreign invaders NO such promise has been given by the rebels. And these rebels are financed and supported by
the muslim brotherhood, the very group who has sworn along with Iran to wipe
Israel off the map.
A choice between two evils...Russian supported puppet Assad
or muslim brotherhood supported rebels.NO real choice here and the losers either way are the Syrian people and
Israel.
But is it any real surprise that Obama would favor and side with
those supported by the muslim brotherhood...after all he entertains them in the
White House, he’s allowed them to infiltrate our government and our schools, and
he NEVER criticizes their actions as the bottom line is...Barack Hussein Obama is
one of them.
And the man who was so gung-ho to ignore our Constitution’s War
Powers Clause and get us involved in Libya’s civil war...the man who issued a
directive last year that said a main national security directive of the United
States would be to prevent mass killings...this very man now is siding NOT only
himself, but our country as well, with rebels who are an arm of the muslim
brotherhood, who would have NO qualms about using those chemical weapons against their own people amd Israel as well.
The Arab Spring will most definitely turn into an Arab
Winter of the worst kind if Barack Hussein Obama has his way.
Adding to this is that these very rebels are now using heavy
weapons against civilian areas, so why Obama would side with these rebels
escapes logic, and brings me back to the premise that Barack Hussein Obama is
indeed a ‘secret’ member of the muslim brotherhood.And with al-Qaeda now moving in, siding with and
aiding the muslim brotherhood and the rebels, in reality Barack Hussein Obama
is siding with terrorists.
Obama really needs to butt out of Syria’s civil war completely,
and keep our country out of it too for NO way is this about bringing democracy
to Syria.The muslim brotherhood will
once again initiate a strict islamic republic along with sharia law, and we all know what
that means for the people of Syria.
So, while we know Assad’s slaughter of civilians is reprehensible
and deplorable, we also know that chemical weapons (and also biological weapons according to some reports) in the hands of these rebels might be
even worse.And the United States sure
as hell doesn’t need to be brought into a conflict where casualties on our side
could be extremely high if the rebels ever did release those chemical weapons.
And that does NOT include what they can and will do to Israel.
Sometimes we need to let these battles play out on their own
for better or worse.And if Israel decides
to put an end to this nonsense once and for all, for no people has suffered
more than the Israelis who live under the threat of destruction on a daily basis,
we need to untie Israel’s hands and stand side by side with them as together we
do what we all know needs to be done.
After all, and I will say what many are afraid to say, the
world will be better off without these barbarians in it.
