Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister, won his contest against Isaac Herzog.
Herzog insists this is premature.
The win will be Netanyahu’s third consecutive as PM, his fourth overall.
The Arabs in Israel, of course, weigh in:
“We have the highest Arab voting rates since 1999,” he adds.
“We will block Netanyahu from forming the government.”
We would expect no less.
BZ
John Bolton quantified Obama’s negotiations with Iran, according to TheHill.com, as:
Bolton calls Iran deal ‘unprecedented’ surrender
by Mark Hensch
Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton said Saturday that President Obama is negotiating “an unprecedented act of surrender” with Iran in discussions over its nuclear weapons program.“This deal is fundamentally flawed,” Bolton said at the South Carolina National Security Action Summit in West Columbia, S.C. “There really is no deal I’d trust Iran with. It is a regime determined to have nuclear weapons and this deal will give it to them.”
Repeat:
“There really is no deal I’d trust Iran with. It is a regime determined to have nuclear weapons and this deal will give it to them.”
Tom Cotton was correct, Rudy Giuliani was correct, and I was correct.
Controversy erupted over an open letter Republicans sent Iran’s leadership Monday. It vowed Congress can void any deal it finds unsatisfying and was signed by 47 GOP senators.
And the forty-seven Congressmen are correct.
“The president coddles the Iranian ayatollah and attacks his own countrymen and our closest allies over this deal,” Bolton said Saturday. “The danger we hope to avoid is now imminent. This is just one example of how the President doesn’t care about America’s national security.”
I completely concur. I wrote why I believe Mr Obama is willing to make such terrible concessions to Iran in my post “Obama: protecting Islam and Iran.” I said that “relations between Israel and Barack Hussein Obama have always been rocky. I believe this is because Mr Obama sympathizes with Muslims and disdains Jews. This is in consideration of his upbringing and his education, amongst other things.”
Bolton said Saturday that Obama’s eagerness for a deal would give Tehran a “free pass” for nuclear arms. He said American voters should thus make national security the central issue of 2016’s presidential elections.
There is no denying this statement whatsoever; it became true in 2008 and is equally true today:
“The gravest threat to our national security sits in the Oval Office,” Bolton said. “The next two years can’t pass swiftly enough. For God’s sake, let’s not make the same mistake in 2016.”
Mr Obama is one who makes US allies an enemy, and US enemies a friend.
BZ
Tom Cotton, a Freshman Republican, has certainly struck the hornet’s nest with a major rhythm stick.
From the NYTimes.com:
Senator Behind Iran Letter Is Latest Freshman Republican to Stir Things Up
by Jennifer Steinhauer
WASHINGTON — First there was Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who held up bills, conducted an antidrone talk-a-thon and generally annoyed his colleagues. Next was Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who whipped up a campaign that shut down the government.
Now comes Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, another Republican freshman, whose letter to the leaders of Iran warning against a nuclear deal with the Obama administration has caused an international uproar.
At 37, Mr. Cotton is the youngest member of the Senate and had served as of Wednesday exactly 65 days. A graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School, Mr. Cotton served as an infantry officer in the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq in 2006, one of the bloodiest periods of the war.
But what did Cotton actually advocate?
More importantly:
Leaders in the House noted Mr. Cotton’s intellect and the fact that he showed little willingness to compromise on legislation, even when the leadership wanted him to. In 2014, he campaigned in a camouflage-themed recreational vehicle against the Democratic incumbent, Senator Mark Pryor, and handily beat him.
Let’s face it, Mr Obama’s “deal” with Iran includes concessions just short of abject capitulation to the Iranians. It would leave Iran’s nuclear infrastructure primarily intact, including heavy water reactors and at least 6,000 centrifuges. It would even allow work to continue on Iran’s ballistic missile program.
The “deal” will also sunset in 10 to 15 years, allowing Iran to do anything it wishes thereafter.
Because Mr Obama is the smartest man in DC and in every room, just what did he receive from Iran in terms of concessions?
Let’s see: uh, nothing.
That’s right, Mr Obama is clearly a hard-line negotiator when dealing with the Muslim world, by God!
Sanctions would actually be lifted on Iran, in “exchange” for Iran allowing inspection of its nuclear facilities — something it’s supposed to already be doing — yet the IAEA finds itself currently stymied at most every turn by Iran. Already.
DC and Obama are pissed because Cotton dares to point out the lack of clothing on Emperor Obama.
BZ
Ah, Islam, the religion of peace, tolerance, non-violence.
From Breitbart.com:
by Dr. Phyllis Chesler
Yesterday, terrorists threatened to “behead” Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie if she did not help “introduce sharia law in Australia.”
To her credit, Lambie had recently called for the introduction of the death penalty for terrorists and had been quoted as saying: “If you don’t like our Australian law… then pack your bags and… leave. We will never bow down to sharia law.”
The police do not yet know whether this death threat was sent by Jihadists or by opponents of a planned mosque.
Australia is part of the core group coalition against ISIS, which consists of the United States, Britain, France, Canada, Turkey, Italy, Poland, and Denmark.
And here’s the history in Australia — a history you might think left Australia alone, but no.
Jihad has been building for years in Australia. In 1998, a Sydney police station was shot at by four Arabs. In 2004, a Lebanese-Australian told a reporter that he “wanted to undertake a terror attack in Sydney in the name of Islam.”
According to Australian terrorism researcher Andrew Zammitt, in 2003, thirteen Melbourne men and nine Sydney men were arrested and charged with forming two different cells to prepare attacks. Eighteen were convicted. These arrests suggested that Australians had become “newly radicalized” post 9/11.
In 2005, hundreds of Australian women at the beach were harassed by angry, offended Muslims. Two hundred such men thereafter smashed hundreds of cars and windows, bashed several people and threatened women with rape.
In the summer of 2014, when Israel was self-defensively trying to eradicate the diabolical terror tunnels in Gaza, a convoy of cars drove through Sydney, brandishing the black flag of ISIS. Some chanted: “Jew and Christian will not stand. You can never stop Islam.”
Does this mark the point with which Australia will begin to take a more active role in squashing Islamists in that country?
Mark my words. The stories are coming and not stopping. One more:
“I have had many Arab patients. I tell them I am German. Many praised me because Hitler was German and did ‘such a great job with the Jews.’ At a clinic, a Muslim reception clerk often greeted me with Heil Hitler, arm extended, and a smile. He thought I was an Aryan German. A young man, whom Australian Jews had helped, confided in me, saying that ‘Islam is going to take over the world as the fastest growing religion. Even in Australia.’ One of my Australian patients complained that he was harassed and bullied on the street by Arabs, shouting, ‘we are going to take over your f**king country.’ Someone who had been a member of Hezbollah, wanted me to write a letter for him to the Prime Minister so he would not be deported. When I declined, he grabbed me by the neck and threatened me.”
I wrote two years ago that I saw a young female in a Full Beekeeper’s costume in the Barnes & Noble bookstore (now closed) in Elk Grove, CA.
Islam is here in the United States and it is not a peaceful religion as practiced. Islam is as Islam does, no more, no less. Those practicioners of Islam who do not or have not or refuse to kill know full well that there are others who will, in their name and in the name of their shared religion.
Here is a sign I saw adjacent Highway 99, there in Elk Grove. Islam, making inroads into my neighborhoods. Another attempt to “normalize” Islam.
A religion that is far from normal. A religion that is, in truth, nothing more than a death cult.
Islam = Borg.
Convert or die.
BZ
Because IsraelNationalNews.com says:
by Mark Langfan
The Bethlehem-based news agency Ma’an has cited a Kuwaiti newspaper report Saturday, that US President Barack Obama thwarted an Israeli military attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2014 by threatening to shoot down Israeli jets before they could reach their targets in Iran.
Following Obama’s threat, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was reportedly forced to abort the planned Iran attack.
According to Al-Jarida, the Netanyahu government took the decision to strike Iran some time in 2014 soon after Israel had discovered the United States and Iran had been involved in secret talks over Iran’s nuclear program and were about to sign an agreement in that regard behind Israel’s back.
The report claimed that an unnamed Israeli minister who has good ties with the US administration revealed the attack plan to Secretary of State John Kerry, and that Obama then threatened to shoot down the Israeli jets before they could reach their targets in Iran.
Obama was going to shoot down military jets belonging to the only stable country in the entire Middle East, those of Israel — a nation that has been a friend of the United States for many years.
Why?
Is it just me, or does this not border on insane? Why would Mr Obama stop the Israelis from defending themselves as Iran does its level best to develop nuclear programs — not for “study” or for “power,” but solely for conversion to offensive weapons?
Once developed, how long would it take for Iran to somehow “allow” one or several of those nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of ISIS or the Muslim Brotherhood or al Qaeda or Hamas or Hezbollah — either by “mistake” or purposely?
Please allow me to ask one simple question that I have yet to see the so-called Mainstream Media ask, a question no one seems willing pose:
With all the oil under its feet, why does Iran seem hell-bent upon developing nuclear power? Iran doesn’t physically need nuclear power or its programs. It could create tens or even hundreds of oil-fired energy production facilities around its nation, so that it could have guaranteed electric power damned near in perpetuity.
Yet, Iran cries that it must have nuclear programs in order to provide for its people. I call bullshit on that.
It’s an excuse, and a poor one at that. Read on:
According to the report, “Netanyahu and his commanders agreed after four nights of deliberations to task the Israeli army’s chief of staff, Benny Gantz, to prepare a qualitative operation against Iran’s nuclear program. In addition, Netanyahu and his ministers decided to do whatever they could do to thwart a possible agreement between Iran and the White House because such an agreement is, allegedly, a threat to Israel’s security.”
Check, please, the physical proximity between Iran and Israel:
The distance between the two nations is roughly 1,100 miles, with only Iraq and Jordan in between.
Israel is easily within striking distance of missiles currently possessed by Iran. Imagine arming them with nuclear warheads.
Clearly, Obama was raised by Communists and Muslims. Read this if you doubt me. There isn’t a Jew anywhere is Obama’s past; instead, his formative years were filled with Muslims in Indonesia and Communists.
The only Caucasoids he admired were Saul Alinsky (oddly enough, quantified as a “community organizer” by Wikipedia and the sole Jew that Obama admired), Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.
Relations between Israel and Barack Hussein Obama have always been rocky. I believe this is because Mr Obama sympathizes with Muslims and disdains Jews. This is in consideration of his upbringing and his education, amongst other things.
On Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu will speak before the US Congress, having been invited by John Boehner. The Spite House is doing everything possible to scandalize and minimize this speech.
I wonder: is it because Mr Netanyahu intends to reveal and lend credence to Obama’s plan to down Israel’s aircraft? Will Netanyahu accuse the Spite House of disallowing Israel to defend herself?
Ultimately, just what is the purpose behind Barack Hussein Obama choosing Iran over Israel in the Middle East?
And why?
BZ