Op-ed:
Israel in the Crosshairs...Again
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Author's Note: As I finished writing this article the 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ended as Hamas fired more rockets into Israel with Israel rightfully retaliating.

Thankfully, the midterm elections are over and we surely need a political breather before we gear-up for 2020. And with 2020 being a presidential election year we will see the Democrats making sure it will be even nastier and dirtier than their 2018 midterm trial-run was. And while many crybaby Democrats still cannot accept the fact that Florida is staying in the 'RED' column and that Stacy Abrams is not Georgia's next governor, the world outside the U.S...as in those nations wishing for Israel's demise...is still trudging forward on its usual ever-focused agenda of telling both the Jewish State and her allies what Israel can and cannot do with her own sovereign land.

Let's start with known anti-Semite and in-our-face islamic condoner German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who we are now just learning once again channeled her inner 'Hitler' earlier this year. The very woman who in a 2008 speech before Israel's Knesset proclaimed that Israel's security interests are “non-negotiable,” and who now single-handily destroyed today's Germany with her laying out the welcome mat for the muslim still ongoing invasion of Europe, this woman “strongly urged” Romania...who had abstained when a U.N. Resolution condemned the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move our embassy there...not to move their county's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

In fact, last April, Merkel took it upon herself to personally call Romania's President Klaus Iohannis to “urge” him to stop the relocation plans initiated by Romania's Social-Democrat lead government and Social Democratic politician Liviu Dragnea. And that was after those plans had been announced on Romania's Antena 3 television station for all the world to hear...plans that stated that Romania's government “had adopted a memorandum deciding to start the procedure to effectively move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.” But this call by Merkel then led center right-leaning independent President Iohannis to call for Romania’s pro-Israel Prime Minister Viorica Dancila's “ouster” solely based upon this relocation matter.

Bowing to pressure and/or threats from Merkel, Iohannis issued a statement saying that, “At this stage a transfer of the embassy would represent a violation of international law...and could only be finalized after the conclusion of peace talks.” A shameful act of cowardliness and betrayal on President Iohannis' part if you ask me.

And it seems Chancellor Merkel also called numerous other European leaders “urging” them not to move their county's embassies to Jerusalem. And with Germany's refusing to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital... Merkel's Germany as it is barely recognizes the Jewish State at all...directly led a Merkel administration spokeswoman to tell the Jerusalem Post that the “status of Jerusalem should, in the framework of an agreement, be clarified.” In other words, give the nonexistent Palestinians however much land they want in exchange for a peace agreement on paper...an agreement not worth the cost of the paper it's written on as it's signed by those with fingers crossed behind their backs.

Adding that a solution to the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis can take place only with an agreed upon two-state solution, this unnamed spokeswoman also stated that, “Until such an agreement is reached, all sides should avoid steps that sharpen the existing tensions and complicate a peaceful solution of the conflict.” But the thing is that as long as Iranian funded Hamas keeps firing rockets into Israel and as long as they keep attacking innocent Israeli civilians there can be no peace because sometimes peace...a truly lasting peace...can only be achieved when there is a definitive winner and a definitive loser in the game called war...and most specially in the Israeli/Palestinian war. And make no mistake it is a war of sorts albeit an undeclared war that the media calls a “conflict,” but like with all wars it is a “conflict” ripe with ceasefires that are anything but.

And know that Israel does not respond well...nor would we...to Hamas' almost daily barrage of rockets being fired at her cities and towns. And now, thankfully, some Arab countries at peace, if you will, with Israel understand this as well. In fact, an Egyptian military intelligence source recently confided in exiled Jordanian Opposition Coalition Secretary General Mudar Zahran...the very man poised to bring secular democracy to Jordan once the “kinglet” is removed from power...that Egypt...that President el-Sisi...conveyed a stern message to Hamas. Telling Secretary General Zahran that the message stated the following, “Unless you stop, President Trump will allow Israel to annihilate you,” these words now have set the stage for either an all-out war between Israel and Hamas...a war that Israel really does not want...or as a means to diffuse a war Hamas is told they want by Iran who is leaving out the fact that it's a war Hamas cannot win even with Iran's military assistance.

But given the latest developments why does Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not want to fight Hamas or Iran at this specific point in time...because he knows Iran wants war and logic dictates never give the enemy what they want. As per his article Why Israel Doesn't Want A War With Gaza published in The America Thinker, Zahran states that, “It is my experience that when an enemy is so determined to get into an armed conflict, one must be very careful not to give the enemy what they want.” Extremely wise words that should have been learned from the lessons of history but apparently have not been learned by some key players. And Zahran rightfully added that, “...we have to realize this: those pushing the Hamas buttons are heavily financed by Iran, through the mother group, the Muslim Brotherhood, who is also deeply in bed with Iran”...and that “...the military actions started shortly after US sanctions on Iran took effect,” which is a truth too many refuse to see.

So Hamas' latest saber rattling and rocket attacks on Israel are actually nothing but a diversion even though a recent Israeli intelligence gathering operation went awry leaving a senior Hamas commander, six Hamas fighters, and an Israeli lieutenant colonel dead, thus setting this current scenario in motion.

And the truth is that these latest rocket attacks on Israel actually made no sense even with the above stated deaths, because things were going well for Hamas, and again according to JOC Secretary General Mudar Zahran, “On the very day Hamas began firing rockets, they received $15 Million from Saudi Arabia and $60 Million from Qatar to pay its public servants who have not received pay checks. As a result, a joyous atmosphere was dominant in Gaza.”

So why then did Hamas lob 400+ rockets into Israel...again it all comes back to ground zero...Iran. Iran told Hamas...ordered Hamas...to do so as Iran is both economically and politically hurting from our recently reimposed no-holds-barred sanctions. Iran desperately needs war to hold onto any semblance of power it has with both its people and on the world stage, and the looming threat of war...a true Israeli/Palestinian war...helps to put the world's spotlight back onto Hamas, who doesn't really have all that much to lose, while Iran on the other hand has much to gain...as in garnering needed support for and an opportunity to wipe Israel off the map. And it seems that right now Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the only one who understands the truth of what's going on.

How so...make no mistake Benjamin Netanyahu is not afraid of war nor is Israel, but the timing of war must be right and must be of Israel's choosing alone. Going to war because your enemy wants war more times than not brings more civilian casualties and hardships than either side most likely intended. And Netanyahu understands well that sometimes peace cannot be achieved through war but through statesmanship...a vastly different animal than mere diplomacy...but that said statesmanship must be brokered with a clear head and a definitive plan and not through mere emotional outbursts.

Outbursts like this...“Surrendering to terrorism” and “gutless,” said Avigdor Lieberman to describe what he felt was the behavior of both the Israeli government and Netanyahu himself, as well as to justify his own resignation as defense minister simply because Netanyahu agreed...for now...to a ceasefire...a ceasefire brokered by Egypt and Qatar with backing from the Trump Administration.

So as Netanyahu faces flack at home for not rushing into war after the newest round of Hamas attacks, and as he hears himself being called both “gutless” and a “coward,” the truth is that Benjamin Netanyahu is neither for he is a man who puts Israel and her interests first not unlike our President Trump who wisely puts America and America's interests first.

From the time he first became Prime Minister in 1996 and with his return to power in 2009, Benjamin Netanyahu has remained unwavering in his wanting to prevent the establishment of a so-called Palestinian state...he knows the Palestinians have a homeland and it's called Jordan... for a Palestinian state as wanted by both Hamas and Iran would have it extend from the Jordan River west to the Mediterranean Sea with the Jewish State of Israel no longer on the map.

So why then did Benjamin Netanyahu agree to this ceasefire knowing that it could end his political career come the next election? Why...because he knows that as long as Hamas controls Gaza, where most of the rockets are launched from, it helps to solidify the ever growing rift between P.A. President Mohmoud Abbas' secular Fatah movement (which is still open to negotiations with Israel) and islamic Hamas (who wants armed resistance alone), and it's a rift Israel can use to its advantage in the long run. And Netanyahu sees this as the “big picture”...as in Hamas being the unknowing catalyst that helps to stop the formation of a Palestinian state...while others in Israel's Knesset are shortsighted and only deal in the emotion filled present. If only Israel's party leaders understood that it's their shortsightedness that can cause Israel more harm than any Hamas rockets ever could maybe then they'd work with Netanyahu instead of against him as they are doing right now.

Statesmanship unlike diplomacy is surely a hard game to play but if played right...as Benjamin Netanyahu truly is trying to do...statesmanship can in the end attain the desired peace with Israel and Israel alone calling the shots...even though now entering center stage is the same non-binding United Nations General Assembly resolution that is voted on every year...the resolution that calls for Israel to return the Golan Heights to Syria, something Israel rightfully will not do.

But this time there is a difference...a big difference...as the United States for the first time ever voted against the resolution thus signaling a dramatic shift in U.S. policy toward the occupied territory, and it's thanks to President Trump.

"Given the resolution’s anti-Israel bias, as well as the militarization of the Syrian Golan border, and a worsening humanitarian crisis, this year the United States has decided to vote no on the resolution,” our ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley thankfully said for she knows well that with the U.S. covering Israel's back the U.N. can only go so far with its demands before both the U.S. and Israel reach their breaking points and pull out of the U.N. sending it crashing to the ground.

So while we take a well deserved Thanksgiving holiday breather from politics here at home, know that in today's volatile world politics itself never takes a breather...it especially lurks in the shadows of those from within and from the outside wishing to do the Jewish State of Israel harm.

Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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Op-ed:

Jerusalem...Israel's Foundation of Truth
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

"Israel is a sovereign nation, with the right like every other sovereign nation, to determine its own capital."
- President Trump's video address to those at the U.S. Embassy opening ceremony in Jerusalem

Three thousand years ago the great Jewish King David declared Jerusalem as Israel's capital... Israel...the land God Our Father gave to the Jewish people...His chosen people. And on Tuesday, May 14th at around 9am EST...a date and time that coincides with the 70th anniversary of Israel’s Declaration of Independence...President Donald J. Trump had these United States honor both God's will and his personal promise made...a promise made by past presidents but a promise never kept...as Jerusalem officially became the location of the United States Embassy in Israel.

After last December's announcement that the U.S. Embassy would be moving from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem... keeping yet another campaign promise made...the opening ceremony was attended by Trump administration officials including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, various senators and representatives, as well as White House adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and adviser and daughter Ivanka Trump, who unveiled the embassy's new plaque.

"Remember this moment. This is history. President Trump, by recognizing history, you have made history. We have no better friends in the world. You stand for Israel and you stand for Jerusalem." So said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

And while this was truly a glorious and symbolic day where Israeli and American friendship was forever sealed, it was also a day that saw deliberate and calculatingly planned violence happening against the Jewish State...violence carried out by Palestinians aligned with the militant group Hamas...violence being orchestrated and financed solely by Iran.

But it goes further than simple violence as the hardline anti-Israel group, the Iranian Justice Seeker Student Movement, issued a statement that, “Whoever bombs the embassy’s building will receive a $100,000 award. It is necessary to mention that the steps by Trump to transfer the US Embassy to Holy Qods [Jerusalem] has led to the anger and hatred of Muslims and liberators throughout the world.”

Perhaps that $100,000 will be from part of the dollars the traitor Barack HUSSEIN Obama gave to the mullahs...no perhaps about it.

And with said violence once again being the Palestinians order of the day came many untruths...untruths reported as fact by a media so blatantly not in Israel's corner. And while claiming that their anger was now being fueled by the embassy move alone, the anything but peaceful protesters acted like savages as they set tires on fire which sent plumes of choking black smoke up into the air; as they hurled firebombs, threw rocks and fired shots at Israeli troops manning the Israeli side of the Gaza border; while some even tried to tear down, push their way through and/or place bombs along the wire fence delineating and separating the two sides.

But with Israel having every right to defend herself against the 40,000 Palestinians who took part in violent demonstrations at 13 different locations along the fence, Israeli soldiers retaliated and shot and killed 58 of them along with 'supposedly' wounding more than a thousand others in what was called the deadliest protests against Israeli occupation in years...occupation of lands the Palestinians had no right to occupy in the first place...occupation of lands that if truth be told belong to Israel alone for only Israel has been forced to turn over lands they rightfully captured in war.

And of course the media paints the violence and deaths as being all Israel's fault, leading White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah to issue a statement that basically absolved Israel of all blame. Saying that, “The responsibility for these tragic deaths rests solely with Hamas,” Shah added that, “Their cynical exploitation of these issues is what is leading to these deaths.”

“The Gaza violence is not over our embassy location, it comes from those who reject the existence of Israel in any location.” So said U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley as she defended Israel against mounting international criticism of its response to the violent demonstrations at the Gaza border.

And with said brouhaha spilling over into a Tuesday emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, Palestinian envoy Riyad Mansour accused Israel of not only “a war crime” but of “crimes against humanity” in regards to what he called the “odious massacre committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip.” But Ambassador Haley set the record straight by explaining that, “By killing fewer than 100 Hamas terror group operatives who attempted to bomb and break through the border in order to massacre Israeli citizens in border communities, Israeli Defense Forces showed considerable restraint, considering that there were tens of thousands of violent muslim rioters posing as "peaceful" protesters.”

And with those words Ambassador Haley let the world known that these were anything but peaceful protesters and that “Hamas is pleased with the results from yesterday.”

“These were violent muslim rioters...many of them were armed...many of them were enemy combatants”... as per Israeli envoy Danny Dannon...muslim rioters committing “crimes against humanity”...muslim rioters that must be called to task...muslim rioters otherwise known as but one arm of Iran's many proxy armies. Iran...the true destabilizing force in the entirety of the Middle East.

“I ask my colleagues here in the Security Council, who among us would accept this type of activity on your border? No one would.” So said Ambassador Haley who walked out of the chamber after Riyad Mansour proposed a resolution in regards to an “independent review” of the “incident in Gaza”...a resolution Haley vetoed.

                                                                                                                                                 So what was our response to all the Hamas instigated Palestinian uncalled for violence... violence that even Senior Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahhar admitted was “not peaceful resistance...it is supported by our weapons...it is growing and developing. That’s clear.” As per Department of State requests due to what Defense Department spokesman Maj. Adrian Rankine-Galloway called the “heightened threat environment” posed to American diplomats in the region, Marine Corps security forces were increased at American embassies in both Turkey and Jordan, as well as at the former embassy site in Tel Aviv and other diplomatic installations in the Middle East.

Simply, there will be no Benghazi's on President Trump's watch.

Now as for the world's response to the actual embassy move, Turkey announced that it was recalling its ambassador to Washington in protest, and the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation...the world’s largest muslim organization...denounced the U.S. embassy move as “an attack on the historical, legal, natural and national rights of the Palestinian people”...as if there actually are a Palestinian people...which there are not...and which Benjamin Netanyahu rightfully calls “a fictional nationality.”

In fact, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who has boycotted peace talks Jared Kushner was trying to mediate, as if on teleprompted cue said the embassy move amounted to “an illegal settlement” and vowed not to accept any peace deals proposed by the Trump administration...as if he would accept any deal short of Israel's total demise.

But what of our allies Great Britain, Germany and France...the three musketeers who stabbed us in the back over the Iranian nuclear deal...where do they stand in all this? Actually, nothing has changed since President Trump's announcement last December. Boris Johnson, the British Foreign Secretary, continued to reiterate what Teresa May said when Trump first spoke of the move that, “such a move could further disrupt efforts to reach peace in the region.” As if the Palestinians really wanted peace...they do not.

Remember when German Chancellor Angela Merkel...the woman who wants Iran to finish off what Hitler started... said that the “German government does not support this position, because the status of Jerusalem is to be resolved in the framework of a two-state solution”...well nothing has changed there either nor has it for French President Emmanuel Macron who said that moving our embassy is “a regrettable decision that France does not approve of and goes against international law and all the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council”...but pray tell how does moving an embassy...moving a building...violate anything especially when done by a sovereign nation with permission from the other sovereign nation involved.

So while our allies are turning their backs on us and only aligning with us when it's convenient for them to do so...what of the Arab world?

Much of the Arab world was on the surface quite shocked when President Trump announced the now come to fruition embassy move, in fact, the Palestinians held a general strike in protest...anything not to work. And while thousands in Turkey, Lebanon, Morocco and elsewhere in the Arab world joined their Palestinian brethren in protest, their protests were short-lived and for the most part peaceful...save for Iran of course. A quite unexpected turn of events as several key Arab leaders turned their backs on the Palestinians whining as reality set in that for them and their countries it was way more advantageous to forge ties with Israel instead.

Now seeing the Palestinians as the regions troublemakers not Israel, as well as their having their own issues with Iran, Egypt for one secretly allowed Israel to carry out drone strikes against militant groups in the Sinai peninsula while Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman not too long ago said, “It’s about time the Palestinians take the proposals and agree to come to the negotiations table or shut up and stop complaining” adding that Israel had the right to “their own land.”

And last week, right after President Trump rightfully withdrew the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal and Iran fired missiles into Israel, Bahrain’s foreign minister tweeted that Israel has the right to defend itself in the face of Iranian aggression...a move that possibly indicates that more moderate Arab leaders fear the growing threat posed by Iran over petty regional disagreements...disagreements including President Trump's moving our embassy to Jerusalem.

And so while both allies and foes are claiming that the Palestinian deaths are proof that President Trump should not have moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, I say kudos to him for doing so. And I also say kudos to Prime Minister Netanyahu for calling on other countries to follow Trump's example and relocate their embassies to Jerusalem, calling it "the right thing to do." Saying that moving their embassies to Jerusalem "advances peace" because peace is based on the foundations of truth, Netanyahu has let the world know that "the truth is that not only has Jerusalem been the capital of the Jewish people for millennia and our state for decades, but the truth is that under any peace deal Jerusalem will remain Israel’s capital."

And to that I say "amen."

Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. 
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Two Thoughts...Two Memes
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

Op-ed:
Trump: The End of the Deal
By: Diane Sori and Craig Andresen / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

“I am announcing today that we cannot and will not make this certification...We will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence, more terror, and the very real threat of Iran's nuclear breakthrough.” - President Donald Trump

Last Friday, after listing all of Iran's past and present nasty deeds and nuclear deal violations...our president under the guise of the 'Congressional Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act' rightfully decided not to 'recertify' Obama's 'very bad' nuclear deal...a deal subject to recertification every 90 days.

A campaign promise kept and thank you Mr. President for doing so.

See President Trump's Iranian speech in its entirety here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8YXOdXqpVI

And while what he did was truly a very good thing, the question for some remains did President Trump go far enough in distancing the U.S. from what he himself calls "one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into." And did he send that much needed and all-powerful message to both Iran and the world that America is back on top...that it is America who will now be calling the shots when it comes to those behaving badly. The answer to both questions cannot be answered with a simple yes or no, but must for the time being be answered with a maybe and we will tell you why.

So while we understand the legalities as to why President Trump did not withdraw us now and why he sent the deal back to Congress to 'fix' if you will...basically putting it on Congress' shoulders to decide whether to reimpose sanctions...which could actually sink the deal...or use the threat of sanctions to force Iran and the P5+1 back to the negotiating table to make changes to the deal...the problem is that with Congress having 60 days in which to do so means that Iran also has 60 more days in which they can continue to behave badly even though the timetable for them to do so was set in place with the election of Donald Trump.

"I am directing my administration to work closely with Congress and our allies to address the deal's many serious flaws so the regime can never threaten the world with nuclear weapons," said President Trump.

Serious flaws indeed including flaws in the actual construction of the deal itself for the fact is that Obama preempted congressional review of this deal by going after and getting the then 41 votes needed to approve the U.N. Security Council resolution endorsing the JCPOA before Congress had even started its own required review. And lets not forget that under the Constitution treaties require support of two-thirds of the Senate and with the Iranian deal being a treaty in every respect...as in its being a legally binding long-term agreement between sovereign nations which is the definition of a treaty...Obama did indeed break the law by not securing the 67 votes needed and got away with it.

And with President Trump added to his words spoken that if Congress and our allies cannot reach a solution to Iran's current violations and are unable to come up with both language and terms that, in his opinion, will improve the agreement what with "the deal under continuous review," that as president he can unilaterally withdraw us from "the deal at any time." 

And those words were met with challenges from Democrats...including Democrats like Rep. Eliot Engel (N.Y) who split with Obama and opposed the nuclear deal. Now urging Trump to uphold the international accord, he and others claim that "robust enforcement" is the best way to counter Tehran's malign behavior in the Middle East, and that "unwinding the agreement" would send a dangerous message to both allies and adversaries alike.

But even if opposing views were pushed aside and a uniting of sorts of those on both sides of the political aisle took place, what could Congress really do but decide whether to reimpose the economic sanctions on Iran that under Obama's deal were lifted...as in remember the 1.7 billion dollars Obama happily gave to Iran even before all the signatures on the deal paper had dried.

And President Trump knows well that for the most part sanctions themselves do not work and that what really should be addressed by Congress is how to stop Iran from enriching any uranium at all; how to stop Iran from operating its plutonium-producing heavy water reactor; how to toughen up the deal's current weak inspection provisions; or else give him full congressional support to withdraw us from a deal that should never have been entered into in the first place.

And why do we say this besides the obvious being that Iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism...we say it because a previously signed treaty was twisted by Obama to suit his agenda and sadly forgotten by most...a treaty that should have prevented Obama from ever having proposed the Iranian nuclear deal in the first place.

On July 1, 1968, the 'Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty' (NPT) was ratified and signed by the United States, the Soviet Union, the Republic of China, France, the United Kingdom, and 40 other countries including Iran (with 189 countries eventually became party to it). This treaty's main objectives and goals were then..and still remain now...to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. This treaty, if it had been adhered to, should have taken precedence over any and all other nuclear treaties including the The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

In August 2015, the P5+1 signed the JCPOA no matter that behind the scenes questions remained as to where the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty fell in regards to this new just agreed to nuclear treaty. Answered with veiled innuendos that while the NPT was the "central pillar" of any and all non-proliferation dealings and that it would allow its signer nations to better manage future proliferation threats, the wording and meaning in what the NPT stated and in what JCPOA stated were twisting by Obama to fit his agenda. 

And in Obama's pushing to the P5+1 the false narrative that the JCPOA reflected the reality that today's non-proliferation had already expanded well beyond that stated in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty does not mean that said Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action trumped then or negates now the treaty that Iran had previously both signed and ratified.

Siding with Iran's argument that as per Article IV* of said Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty they had the "unalienable right" to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes... purposes we and Obama knew were anything but peaceful...it becomes obvious that Obama never wanted us to know that nowhere in Article IV's wording does it directly reference either the actual right to or not to enrich uranium. 

However, this ambiguity in Article IV's wording allowed Obama to negate previous administration's words that, “it has always been the U.S. position that article IV of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty does not speak about the right of enrichment at all [and] doesn’t speak to enrichment, period”...thus allowing him to convince any dissenting voices in the P5+1, and even within our own Congress, that Iran did indeed have the "unalienable right" to enrich uranium and to do so at the time of their choosing.

And while our government has in the past recognized the "legitimacy of peaceful uranium enrichment" by other signers of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, such recognition in no way means uranium enrichment is a "unalienable right" as Iran claims. And why...because most of the treaty's signers know that uranium enrichment can be misused in a country's desire to build a bomb of their own, which in turn could set off a new and even more dangerous nuclear arms race what with Iran already in partnership with rogue nation North Korea. And know that terrorist groups are weIrantting their lips as they wait for Iran to become a recognized nuclear power...a nuclear power who would willingly sell a nuclear bomb to the highest anti-America, anti-Israel bidder.

And lets not forget that there is another provision within the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that Obama and the P5+1 chose to ignore even as Iran strove to become a nuclear power. This is in regards to the actual monitoring and verification of Iran’s nuclear activities. Article III of said treaty states that “Each non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty undertakes to accept safeguards, as set forth in an agreement to be negotiated and concluded with the International Atomic Energy Agency in accordance with the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Agency’s safeguards system…” and Iran signed and ratified this 'so-called' Safeguards Agreement in 1974.

But Iran fooled them all until the early 1990s when their under-the-radar nuclear activities were exposed. Only then were Additional Protocol (AP) regarding monitoring put into place while at the same time said protocol was not made a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty obligation. This allowed Obama to use the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) reports from both June 2003 and September 2005...reports that did not find Iran in violation of the NPT but reports only recommending that Iran cooperate with the IAEA by providing more information regarding its suspected nuclear activities...reports used to help him push The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action through Congressional review.

And it was Obama's deliberate but now exposed hiding of these facts as to how he got this abomination of a deal in place that should allow President Trump to withdraw from the deal with the "radical regime" based upon the simple fact that "Iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal.” And as for Congress they would be wasting their time and energies in deciding if the reimposing of sanctions would help to rein Iran in for the deal as written is but a lie that a few tweaks here and there would do nothing to help resolve the fundamental flaw in the deal itself ...that flaw being that thanks to Obama, in the time since the deal was first signed, Iran has probably already secured a nuclear weapon or two courtesy of their buddies in North Korea...a weapon or two they have safely hidden away for use at the time of their choosing.

So with President Trump planning to take immediate action against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) by authorizing the Treasury Department to impose targeted sanctions against “its officials, agents, and affiliates,” know that Europe's islamic-condoning leaders have said they will resist any attempts by Trump to reopen the nuclear deal. And with a stalemate of sorts now in place the time for Iran to really behave badly is probably edging closer than most people think what with the likes of Germany's Angela Merkle helping to run cover for Iran. 

According to German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, obviously via Angela Merkel, President Donald Trump’s decision not to recertify the nuclear deal with Iran, and his announcement that he wants to reimpose stiff sanctions on Iran, sends a "difficult and dangerous signal" which could lead to Iran building nuclear weapons and raise the danger of war close to Europe.

According to Hillary Clinton, the hard lines President Donald Trump has taken with both North Korea and now with Iran are damaging to America’s standing on the world stage, and could provoke a nuclear arms race in East Asia.

It sounds to us as though Angela Merkel has been busy writing talking points and Hillary is on her email list.

While both liberals and conservatives in our country have a vast array of opinions on how President Trump is responding to the duel threats from North Korea and Iran, we need to look at the responses from Germany and from Hillary Clinton separately before we look at the abject insanity of their overall strategy.

First, let’s have a look at Hillary’s vapid response to the hard lines President Trump is currently taking.

It was, after all, Hillary’s husband who made the deal with North Korea that ultimately led that rogue, hermit nation to emerge from the shadows replete with a growing arsenal of nuclear weapons with which to threaten not only their region, but the rest of the world. And it was Hillary’s handshake deal with the madman Kim Jong-un which allowed that nuclear rogue nation to now build ballistic missiles capable of reaching nearly any point in our country.

As for Iran, it was Hillary Clinton, as Obama’s Secretary of State, that led to the worst deal ever made, replete with a 'sunset clause' that gives Tehran the green light to do whatever they want in the realm of going nuclear with weapons and ballistic missiles without any restrictions whatsoever, by the year 2025.

How dare Hillary Clinton allege it is President Trump who has damaged America’s standing on the world stage. Through Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the deals with North Korea and Iran, Obama’s announcing to our enemies specific dates when we would leave various theaters of war, and Obama’s doctrine of creating vacuums of power in the Middle East to be filled by 7th century barbaric regimes and various islamic terrorist organizations, that did the damage to our standing on the world stage.

In fact, between Hillary and Obama, they all but removed us from that stage altogether.

Now, as for Angela Merkel’s Germany…

Perhaps neither Angela Merkel nor her sock-puppet of a Foreign Minister, Sigmar Gabriel, have noticed, but the deal to which they seem to want kept as is, in the most desperate way, actually paves the road to Iran becoming a rogue nation led by 7th century barbarians in possession of their very own stockpile of Iranian produced nuclear weapons.

Blaming President Trump for setting up that particular scenario is beyond ridiculous, it’s transparently insane. How so? Well, the Iranian nuclear deal itself, being toothless in every aspect and containing that 'sunset clause' by which even the toothless restrictions would be done away with after ten years, is what has directly led to Iran’s ramped up nuclear weapons program.

That deal, such as it is, is the world’s permission slip to Iran to build as many nuclear weapons as possible.

But that’s not the whole of it, and this is where we need to look at the combination of the Merkel/Hillary response to the announcement from President Trump that the Iranian nuclear deal would not be recertified, would be altered with sharp teeth or torn up altogether, as a singular response.

What Hillary Clinton is parroting from Angela Merkel is a notion, a strategy so absurd, so ultimately dangerous that it must be expose.

What these two old hens are saying is that it is far better to appease the world’s tyrants and barbarians than it is to hold them accountable, and to stop them dead in their combined nuclear ambition tracks. Yes, combined tracks because as we stated before and have been stating for years, Iran and North Korea...where nuclear arms are concerned...are inextricably linked together. Both of their individual programs are benefitting the other in both their marches towards the goal of nuclear attacks launched from their respective rogue nations becoming a reality.

That strategy is appeasement.

Just as sanctions do not work, never have and never will, in the long term appeasement has never nor will it ever work, because there simply is no way on earth to appease madmen or barbarians into a state of calm by which either will live peacefully with their neighbors within their regions or on this planet.

Let’s be clear about this...appeasement is not a foreign policy. What appeasement is, is a tacit, informal surrender to one’s enemies. Nothing less, and certainly nothing more.

Can anyone name even a single time that appeasement was offered by a burgeoning aggressor to a non-aggressor as a matter of foreign policy? Of course not, as the burgeoning aggressor never has nor ever will see a need to appease those they seek to destroy.

On the other hand, perhaps the most famous case of appeasement turned disaster was the abject failure of appeasement policy towards Germany in the late 1930’s in a mindless attempt to reason with a madman, Adolph Hitler, that turned what should have been Europe’s problem into the Second World War.

It has rightly been said that those who fail to learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them, and in that light, looking at today’s situation with both North Korea and Iran, the two being inexorably linked, only in the realm of how it effects the here and now as per our own nation would exhibit, at best, two dimensional thinking. Allow us to expand that line of thought to three dimensions by providing three ways in which this all must be viewed if one truly wants to get to the truth.

First...world history is rife with many examples from the ancient Egyptians to the Roman Empire, Genghis Kahn to Napoleon to Nazi Germany, and Imperial Japan to today’s North Korean/Iranian situations where the appeasers have been ground into powder and dust by the appeasees. Each group of appeasers has failed to learn from the many mistakes of those who previously attempted to appease those who were the aggressors, and time and time again throughout history those on the receiving end of various appeasement as foreign policy strategies overtook their appeasers in acts of conquest.

Second...the conquest of the appeasers throughout history nearly always begins with the overtaking of the culture of the appeasers because those who offer such appeasements seem to believe that the road to lasting peace should always include allowing the aggressors full access to live amongst them. Today, we can clearly see this in action as Merkel, and the whole of Europe, has appeased islam by allowing unfettered access, via a borderless region, to those intent on their destruction. That is also a policy of appeasement championed by Hillary Clinton via Barack HUSSEIN Obama in demanding that islam be imported into the United States sans any semblance of a serious vetting process.

And third...the Merkels and Hillary Clintons of today’s one world government agenda seem to believe that the whole of the world would be better served by allowing the North Korean and the Iranian rogue regimes to possess nuclear weapons through appeasement as a foreign policy strategy. By challenging President Donald Trump’s hard lines against both rogue regimes, they claim that the world will be more dangerous and less stable, if those two rogue regimes are prevented from attaining their nuclear dreams.

In case the world’s liberals haven’t noticed, the acquisition of nuclear arms by both North Korea and Iran has already started the nuclear arms race in both regions, In other words, the tacit surrenders offered by the ilk of Hillary Clinton, Barack HUSSEIN Obama, and Angela Merkel to both Iran and North Korea has spurred those nation’s regional neighbors into seeking their own nuclear arms as a means of both self-defense, and self-preservation...a situation that can still be reversed if our nation, under President Donald Trump, puts an end to the appeasements.

By taking the hard lines against Iran and North Korea, by signaling to the world that an end to the appeasements is not only in order, but at hand, President Donald Trump is engaging in a foreign policy strategy that is diametrically opposed to and the polar opposite of the foreign policy of his predecessor, and that which would have been furthered had Hillary Clinton won the election last November. President Trump is putting America first rather than last and leading from the front rather than from behind, both of which is, to the chagrin of Hillary Clinton and Angela Merkel, reestablishing America at the front and center of the world stage.

Would we have liked to have seen Obama’s 'very bad' deal with Iran torn to shreds last week by President Donald Trump? Of course, but the President, exhibiting his own three dimensional thinking, and having learned from his own short history in office, has given Congress 60 days to rewrite our end of that 'very bad' deal, and one can suppose Iran 60 days to ramp up their nuclear efforts, but it’s still a great deal better than giving Iran possibly a year or more which would be the result should liberals chase this all through the courts in any effort to block a presidential end-run around Congress.

The bottom line is this...the nuclear proliferation of both Iran and North Korea must be stopped, the cost of doing so will be high, but nowhere near as high as would be the cost should continued appeasement be the foreign policy strategy by which either we or the world proceed. Throughout history hard line strategies have ended the tyrannies of madmen and barbarians, and the hard lines currently being undertaken by President Donald Trump will prove to be the correct strategy.

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*Article IV: “nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity with Articles I and II of this Treaty.” 

Copyright © 2017 Diane Sori and Craig Andresen / Right Side Patriots / All rights reserved.

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Op-ed:
A Very Dangerous Domino Effect
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on http://www.americanpbn.com/

"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. But the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world...the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
- Sir Winston Churchill on islam

Sometimes in winning against an enemy...or even in thinking one has won...one looses the biggest prize of all...oneself. And sadly that goes for nations as well for any country that does not outwardly defend itself against an invader assures itself of its own end.

And nowhere does that show more clearly than in the nations of Europe, so caught up in their 'why can't we all get along' quest for multi-culturism that they forgot their own individual cultures along the way. With each country now being overrun by muslim invaders, Europe is no longer a true conglomerate of nations holding Western values and morals, but instead is being turned into a muslim initiated, European governments allowed, cesspool of terrifying violence and pure debauchery.

And now Barack HUSSEIN Obama has given defacto permission for these same muslim invaders to come here and do to our beloved America what they have done to Europe...and turn us into yet another state in the Obama condoned ever-expanding islamic caliphate.

And this caliphate expanding began in the 'Year of Our Lord' 632 AD, with the very invention of this most barbaric of political systems...a political system known as islam...a system that breeds on ignorance, fear, and despair as it hides behind the guise of calling itself a religion. Islam...a true cult of hate and death...moved ever so slowly forward during the intervening centuries, but we can fast forwarded the modern day hate to the establishment of the Jewish State of Israel in 1948, a state that is the diametric opposite of the tenets laid out in the most unholy of books...the qur'an...the very book by which the followers of islam live by. Founded out of the ruins of war, Israel has become the Middle East's sole beacon of hope for Semites and Gentiles alike...even for Arabs...yearning to live free. And for their breaching the islamic sin of freedom, Israel must be wiped from the face of the map. Through war after war Israel has triumphed, yet the path for her destruction, as well as for the West's, was laid down with 'supposed' games of peace and goodwill when Israeli athletes blood was spilled at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

And since that day in Munich islamic violence has never really let up...violence against those who do not submit to the rule of a made-up false god known as allah...a 'supposed' deity conceived from the twisted mind of a madman who thought himself a prophet who in reality was nothing but a self-serving warmonger hell bent on having all bow down to him. And as the violence done in both mohamed's and allah's name continued to spread wherever islamic followers trod...wherever muslims infiltrated others lands...September 11, 2001 became 'ground zero' of today's modern campaign against the West...against Israel, against Europe, and against the 'Great Satan' known as America...yet we sit back and watch our leaders do nothing but help sell us out to those wishing to kill us all.

And we see this sad reality happening everyday, starting with Europe whose bleeding heart liberal leaders used the war in Syria as an excuse to allow for a flood of refugees unseen since the end of World War ll to enter their civilized countries. Not being willing to accept as fact that these are not refugees in the true sense of the word, Europe is now being invaded by the forefront of any army determined first to bring Europe to its knees and then to come for us here in America with Israel being sandwiched somewhere in between.

And as Sir Winston Churchill's above said words start to ring true, the current invasion now taking place in Europe can be laid at the feet of Germany's Angela Merkle with her open invitation to these afore mentioned invaders. “Who are we to defend Christians around the world if we say we won’t accept a Muslim or a mosque in our country?” said Merkel, basically ignorant to the fact that while the invasion started slow with a few boatloads of male 'so-called' migrants...cowards leaving their women, children, and elderly behind to fend for themselves against the likes of ISIS...Merkel turned away and did nothing as their numbers grew to the hundreds of thousands. And with that number so grew their once just laughable demand that Europe bend to the way of islam...as it now has become demands backed up by the voice of sheer numbers coupled with a mob mentality outwardly bent on destruction....demands that their host countries bow to sharia law or else...as they claim the lands of Europe for allah...as they have been instructed to do in the qur'an.

qu’ran 17:16 “And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction.”

And so Angela Merkel just does not get that “a Muslim” or “a mosque” is not the issue for Germany nor is it an issue for Europe as a whole...what is the issue is the ongoing transformation of Europe into yet another state of what I call the 'Obama-sanctioned' caliphate. Remember, Germany is but one country out of the 51 independent countries of Europe, and is a country whose daily paper 'Bild' projects that in 2016 alone Germany will see 1.5 million predominately muslim 'so-called' asylum seekers...double the number originally projected...who have under current German law the right to bring in their family members, setting up a dangerous demographic domino effect what with the 'so-called' refugees being mostly young males carrying false identification or no identification at all vs. Germany's rapidly aging population.

And now with crime increasing throughout Germany and the other countries of Europe...violent crimes like rape and murder committed by muslims alone...Europe's once held belief that muslims are “not so bad” is now beginning to change. Just one short year ago a Pew Research Center survey found that majorities in France, Britain, Germany, and Spain had favorable views of muslims, while negative views were (rightfully) held by persons in Italy and Poland. But now that is all changing due to the carnage these refugee invaders are causing, along with new data showing that by the year 2050, Europe will be a full 10% muslim or more. Remember, once any minority reaches 7% of any given population they are no longer a minority but a driving political force, and with the muslim population estimated to reach 71 million from its current 43 million by that critical 2050 year, that will make them a dangerous political force to be reckoned with.

So what can be done to stem the tide of the muslim invasion of Europe before it's too late...an invasion where according to official UN data saw more than a million muslims enter Europe in 2015 alone with a full 71% of those being military-aged men 20-30 years old, with only 15% or less being children, and with just 13% being women. According to Zsolt Bayer, a leading Hungarian economist from one of the few countries who have officially now closed their borders...the others being Croatia and Macedonia but know that others are also starting to rebuild fences and implement more armed border patrols...“the only solution is to do what Eastern European countries are currently doing...close the borders and then clean out the global trash,” which while it sounds good in theory is not easy to do, and it mimics those here in the U.S. who call for the unrealistic and highly unlikely deportation of 11+ million illegals currently residing here.

Cutting off all welfare benefits including food, housing, education, and medical vouchers; denying them any work permits; restricted family reunification rights (which the majority of European nations have); seizing 'so-called' asylum seekers cash and valuables; demanding they learn the language of their host country or face detention and/or forced deportations; are just some logical, tangible, and workable ways to at least slow down the influx of muslim invaders into Europe...which by the way would also work here in our country in regards to our ongoing illegal alien situation.

And while kumbaya sorts like Peter Sutherland, the UN Special Representative on Migration, tries to downplay the muslim European invasion by claiming that, “To reject them so harshly undermines our common humanity and harkens back to far darker times in Europe that we thought had long ago passed,” the truth is that now Europe and the rest of the free world...our country included...faces the harsh reality of it's either them or us...either their civilization or ours...who will survive intact.

And if truth be told the cause of Europe's woes...of pushing Europe to the brink of disaster...as well as our own current woes...lies squarely at the feet of Barack HUSSEIN Obama and his totally inept if not outright traitorous foreign policy. All his talk about 'red lines' in the sand...'red lines' that Syria crossed time and again...had him doing not a damn thing. Announcing the dates of American departure from the theaters of war (against the advice of his own generals I might add), and his hanging out to dry the prime ministers of Iraq and Afghanistan makes this crisis...a crisis that is actually an invasion that he intends to bring to our shores...a doing of his own nefarious yet deliberate creation.

Remember, Obama wants to bring upwards of 200,000 unable to be properly vetted muslims to our country by fiscal year 2017, with 85,000 of those this fiscal year alone, including 10,000 from ISIS controlled territory in Syria. That's in addition to the 70,000 foreign refugees per year we've been letting in for several years now that have been resettled in about 190 cities and towns across America...cities and towns that have seen increases in crime corresponding to the numbers of refugees they have been forced to take in. And remember too, that to date, since he took office Barack HUSSEIN Obama has 'resettled' more than 500,000 Third World 'so-called' refugees into our U.S. cities and towns...and for the most part the outcome has not been pretty. And he knows this and just doesn't care.

And all this...Europe's current situation and ours as well... has led Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to voice serious and rightful concerns about the future of Europe and about how it will impact the future of both Israel and America. Rightfully denying the call by the UN to take in Syrian refugees, after all Israel has been at war with Syria for over a decade and must control its borders against both unvetted 'so-called' refugees as well as from terrorists just itching to do the unspeakable within Israel's borders, Netanyahu understands well that if Europe falls to the invaders through their lack of assimilation and sheer numbers alone that America will be next...and if America is next Israel will not be far behind for numbers alone can do what the civilized world has yet not been able to do...stop the expansion of islam and stop the caliphate from reaching fruition.

And when an American president says we are winning the war while he directly aids in that expansion can World War lll be far behind...just saying.