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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Obama: The Most Anti-Israel President in History?

Obama has chosen sides, and it's not with our ally, Israel. It is both sad and despicable.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

EAGLE FREEDOM LINKS -- The Beatles Edition - 11-9-11

EAGLE FREEDOM LINKS

American Perspective - Businessman nails OWS protesters

Atlas Shrugs - Ya Don't Say?!

It Don't Make Sense - In uncertain times, size does matter

A Conservative Teacher - Tea Party and conservatives are the counter-culture today - Occupy Wall Street simply fights for the establishment?

A Pissed Off Irishman - Woman charged with pimping teen at Obama-endorsed Occupy New Hampshire Rally

Acts of the Apostasy - Sister Patrica: On Seven Quick-Takes Friday

Adrienne's Corner - Rudy Giuliani...

Always Catholic - Be "Always Catholic"... invite all to our "family reunion" - Catholics Come Home announces ad campaign on major networks

Always On Watch - Footage that the Mainstream Media Will Not Air

Amusing Bunni's Musings - Mentals ratchet up the mayhem!

Barking Spider - EU referendum: new e-petition

Barracuda Brigade - U.N. report to show evidence of Iran's nuclear weapons program advancing

Battle Beads Blog - What's Really Important? ..... The Eucharist, rosary, and confession

BBCW - Mike Church's excellent description of an article 5 constitutional convention

Black Or White Is A Choice - A real life experience expressed to the miscreants that judge bank folks as miscreants

Blog de King Shamus - The enduring genius of occupy wall street, part deux

Bread Upon The Waters - If these were global warming graphs, we'd all be vaporized

Can We Keep Our Republic? - Obama DOJ response to fast and furious

Catholic Once Again - All Saints Day Nov. 1

Commentarama - So much for shovel ready projects

Common Cents - RIP: Andy Rooney passed away last night

Conservative Hideout 2.0 - Occupy Portland protester charged with pushing cop in front of bus - their media head threatens more of the same

Conservative Perspective - 2011 election watch: Ohio

Creative Minority Report - The abortionist signed her birth certificate

Don't Tread On Us - Mormonism & Socialism

Down Under On The Right Side - Maybe now western leftists will get it

Eye Of Polyphemus - Us House reaffirms "In God We Trust" as US motto

Fuzzy Logic - "All he has to do..."

Global Domination Through Applied Inactivity - Political divorce decree

Hack Wilson - Video: Wall Street protester says "pay my college tuition for me"

HolyCoast.com - One year from today can be the end of an error

Innominatus - Time for another one of *those* posts

Jo-Joe Politico - link to a good interview by Thomas Sowell

Just a Conservative Girl - Don't look now, but Newt is gaining in the polls

Laughing Conservative - Hissy McFit arrested

Left Coast Rebel - (Video) South Park take on #OccupyWallstreet Protests

Let The Truth Be Known - A Moment with Our Father Our Lady of Fatima - An Orthodox Catholic version

Legal Insurrection - Tin soldiers and Trumpka coming

Libertarian Republican - Now they're censoring "Iranian terrorist" our of 80's movies

Lisa Graas - Santorum: "Obama's naive Iran policy has put Americans in grave danger"

Lone Star Parson - All Saints, All Souls

Maggie's Notebook - Bill Clinton wants 3 terms for presidents - after time off after second term

Milton Wolf.com - My Washington Times latest: Save America: Repeal Obamacare

Mind Numbed Robot - How to steal power - Bill Whittle (video)

My Daily Trek - Girl Scouts open to everyone - even boys

Nonsensible Shoes - Can the GOP compromise on taxes?

NoOneOfAnyImport - It came from Nashville

Obama Cartoons - Worst president

Pedaling Fast & Trying To Keep Up - Hey Occupy wall street... I am the 53%

Political Realities - Freddie Mac loses billions, requests billions from treasury

Proof Positive - Ron Paul, apologist for dictators

QUICKWIT - Another Country's government that will soon run out of other people's money

Random Musings by Cliff - Tea Party vs. OWS graphics

Randy's Roundtable - General should be promoted, not fired

Rational Nation USA - Real conservatism and classical liberalism... on the same page

Reaganite Republican - Second veteran injured at occupy Oakland: violence and mayhem reign

Right Klik - The race card: to play or not to play?

Robbing America - The essence of a good debate: leave the press out

Sancte Pater - Abortionist pleads guilty to murder after killing dozens of newborns at "House of Horrors" clinic

Sentry Journal - Friday Ramblings late edition: Liberty is about the power of choice

Solid Rock Or Sinking Sand - Crossdressing 7-year old boy allowed to join girl scouts

Standing On My Head - What I love about the Catholic Church - 8

STOP MARXISM - Why do the left wingers hate babies

The Audacity of Logic - How did Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' predict an America spinning out of control?

The Blog - Cat Blog Friday

The Catholic Knight - Tea Parties versus OWS Protests - What the establishment doesn't want us to know

The Camp Of The Saints - Can't you smell that smell?

The Conservative Lady - Air Force Academy accused of religious intolerance - they choose to back away from charity

The Country Thinker - Ohio overwhelmingly rejects Obamacare mandate: a huge grassroots victory

The Daley Gator - Governor Walker calls a Christmas Tree a Christmas Tree; Leftists appalled

The Last Tradition - Soldier home early from Iraq surprises fiance by running to her on Kansas Chiefs football field

The Libertarian Patriot - Steve Kroft catches Nancy Pelosi with her hand in the cookie jar

The Malcontent - Proving once again that Barack Hussein is a anti-semitic product of his mentor Reverend Jeremiah Wright

The Observatorium - Hypocrisy

The Other McCain - Karen Kraushaar, serial victim

The Republican Mother - Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Cliff notes

The Sci-Fi Catholic - Now if we can just make people understand that the whole field of social psychology is a fraud, we'll be in good shape

The scottcarp Dream - Reagan statue vandalized

The Wyblog - Joe Biden, Penn State, and Glee

TOTUS: Conservative Political Commentary - Israel is Alone!

Tu Ne Cede Malis - Biblical Deck of Cards

Virtual Mirage - Just FARCing around

Warning Signs - The Third Party Jinx

We The People... - Pics of the day

Western Hero - Bonfire of the insanities

Woman Honor Thyself - MMA experts foil robbery

Woodsterman - Top 12 Reasons

Zilla Of The Resistance - The Resistance Benevolence Society

Friday, September 23, 2011

President Netanyahu at The U.N.: "The Truth Is..., I Cannot Make Peace Alone..."

Thanks to Atlas Shrugs here is the entire text of Benjamin Netanyahu's speech:

Ladies and gentlemen, Israel has extended its hand in peace from the moment it was established 63 years ago. On behalf of Israel and the Jewish people, I extend that hand again today. I extend it to the people of Egypt and Jordan, with renewed friendship for neighbors with whom we have made peace. I extend it to the people of Turkey, with respect and good will. I extend it to the people of Libya and Tunisia, with admiration for those trying to build a democratic future. I extend it to the other peoples of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, with whom we want to forge a new beginning. I extend it to the people of Syria, Lebanon and Iran, with awe at the courage of those fighting brutal repression.

But most especially, I extend my hand to the Palestinian people, with whom we seek a just and lasting peace.

Ladies and gentlemen, in Israel our hope for peace never wanes. Our scientists, doctors, innovators, apply their genius to improve the world of tomorrow. Our artists, our writers, enrich the heritage of humanity. Now, I know that this is not exactly the image of Israel that is often portrayed in this hall. After all, it was here in 1975 that the age-old yearning of my people torestore our national life in our ancient biblical homeland — it was then that this was braided — branded, rather — shamefully, as racism. And it was here in 1980, right here, that the historic peace agreement between Israel and Egypt wasn’t praised; it was denounced! And it’s here year after year that Israel is unjustly singled out for condemnation. It’s singled out for condemnation more often than all the nations of the world combined. Twenty-one out of the 27 General Assembly resolutions condemn Israel — the one true democracy in the Middle East.

Well, this is an unfortunate part of the U.N. institution. It’s the — the theater of the absurd. It doesn’t only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi’s Libya chaired the U.N. Commission on Human Rights; Saddam’s Iraq headed the U.N. Committee on Disarmament.

You might say: That’s the past. Well, here’s what’s happening now — right now, today. Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the U.N. Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world’s security.

You couldn’t make this thing up.

So here in the U.N., automatic majorities can decide anything. They can decide that the sun sets in the west or rises in the west. I think the first has already been pre-ordained. But they can also decide — they have decided that the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism’s holiest place, is occupied Palestinian territory.

And yet even here in the General Assembly, the truth can sometimes break through. In 1984 when I was appointed Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, I visited the great rabbi of Lubavich. He said to me — and ladies and gentlemen, I don’t want any of you to be offended because from personal experience of serving here, I know there are many honorable men and women, many capable and decent people serving their nations here. But here’s what the rebbe said to me. He said to me, you’ll be serving in a house of many lies. And then he said, remember that even in the darkest place, the light of a single candle can beseen far and wide.

Today I hope that the light of truth will shine, if only for a few minutes, in a hall that for too long has been a place of darkness for my country. So as Israel’s prime minister, I didn’t come here to win applause. I came here to speak the truth. The truth is — the truth is that Israel wants peace. The truth is that I want peace. The truth is that in the Middle East at all times, but especially during these turbulent days, peace must be anchored in security. The truth is that we cannot achieve peace through U.N.resolutions, but only through direct negotiations between the parties. The truth is that so far the Palestinians have refused to negotiate. The truth is that Israel wants peace with a Palestinian state, but the Palestinians want a state without peace. And the truth is you shouldn’t let that happen.

Ladies and gentlemen, when I first came here 27 years ago, the world was divided between East and West. Since then the Cold War ended, great civilizations have risen from centuries of slumber, hundreds of millions have been lifted out of poverty, countless more are poised to follow, and the remarkable thing is that so far this monumental historic shift has largely occurred peacefully. Yet a malignancy is now growing between East and West that threatens the peace of all. It seeks not to liberate, but to enslave, not to build, but to destroy.

That malignancy is militant Islam. It cloaks itself in the mantle of a great faith, yet it murders Jews, Christians and Muslims alike with unforgiving impartiality. On September 11th it killed thousands of Americans, and it left the twin towers in smoldering ruins. Last night I laid a wreath on the 9/11 memorial. It was deeply moving. But as I was going there, one thing echoed in my mind: the outrageous words of the president of Iran on this podium yesterday. He implied that 9/11 was an American conspiracy. Some of you left this hall. All of you should have.

Since 9/11, militant Islamists slaughtered countless other innocents — in London and Madrid, in Baghdad and Mumbai, in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, in every part of Israel. I believe that the greatest danger facing our world is that this fanaticism will arm itself with nuclear weapons. And this is precisely what Iran is trying to do.

Can you imagine that man who ranted here yesterday — can you imagine him armed with nuclear weapons? The international community must stop Iran before it’s too late. If Iran is not stopped, we will all face the specter of nuclear terrorism, and the Arab Spring could soon become an Iranian winter. That would be a tragedy. Millions of Arabs have taken to the streets to replace tyranny with liberty, and no one would benefit more than Israel if those committed to freedom and peace would prevail.

This is my fervent hope. But as the prime minister of Israel, I cannot risk the future of the Jewish state on wishful thinking. Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be. We must do our best to shape the future, but we cannot wish away the dangers of the present.

And the world around Israel is definitely becoming more dangerous. Militant Islam has already taken over Lebanon and Gaza. It’s determined to tear apart the peace treaties between Israel and Egypt and between Israel and Jordan. It’s poisoned many Arab minds against Jews and Israel, against America and the West. It opposes not the policies of Israel but the existence of Israel.

Now, some argue that the spread of militant Islam, especially in these turbulent times — if you want to slow it down, they argue, Israel must hurry to make concessions, to make territorial compromises. And this theory sounds simple. Basically it goes like this: Leave the territory, and peace will be advanced. The moderates will be strengthened, the radicals will be kept at bay. And don’t worry about the pesky details of how Israel will actually defend itself; international troops will do the job.

These people say to me constantly: Just make a sweeping offer, and everything will work out. You know, there’s only one problem with that theory. We’ve tried it and it hasn’t worked. In 2000 Israel made a sweeping peace offer that met virtually all of the Palestinian demands. Arafat rejected it. The Palestinians then launched a terror attack that claimed a thousand Israeli lives.

Prime Minister Olmert afterwards made an even more sweeping offer, in 2008. President Abbas didn’t even respond to it.

But Israel did more than just make sweeping offers. We actually left territory. We withdrew from Lebanon in 2000 and from every square inch of Gaza in 2005. That didn’t calm the Islamic storm, the militant Islamic storm that threatens us. It only brought the storm closer and make it stronger.

Hezbollah and Hamas fired thousands of rockets against our cities from the very territories we vacated. See, when Israel left Lebanon and Gaza, the moderates didn’t defeat the radicals, the moderates were devoured by the radicals. And I regret to say that international troops like UNIFIL in Lebanon and UBAM (ph) in Gaza didn’t stop the radicals from attacking Israel.

We left Gaza hoping for peace.

We didn’t freeze the settlements in Gaza, we uprooted them. We did exactly what the theory says: Get out, go back to the 1967 borders, dismantle the settlements.

And I don’t think people remember how far we went to achieve this. We uprooted thousands of people from their homes. We pulled children out of — out of their schools and their kindergartens. We bulldozed synagogues. We even — we even moved loved ones from their graves. And then, having done all that, we gave the keys of Gaza to President Abbas.

Now the theory says it should all work out, and President Abbas and the Palestinian Authority now could build a peaceful state in Gaza. You can remember that the entire world applauded. They applauded our withdrawal as an act of great statesmanship. It was a bold act of peace.

But ladies and gentlemen, we didn’t get peace. We got war. We got Iran, which through its proxy Hamas promptly kicked out the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority collapsed in a day — in one day.

President Abbas just said on this podium that the Palestinians are armed only with their hopes and dreams. Yeah, hopes, dreams and 10,000 missiles and Grad rockets supplied by Iran, not to mention the river of lethal weapons now flowing into Gaza from the Sinai, from Libya, and from elsewhere.

Thousands of missiles have already rained down on our cities. So you might understand that, given all this, Israelis rightly ask: What’s to prevent this from happening again in the West Bank? See, most of our major cities in the south of the country are within a few dozen kilometers from Gaza. But in the center of the country, opposite the West Bank, our cities are a few hundred meters or at most a few kilometers away from the edge of the West Bank.

So I want to ask you. Would any of you — would any of you bring danger so close to your cities, to your families? Would you act so recklessly with the lives of your citizens? Israel is prepared to have a Palestinian state in the West Bank, but we’re not prepared to have another Gaza there. And that’s why we need to have real security arrangements, which the Palestinians simply refuse to negotiate with us.

Israelis remember the bitter lessons of Gaza. Many of Israel’s critics ignore them. They irresponsibly advise Israel to go down this same perilous path again. Your read what these people say and it’s as if nothing happened — just repeating the same advice, the same formulas as though none of this happened.

And these critics continue to press Israel to make far-reaching concessions without first assuring Israel’s security. They praise those who unwittingly feed the insatiable crocodile of militant Islam as bold statesmen. They cast as enemies of peace those of us who insist that we must first erect a sturdy barrier to keep the crocodile out, or at the very least jam an iron bar between its gaping jaws.

So in the face of the labels and the libels, Israel must heed better advice. Better a bad press than a good eulogy, and better still would be a fair press whose sense of history extends beyond breakfast, and which recognizes Israel’s legitimate security concerns.

I believe that in serious peace negotiations, these needs and concerns can be properly addressed, but they will not be addressed without negotiations. And the needs are many, because Israel is such a tiny country. Without Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, Israel is all of 9 miles wide.

I want to put it for you in perspective, because you’re all in the city. That’s about two-thirds the length of Manhattan. It’s the distance between Battery Park and Columbia University. And don’t forget that the people who live in Brooklyn and New Jersey are considerably nicer than some of Israel’s neighbors.

So how do you — how do you protect such a tiny country, surrounded by people sworn to its destruction and armed to the teeth by Iran? Obviously you can’t defend it from within that narrow space alone. Israel needs greater strategic depth, and that’s exactly why Security Council Resolution 242 didn’t require Israel to leave all the territories it captured in the Six-Day War. It talked about withdrawal from territories, to secure and defensible boundaries. And to defend itself, Israel must therefore maintain a long-term Israeli military presence in critical strategic areas in the West Bank.

I explained this to President Abbas. He answered that if a Palestinian state was to be a sovereign country, it could never accept such arrangements. Why not? America has had troops in Japan, Germany and South Korea for more than a half a century. Britain has had an airspace in Cyprus or rather an air base in Cyprus. France has forces in three independent African nations. None of these states claim that they’re not sovereign countries.

And there are many other vital security issues that also must be addressed. Take the issue of airspace. Again, Israel’s small dimensions create huge security problems. America can be crossed by jet airplane in six hours. To fly across Israel, it takes three minutes. So is Israel’s tiny airspace to be chopped in half and given to a Palestinian state not at peace with Israel?

Our major international airport is a few kilometers away from the West Bank. Without peace, will our planes become targets for antiaircraft missiles placed in the adjacent Palestinian state? And how will we stop the smuggling into the West Bank? It’s not merely the West Bank, it’s the West Bank mountains. It just dominates the coastal plain where most of Israel’s population sits below. How could we prevent the smuggling into these mountains of those missiles that could be fired on our cities?

I bring up these problems because they’re not theoretical problems. They’re very real. And for Israelis, they’re life-and- death matters. All these potential cracks in Israel’s security have to be sealed in a peace agreement before a Palestinian state is declared, not afterwards, because if you leave it afterwards, they won’t be sealed. And these problems will explode in our face and explode the peace.

The Palestinians should first make peace with Israel and then get their state. But I also want to tell you this. After such a peace agreement is signed, Israel will not be the last country to welcome a Palestinian state as a new member of the United Nations. We will be the first.

And there’s one more thing. Hamas has been violating international law by holding our soldier Gilad Shalit captive for five years.

They haven’t given even one Red Cross visit. He’s held in a dungeon, in darkness, against all international norms. Gilad Shalit is the son of Aviva and Noam Shalit. He is the grandson of Zvi Shalit, who escaped the Holocaust by coming to the — in the 1930s as a boy to the land of Israel. Gilad Shalit is the son of every Israeli family. Every nation represented here should demand his immediate release. If you want to — if you want to pass a resolution about the Middle East today, that’s the resolution you should pass.

Ladies and gentlemen, last year in Israel in Bar-Ilan University, this year in the Knesset and in the U.S. Congress, I laid out my vision for peace in which a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes the Jewish state. Yes, the Jewish state. After all, this is the body that recognized the Jewish state 64 years ago. Now, don’t you think it’s about time that Palestinians did the same?

The Jewish state of Israel will always protect the rights of all its minorities, including the more than 1 million Arab citizens of Israel. I wish I could say the same thing about a future Palestinian state, for as Palestinian officials made clear the other day — in fact, I think they made it right here in New York — they said the Palestinian state won’t allow any Jews in it. They’ll be Jew-free — Judenrein. That’s ethnic cleansing. There are laws today in Ramallah that make the selling of land to Jews punishable by death. That’s racism. And you know which laws this evokes.

Israel has no intention whatsoever to change the democratic character of our state. We just don’t want the Palestinians to try to change the Jewish character of our state. (Applause.) We want to give up — we want them to give up the fantasy of flooding Israel with millions of Palestinians.

President Abbas just stood here, and he said that the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the settlements. Well, that’s odd. Our conflict has been raging for — was raging for nearly half a century before there was a single Israeli settlement in the West Bank. So if what President Abbas is saying was true, then the — I guess that the settlements he’s talking about are Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jaffa, Be’er Sheva. Maybe that’s what he meant the other day when he said that Israel has been occupying Palestinian land for 63 years. He didn’t say from 1967; he said from 1948. I hope somebody will bother to ask him this question because it illustrates a simple truth: The core of the conflict is not the settlements. The settlements are a result of the conflict. (Applause.)

The settlements have to be — it’s an issue that has to be addressed and resolved in the course of negotiations. But the core of the conflict has always been and unfortunately remains the refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.

I think it’s time that the Palestinian leadership recognizes what every serious international leader has recognized, from Lord Balfour and Lloyd George in 1917, to President Truman in 1948, to President Obama just two days ago right here: Israel is the Jewish state.

President Abbas, stop walking around this issue. Recognize the Jewish state, and make peace with us. In such a genuine peace, Israel is prepared to make painful compromises. We believe that the Palestinians should be neither the citizens of Israel nor its subjects. They should live in a free state of their own. But they should be ready, like us, for compromise. And we will know that they’re ready for compromise and for peace when they start taking Israel’s security requirements seriously and when they stop denying our historical connection to our ancient homeland.

I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That’s like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we’re called “Jews”? Because we come from Judea.

In my office in Jerusalem, there’s a — there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there’s a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu. That’s my last name. My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin — Binyamin — the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there’s been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

And for those Jews who were exiled from our land, they never stopped dreaming of coming back: Jews in Spain, on the eve of their expulsion; Jews in the Ukraine, fleeing the pogroms; Jews fighting the Warsaw Ghetto, as the Nazis were circling around it. They never stopped praying, they never stopped yearning. They whispered: Next year in Jerusalem. Next year in the promised land.

As the prime minister of Israel, I speak for a hundred generations of Jews who were dispersed throughout the lands, who suffered every evil under the Sun, but who never gave up hope of restoring their national life in the one and only Jewish state.

Ladies and gentlemen, I continue to hope that President Abbas will be my partner in peace. I’ve worked hard to advance that peace. The day I came into office, I called for direct negotiations without preconditions. President Abbas didn’t respond. I outlined a vision of peace of two states for two peoples. He still didn’t respond. I removed hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints, to ease freedom of movement in the Palestinian areas; this facilitated a fantastic growth in the Palestinian economy. But again — no response. I took the unprecedented step of freezing new buildings in the settlements for 10 months. No prime minister did that before, ever. Once again — you applaud, but there was no response. No response.

In the last few weeks, American officials have put forward ideas to restart peace talks. There were things in those ideas about borders that I didn’t like. There were things there about the Jewish state that I’m sure the Palestinians didn’t like.

But with all my reservations, I was willing to move forward on these American ideas.

President Abbas, why don’t you join me? We have to stop negotiating about the negotiations. Let’s just get on with it. Let’s negotiate peace.

I spent years defending Israel on the battlefield. I spent decades defending Israel in the court of public opinion. President Abbas, you’ve dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That’s what we should aim for, and that’s what I believe we can achieve.

In two and a half years, we met in Jerusalem only once, even though my door has always been open to you. If you wish, I’ll come to Ramallah. Actually, I have a better suggestion. We’ve both just flown thousands of miles to New York. Now we’re in the same city. We’re in the same building. So let’s meet here today in the United Nations. Who’s there to stop us? What is there to stop us? If we genuinely want peace, what is there to stop us from meeting today and beginning peace negotiations?

And I suggest we talk openly and honestly. Let’s listen to one another. Let’s do as we say in the Middle East: Let’s talk “doogli” (ph). That means straightforward. I’ll tell you my needs and concerns. You’ll tell me yours. And with God’s help, we’ll find the common ground of peace.

There’s an old Arab saying that you cannot applaud with one hand. Well, the same is true of peace. I cannot make peace alone. I cannot make peace without you. President Abbas, I extend my hand — the hand of Israel — in peace. I hope that you will grasp that hand. We are both the sons of Abraham. My people call him Avraham. Your people call him Ibrahim. We share the same patriarch. We dwell in the same land. Our destinies are intertwined. Let us realize the vision of Isaiah — (speaks in Hebrew) — “The people who walk in darkness will see a great light.” Let that light be the light of peace.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu Addresses AIPAC, Interview With Hannity

Here is Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech at AIPAC

Here is Prime Minister Netanyau's interview with Sean Hannity

H/T The Sean Hannity Show

Opus from American Perspective has the entire speech that Prime Minister Netanyahu gave in front of Congress.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

EAGLE FREEDOM LINKS -- 5-24-11 - Brian Setzer/Stray Cats

EAGLE FREEDOM LINKS

American Perspective -- Kathy Ireland Speaks Out to Defund Planned Parenthood-Rule 5

Atlas Shrugs -- Muslim North Attacks Southern Sudan, Burning and Looting in Abyei

A Conservative Teacher -- Barack Obama Returns to George W Bush's Foreign Policy?

A Patriotic Rottweiler -- Herman Cain on C-Span Road to the White House 2012

A Western Heart -- Leftists are Now the Establishment

Adrienne's Corner -- Sunday: Devoted to All Things Israel

Allied Liberty News -- Nixa MO Family Could Face Millions in Fines from USDA for Selling Rabbits without a License

Always On Watch -- What Obama Believes?

Amusing Bunni's Musings -- Breitbart: Conservatives Need to Regain Control of the Narrative

Barking Spider -- Climate Change: The Green Political Agenda

BBCW -- Joplin Tornado: It Doesn't Even Look Real

Beer, Bicycles, and the VRWC -- Israel

Beers With Demo -- Indiana State Supreme Court 4th Amendment Ruling Follow-Up

Blowing San #1 -- Regarding the John Jay Report

Bluegrass Pundit -- Sarah Palin Schools Obama on Israel

Bread Upon the Waters -- Farther Along - Brad Paisley

Can We Keep Our Republic? -- Drone Aircraft

Catholic Once Again -- Pope Blesses Astronauts

Christians Against Leftist Heresy -- More Presbyterian Sins and the Fall of Presbyterian Church USA

Commentarama -- 2012 Contenders: Recent Winners and Losers

Common Cents -- Video: And the 2011 Celebrity Apprentice Winner is:

Conservative Hideout 2.0 -- Evidence is Mounting that Obamacare is All Sorts of Corrupt?

Conservative Perspective -- Priceless - Bibi Netanyahu and Barry Soetoro in their Early Twenties

Creative Minority Report -- Shouldn't MTV be Pro-Life?

Deacon For Life -- Gospel of Life Today is Out

DeanO -- Today's Political Cartoon

Don't Tread On Us (formerly Trestin Meacham) -- Charity Challenge

Eye Of Polyphemus -- Kate Perry

Faith of the Fathers -- Missal Moment #3 - The Centurion

Generational Dysfunction -- The Honor Flight

Global Domination Through Applied Inactivity -- More TSA-Related Crap

Greg Mankiw's Blog -- Strong Dollar = Strong Economy?

Hack Wilson -- Gender Role Swappage in America

HolyCoast.com -- Obama's New Truth Ministry

Innominatus -- Field Guide to Hippie Identification

It Don't Make Sense - It's Called Karma, Stupid

Jo-Joe Politico --Handling Radical Islam - Andrew Klavan on the Culture

Just a Conservative Girl -- Cain Follows Up on Misstep With Hannity

Just An Artist -- Kitty VS. Fly

Left Coast Rebel -- "An Attack on Pakistan is an Attack on China"

Let The Truth Be Known -- A Moment With Our Father Part II - Struggling with Fertility - Artificial Insemination

Legal Insurrection -- Netanyahu at AIPAC

Liberty At Stake -- Stuck on Keynesian Stupid

Lisa Graas -- Why are Some Catholics Supporting Ron Paul?

Maggie's Notebook -- Israel's Pre-1967 War borders: What they mean - The Reality

Mind Numbed Robot -- College Student Responds To "Defining American" - Unwittingly Provides Proof of Generational Training

Motivation Truth -- Governor Palin's Goal: Oust Our "Temporary Leader"

Musings of a Vast Right-Winger -- Former Dem Rep Mckinney Trashes US Political System, Praises Iran on Iranian TV

My Daily Trek -- Obama Destroys Alliance With Israel

Nikon Sniper -- Navigating the Slot Canyons

NoOneofAnyImport -- Sunday Music Serendipity

No Sheeple's Here -- The Scolding of America's Child Emperor

Nonsensible Shoes -- Victoria Day

Obama Cartoons -- To Drill or Not to Drill!!!

Orthometer -- Is To Art, As Hippies Are to People

Pathetically Incorrect -- Vindication

Patriot's Corner -- Virginia's Caroline Greys Civil War Flag Renewed and on Display

Pedaling Fast & Trying To Keep Up -- Look What Hatched!

Political Realities -- Israel - President Obama's Waterloo?

Proof Positive -- Barack Obama and All That Blarney

Pundit & Pundette -- Feel-good Story

QUICKWIT -- Contractor Can't Account for &9.8 million in Project to Aid Iraqi Farmers

Randy's Roundtable -- How To Grow Your Congregation

Rational Nation USA -- Delusion Runs Deep Among Democrats

Reaganite Republican -- Reaganite's Sunday Funnies

Right Klik -- Thank You, Mrs. Mitch Daniels

Right Wing Extreme -- A Needed Change in EPA Motives - A Guest Article

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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Israel Betrayed by Obama

Did Comrade Obama just fall off planet EscrewIsrale Kookdom? Did Obama's alter ego reveal his anti-semitic or anti-Israel sympathies? His suggestion that Israel ought to return to it's 1967 borders or for him to suggest that that is where the discussion ought to start is as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said "indefensible." This is outrageous!! Obama ticks me off to no end. The man may have been born in America but the man sure as heck doesn't understand American values one iota.

His ties to both Communists and Muslims also shows that he has a skewed view of America. Some people wonder why conservatives question Obama's loyalties to both America and our allies. It is because Obama usually gives preferential treatment to other countries who are disloyal to America and how he and hos cronies have been trying to "transform" America into a secular humanistic, Communist, Muslim sympathizing fiefdom. Both he and progressives have slowly been eating away at America's foundation, have been poisoning young minds, distorting history, and even have been eliminating very important parts of American history from the people. Obama & Co are promoting a friggin perverse America, one that is not aligned with our Founding principles.

He and others within his administration are power hungry to control our lives as evidenced by all the freedom-hating crap he has either signed into law (ex. Obamacare), by executive order or when he had the EPA do his dirty work since congress didn't pass into law his climate change bill he bypassed normal, reasonable channels just to get his way, like he is a wanna be dictator. This most recent incident where he gave a big slap in the face to Israel is just one example of why we question whether Obama's knows what it means to be an American and whether he is supportive of our allies or not. It is obvious that Obama's alter ego has chosen to box Israel in a corner demanding that they give up the ability to defend itself, has abandoned Israelis at a time when Israel could use our support but no instead Netanyahu is given the "special" treatment and gets stabbed in the back by Obama. Both Obama's father and stepfather were Muslims and in the early part of his life he was raised in a culture which primarily consisted of Muslims so in this latest "I don't give a crap about Israel speech" is evidence of his Muslim sympathies IMO. Obama is clearly not a real American but in fact an imposter from EscrewIsrale Kookdom.

Peter Roff says that Obama "has sold Israel down the river without even so much as a basket made of reeds." Obama's speech will only embolden Israel's enemies. Maybe Obama wants to escalate the violence in the Middle East and have it turn into a full blown war? I don't know... his speech was so nonsensical one can only grasp at straws for reasons why he said what he said.

Roff points out that "Israel is surrounded by enemies, especially Iran--whose president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly threatened its security in his speeches. Obama’s speech on the Middle East will only serve to encourage Ahmadinejad and his ilk; perhaps even provoking them to act rather than just talk."

Bob of The Camp of the Saints has a great read called Leader of the free world vs. Leader of the me world and has a spot on quote from Bruce Hannify:

Since the 80s I’ve been saying, ‘They pass nationalized health care, it’s over.’

Last night comes a yet more obvious demonstration of our president’s willingness to betray Israel; to give her no choice but to surrender, or fight; and to precipitously bump the world toward war.

Once again, the same dread I’ve experienced just before the election; the first few months of his presidency, where he’s attacking Americans . . . . . and again and again and again.

Wouldn’t matter where he was born. He’s not an American.

Please do visit Bob's site to see the rest of his post.

Opus has Netanyahu's speech in case you missed it, which is seven minutes of coolness.

Gene Simmons Lambasts President Obama's Israel Policy: "He Has No F-Ing Idea What The World Is Like"

WOW! Gene Simmons is on fire! I didn't realize that Simmons was born in Israel until I saw this on HotAir - (whose real name BTW is Chaim Witz born in Haifa, Israel). He really lambasts Obama. This is great!

SIMMONS: "For a president to be sitting in Washington D.C and saying go back to your '67 borders in Israel. How 'bout you live there and try to defend an indefensible border-9 miles wide....President Obama...he has no f-ing idea what the world is like because he doesn't have to live there."

Here's the video:

H/T HotAirPundit