Obama the peace dove turns out to be more of an (atomic) warmonger

The irony […] is that Obama came to power via the siren call of multilateralism and the glories of the United Nations. And he will leave office having emasculated the Security Council’s potential to promote international peace and security and enforce non-proliferation, destroyed the credibility of the world’s nuclear watchdog agency, and undermined the relevance of treaties for American foreign policy from here on.

Anne Bayefsky, What Obama doesn’t want you (and Congress) to know about his Iran deal, Fox News, September 08, 2015

Martin Sherman on the “debate” on “Jewish terrorism”: “Jewish hate crimes and vandalism are NOT terrorism”

We can and we do [b]urn children alive, execute murderous, inhuman, incomprehensible terror. And no, we’re no better than them…. – Sima Kadmon, “We’re no better than our enemies,” Ynet

They are no different than ISIS… this is Jewish jihadism, identical in every detail to Islamic jihadism –
Ron Ben-Yishai, Ynet

Israelis stab gay people and burn children. There isn’t a shred of slander, the slightest degree of exaggeration, in this dry description – Gideon Levy, Haaretz

 

The events of last week cast doubt on the ability of Israel to survive the merciless brutality that surrounds it.

Deplorable acts by fringe elements 

The insanity – and there is no other word to describe the frenzy that seized the public debate over acts, however heinous, perpetrated by a handful of individuals (some yet unidentified) – [sic; closing dash here, not after “society”, where it should be (I suspect the editor); RR] on the outermost fringe of Israeli society, betrayed a dangerous and dysfunctional disability in the nation’s capacity to order its priorities.

For in what is arguably the most fateful 60-day period in recent decades for the Jewish state, when all the nation’s energies should be focused with laser-like intensity on foiling the perilous Iran nuclear deal before Congress, attention has been diverted by sanctimonious hand-wringing and moralistic self-flagellation over crimes of individual perpetrators on the very margins of society.

[…]

It is an attempt to paint all ideo-political adversaries with the same brush; to taint with the delegitimizing stain of religious fanaticism, all those, who, for a variety of reasoned arguments – security imperatives, historical significance, national heritage, economic pragmatism – oppose p [sic] territorial concession and political appeasement in the conflict with the Palestinian-Arabs.

Source: The Jerusalem Post (online), 6 June 2015

Links to “Stop Iran Now” Times Square Rally Videos on YouTube (uploaded by JBS)

   Rally To Stop Iran [entire rally]

by JBS

Iran Deal: Remember the last time the entire world seemed to be as trustful as John Kerry is now?

“Unlike North Korea, [the Iranians] have not pulled out of the NPT. Unlike North Korea, they haven’t exploded any nuclear device, and the supreme leader of Iran has said, we’re not going to seek a nuclear weapon.” – John Kerry

Live Broadcast from Stop Iran Rally in New York Today (rally begins at 5:30 p.m.)

UPDATE: Coverage of the rally is scheduled to be re-broadcast by Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS) on:

Thu 7/23
7:00PM-9:00PM

Fri 7/24
1:00AM-3:00AM

Sun 7/26
1:00PM-3:00PM

Continue reading Live Broadcast from Stop Iran Rally in New York Today (rally begins at 5:30 p.m.)

Some utterances of EU “foreign policy chief” Federica Mogherini in connection with Israel and/or of some import for it (and the entire free world)

“From Lebanese territory toward Israel are departing demonstrative rockets which are produced on a small scale and which are not being launched in order to really hit, but only in order to signal the living resistance/existence [(r)esistenza in vita] […].” (2009)

The world is my constituency.” (2013)

“We need a Palestinian state […].” (2014)

“I think Jerusalem can be and should be the capital of two states.” (2014)

“The message is not for the people who live here, the message is to the rest of the world. It is not a Palestinian-Israeli situation, it is a global issue.” (2014)

“The E3/EU+3 and the Islamic Republic of Iran welcome this [h]istoric joint comprehensive plan of action which will ensure that Iran’s nuclear program will be excluseleavy [sic] paceful [sic] and mark a fundamental shift in their approach to this issue.” (2015)

Is Obama administration inviting foreign powers to join it in crushing US democracy and Israel’s resistance…

… against the construction of a “P5+1+Iran” (or maybe “better” E3/EU+3-or-how-the-hell-it’s-called-by-the-EU-tyrants”) “left-green world dictatorship”?

Obama Turns to U.N. to Outmaneuver Congress – Washington is working on a new Security Council resolution making the nuclear deal legally binding on the next president” (foreignpolicy.com).

Every day now it seems more and more likely that there will be much much weeping ahead.

“In Israel’s hour of need”

Netanyahu is not coming to Washington next Tuesday to warn Congress against Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, because he seeks a fight with Obama. Netanyahu has devoted the last six years to avoiding a fight with Obama, often at great cost to Israel’s national security and to his own political position.

Netanyahu is coming to Washington next week because Obama has left him no choice. And all decent people of good will should support him, and those who do not, and those who are silent, should be called out for their treachery and cowardice.

From Caroline Glick’s newest column in the Jerusalem Post

“There are no longer any technical constraints stopping [Iran] from creating missiles loaded with nuclear warheads.

The decision to create such weapons lies in the ‘political will’ of its leaders.” – Jerusalem Post (online) reporting on an “annual US intelligence assessment [that] was presented to the [US] Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.”

Sowing wind

Theodor W. Adorno’s categorical imperative saying that everything should be organised in a way that Auschwitz cannot repeat itself has been turned into its opposite: especially since the beginning of the “Arab spring”, everything is increasingly being organised in a way that it is most probable for it to happen again soon. Continue reading Sowing wind

Iran’s Nukes and Israel’s Dilemma

Editors’ note: Yoaz Hendel now works in the Israeli prime minister’s office. This article was written before his government service; views expressed herein are his alone.

While the Obama administration has not reconciled itself to the futility of curbing Tehran’s nuclear buildup through diplomatic means, most Israelis have given up hope that the international sanctions can dissuade the Islamic Republic from acquiring the means to murder by the millions. Israel’s leadership faces a stark choice—either come to terms with a nuclear Iran or launch a preemptive military strike. Continue reading Iran’s Nukes and Israel’s Dilemma

Oops

Iran announced on Wednesday, Dec. 14, that it had completed the transfer of its nuclear facilities underground, including its uranium enrichment centrifuges, and that the Iranian nuclear program was now safe from US and Israeli attack. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Passive Defense Division [sic], Gholamreza Jalali, said: “Our vulnerability in the nuclear area has reached the minimum level.” And if circumstances demand it, he said, uranium enrichment facilities would be placed in more secure locations. Israeli Defense Minister Barak has repeatedly warned that once it was buried in underground bunkers, Iran’s nuclear infrastructure could no longer be attacked; nor would it be possible to find out what was happening there. His meaning was that that [sic] no one would know when Iran started building nuclear bombs in deep underground chambers. Continue reading Oops