“We have your back,”
President Obama told Israelis when he visited that embattled country
recently. Way back, apparently. Mr. Obama’s administration famously
claimed to “lead from behind” in overthrowing Libya’s strongman,
Khaddafi. Young Sergeant Benjamin Anthony spoke to the Christians United
for Israel (CUFI) Washington Summit this week. Sgt. Anthony described a
different vision of leadership. Ahalai he gave as the Hebrew word for “after me.” Officers in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) they should lead from the front. That used to be America’s idea of leadership, too.
You cannot say Secretary John Kerry isn’t alert to his opportunities. He sees another chance to be a peacemaker. He is rushing to the Mideast to broker a cease-fire. Sgt. Anthony says Israel needs a victory over HAMAS terrorists who have been hiding rockets in schools and hospitals.
Kerry wants Israelis to stop trying to root out those who have sent more than 9,000 rockets into Israel. Canada’s National Post recently reported that the UNWRA—the world body’s refugee agency—closed down a school it was operating in Gaza after a cache of HAMAS rockets was discovered next door. The UN bureaucrats did what they usually do: they turned the rockets over to “local authorities.” In Gaza, that means they gave the rockets back to HAMAS. The cartoonist wasn’t kidding when he said HAMAS means “hiding among mosques and schools.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also addressed the CUFI gathering via satellite.
He has said the moral difference between Israel and its enemies is simple: “We use missiles to defend our civilians; they use civilians to defend their missiles.” An earlier Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir, was a young Jewish girl raised in Milwaukee. She spoke to her Arab enemies in these poignant words: “We can forgive you for killing our children; we cannot forgive you for making us kill your children.”
HAMAS is banking on CNN and the rest of the gullible Western media to carry pictures of Mideast violence into American homes and European homes. The late PLO chief, Yasser Arafat, saw the possibilities of CNN for his terrorist plans. He learned that airline hijacking could be a successful way to murder your way onto the front pages and into viewers’ living rooms.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) addressed an appreciative crowd at CUFI. He described his 2011 visit to Israel as part of a CODEL (Congressional Delegation). Sen. Scott’s bus was northbound when he saw a southbound Israeli bus hit by one of HAMAS’s rockets. Blood and body parts were scattered all over the street. Still, Sen. Scott was amazed to see Israeli police actually training Palestinian Arabs as police officers. The Jews’ view was that if law and justice prevailed anywhere, people might just get a thirst for law and justice. “I saw Jewish policemen acting out the Gospel of Matthew (5:38-43).”
Sen. Scott will be an increasingly important voice in the U.S. Senate, but also in the black community, serving as a counter to anti-Semites like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Jeremiah Wright.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) made a point of saying she did not speak for CUFI. She repeated that message three times. But she was speaking to CUFI. And her powerful message was that as bad as HAMAS rockets are, an Iranian nuclear weapon is vastly worse. “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing,” she quoted from Psalm 2. Never have those words been more prophetic. Jerusalem is described in Hebrew as “the navel of the world.” She related how in Berlin, police allowed a Muslim demonstrator to use their police car loudspeaker. He was supposed to quiet the angry mob of protestors against Israel. Instead, he used his microphone to harangue the mob. “Allahu Akbar! (God is Great).” “Death to the Jews” cried this representative of the religion of peace. And the German police? They thought he was going to calm, not incite the crowd. They quickly learned the meaning of Takiya. That Persian word means it is permissible for Muslims to deceive unbelievers.
Congresswoman Bachmann, a key member of the House Intelligence Committee, pointed to the state of the world with President Obama leading from behind and noted White House spokesman Josh Earnest’s jaw-dropping claim: “The Obama administration has substantially improved the tranquility of the global community” Did he really say that earnestly? There may be a Sea of Tranquility on the Moon, but nowhere on Earth.
Despite crises erupting around the world, Mr. Obama seems blissfully distracted. He has just announced another four-month extension for Iran. The red line he drew in Syria has been turned into a real red line as oceans of blood are spilled there by ISIS—the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. And the deadline for talks about Iran’s lunge for nuclear weapons has been extended and extended. Mr. Obama is again kicking the can down the road—until three weeks after the mid-term elections. Be careful, Mr. President, that’s a nuclear can you are kicking!
Rep. Bachmann sobered the crowd at CUFI by noting that meanwhile, Iran’s 19,000 centrifuges are spinning, Iran is developing Inter-continental Ballistic Missiles that can reach the East Coast of the U.S. and Vladimir Putin used the distraction of Israel’s response to HAMAS rocket attacks to quietly announce a new trade deal with Iran.
This wouldn’t be the same Russia Hillary Clinton and John Kerry see as our partner for peace, would it, the Russia that President Obama is relying on to help stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program?
Congresswoman Bachmann underlined her point: This is the first time in U.S. history we have an anti-Israel president. She again disclaimed she was speaking for the Christians United for Israel organization. But the audience of Christians leaped to their feet to applaud her bold statement nonetheless.
CUFI”s Executive Director David Brog brought the house to order with his moving closing. Young Sean Carneli, originally from South Padre Island, Texas, died in Gaza fighting for Israel. The government in Jerusalem was concerned that the young soldier might not have family members able to come to his funeral in time, for Jews must bury their dead quickly. Not to worry: 40,000 Israelis crowded the highways, Brog reported, treating this son of America, this soldier of Zion, as one of their own.
In Israel’s desperate hour, Sean Carneli didn’t lead from behind.
You cannot say Secretary John Kerry isn’t alert to his opportunities. He sees another chance to be a peacemaker. He is rushing to the Mideast to broker a cease-fire. Sgt. Anthony says Israel needs a victory over HAMAS terrorists who have been hiding rockets in schools and hospitals.
Kerry wants Israelis to stop trying to root out those who have sent more than 9,000 rockets into Israel. Canada’s National Post recently reported that the UNWRA—the world body’s refugee agency—closed down a school it was operating in Gaza after a cache of HAMAS rockets was discovered next door. The UN bureaucrats did what they usually do: they turned the rockets over to “local authorities.” In Gaza, that means they gave the rockets back to HAMAS. The cartoonist wasn’t kidding when he said HAMAS means “hiding among mosques and schools.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also addressed the CUFI gathering via satellite.
He has said the moral difference between Israel and its enemies is simple: “We use missiles to defend our civilians; they use civilians to defend their missiles.” An earlier Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir, was a young Jewish girl raised in Milwaukee. She spoke to her Arab enemies in these poignant words: “We can forgive you for killing our children; we cannot forgive you for making us kill your children.”
HAMAS is banking on CNN and the rest of the gullible Western media to carry pictures of Mideast violence into American homes and European homes. The late PLO chief, Yasser Arafat, saw the possibilities of CNN for his terrorist plans. He learned that airline hijacking could be a successful way to murder your way onto the front pages and into viewers’ living rooms.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) addressed an appreciative crowd at CUFI. He described his 2011 visit to Israel as part of a CODEL (Congressional Delegation). Sen. Scott’s bus was northbound when he saw a southbound Israeli bus hit by one of HAMAS’s rockets. Blood and body parts were scattered all over the street. Still, Sen. Scott was amazed to see Israeli police actually training Palestinian Arabs as police officers. The Jews’ view was that if law and justice prevailed anywhere, people might just get a thirst for law and justice. “I saw Jewish policemen acting out the Gospel of Matthew (5:38-43).”
Sen. Scott will be an increasingly important voice in the U.S. Senate, but also in the black community, serving as a counter to anti-Semites like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Jeremiah Wright.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) made a point of saying she did not speak for CUFI. She repeated that message three times. But she was speaking to CUFI. And her powerful message was that as bad as HAMAS rockets are, an Iranian nuclear weapon is vastly worse. “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing,” she quoted from Psalm 2. Never have those words been more prophetic. Jerusalem is described in Hebrew as “the navel of the world.” She related how in Berlin, police allowed a Muslim demonstrator to use their police car loudspeaker. He was supposed to quiet the angry mob of protestors against Israel. Instead, he used his microphone to harangue the mob. “Allahu Akbar! (God is Great).” “Death to the Jews” cried this representative of the religion of peace. And the German police? They thought he was going to calm, not incite the crowd. They quickly learned the meaning of Takiya. That Persian word means it is permissible for Muslims to deceive unbelievers.
Congresswoman Bachmann, a key member of the House Intelligence Committee, pointed to the state of the world with President Obama leading from behind and noted White House spokesman Josh Earnest’s jaw-dropping claim: “The Obama administration has substantially improved the tranquility of the global community” Did he really say that earnestly? There may be a Sea of Tranquility on the Moon, but nowhere on Earth.
Despite crises erupting around the world, Mr. Obama seems blissfully distracted. He has just announced another four-month extension for Iran. The red line he drew in Syria has been turned into a real red line as oceans of blood are spilled there by ISIS—the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. And the deadline for talks about Iran’s lunge for nuclear weapons has been extended and extended. Mr. Obama is again kicking the can down the road—until three weeks after the mid-term elections. Be careful, Mr. President, that’s a nuclear can you are kicking!
Rep. Bachmann sobered the crowd at CUFI by noting that meanwhile, Iran’s 19,000 centrifuges are spinning, Iran is developing Inter-continental Ballistic Missiles that can reach the East Coast of the U.S. and Vladimir Putin used the distraction of Israel’s response to HAMAS rocket attacks to quietly announce a new trade deal with Iran.
This wouldn’t be the same Russia Hillary Clinton and John Kerry see as our partner for peace, would it, the Russia that President Obama is relying on to help stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program?
Congresswoman Bachmann underlined her point: This is the first time in U.S. history we have an anti-Israel president. She again disclaimed she was speaking for the Christians United for Israel organization. But the audience of Christians leaped to their feet to applaud her bold statement nonetheless.
CUFI”s Executive Director David Brog brought the house to order with his moving closing. Young Sean Carneli, originally from South Padre Island, Texas, died in Gaza fighting for Israel. The government in Jerusalem was concerned that the young soldier might not have family members able to come to his funeral in time, for Jews must bury their dead quickly. Not to worry: 40,000 Israelis crowded the highways, Brog reported, treating this son of America, this soldier of Zion, as one of their own.
In Israel’s desperate hour, Sean Carneli didn’t lead from behind.
By: Diane Sori
House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp
Just as a federal judge orders the IRS to explain under oath how the 'infamous' missing emails were lost now comes this...according to IRS information-technology (IT) experts it seems back-up tapes...considered an option of last resort for recovering any missing emails...have suddenly and miraculously been found even though the IRS kept claiming all these many months that the physical hard drive was either recycled or destroyed.
Still claiming "there is an issue" as to whether all the backup tapes were destroyed, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen confirmed they do indeed exist and that they were only 'scratched' NOT irreparably damaged as previously claimed...while at the same time talking out of both sides of his mouth by saying he does NOT know "how they found them" or "whether there's anything on them or not."
Also, remember the IRS said that while NOT done on purpose, Lerner’s hard drive was wiped clean and sent to an 'outside' disposal company to be “shredded”...more likely to be taken apart and melted down so that all incriminating evidence would be destroyed. The IRS also claimed that it tried everything possible to recover Lerner’s emails, including sending her computer for examination to a forensic expert within the IRS's criminal division.
Within the IRS's criminal division...gee...why didn't the IRS let outside non-partisan experts examine said computer...I think the answer to that is quite obvious.
So now we have yet another case of IRS deception honed to a fine art if you will... and a deception billed like all the others...marked 'payment due' to 'We the People.'
Fact: to date the IRS has spent almost 10 million of our taxpayer dollars to collect and turn over the documents asked for by the congressional investigators, including the gathering up and again turning over of 67,000 emails to and from Lerner that still happen to exist. But ain't it odd that 67,000 emails just happen to exist but none of those are from the time period in question.
Hmmm...selective losing of specific incriminating emails I would say.
And par for the course of those appointed by this administration...they LIE...for when all the bloviations and rhetoric are stripped away, the fact is that these emails were 'selectively' destroyed for what they contained...or for who they would expose. And even as House Republicans and at least one and possibly more federal judges grasp at straws and want to know if Lerner’s hard drive could possibly be tracked using a serial number and then restored, IRS IT experts recently said under oath that Lerner’s hard drive had indeed been wiped clean by tech staff and recycled by an unnamed outside contractor.
But if this wiping clean and destruction of the hard drive did indeed take place, where is some sort of invoice or a 'certificate of destruction' proving this happened. And with Koskinen saying he isn’t sure anything of the sort exists...that means that if one does NOT exist how does anyone know any of this actually happened... simply we do NOT.
And heaven forbid one or more of those missing emails shows a conversation between Lerner and Obama himself concerning the fast-tracked status for a group tied directly to a terrorist organization...tied directly to the Muslim Brotherhood...a terrorist organization that Barack HUSSEIN Obama outwardly supports.
And too much to lose if it becomes wildly known that Obama's very own grandmother heads the 'Sarah Obama Benevolent Fund' another 'supposed' charity that hides the fact that it uses monies raised to give scholarships to male Kenyan students to attend the most radical of Wahhabist madrases in Saudi Arabia. Monies raised under false premises so these students can study the intricacies of sharia law, and then upon their completion of studies more 'charity' monies are used to send them to other countries to help aid in their setting-up of sharia compliant enclaves within those countries.
And again, none other than Lois Lerner herself gave this anything but a legitimate charity their 501(c)(3) status...on Obama's orders perhaps.
Blood brethren on both accounts you know.
So as the IRS lie-fest continues...as Lois Lerner and John Koskinen dig themselves into an ever-deepening hole...and as the cover-up of Obama's hand in all this continues to take shape...all I can say is this is the new reality of all that is the Obama administration's DC...sad isn't it.