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The Mother of Squandered Opportunities

Dr. Marc Weisman

The mother of squandered opportunities.

America’s military action against Iran and its proxies would push them back onto their heels to create the best opportunity to achieve lasting peace in the Middle East.

“USS Dwight D. Eisenhower” in the Mediterranean Sea. Credit: U.S. Navy (file) Photo by Aviation Warfare Systems Operator 2nd Class John Frietze via Wikimedia Commons.

“USS Dwight D. Eisenhower” in the Mediterranean Sea. Credit: U.S. Navy (file) Photo by Aviation Warfare Systems
Operator 2nd Class John Frietze via Wikimedia Commons.

The Middle East finds itself, despite the catastrophe of Oct. 7 and the current conflagration, at its best chance for peace in 75 years. The only ingredient missing to achieve previously unachievable permanent peace is American leadership. U.S. President Biden has been paralyzed with fear over a “wider war” with Iran, which is exactly what is needed to finally achieve Middle East peace.

Under former President Donald Trump, four Sunni nations joined Egypt and Jordan in normalizing relations with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords. That brings to six Arab nations at peace with Israel: Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan. While each of these nations has its own reasons to risk the wrath of their population by making peace with the Jews, the common denominator is economics. Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994 couldn’t afford to keep fighting Israel, so they sued for peace. The smaller, wealthy nations that recently normalized relations with Israel in the fall of 2020 did so precisely because of their wealth; they like the taste of economic success and finally wish to build on that success more than they wish to kill Jews. It’s that simple.

Enter the Palestinians. By keeping the “Palestinian cause” a festering and open wound, Iran keeps Israel, the Arabs, and frankly, the world “occupied,” which is the only real “occupation” in Gaza. Iran perpetuates the false narrative that Israel is an occupier of Gaza, even though every single Jew in the coastal enclave was forced to leave in the summer of 2005 and none have ever returned, hoping it would lead to a peaceful coexistence with the Arabs. That failed miserably, and now Iran funds 93% of the war machine and launchpad that Gaza has been turned into after Israel left 19 years ago to keep this narrative hot.

It is widely believed that directly or indirectly, Iran is responsible for Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre at the Gaza-Israel border. Why? Because Iran must prevent peace between Saudi Arabia and Israel if it is ever to reign supreme over the Middle East. To that end, the Islamic Republic must destroy Israel (“little Satan”), boot the United States (“big Satan”) out of the region, and engineer the overthrow of the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia—arguably the wealthiest, most powerful Arab nation in the Middle East. Peace between Saudis and Israel would cement the end of Iran’s dream of total dominance of the Middle East and beyond.

On its face, it seems Iran succeeded in that regard. The problem for Tehran is that once the bullets of war start to fly, they act as a catalyst for unpredictable and often unintended consequences. One such consequence is that the pervasive global anti-Zionism and antisemitism exposed by the war, which has shocked American liberals and Democrats who must have slept through much of the last 20 years when they permitted the planting of the seeds of virulent antisemitism. They did so by supporting policies such as Islamist immigration; nearly unlimited student visas from radical Muslim nations; ignoring antisemitic and anti-Israel reporting and bias by the media’s boundless diatribe against Israel with false claims of it being genocidal and apartheid; and, worst of all, promoting anti-Israel and antisemitic education from middle school to college campuses.

But an unexpected thing happened. The country has been shocked and deeply stirred by the magnitude of hatred being displayed at protests in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and at scores of universities. The image of thousands of demonstrators brandishing Palestinian flags, burning American ones, desecrating public menorahs, and violently rioting and disrupting Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations all while screaming for the death of the Jews is just too much to ignore. Conservatives have found it surprising that these same liberals and Democrats who enabled such antisemitism are finally seeing what their well-intentioned but naive support for the evil forces of the “anti-Jew movement.” And it frightens them, as it should. What we are witnessing now is a deep schism in liberal precincts, including the media and the Democratic Party itself.

Back to our enormous, missed opportunity. We have 19 American warships, including three battle groups, in the Middle East. We all remember when Biden repeatedly whispered to Iran and its proxies: “If you’re thinking about joining the war—don’t.” Well, Iran and its proxies have attacked the United States more than 100 times and Israel dozens of times, and still, all that American firepower just sits in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea.

Iran is the undisputed aggressor. Could we ask for a better invitation to justifiably attack the Iranians offensive capability? Now imagine a world where America had a leader. The United States would take advantage of the opportunity to use its awesome military might in the region to diminish Iran’s offensive capacity that must include employing bunker-busting bombs to set back their nuclear capability. No one is calling for U.S. boots on the ground, just good old-fashioned, made-in-the-USA ordinance to set Iran back a few years, and most importantly, to re-establish the deterrence that Biden squandered early in his presidency.

Better to act now before Iran has nuclear-tipped warheads. Yes, there is a risk of a wider war. But imagine Iran having intercontinental nuclear missiles aimed at New York, Boston and Philadelphia. What could be worse than that from these maniacal religious zealots who hate us more than they love life? A “wider war.” I think not.

If we could find the courage to act, then we can stand strong with Israel and counter the global false narrative that Israel is committing genocide when it is actually among the most humane armies in the history of warfare. We would continue to provide material to Israel as they finally and irreversibly eliminate Hamas in Gaza.

Finally, America’s military action against Iran and its proxies would push them back onto their heels to create the best opportunity to achieve lasting peace in the Middle East. Nothing breeds success like success, so we would, by our action, open the path for other Arab nations—likely Saudi Arabia—to join the Abraham Accords. Who benefits? Everyone except Iran and its new axis partners, North Korea, China and Russia. Importantly, the Palestinians also benefit as they shed the albatross of Hamas and their Iranian benefactors, who have stolen their wealth, their peace and their futures for 17 years.

2024-07-21T15:58:52+00:00 July 21st, 2024|

It’s Our War, Too

OPINION   Israel At War

It’s our war, too

Hamas is a surrogate for Iran and Islamists, and Israel is a surrogate for America and the West.

Dr. Marc Weisman

 

A London fanzine showing U.S. President Joe Biden, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Jan. 13, 2024. Credit: Turgut Cetinkaya/Shutterstock.

A London fanzine showing U.S. President Joe Biden, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Jan. 13, 2024. Credit: Turgut Cetinkaya/Shutterstock.

The Gaza war is not only about Israel’s survival; it’s about our own. The current conflagration in the Gaza Strip is much more consequential than most people believe it to be. Israel’s destiny is the West’s destiny. This is not a simple land dispute. It never was. It’s the best example of the generational struggle between radical Islam and modernity. In it, Hamas is a surrogate for Iran and Islamists, and Israel is a surrogate for America and the West. This is a winner-take-all struggle for Israel but also for modernity and Western culture.

America and the West (including Israel) are at a crossroads in history. So early in the 21st century, we are embroiled in a fight for the world order. In one corner are the cumulative hard-learned cultural gains the West has carved out of history by promulgating and honing Judeo-Christian values in an uncivilized world. In the other is fundamentalist Islam, which has changed very little since the days of Mohammad some 1,400 years ago. The Islamists emulate the worst their religion has to offer; the raping of women, the beheading of nonbelievers (of Islam), the killing of Jews, and absolute intolerance of infidels who must convert to Islam or die. All of these are the “teachings” in Islamic scripture from the Koran and the Hadith (life of the prophet, Mohammad). Today’s Muslim radicals are remnants of the despotic, misogynistic rulers and backward thinkers of Islam from a bygone era. They exist with only one goal: the global imposition of fundamentalist Islam by defeating the West and expunging the blasphemy that is our Judeo-Christian democracies, starting with Israel and ending with America. There is no “live and let live” with Islamists. The Bible also has its share of violent passages. The difference is that over the centuries, Jews and Christians have mostly relegated the anachronistic aspects of their scripture to history and promoted the lessons of tolerance and love for one’s fellow man.

The answer is simple: We got here by sleeping through unfettered immigration, and decades-long antisemitic, anti-Israel and anti-American propaganda funded largely by Arab money. This Arab money flows into our universities as we educate radical foreigners who spread to our children their deceptive and poisonous lies. Vladimir Lenin once quipped: “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” This is the playbook they use, and they wield it well to kill two birds with one stone. Anti-Israel and anti-American sentiment bombard the younger generations in public schools and universities, Hollywood and via social media bots. The nearly universal and constant diatribe denigrating Israel has largely succeeded. They have literally recruited our children from under our noses, often aided by well-intentioned but ignorant liberals, Democrats and media sources. They are adept at using our liberties against us as they blur the line between religion and politics, thereby wrapping themselves in the protective cloak of Islam the religion, insulated from criticism. This “lawfare”—using our precious freedoms against us—is how they have come so far in so short a time.

Time is not on the side of the West. In a world where Muslims weren’t hell-bent on killing Jews and Christians, and destroying their cultures, no one would care that the growth rate of Islam far exceeds other religions. In Europe since 1990, 90% of all immigration has been Islamic. A Pew study projects that the percentage of Muslims in Europe will grow 70% by 2030 and exceed 14% by 2050. For any culture to sustain itself, the reproduction ratio of children to parents must be 2.11 to survive 25 years. In other words, each set of parents must produce just over two kids (statistically) to persevere. As a population shrinks, so does its culture. A growth ratio of 1.9 or lower has never been reversed. The non-Muslim reproductive ratio for France is 1.8; England 1.6; Greece 1.3; Germany 1.3; Italy 1.2; Spain 1.1; and 1.6 for both Canada and the United States. Muslims in all European nations and America exceed 2.1 and are as high as 4.4 in some countries. Between reproductive statistics and immigration, we had better defeat Islamism soon.

If Hamas survives the war, in any capacity, then Israel loses it. This would be a catastrophic loss for Israel because it would prove them incapable of obliterating an enemy for the first time, particularly a relatively weak one that is not even a nation-state. The ecstatic empowerment of radical Islam in America and the Western world from Israel’s defeat will be insuperable, and Israel will not likely survive it. Worse than that (even though worse is hard to imagine), America and the West will suffer an exponential increase in Islamist hostility at a time when we are reeling from the Islamist hate and hostility plaguing us.

Western culture is crumbling, and the last thing it needs is an accelerant. We have never experienced this magnitude of moral bankruptcy in our citizenry, our leaders and our media. This is why our destiny is so vulnerable to—and may be predicted by—Israel’s success or failure in this war. This is why Israel’s fate is America’s fate.

2024-07-21T15:59:23+00:00 July 21st, 2024|

Is Hamas enough to wake up the slumbering American people? October 30, 2023

Is Hamas enough to wake up the slumbering American people?

By Marc Weisman

History’s great events are often created by crisis.  The reprehensible, barbaric terrorism perpetrated by Iranian proxies (Hamas) on October 7 has cracked open a window in our country that has the potential to finally arouse us to see what we have become.  Is it possible that Israel’s tragic crisis can serve as our own catalyst for change?

The reaction to the massacre of October 7 at our great universities, among much of our media, and from some of our congresspeople might be nothing less than shocking.  Most conservatives are not shocked, just sickened, but many liberals are shocked because they have not been paying attention to the so-called “Great Reset” or “transformation” of America.

Well, this is it.  Do you like what you see?  Does Manhattan look more like Karachi than you remember?  Los Angeles like Riyadh?  HarvardCornellStanford, or the University of Michigan like Cairo University?  Dare to peer through the window, and you will see thousands of crazed, screaming “students” hurling spittle as they glorify and justify the beheading and burning of infants, the slicing open of live pregnant women, the shooting and killing of hundreds at a peace concert, and the kidnapping of 80-year-old Holocaust-survivors.

Our young people’s reaction to these acts of pure barbarism would have been unimaginable just 10 or 15 years ago.  How are we so malleable to have been transformed so radically?

In America, the tail (leftists) has been wagging the dog (liberals) for two decades.  The Democrat party has lost its center, and most liberals just haven’t paid attention as they blindly support what they’d like to believe is the party of their parents, the party of John Kennedy.  But it isn’t.  It’s the party of Omar, AOC, and Tlaib.  The vocal, aggressive, radical minority often dominates the quiet majority, and in American liberal precincts, this is certainly the case.

Back to our window.  If you crack it open just a little wider you might see the extent of this “transformation”: the substitution of “equity” for meritocracy, the rekindling of the lie that most whites are racists and Martin Luther King failed, American shame (1619 Project) for American exceptionalism, the police are malevolent and must be defunded, heterosexuality is “out” and every other sexual orientation is “in,” biological sex is malleable, and if you long to see our southern border protected you are a hateful bigot.  And finally, Jews in Israel, the land of the Jews from the days of Moses and Abraham, the twelve tribes of Israel in the Book of Joshua right up until today, are somehow “settlers and colonizers” who must be eradicated.  All of this is leftist deconstruction coming home to roost, and we all have a front seat to witness it.

There is a great scene in Field of Dreams where Mark (Timothy Busfield) just cannot see the ballplayers right in front of him the whole movie…until Dr. Archibald Wright (Burt Lancaster) steps off the field to perform the Heimlich on the choking girl (Gaby Hoffman).  Suddenly, miraculously, Mark sees it all: the players, the field, the magic.  Can this Israeli tragedy wake America from our long slumber?  Let’s hope so, because if we can see it, we can fix it.

2023-10-30T19:02:37+00:00 October 30th, 2023|

Classic media bias: Tebow vs. Kaepernick

Classic media bias: Tebow vs. Kaepernick

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By Marc Weisman

When Denver Broncos unapologetic Christian QB Tim Tebow takes a knee to thank G-d for his successful plays, he is mercilessly mocked by the left and the mainstream media.  When Colin Kaepernick takes a knee to protest what he imagines as American institutional racism, he is ebulliently admired by the left and mainstream media as a heroic champion for “social justice.”  Why?  The answers are simple and obvious but also enlightening.

Tim Tebow is a white, straight-laced, religious, pro-life, and pro-abstinence athlete.  He celebrates America.  In other words, he is a poster child for all that is wrong in America today – according to the left, that is.

Colin Kaepernick (also religious) is black, was orphaned by his destitute mother, is heavily tattooed, and harbors reproachful views of America, which he sees as “oppressing black people and people of color.”  He too is a poster child, in this case for all that is right in America – again, according to the left.

Never mind that according to the NYT, only two of the last 15 high-profile police killing cases where the left and the press rushed to a guilty judgment actually resulted in guilty pleas or convictions.

Never mind that the clear majority of these “brave social warriors” protesting America have somehow, despite rampant racism, made it big in this evil land of America.  They are all multimillionaires.

Never mind that despite 87% of America being non-black, we elected a black president – twice.

Never mind that there is no safer haven or greater land of opportunity for minorities than America.

Americans celebrate the fact that we have the right to peacefully protest – a right safeguarded by the very men and women in uniform being disrespected by the misguided defiance of these players and the cowardly NFL owners.  Many if not most of these owners (wealthy and white) probably feel exactly as Donald Trump does but fear the intolerant backlash from the left if they were to reveal their support for the flag and all that it represents.

Here is the thing that is lost in all this posturing: having the right doesn’t make it right.  Our children are watching all of this.  How many of them will take away a militant and negative view of this greatest nation the world has ever seen?

This is the true tragedy if you love this country, but for the left, this is a perfect opportunity to sow a negative view of America for the next generation of so-called “community organizers.”

When Denver Broncos unapologetic Christian QB Tim Tebow takes a knee to thank G-d for his successful plays, he is mercilessly mocked by the left and the mainstream media.  When Colin Kaepernick takes a knee to protest what he imagines as American institutional racism, he is ebulliently admired by the left and mainstream media as a heroic champion for “social justice.”  Why?  The answers are simple and obvious but also enlightening.

Tim Tebow is a white, straight-laced, religious, pro-life, and pro-abstinence athlete.  He celebrates America.  In other words, he is a poster child for all that is wrong in America today – according to the left, that is.

Colin Kaepernick (also religious) is black, was orphaned by his destitute mother, is heavily tattooed, and harbors reproachful views of America, which he sees as “oppressing black people and people of color.”  He too is a poster child, in this case for all that is right in America – again, according to the left.

Never mind that according to the NYT, only two of the last 15 high-profile police killing cases where the left and the press rushed to a guilty judgment actually resulted in guilty pleas or convictions.

Never mind that the clear majority of these “brave social warriors” protesting America have somehow, despite rampant racism, made it big in this evil land of America.  They are all multimillionaires.

Never mind that despite 87% of America being non-black, we elected a black president – twice.

Never mind that there is no safer haven or greater land of opportunity for minorities than America.

Americans celebrate the fact that we have the right to peacefully protest – a right safeguarded by the very men and women in uniform being disrespected by the misguided defiance of these players and the cowardly NFL owners.  Many if not most of these owners (wealthy and white) probably feel exactly as Donald Trump does but fear the intolerant backlash from the left if they were to reveal their support for the flag and all that it represents.

Here is the thing that is lost in all this posturing: having the right doesn’t make it right.  Our children are watching all of this.  How many of them will take away a militant and negative view of this greatest nation the world has ever seen?

This is the true tragedy if you love this country, but for the left, this is a perfect opportunity to sow a negative view of America for the next generation of so-called “community organizers.”

 

2017-11-21T19:27:17+00:00 September 26th, 2017|

The left's Russia narrative has no legs

American Thinker

January 5, 2017

The left’s Russia narrative has no legs
By Marc Weisman

WikiLeaks released all the DNC, Hillary Clinton and John Podesta emails that were in play during the 2016 presidential election. Julian Assange claims he did not receive any of these emails from Russia, Russia-related individuals, or Russian agents. He received them all from a “private, non-state party.” Assange was not provided any similar data regarding Trump and the RNC, so he had none to release. In the last election cycle, let’s not forget, he released Sarah Palin’s emails, which backs up his claim that he is non-partisan in his promulgation of political leaks.

Whether you view Assange as heroic or treacherous, the veracity of his releases is not contested. Therefore, if these revelations did impact the election results, it is the deplorable actions of Hillary Clinton and DNC that show who is responsible – the message, if you will, not the messenger we ought to blame. This does not advance the narrative of the left, however, who must find a more palatable explanation for the Clinton loss. Hence the Russians.

Whatever the Russians may or may not have hacked – and we attempt to breach each other’s security daily – it was certainly not the Clinton and DNC emails. Even if they did, they never released them. Therefore, the entire argument that the Russians ostensibly “rigged the election” by releasing private stolen emails to favor a Trump win is utterly false. Obviously, we all want to protect American public and private entities from hacking, but what does that have to do with the price of salt? Nothing.

This false narrative is ridiculous on two counts. First, the Russians do not want Trump. Trump is a wild card. He is pro-military and is not a guy who likes sand kicked in his face. President Obama has utterly failed to contain Russia – they have taken Crimea and injected themselves into the Middle East after being shut out by previous U.S. presidents for 40 years. Consider Syria, the shameful Iran deal, and the fact that Egypt is again buying Russian weapons after Obama shunned President El-Sisi. Russia is also not so surreptitiously trying to take Ukraine by force. Obama has done nothing to stop any of this. Trump is a tough guy, and it is hard to imagine the Russians believing they will do better with him in the White House.

The second reason is that there is a much better explanation for the liberal’s false narrative. The left must explain how Hillary lost in a way that does not add insult to injury. Blaming her embarrassing loss on voter fraud failed when Trump was awarded even more votes in the Wisconsin recount. The “angry white men argument” failed. Blaming FBI director James B. Comey for his efforts to vet all of the Clinton emails also failed to bear fruit.

The Democratic Party simply cannot accept that many of the so-called blue states (Mich., Ohio, Penn., Wis.) are again in play in future elections. The corollary of this is simple: their votes must now be earned by Democrats, not just automatically awarded to them.

This is precisely why the press, the left, and the Dems are promoting an obviously false storyline. This corruption perfectly exemplifies why they lost so many governorships, so many congressional seats (both state and federal), and the White House.

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2017-01-08T16:08:27+00:00 January 8th, 2017|

The summer of 1787 revisited

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The summer of 1787 revisited

As our founding fathers grappled with the prodigious task of forming the Constitution for the United States, the climate was hot – temperature-wise (William Paterson from nearby New Jersey described Philadelphia that summer as “the warmest place I’ve ever been“) and politically.  The parallels between that summer in 1787 and this summer of 2016 are legion.  A record heat is scorching the U.S. this summer, much like in 1787, but now, as then, a much hotter political battle is underway.

The hottest topic the founders wrestled with was central (federal) versus regional (state) power.  It is this same issue, which last week drove the Brits to vote for Brexit, that also fuels Donald Trump’s battle against Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.  Thankfully, Great Britain chose correctly by ending the abrogation of its sovereignty to the faceless EU bureaucrats in Brussels.

Our battle is ongoing, as Trump and conservatives plead our case to the American people.  The case is simple: our bloated federal government in D.C. is usurping states’ rights to an unacceptable degree.  It is no accident that British slogans such as “Make Britain Great Again” mimic Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again.”  This starts by the states recapturing greater control over their destiny.  Be it immigration, abortion rights, gun laws, etc., the states must reclaim their dominion.

I and many others believe that the primary driver for Britain’s separation from the EU was immigration and a fear that the British culture itself is endangered by the failed and misguided march toward multiculturalism.  Immigration is also the primary driver that motivates Trump supporters.

Ironically, this issue of local versus central control was also the primary impetus for the American Revolution itself eleven years prior to the ratification of the Constitution – Great Britain being the central power versus the regional colonies.  Even more ironically, Britons find the shoe on the other foot presently, having crafted their own “Declaration of Independence” by voting to separate from the EU for basically the same reasons the Founding Fathers espoused 240 years ago.

What lessons can we draw from all of this?  Absolute power corrupts absolutely, so the corollary of centralized power is ever increasing central governance over regional rights.  For Britain, it is the EU, and for America, it is Washington, D.C.

Much of the long and hot summer in 1787 was dedicated to crafting a Constitution that combated this very tendency.  If centralized power is unchecked, eventually, resentment will grow until the people decide they have finally had enough.  It was so in 1776 and 1787, and it is so in 2016 as Great Britain herself separates from the EU.

Let’s hope we follow Great Britain’s lead, and our own before that, when we display by our votes on November 8 that we too have “had enough.”

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2017-11-21T19:28:07+00:00 August 11th, 2016|

Barring terrorists from entering the U.S.? What difference does it make?

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President Obama, unencumbered by re-election worries, is taking full advantage of “executive directives” or “end-runs” around that pesky Republican-controlled Congress.  This past week, the Obama administration has lessened the rules for would-be asylum-seekers and Middle-Eastern immigrants desiring entry into the United States.  A post-Sept. 11 immigrant law basically prohibited anyone considered to have provided any level of support to terror groups from immigrating to America.  Through executive privilege, Obama has now ordered that offering “‘limited’ support to terrorists or terrorist groups” should no longer necessarily preclude entry into these United States of America.

The change is one of President Barack Obama’s first actions on immigration since he pledged during his recent State of the Union address to issue more executive directives.

In a recent statement, the Homeland Security Department said that the rule change, which was not sanctioned by Congress, gives the government discretion, but won’t expose the country to terrorists or their sympathizers.

Many Republican lawmakers claim the administration is flouting rules designed by them (Congress) to protect the country from terrorists.  “President Obama should be protecting U.S. citizens rather than taking a chance on those who are aiding and abetting terrorist activity and putting Americans at greater risk,” said Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.).

Remember that this is also a president who avoids like the plague labeling a terrorist “a terrorist.”  He is much more likely to rain lawyers upon terrorists than bombs (except, to his credit, when it comes to drones in Afghanistan).  He has removed the term “Islamist” from the federal lexicon.  He has painfully strained relations with Israel to buy favor with the Arabs.  His administration has also promoted the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere.  He has come out in support of the 911 mosque initiative in New York and has confounded Americans with dozens of initiatives and statements of apparent appeasement to Muslims.  By any reasonable measure, this president seems much more concerned with the sensibilities of foreigners than he is with those of Americans.

So one must ask: what terrible wrong is the U.S. now perpetrating upon Muslims to warrant crafting such a potentially far-reaching executive order?  If only one in a hundred of these “terrorist-connected” individuals is actually a terrorist sympathizer, is this ideological declaration of continued appeasement worth it?

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2014-02-18T08:06:19+00:00 February 18th, 2014|

Choosing the Right Path


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November 5, 2012

Choosing the Right Path

Marc Weisman

Make no mistake: one of two Americas will emerge on 7 November, and I hope and pray that it is the right America.

The right America will end this president’s crusade to divide us by color, gender, income, and any other appeal to our tribal nature.  Never has an American president been so divisive.  The right America will respect our military and the tenet that peace is attained only through strength — both economic and military.  The right America will unequivocally support our allies and stand up to, and not bow before, our enemies.

The right America will re-establish the nuclear defense umbrella in Eastern Europe and actually support rather than endlessly spar with one of our closest allies, Israel.  The right America will tell Russia’s Medvedev (and his boss Putin) that now that our election is over, we will show them resolve rather than the “flexibility” president Obama was caught, on a live microphone, secretly and shamefully offering them.

The right America will stop prevaricating in an attempt to appease Islam and Islamists.  The right America will actually label terrorism as terrorism, not man-caused disasters (Secretary Napolitano kowtowing to Islamists in a session of Congress) or workplace violence (Secretary Panetta on Fort Hood) or mob violence (President Obama, U.N. ambassador Rice, Jay Carney, and company).

The right America will not ceaselessly apologize to the world for America.  And as it has been said, no, we do not dictate to our friends and allies; we release them from dictators.

The right America will reward and not denigrate successful entrepreneurs and business owners.  The right America will reverse the shameful entitlement trends of the Obama years, including welfare recipients increasing from 32 million to 49 million, those who pay no federal income tax ballooning from 33% to 49.5%, and disability applicants increasing to record highs.  The right America will stop the frenetic spiral of U.S. borrowing and spending under this administration from a $10T to $16T national debt.

The right America will repeal the raid on Medicare coffers to fund ObamaCare.  The right America will, of course, end the obscenity that is ObamaCare — a law unilaterally concocted in Senator Reid’s office, with no Republican or independent in sight.

The right America is a compassionate, charitable, liberty-promoting safe haven that is and has always been the greatest hope for the future of all people.  We have witnessed a president who sees America and the world through foreign eyes.  He is halfway through a grotesque and misguided transformation of our nation.  Shame on the president for pretending to be someone he wasn’t in order to win in 2008.  Shame on us if we do not recognize our error and reject his re-election in 2012.

America as we know it — knew it — simply cannot survive four years of an unrestrained lame-duck Obama term.

2012-11-06T13:34:37+00:00 November 6th, 2012|

‘Hope and Change’ Only for America’s Enemies, Islamic Extremists

Posted by Dr. Marc Weisman Feb 26th 2012 at 4:03 pm in on BigPeace.com FEATURED ARTICLE FOR 2.27.2012   EgyptEuropeFeatured StoryIran,IslamIslamic extremismIsraelMiddle EastNuclear ProliferationPoliticsStrategy,Syriaground zero mosquesaudi arabiashariaunited statesComments (160)

With the presidential election looming, I thought it wise to revisit president Obama’s 2008 campaign theme. He ran on the adage, “hope and change.” Let’s look into hope and change, Obama style.

Islamism is so pervasive, so zany, so entrenched all over the world that I could throw a dart at the globe any random day and find a story to discuss involving extremism, violence, or oppression from its adherents. And it’s getting worse. Why is it getting worse, you ask? No doubt there are many reasons, but the one that sticks in my craw is that American weakness is largely responsible. Weakness will always invite aggression, and this president’s profound lack of leadership—weakness—has inspired our enemies the way fuel enrages wildfire. I guess we should have taken president Obama at his word and believed his conviction for “hope and change.” But hope for whom? What type of change?

Allow me to share a few examples for whom hope (and change) springs eternal due to the feckless actions of the Obama administration.

Iran

Iran is our nemesis. It is also the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism. It is largely Iranian weapons and expertise responsible for killing and maiming our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet in 2009, when millions of Iranians took to the streets to protest their totalitarian, anti-America, and anti-Israel government, president Obama did absolutely nothing to help them. This was the perfect chance for strong United States to encourage the Iranian moderates to replace the Mullahs and Ahmadinejad.

What appeared then to be a missed opportunity was actually just the beginning of a pattern of inexplicable direct and indirect support for radical Islam. Just today in the news out of Iran is a story about Youcef Nadarkhani, a 34-year-old father of two, who converted to Christianity in Iran. He has been sentenced to death. What’s his crime? His conversion to Christianity, because Islam does not allow such apostasy under the penalty of death. Another current story on Iran is the IAEA now admitting it cannot allay the world’s fears that Iran is indeed close to creating their first nuclear weapon. The confidential IAEA report said Iran has, since late last year, “tripled output of uranium refined to a level that brings it significantly closer to potential bomb material.”  Yet, the Obama administration has been very measured in its censure and sanctions on Iran, ostensibly because of the effect this would have on oil prices—hint, hint—his reelection.

Obama also refuses to seriously consider military action against Iran, and they know it. Nor will he sell Israel the bunker-busting bombs that could destroy the Iranian nuclear program in an aerial attack. This is the same Obama that naively terminated (for nothing in return from the Russians) the already agreed-to missile defense system that would have protected Eastern Europe from rogue states like Iran.

Translation: Hope for Iran to change the balance of power in the Middle East and perhaps the world.

Muslim Brotherhood

The Obama administration has allowed the Muslim Brotherhood, instead of the pro-democracy opposition, to lead Syria after the expected ouster of President Bashar Assad, says a report posted on Jihad Watch. Herbert London from the Hudson Institute, a leading consultant to the Defense Department, asserted that the administration has decided to work with Turkey and the Brotherhood in Syria for a post-Assad government. “It would seem far more desirable to back the democratic influences—the political organizations that require cultivation and support—despite their relative weakness at this moment,” the report said.

This is the same Obama that told us last year that the Muslim Brotherhood is reformed now–not to worry. At the time, other pundits and I presaged that we will soon regret the Arab Spring once it becomes the Arab Fall and Winter. Alas, it is upon us even as 16 Americans working for NGOs (Non-government Organizations) promoting democracy are detained and threatened with trial in Egypt by their ruling Islamists. The Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty is also in serious jeopardy.

This is one hell of a “thank you” from these radicals for supporting them over our own US ally, Mubarak. Mubarak was clearly a “son of a bitch,” but as President Roosevelt famously said, “at least he was our son of a bitch.” Tunisia and Libya are also quite clearly expressing their anti-West, anti-infidel rhetoric despite our support in overthrowing their respective regimes. And what is the American response to these third-world nations’ ungrateful insolence? Barely a peep.

Translation: Hope for the Muslim Brotherhood to change the world by imposing Sharia in more nations than imagined in their wildest dreams.

CAIR

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror-finance trial against the Holy Land Foundation. The FBI will no longer do business with them. CAIR is in the corner of every radical Muslim that tries to force-feed Islamist tradition, law, and custom down the throat of America. Recall Muslim teacher Sefoorah Khan, who was dismissed last year by her Chicago area public school system. She was terminated for abandoning her students when she decided to attend “The Pilgrimage” or Hajj— a trip to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, after just 9 months’ employment. The U.S. Attorney General under Obama joined a suit filed by CAIR on her behalf against the school system. The case settled with Ms. Khan being awarded some $75,000.

It is also CAIR that encourages Muslims traveling in US airports to resist pat-downs and other efforts by TSA because safety takes a back seat—pun intended—to advancing the special rights and privileges of Muslims. CAIR is a major supporter of the Ground Zero Mosque and promotes legal actions against cities and towns across America that resist Muslim centers in the heart of their small, generally Christian towns. The Obama administration is typically in lock-step with CAIR in all of these and other controversies.

Translation: Hope for CAIR to change the American landscape to one more and more accepting of Islamic and Islamist customs and mores .

Apologists for Islamism

Just last week the president added a chapter to his incessant apologies to Islam on behalf of America. Our soldiers properly destroyed desecrated Qurans used by Muslim prisoners to communicate improper messages to each other. Obama’s apology, predictably, further stoked the flames of yet another irrational, violent, angry, and sadly lethal riot; Americans were killed.

Silence would be bad enough from our president when world leaders (Germany, France, Switzerland and Britain) have the courage to decry the danger and failure of Islamist multiculturalism in their lands. They tell us the cultures of their nations are under great strain as a radical brand of Islam grows bolder–so bold that large swaths of many European cities are entirely off-limits to infidels such that even police and fire personnel dare not trespass. But silence isn’t enough for this administration. No, this president goes out of his way to promote acceptance of even the most opprobrious Islamic customs and religious edicts.

In many speeches, president Obama has championed the “religious” rights of Muslims that are incongruent with western culture. These statements include: “It is important that Western countries avoid impeding Muslims from practicing their religion ‘as they see fit’” and “I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.” Why? In reality, of course, it is politicalIslam masquerading as religious Islam that is being offered protections it does not deserve.

Translation: Hope for Islamists everywhere but particularly in Europe where there exists progressive change away from their rich cultures toward the homogeneity of fundamentalist Islam.

The enemies of Israel

Israel lives in a very, very bad neighborhood. No previous U.S. president has distanced himself from Israel. Why? Because weakening the bond between America and Israel would provide a frenetic and renewed hope to all of Israel’s enemies that finally, the destruction of Israel can be imagined.

Obama has publicly humiliated Israel by blaming the lack of peace on Israeli settlements. He has also criticized Israeli demands that Hamas and Hezbollah recognize Israel’s right to exist. The president has recently rebuffed Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu even while Congress honored him with an unprecedented seventy standing ovations during his address to the joint chambers. This president fatuously attempts to appease Islam at the expense of Israel.

Translation: Heretofore unimaginable hope has been infused into the global Arab and Muslim psyche that real change(Israel’s destruction) is finally plausible.

So, hope and change are indeed upon us, just as president Obama promised. Unfortunately, the beneficiaries of this hope and change are our enemies. We Americans and our allies are the victims.

 

 

2012-02-27T15:28:36+00:00 February 27th, 2012|

UN Resolution 16/18 an UN-Wise Capitulation to Anti-Free Speech Fundamentalists

Posted by Dr. Marc Weisman Jan 16th 2012 at 12:09 pm at BigPeace.com FEATURED STORY OF THE DAY JAN 16, 2012   Featured StoryForeign Policy,IslamIslamic extremismObamaTerrorismUnited NationsComments (97)

Last month in Washington, the United States hosted an international conference to advance the implementation of UN resolution 16 / 18.  The resolution was adopted “by consensus”—a disarming term that really means without a vote—at a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council last March. It was endorsed the following month by the UN General Assembly.

 

UN 16 /18, whose formal title is “combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of, and discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against persons based on religion or belief,” sounds innocent but is not. To better understand the danger that belies this ostensibly high-minded resolution, let’s look at its genesis.

The 56 member “Organization of Islamic Cooperation” (OIC) began with earlier versions of the resolution. The impetus for it was to curtail the alleged global Islamophobia following the 9/11 attacks. Earlier renditions sought to criminalize “blasphemous speech” and “defamation of religion.” Even President Obama couldn’t reconcile the language in the original drafts due to the freedom of speech guaranty within the Constitution. Fast forward to UN 16 / 18. Out of necessity, the petition was broadened to protect not only Islam but all religions. Of course the OIC and UN have exhibited virtually no predilection to safeguarding Christians, Jews or others. Make no mistake, there is a single purpose for UN 16 / 18: silencing the critics of radical Islam. The OIC worked tirelessly with others to craft language acceptable to the US and eventually found the winning formula. They speciously substituted the word “incitement” for “defamation” and voila; the ever-appeasing Obama administration was now fully behind it. In a world where a simple cartoon can incite millions of Muslims to riot, just exactly who will be the judge of what constitutes “incitement to violence”? The UN? The OIC?

Never mind that the world is chock-full of depraved Islamists who terrorize, kill and strive to advance radical Islam throughout the West. Never mind as Abigail Esman wrote for Forbes.com: “the continued use of anti-Jewish materials in the schools of Saudi Arabia…or the ongoing persecution of Jews and Christians in numerous Muslim countries”. Never mind the desperate flight of Christian minorities from scores of Muslim countries. Never mind the pervasive religious fanatics who will flog if not kill an infidel for merely uttering a word, drawing a cartoon or writing a comedic skit that is uncomplimentary to Mohammad. Never mind that last year the FBI documented at least eight anti-Semitic crimes for every anti-Islamic one in the US. None of these require UN action but so-called “Islamophobia” requires urgent UN intervention. Really?

Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, an American Muslim and the founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, puts it like this: “We should be putting Islamist autocracies on the defense and then simply reiterate that our First Amendment principles already protect the rights of all minorities — whether Muslim or otherwise — and that the best standard of free speech is the American one.” Amen. What a shame that the non-radical Muslim majority doesn’t join Dr. Jasser and others in combating the fundamentalist poison that infects Islam.

It is telling that the nations promoting this resolution have populations that are well beyond 90 percent and often 99 percent a single religion—Islam. Jordan Sekulow, director of policy and international operations for the American Center for Law and Justice states: “What is the problem here with the 1 percent speaking out and why is that such an issue that needs to be handled at the international level?”

I’ll tell you why although you already know. UN Resolution 16 / 18 is no more about religious tolerance than MSNBC is about fair and balanced reporting. It is all about religious intolerance. No doubt, some members of the UN actually believe this to be a step toward religious broad-mindedness. However, when the world naively agrees to censure if not criminalize dialog that might lead fanatics to “imminent violence,” we are all in trouble. By agreeing to this ridiculous sophomoric attempt to silence radical Islam’s critics, we are actually accepting responsibility for violence perpetrated by these extremists. This only further decimates our ability to combat them. Tragically, once again, the world has been duped by backwater Islamists who exploit our tolerance to advance their depraved quest for a world rid of Christians, Jews and all infidels.

 

2012-02-27T15:26:35+00:00 February 27th, 2012|