Libel Is Obama's Latest Weapon In His War On Israel

 Congress’s Spies in Tel Aviv    "The Wall Street Journal reports: “Israel Spied on Iran Nuclear Talks With U.S.” Sounds like a blockbuster, but this is one of those less-there-than-meets-the-eye stories. It begins:" . . .

Investors Business Daily


" Diplomacy: Now the White House dubiously charges that Israel spied on the U.S. This president, with Nixonian obsession, is so bent on wrecking relations with our top Mideast ally that we're close to a de facto state of war.

"Behold what's buried in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal — a claim of Israeli spying, which was obviously planted by one or more nameless administration officials seeking to make the Israelis' newly re-elected leader look like a U.S. enemy:" . . .Read More At Investor's Business Daily:

How intense is spying on Israel? This intense.
. . . "With news that Israel spied on the Iran nuke negotiations, there is high dudgeon in some quarters.
"Extending the administration’s Bibi-bashing news cycle apparently was the intent of the U.S. officials who leaked the information to The Wall Street Journal.
"While Israel denies spying on U.S. officials, as opposed to targeting the Iranians with whom U.S. officials had communications, the incident is being exploited.
"But there needs to be a reality check.
"Friendly governments spy on friendly government. That’s how friends make sure who are their real friends.
"The way the U.S. allegedly found out Israel was spying on the nuke negotiations was because the U.S. was spying on Israel."

Obama and 'the little guy'

 

WND

Navy bans chaplain from ministering to family of dead sailor

Todd Starnes

 

. . . "It’s become clear to me that Navy leadership cannot be trusted to protect religious liberty within the ranks. It’s time for our elected officials to intervene, before Chaplain Modder’s commander brings more embarrassment and shame to the Armed Forces."

Today's Ted Cruz speech

Ann Althouse regrets her comparison of Cruz's speech to John Lennon

. . . AND: I'm watching. And right at the beginning — at 1:38 — he says "Imagine a little girl, growing up in Wilmington, Delaware." Whoa! You had me at little girl, growing up in Wilmington, Delaware... I was a little girl, growing up in Wilmington, Delaware!ADDED: Let the record show, that at 4:58, I cried.AND: I'm sorry I led off with the joke on "Imagine." This is a truly powerful speech. Just brilliant.ALSO: Here's the full transcript. " . . .

 "I see that Think Progress has an article titled "Ted Cruz Just Laid Out The Most Anti-Woman Agenda Yet." I've listened to the whole speech and I can't imagine what it refers to. I've read the article at the link, and I really don't know. Seems to be that Cruz supports policies that, in the opinion of Think Progress, would not serve the interests of women."

Ted Cruz’s Liberty University speech leaves Media frazzled

The entire speech:

The fear [in 2008], as it is now with Cruz, is that throwing a man with such limited experience into the Oval Office would be a disaster.

. . . "If you want proof there is such a risk, they say look no further than than Barack Obama. One time community organizer and generally inexperienced dude, who has taken this country in generally awful directions in just about every way you can imagine.  But is that the result of inexperience?" .  . .  Yahoo News calls Cruz a rookie, however:

Prior to his election to the Senate, Cruz's career was centered on practicing law at the highest level. A graduate of Harvard Law School and clerk for Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, Cruz led a Houston-based firm's Supreme Court practice, taught such litigation at the University of Texas and was charged with representing the state before the high court as its solicitor general. He also served in the George W. Bush administration, at both the Federal Trade Commission and as an associate deputy attorney general at the Justice Department.

Rep. Peter King Threatens to Jump Off a Bridge if Cruz Gets GOP Nomination
. . . “We need intelligent debate in the country. Ted Cruz may be an intelligent person, but he doesn’t carry out an intelligent debate,” King said. “He oversimplifies, he exaggerates and he basically led the Republican Party over the cliff in the fall of 2013. He has shown no qualifications, no legislation being passed, doesn’t provide leadership and he has no real experience. So, to me, he is just a guy with a big mouth and no results.” . . .

This coloring book features Ted Cruz fighting a giant snake named Obamacare

"Publisher Really Big Coloring Book released the Ted Cruz-themed coloring book Cruz to the Future in late 2013 — the publisher says it was the top-selling children's coloring book on Amazon for "about 20 weeks" — and an 8-page supplement, "Ted Saves America," in fall 2014. The image above, of Cruz celebrating his arrival in the White House by doing an Exorcist tribute, is from  the supplement. So is this image that we can only hope Cruz will replicate next, in which he saves America from giant mutant snakes." 

WOW! Greg Gutfeld Rips Ted Cruz After Presidential Announcement: It’s Always Been About Him (Video)    "With friends like “The Five”, who needs enemies?"

Is Obama Anti-Semitic?

Lucianne

Alan Caruba: Is Obama Anti-Semitic?

. . . "Obama lives in some parallel universe apart from the lessons of history and the realities of what is actually occurring. On May 18, 2009, not long after Netanyahu had been in office and was visiting the White House, Obama was demanding that he endorse Palestinian statehood and freeze the settlements on the West Bank.

"Considering that the Palestinians had refused statehood from the day the United Nations endorsed Israel’s independence that has been a fool’s mission no matter who was President or Prime Minister.

"As for Obama’s demands about settlements, who is Obama to tell the Israelis in 2009 where and if they can build the housing needed for its growing population? And yet Netanyahu, seeking to accommodate Obama, endorsed Palestinian statehood shortly thereafter and then announced a ten-month freeze on settlement development.

"What did Netanyahu get in return? Nothing." . . . 

Pump the Brakes on Fracking Regulations

NRO Editors  "In yet another Obama-administration Friday-afternoon news dump, the Bureau of Land Management announced that it is issuing broad and cumbrous new regulations on certain techniques of drilling for natural gas and oil — hydraulic fracturing, a.k.a. “fracking” — on land under its control. 

"The rules will mandate disclosure of fracking fluids, insert Washington into the well-design process, and add a new layer of regulation to wastewater-disposal procedures. 

"The BLM announcement originally had been scheduled for the latter half of 2012 but something (we can’t imagine what) caused the BLM to back off and then back off again at the end of 2014. The Obama administration, now facing the largest Republican majority in Congress since Teapot Dome was in the headlines, apparently calculates that it has not much to lose." . . .  More here

Accompanying this NRO column:
Washington's Redundant Fracking Regulations  "Today the Department of Interior announced new fracking regulations for federal and Indian lands, issuing the first nationwide federal regulations of the booming industry. 

"The regulations include rules about wastewater disposal, standards for well construction, and requirements for disclosure of the chemicals used in fracking fluid. But for years, states have competently overseen fracking. DOI’s redundant rules accomplish little, though they do give the federal government a new opportunity for overreach and meddling."  . . .

Fracking, Clean and Green  "Contrary to rumors, it’s environmentally friendly. 

"The only thing deeper than a natural-gas well is the ignorance of the anti-fracking crowd." . .

Why Won’t Liberals Talk about the Most Important Kind of ‘Privilege’ in America?

NRO

"It’s marriage. 

"Much has been written about privilege in academic settings over the past few decades. There’s the privilege of wealth, and the advantages wealth confers if a baby is lucky enough to be born into it. Much too has been written about the advantages of being born into this world as a Caucasian — known in academia as “white privilege.” 

"But not enough has been written about the most important advantage a baby can have in America: the advantage of being born with a mother and father who happen to be married. Call it “the marriage privilege” — the advantages are startling."  Read more

Gone for good: Clinton emailed aides on their personal accounts, too  . . . "What is “striking,” according to the four officials who characterized the 300 emails submitted to the House Benghazi committee, is that Clinton aides Cheryl Mills, Philippe Reines, Huma Abedin, and Sullivan often conducted public business over exclusively private channels."

The Arrogance of Hillary Clinton  "The story of Hillary Clinton’s email server is already getting lost in spin and talking points. It’s easy to forget the fundamental fact at the center of the issue. Hilary Clinton violated the law.

Bill Whittle gets right to the heart of it in the new edition of Firewall and frankly calls it criminal."

How's that Starbucks Race conversation going? UPDATED

Starbucks Brews Race Controversy

"It’s not often that a business with an unmistakable aura of holier-than-thou self-righteousness is willing to up the ante on its own obnoxiousness. But last week Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz plowed ahead with a political campaign that consists of printing the words “Race Together” on the chain’s coffee cups, and giving coffee-serving baristas the option of engaging in a discussion about race with their customers. USA Today will buttress this initiative with a series of inserts containing info on race relations, from a variety of perspectives. The inserts will also be available at Starbucks coffee shops." . . .

No doubt Gwen Ifill, co-anchor of “PBS NewsHour,” voiced what is undoubtedly the most widespread emotional reason for the animosity. “Honest to God, if you start to engage me in a race conversation before I’ve had my morning coffee, it will not end well,” she tweeted.

Starbucks on #RaceTogether: nevermind  "In the end, this turned out to be in ill considered experiment which essentially blew up in a rich, progressive person’s face. When you go to Starbucks tomorrow to get your morning coffee (assuming you can stomach their product) you will no longer be required to engage in a discussion on racial unrest."

Some conversation starters:  We can discuss this, Then there is this, and this, and don't forget this classic.

UPDATE: And this just in:  Black Teen Allegedly Guns Down Unarmed White Man Begging ‘Don’t Shoot’…Liberal Outrage?

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. . . "According to the NBC station in the City of Brotherly Love, it was an apparent black-on-white crime. The suspects are three African-American teens. The victim was a 51-year-old husband and father who was walking his dog along a quiet street. And before he was gunned down in an apparent robbery, police say this man did, in fact, beg for his life, crying, “Please don’t shoot me, please don’t shoot me.”

"So far, there have been no reported protests over the senseless death of James Patrick Stuhlman. No marches against black-on-white crime. No outraged Sharpton or Jackson. No Justice Department probe into a possible hate crime. Stuhlman died on the street with his dog at his side.

"By clicking on the video above, you can watch the WCAU-TV news report on the murder of the man who, police say, was targeted because he appeared old and his dog looked weak." 
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6 Reasons Why Ted Cruz Is Not A Serious Candidate For President; Cruz's speech live

Rocco Lucente  "It has been widely reported in the national media that Texas Senator Ted Cruz will formally announce his candidacy for the 2016 presidential election on Monday at Liberty University. This announcement comes at the very beginning of an expectedstring of campaign announcements for the 2016 presidential election. Many tea partiers and grassroots conservatives alike are excited about the prospect of a Ted Cruz candidacy, but questions have risen about his viability as a candidate. Indeed, there are several reasons to believe that Cruz has very little potential to win the Republican nomination."  Read the full article


Ted Cruz Speech LIVE

This man will turn us into the Vichy yet.

The Lid

"Barack Obama has seized upon news media reported quotes of Benjamin Netanyahu, not because they are true (they're not) but because they open up the door for him to publicly show the hatred of Israel that has dominated his Middle East policy since he ran for President.

"The two statements reported wrong were regarding Netanyahu's support for a Jewish State and his statement about Israeli Arabs voting

"It is very convenient for the media and President Obama to take half a statement and spin it the way they want, but the truth is Netanyahu never said he didn't believe in a two-state solution, nor did he ever say he would block a two-state, what he said was a Palestinian State would never be formed while he was premier because it would become a base for radical Islam. " . . .

“Asked by an interviewer with the Israeli news site, NRG [Ma’ariv] if it was true that a Palestinian nation would never be formed while he's prime minister, Netanyahu replied, ‘Indeed.’

His interview with NRG came as he courted conservative supporters a day before Israelis head to the polls for national elections.

‘Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to the radical Islam against Israel,’ he said. ‘This is the true reality that was created here in the last few years.’

" 'That's what the guy said folks. Not "no two-state solution", or that "he would block a Palestinian State" but as long as they presented themselves as sponsors of terrorism there would be no Palestinian State, and based on that it will not happen on his watch."  . . .

Obama's Israel Hatred: A Timeline!

May be a retouched photo

. . . "But, in truth, this is the culmination of a longtime Obama policy of destroying the US-Israel relationship; Obama has spent his entire life surrounded by haters of Israel, from former Palestine Liberation Organization spokesman Rashid Khalidi to former Jimmy Carter National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, pro-Hamas negotiator Robert Malley to UN Ambassador Samantha Power (who once suggested using American troops to guard Palestinians from Israelis), Jeremiah Wright (who said “Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me”) to Professor Derrick Bell (“Jewish neoconservative racists…are undermining blacks in every way they can”). Here is a concise timeline, with credit to Dan Senor and the editors of Commentary:" . . . More at the link.

http://www.therightplanet.com/2015/03/pollster-obamas-role-in-israeli-elections-much-larger-than-reported-video/

For those who may be surprised by the level of pure dislike and disdain shown by Barack Obama towards anything Israel, you simply haven't had your eyes and ears open!

From the beginning Barack Obama has never shown himself to be a fan of the Jewish state and, as far as Jews themselves go, his close affiliation with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright was all that any Jew needed to know! ('Obama, Jews, Israel and the transitive property')
Read more at http://politicsandfinance.blogspot.com/2015/03/obamas-israel-hatred-timeline.html#xPDihqivemfzsDlG.99

For those who may be surprised by the level of pure dislike and disdain shown by Barack Obama towards anything Israel, you simply haven't had your eyes and ears open!

From the beginning Barack Obama has never shown himself to be a fan of the Jewish state and, as far as Jews themselves go, his close a

From the beginning Barack Obama has never shown himself to be a fan of the Jewish state and, as far as Jews themselves go, his close affiliation with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright was all that any Jew needed to know! ('Full article

Old Dogs Doing Old Tricks

Clarice Feldman  "There’s more than a passing similarity between Obama’s race baiting and his Netanyahu baiting: lies, agitprop, media complicity, shady financing, and prejudice  -- in one case against whites, in the other against Jews.

"Jack Cashill, who often graces these pages, explains this week how the president has been ginning up racial animosity with the help of his friends and funders, describing techniques which I see Obama also using against Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel."

. . .
"After all, Obama’s diplomatic efforts have not once redounded to our interests. As my friend Cecil Turner notes:

I think Obama's track record on "diplomatic solutions" is a bit checkered:
The Russian "reset" presaged takeovers in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, and raised tensions to dangerous levels (and spawned a series of military maneuvers, including the latest bizarre armored column touring Eastern Europe);
the Iraq pullout that spawned ISIS resurgence;
Syrian negotiations that strengthens Iran and leaves us picking between a dictator and terrorists;
"Kinetic military action" that replaced a relatively docile Libyan dictator with a hotbed of terrorist chaos;
The Yemeni government overthrown by Iranian-backed rebels; and,
Our strongest regional ally rejecting a State Department sponsored get-out-the-vote effort to depose its prime minister, with resultant dysfunction.
The negotiation track record on this issue is similarly unimpressive. Recognizing Iran's right to enrich (which was implicit in allowing them to continue during the current round of talks), and removing sanctions as a condition for talking (whilst missing deadline after deadline), and throwing away a strong hand engendered by a[n] oil market price collapse demonstrated our desire to negotiate from weakness. Not too surprisingly, I lack confidence in Obama's team to negotiate anything, but in any event I seriously doubt kissing Iran's a$$ on nuclear issues is the sensible way forward.
Obviously that makes me a racist.