US GOVERNMENT SPIED ON NETANYAHU

With only so many far more pressing issues to worry about in this world, it turns out the Obama administration thought Netanyahu was the most worrisome:

President Barack Obama announced two years ago he would curtail eavesdropping on friendly heads of state after the world learned the reach of long-secret U.S. surveillance programs.

But behind the scenes, the White House decided to keep certain allies under close watch, current and former U.S. officials said. Topping the list was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The U.S., pursuing a nuclear arms agreement with Iran at the time, captured communications between Mr. Netanyahu and his aides that inflamed mistrust between the two countries and planted a political minefield at home when Mr. Netanyahu later took his campaign against the deal to Capitol Hill.

The National Security Agency’s targeting of Israeli leaders and officials also swept up the contents of some of their private conversations with U.S. lawmakers and American-Jewish groups. That raised fears—an “Oh-s— moment,” one senior U.S. official said—that the executive branch would be accused of spying on Congress.

White House officials believed the intercepted information could be valuable to counter Mr. Netanyahu’s campaign. They also recognized that asking for it was politically risky. So, wary of a paper trail stemming from a request, the White House let the NSA decide what to share and what to withhold, officials said. “We didn’t say, ‘Do it,’ ” a senior U.S. official said. “We didn’t say, ‘Don’t do it.’”

Stepped-up NSA eavesdropping revealed to the White House how Mr. Netanyahu and his advisers had leaked details of the U.S.-Iran negotiations—learned through Israeli spying operations—to undermine the talks; coordinated talking points with Jewish-American groups against the deal; and asked undecided lawmakers what it would take to win their votes, according to current and former officials familiar with the intercepts.

Before former NSA contractor Edward Snowden exposed much of the agency’s spying operations in 2013, there was little worry in the administration about the monitoring of friendly heads of state because it was such a closely held secret. After the revelations and a White House review, Mr. Obama announced in a January 2014 speech he would curb such eavesdropping.

This is truly galling, but no longer shocking. So they waste tons of time and money spying on friends, and not so much spying on enemies, although the article does say they monitored Turkey's premier Erdogan, and he wasn't on a "safe" list.

Once again, tax dollars are being sorely misused.

G. WILLOW WILSON KEPT UP HER APOLOGIA

I spotted some tweets by the disgraceful Muslim convert now writing propaganda at Marvel from a few weeks ago when the San Bernardino tragedy took place. Predictably, she tries to separate the issues by making it sound like it's 2 different belief systems here:

You export terrorism when you know you've already lost the battle for hearts and minds.

— G. Willow Wilson (@GWillowWilson) November 14, 2015

They are fighting for a dead ideology. They attack so viciously because they know they will lose. The future is a foregone conclusion.

— G. Willow Wilson (@GWillowWilson) November 14, 2015

Unfortunately, the ideology she speaks of is still very much alive, and still practiced; the same one as she practices. All she's doing is parroting the same kind of narrative George W. Bush used, about Islam being "hijacked". And that kind of approach can be very misleading and undermining.

She even attacked the Republicans:

I guess Republicans finally know what it feels like to watch in horror as a warped, extremist wing of their ideology comes to represent them

— G. Willow Wilson (@GWillowWilson) December 8, 2015

Oh, what's this? Moral relativism, I presume? She predictably ignores why any of their members want to keep these Muslim "migrants" out of the USA now: because of the Paris and San Bernardino bloodbaths. They're trying to act in the interests of the public's safety. Not that any of this matters to somebody as dishonest as Wilson is, unfortunately.

OLMERT WILL GO TO PRISON, BUT ONLY FOR 18 MONTHS

The supreme court dropped the bigger charge against him, but kept the smaller one:

The Supreme Court on Tuesday partially accepted Ehud Olmert’s appeal of his spring 2014 bribery convictions, but he will still become the first prime minister in history to go behind bars.

The court knocked out one of Olmert's convictions for taking an NIS 500,000 bribe, but convicted him of taking a NIS 60,000 bribe. He will serve only 18 months, rather than the six years he was originally sentenced to. Olmert was set to begin serving his sentence on February 15, 2016.

I suppose this'll have to do. He deserved far more than what he's got so far, and it's regrettable it couldn't have been a few more years. However, there is one more charge he may be facing that'll hopefully hand him more time in jail.

Olmert was asking for this, after all the harm he caused Israel during his own tenure as prime minister with his dhimmitude. Now, though it be a light sentence so far, he's paying a price.

THESE CRACKPOTS WHO CELEBRATED DEATH IN DUMA AT A WEDDING HALL HAVE DAMAGED ISRAEL, AND JUDAISM

A most repellent and embarrassing discovery was made last week, when video footage of some madmen now being dubbed "right-wing" extremists surfaced, showing them celebrating the death of the Dawabshe family at a Jewish wedding hall, and brandishing guns:

Footage released on Wednesday showed dozens of young Israeli right-wing extremists, said to be linked to the suspected perpetrators of the Dawabsha family murder, celebrating the killing at a wedding last week. The images in the clip immediately sparked wide condemnation.

The video, aired by Channel 10, shows revelers at the Jerusalem celebration waving knives, rifles, pistols and a Molotov cocktail during the wedding.

Amid the festivities, a photo of baby Ali Dawabsha, who was burned to death in the July 31 firebombing in the West Bank village of Duma, is shown being repeatedly stabbed.

The crowd in the video chants the lyrics of a song which include a verse from Judges 16:28, quoting Samson, blinded in Gaza, saying “let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes” — but changing the word Philistines to Palestine.

They distorted the context of Judges and above all, humiliated everybody with their antics that are harmful to Judaism by desecrating pictures of helpless victims of a firebombing? It's as repulsive as it all sounds. All they've done is give Israel's enemies inside and outside more ammunition to use against them. The incident's been condemned by many in the religious Zionist movement and political spectrum already. One columnist for Makor Rishon said that what the crackpots did borrowed a page from jihadists. Indeed, their behavior does seem to owe more than a bit to the kind of festivities Islamofascists hold that celebrate Jewish/infidel deaths. What kind of educators did these freaks have? You could almost wonder why they haven't converted to Islam yet. They should be banished from all sane society for the damage they've done.

CORSICANS FIGHT BACK AFTER ATTACK ON FIREMEN

After some Islamofascists in a Ajaccio neighborhood made a hoax call to the local fire station and attacked arriving staff, the locals decided to form a vigilante crowd and deliver a message in response:

Up to 600 French protesters desecrated a Muslim prayer hall in Corsica in a revenge attack prompted by the wounding of two firefighters and a police officer.

The furious mob smashed the prayer hall's glass door, ransacked the interior and left around 50 partially-burned Korans littering the street overnight.

Chanting 'Arabs get out!' and 'This is our home', protesters marched through the streets of the French Mediterranean island's capital, Ajaccio.

Honestly, I can't blame them. The French are fed up, and clearly don't want to take this crap anymore. And shouldn't have to.

3 STABBINGS AT OLD CITY JAFFA GATE, AND 2 DEAD

Another jihad knife attack took place at the Old City near Jaffa Gate, and sadly, there were 2 civilians dead, one by accidental police fire while gunning down the 2 assailants:

Two Israeli men are dead, one after being accidentally shot by Border Police officers who killed two knife-wielding Palestinian terrorists that stabbed two Jewish civilians near Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate on Wednesday afternoon.

Jerusalem resident Ofer Ben-Ari, 40, a married father of two children, was pronounced dead by a Sha’are Zedek Medical Center official at roughly 7 p.m., following emergency surgery for a bullet wound to his abdomen.

“Despite vigorous efforts to save him, the wounded man has passed away,” Shaare Zedek said in a statement.

The second unidentified man died of multiple stab wounds to the upper torso later on Wednesday night.

The terrorists, identified as Anan Hamad, 20, and Issa Asaf, 21, are both convicted felons from the West Bank’s Qalandiyah refugee camp. Hamad was imprisoned in 2010 after entering the Qalandiyah checkpoint with a knife to attack security personnel; Asaf was incarcerated this year for participating in unspecified terrorist activity.

And thanks to authorities releasing them - doubtless without any effort to ensure psychological counseling - they now led to tragedy. I think the legal system is going to have to answer some serious questions on this.

RETIRED POLICEMAN CAUSED FAKE BOMB SCARE ON AIR FRANCE

Not much is known about this hoaxer, but what he did is a huge disfavor to everyone after the tragedy that occurred last month:

French police on Monday released from custody a retired policeman they had held over the discovery of a fake bomb on board an Air France flight that made an emergency landing in Kenya, prosecutors said.

"The current state of the investigation does not justify continuing custody", the prosecutor in Bobigny north of Paris told AFP, while a legal source said the suspect's release did not mean he has been cleared of suspicion.

The 58-year-old man was taken into custody by border police upon his return to France while his wife was also questioned as a witness, a day after their flight from Mauritius to Paris was diverted to Kenya, a legal source said earlier.

A passenger alerted crew members to the device found inside a toilet cubicle on Sunday on board the Boeing 777, which was carrying 459 passengers and 14 crew.

I think the police are foolish to just let the joker go, because what he did was not only contempt for the other passengers, it was also a disgrace to his former career. He should by all means be penalized severely for causing everyone so much distress.

4 ITEMS FROM TODAY'S NEWS PROVE THE MUSLIM REFUGEE CRISIS IS DANGEROUS FOR FHE WEST

1 -Sweden's state-owned train operator SJ is to stop services to and from Denmark because it cannot carry out identity checks demanded by the government to stem the influx of refugees.

Under a new Swedish law, transport companies will be fined if travellers to Sweden do not have valid photo ID.
SJ said it would not have time to check people travelling between Copenhagen and Malmo over the Oresund bridge.
Sweden has received about 150,000 asylum applications already this year.

2 - French police have foiled a terror attack on police and army personnel in the region of Orleans, the interior minister has said.

Bernard Cazeneuve said on Tuesday that two men, aged 20 and 24, were arrested on 19 December and were being held for questioning.
Both are thought to have had contact with another Frenchman, currently believed to be in Syria.

3 - The number of migrants and refugees crossing into Europe by land and sea this year illegally has passed one million, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.

This represents a fourfold rise on the total last year.
Most crossed by sea, with more than 800,000 travelling from Turkey to Greece. Half are migrants from Syria.

4 -Bosnian police Tuesday launched an anti-terror raid in the capital Sarajevo and arrested 11 people suspected of having links to ISIS, officials said.

"Eleven people were arrested. They are suspected of terrorism, financing and preparing a terrorist act as well as inciting candidates to go to the battlefields abroad," a police spokesman told AFP.
According to state-run FTV television, one of the leaders of Bosnia's Islamist movement, Muric Kemal, was among those arrested.
"The objective of this major operation was to track down some 15 people who... are close to radical groups and structures of ISIS...

THE WEST MUST CEASE ALL IMMIGRATION FROM THE SYRIAN-IRAQI-ISIS-TURKEY-GREECE REGION, AND DEPORT OR JAIL EVERY MUSLIM WHO HAS BEEN TO THE REGION.

THE CASE FOR RESTORING PROFILING

To defeat the jihadist enemy we need to be focused and we need to use tools and weapons that target them effectively.

Trump's call to temporarily ban all muslims from immigrating here is too broad. So is metadata collection of all Americans.

We need to direct our efforts at the enemy or we will get bogged down in the massiveness of the effort.

Only profiling can lead to the proper focus.

We need to focus on muslims - men and women - who are 18-25, have ever bought multiple concurrent cellphones or called a burn phone, visited a radical website, gone to a radical mosque or madrassa, travelled to a country where there are many radicals, has radical family members, and ever been a suspect in a violent crime or been charged or convicted of a violent crime, or owns a gun.

These are the people who need to be monitored, as do all mosques and madrassas and imams.

If - as some of our politicians and many muslims claim - the radicals have "HIJACKED" their religion,  then they should FAVOR both profiling and the monitoring of mosques and madrassas and imams in order to uncover the "hijackers" and protect their "religion of peace" from being perverted by the radicals.

If they oppose this monitoring, then they are telling us that they want the radicals protected - and they are telling us that islam is not a religion if peace.

We mustn't let muslims have it both ways.

Either they are for purging the radicals, or they are on the other side.

OBAMA WELCOMES CAIR REPRESENATATIVE TO WHITE HOUSE

Steve Emerson reported that Obama's staff has invited a CAIR representative named Hassan Shibly to the White House:

He accused the FBI of killing two men in cold blood in separate incidents. But Obama administration officials saw Hassan Shibly as a suitable representative of the American Muslim community to include at Monday’s White House meeting [1] on combating religious discrimination, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has learned.

Shibly is the chief executive director [2] for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Florida. Since 2008, FBI policy has barred outreach communication with CAIR officials due to documents seized by law enforcement which place CAIR and its founders [3] at the heart of a Hamas-support network at the time of CAIR’s creation. Eyewitness interviews recently obtained by the IPT [4] further detail CAIR’s ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Once again, we have some pretty awful and incompetent politicians in charge.

YOUNG STABBING VICTIM IN JERUSALEM RECOVERS AND CELEBRATES BAR MITZVAH

It's fortunate to learn that the victim of 2 Muslim teenagers in Jerusalem has recovered from his stab wounds and went on to celebrate his bar mitzvah. He also got a new bicycle awarded to him by city police.

I'm glad he fully recovered.

HAMAS PLANNING NEW SUICIDE ATTACKS

You can be sure they mean to do everything they can to murder people with suicide bombings. United With Israel reports:

Hamas operatives, during interrogation, revealed that the terror group is planning a resumption of suicide bombings in Israel, motivated in part by their rivalry with the Palestinian Authority.

Hamas is planning suicide bombings against Israeli and Jewish targets similar to the deadly attacks launched against civilians during the Second Intifada, Walla! News reported on Friday, quoting a senior Palestinian Authority (PA) source.

Be on the lookout and be wary of your surroundings in an immediate area. Because they will try it. You can be sure of that. And it'll be truly repulsive.

KUWAITI AIRLINE CANCELS FLIGHT PLAN TO AVOID TRANSPORTING JEWS

The country that had problems with Iraq back in the early 90s has no moral compass either, and has made that clear with one of their airline businesses:

Kuwait hates Jews so much that its national airline has ditched its lucrative New York to London flight rather than allow Israelis on its planes.

Kuwait Airways told the federal Department of Transportation this week that it plans to discontinue its flights between the United States and the United Kingdom. It is did not say when the last flight on that route would be.

“On December 15th, Kuwait Airways informed the United States Department of Transportation that they will be eliminating service between JFK and London Heathrow,” said a department spokesperson.

The feds were considering pulling Kuwait Airways permit to fly in the United States because the airline was refusing to sell tickets to customers with Israeli passports. The airline has at least twice refused to let customers with Israeli passports buy tickets on flights from New York to London because Kuwait has a law that prohibits its citizens from doing business with Israeli customers.

Politicians who had pushed for the feds to nix the airline’s permit say they are glad the company decided to ditch the flight.

And so am I. Nobody with half a brain should give their money to a business run by anti-semites and racists. To think that the USA under Bush Senior would battle Iraq under Saddam's tyranny, but do nothing to reform the mentality in Kuwait, which is no better.

IF RADICAL ISLAMISTS HAVE HIJACKED A "RELIGION OF PEACE", THEN PEACE-LOVING MODERATE MUSLIMS SHOULD SUPPORT MOSQUE & MADRASSA SURVEILLANCE, AND...

... AND THEY SHOULD SUPPORT JAILING OR DEPORTING RADICAL ISLAMISTS WHO AGITATE FOR SHARIA AND ADVOCATE THE USE OF VIOLENCE BECAUSE THEY ARE ANTITHETICAL TO "TRUE ISLAM"AND SEDITIOUS.

IF THEY DON'T WANT SURVEILLANCE OF MOSQUES AND MADRASSAS, THEN IT MUST MEAN THEY HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE...

... AND THAT THEY DO NOT AGREE ISLAM IS A RELIGION IF PEACE.

WHICH IS IT?

IT THINK YOU KNOW...

VIDEO ABOUT "FOREIGN AGENTS" OUTRAGES LEFTISTS LOOKING FOR EXCUSES TO BE ANGRY

This tape by Im Tirtzu has been making headlines and enraging leftists who only wish to be angry for the sake of it, because it reveals left-wing activists who've been collaborating with the enemies of Israel:

A new video clip produced by a social movement calling for the outlawing of left-wing activists operating as “foreign agents” was released on Tuesday, the Israeli news site Walla reported.

The short film, created by Im Tirtzu, a self-described “extra-parliamentary movement that works to strengthen and advance the values of Zionism in Israel,” presents four activists in organizations, including B’Tselem and Breaking the Silence, and accuses them of abetting Palestinian terrorism.

The clip was produced as part of a broader campaign by Im Tirtzu to call into question the operations of foreign-funded Israeli NGOs that have what the group calls an anti-Israel agenda, as The Algemeiner reported on Monday.

The campaign clip is meant to support a legal bill to prevent funding for groups that aim to damage Israel. And as far as I'm concerned, no activists who work to destroy the country should be funded with taxpayers' money. And they shouldn't even be getting involved in politics either, because IMHO, it only hurts people's minds. If they're angry the video was ever produced, they deserve whatever they've gotten. Thin skinned deserve no mercy.

There's more on the subject here and here, plus one more noting 13 NGOs who're funded by Ramallah Islamofascists.

JIHAD WITH HAMMER AT A MODIIN CONSTRUCTION SITE, AND INFANT LOSES LEG FROM ANOTHER ATTACK IN JERUSALEM

A Muslim worker at a construction site in Modiin assaulted his boss with a hammer:

A Palestinian construction worker at a building site in Modi’in attacked his Jewish manager with a hammer on Tuesday afternoon, leaving him moderately wounded, Israel’s Army Radio reported.

The laborer then attacked another man, who turned out to be an Arab from a different construction site. The second victim was also moderately wounded.

The assailant was arrested and taken to the police station for questioning.

Earlier in the day, a stabbing attack was thwarted in Jerusalem, when police officers patrolling the center of the city noticed a young Palestinian woman behaving suspiciously, and found a screwdriver in her bag. During the initial investigation it emerged that she had intended to use the tool to commit an attack.

These incidents come on the heels of Monday’s car-ramming attack in Jerusalem, which wounded more than a dozen Israelis, among them a baby, who is reported to have lost his leg.

There's more on that horrific incident here, and you'll surely need a strong stomach for that one. Injuring an infant that badly is even worse than the hammer assault.

HAREDI GUN AND DRUG TRAFFICKING NETWORK BUSTED

The corrupt activities of Haredi extremists extend even to the illegal drug and guns trade, and involved even some Muslims from Hebron working illegally in Jerusalem:

A major drugs trade network run by haredi men and centered in the radical ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem and Ramat Beit Shemesh has been revealed and broken by an undercover police officer in the Jerusalem Police Force.

News of the drugs ring was revealed by the police on Tuesday.

The investigation involved many months of undercover work by the agent involved and led to the arrest by police, detectives and border police forces in the early hours of Tuesday morning of 45 suspects in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, the central region and Judea and Samaria, who bought and sold drugs and weapons to the police agent who worked among them. Two minors between the ages of 15 and 17 were among those arrested.

Following information collected by the Jerusalem police about drug trade activity in Mea Shearim two years ago, it was decided to send an undercover police agent to pose as a haredi man and to assimilate within haredi society and penetrate the criminal underworld that had been established.

The investigative and intelligence unit of the Jerusalem Police then identified an appropriate religious individual to carry out the role, and after several months of training, including guidance in criminal slang, concepts with the criminal world, required behavior, body language, and speech, the agent began work in Mea Shearim.

From what he experienced, the agent said he quickly discerned that there was “a Mea Shearim of the day and a Mea Shearim of the night,” and that with nightfall came an active trade in drugs in the many kiosks and narrow alleys of the famously austere and pious haredi neighborhood.

The agent successfully integrated into the haredi society in Mea Shearim, and under police supervision, began to buy different types of drugs, including marijuana, hashish, ecstasy, and Cocaine.

He was also able to buy a stolen vehicle along with various firearms from two Arabs working in the neighborhood from Hebron working in Jerusalem without permits.

Now what are the chances those twosome were fully welcome in the neighborhood by the very extremists who were already plying the same trade? I think it's very likely they were. Extremists like Neturei Karta go hand in glove with jihadists.

If this report is correct, the police agent was a Haredi himself:

The agent, himself a member of a Haredi family from Jerusalem, was recruited to the Jerusalem District’s undercover agent unit two years ago. He studied in a Jerusalem yeshiva.

According to police, he infiltrated the Mea Shearim community, and after gaining the trust of felons there procured drugs, including marijuana, hashish, hydrocodone, ecstasy and cocaine. He also managed to buy a stolen car from the criminal network.

Besides the Haredi network, two Palestinians who worked illegally in businesses in the neighborhood offered to sell him unregistered guns.

The agent was then transferred to Ramat Beit Shemesh, an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Beit Shemesh, where he began to fear the traffickers he was following would discover he was working for the police.

In Ramat Beit Shemesh he succeeded in procuring even larger amounts of drugs, including “dozens of kilograms” of controlled substances at a cost of hundreds of thousands of shekels, police said. He also bought a stolen car, two Karl Gustav machine guns, an M-16 assault rifle likely stolen from an IDF base, and ammunition for the firearms.

[...] He described his work there as “a highly complex operation, in territories which are suspicious of police.” Many of the residents of the small Jerusalem neighborhood are anti-Zionist and avoid dealings with official Israeli institutions, including the police.

Don't be surprised if plenty of those weapons were sold to jihadists. This is a most alarming discovery, proving that isolationist enclaves like Mea Shearim and Ramat Beit Shemesh are dangerous places. The police agent did the right thing to help put a stop to those vile criminals.

REFUGEES IN AUSTRIA ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH PARIS ATTACKS

BBC:

Police in Austria have arrested two people suspected of having links to the Paris attacks at a centre for refugees in Salzburg, prosecutors say.Robert Holzleitner, from the state prosecutor's office, said the pair had travelled from the Middle East. They were arrested on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organisation. One report said the men had travelled with members of the terror cell that carried out the 13 November attacks that killed 130 people.

THIS IS WHY TAKING IN REFUGEES FROM THE SYRIAN WAR IS INSANE.

WE DO NEED A PAUSE IN ALL IMMIGRATION FROM THE REGION AND ALL NATIONS WITH A ISLAMO-TERROR PROBLEM, AND WE NEED TO END THE VISA WAIVER PROGRAM.

IF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS OKAY, THEN PROFILING FOR NATIONAL SECURITY SHOULD BE OKAY, TOO

If liberals think it is okay to use race, gender, sexual ID, and age profiles to dole out goodies like affirmative action and set asides for government contracts, then we should also be allowed to use profiling to defend ourselves from people who want to kill us.

It is hypocritical to say it is okay for promoting some people, but not okay for protecting all people.

THE DONALD: MAKING AMERICA GLEET AGAIN

I TRUST TRUMP AS FAR AS I CAN THROW A CAR

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FEDERAL AUTHORITIES SHUT DOWN INVESTIGATION THAT COULD'VE PREVENTED SAN BERNARDINO BLOODBATH

A former DHS official told Fox News how the authorities closed down a serious investigation he was working on that could've prevented bloodshed (Hat tip: Liberty Unyielding):

A former Department of Homeland Security agent says that an investigation he was conducting into a fundamentalist Islamic group operating in the U.S. may have helped stop San Bernardino jihadi Syed Farook had the government not shut down his probe.

During an interview with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly on Thursday, Philip Haney said that in 2012 as an agent with U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s National Targeting Center, he opened an investigation into a Sunni Islamic group called, Tablighi Jamaat, a subset of the fundamentalist Deobandi movement.

But Haney said that just a year into the investigation it was shut down by the State Department and the Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

The reason the investigation was quashed? Because the federal government did not want to profile Islamic groups, Haney told Kelly.

Read the rest. This is truly abominable, and will only erode trust in authorities to protect the public from jihadism.

IF ISRAEL'S GOT SHARIA COURTS, THAT'S BAD, BUT SO IS THE INDIRECT HAREDI SUPPORT FOR HOW THEY'RE MANAGED

According to this JTA article, there's sharia courts running in Israel. But no less troubling is the possible reasons why the Haredi parties opted to block appointment of female judges to these particular courts:

Haredi Orthodox government ministers are blocking a bill that would allow female appointees to state Islamic law courts in Israel.

The bill — proposed by Arab Knesset members from the Zionist Union, Meretz and the Joint List — would allow at least one woman to serve among the 11 judges on the state sharia courts, according to Haaretz. Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, who heads the Ashkenazi haredi Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, fears the law will create a precedent to allow female judges on state Jewish law courts, which United Torah Judaism opposes.

It's galling that sharia courts are allowed here - presumably just because there's Judaist courts - but depending on your POV, what's disturbing is the reasons why UTJ's ministers opposed it - because they loathe progress for women in their community.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked initially supported the bill, but the government coalition will oppose it per Litzman’s wishes. Three members of the Joint List, the Knesset’s Arab party, also oppose the bill. Female judges serve on sharia courts elsewhere in the Muslim world, including in the Palestinian Authority.

“As opposed to the support we received from the ministers, headed by Ayelet Shaked, the religious MKs vetoed it and said that according to the coalition agreement they have a veto on religious issues,” Meretz lawmaker Issawi Freij, one of the bill’s sponsors, told Haaretz. “They’re also using their veto for Muslim affairs, for fear that tomorrow it will serve as a precedent in the rabbinical courts.”

I advise against taking the above about female judges in sharia courts outside Israel at face value. If they're not allowed to serve in Saudi Arabia and Iran, for example, then it's doubtful they're allowed under the PLO either. And for now, the Haredi parties are setting a terrible example of opposing women in authoritative positions because of their backwards viewpoint that isn't all that different from the Muslim world, or other regimes with similar mindsets.

QATARI IN TEXAS KEPT SLAVES AT HIS HOUSE

Another case of human slavery run by a Muslim turned up in the USA:

A military official from Qatar and his wife, accused by prosecutors of keeping two servants in slave-like conditions while they lived in Texas, face deportation after pleading guilty in federal court on Friday to lesser charges.

Hassan Al-Homoud, 46, pleaded guilty to visa fraud and his wife, Zainab Al-Hosani, 39, a citizen of the United Arab Emirates, pleaded guilty to knowing that a felony was taking place but failing to report it, the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas said.

They will be sentenced in February and likely deported at that time, a federal judge said, adding he would have handed down a harsher sentence but could not since the servants refused to testify against the couple.

The two, who remain free on bond, could have faced up to 20 years in prison on charges of engaging in forced labor.

Al-Homoud was undergoing military training at Camp Bullis, an Army post near San Antonio. He and his wife brought the servants with them from Bangladesh and Indonesia.

Prosecutors said the couple kept the servants in primitive conditions, withholding wages and providing them with only limited amounts of food. They also took their passports to ensure they would not try to escape.

"I want the parties to know that this court was prepared to try this case but it made it difficult when the two victims did not want to go forward," US District Judge Orlando Garcia, visibly upset, said in court.

As part of the plea agreement, Garcia is expected to order the couple to pay each of the servants $60,000 and to leave the United States and never come back.

Gerald Goldstein, the couple's defense lawyer, assured the judge they would leave the country within hours of sentencing.

It's regrettable they're making a plea bargain, and that the slaves may have been too scared to testify. The couple should both rot in prison, but here, they're being allowed to leave the USA provided they remain exiled.

SIMPLE PROOF THAT TRUMP IS UNTRUSTWORTHY, AND DOESN'T DESERVE SUPPORT

Trump has said he might break his pledge not to run as an independent.

Trump is thus admitting his pledges count for shit.

On top of this, is the well known fact that he has been divorced twice; which means he twice broke his promise to the person he was closest to.

IF TRUMP CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO KEEP HIS MARRIAGE VOWS OR HIS PUBLICLY MADE PROMISE NOT TO RUN AS AN INDEPENDENT, THEN HE CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO KEEP ANY OF HIS CAMPAIGN PROMISES.

Given these facts, anyone who votes for Trump is throwing away their vote on a person who would be a wild card as president - one who recently supported Hillary.

I won't throw away my vote.

HOW TO DEFEAT ISIS: just keep wiping until you don't see anything

And I do not mean by using toilet paper. I mean using every kinetic tool that our military has in its arsenal.

If we had a patriot in the oval office, then this would have been ordered after San Bernardino.

Ted Cruz would do this as potus. He has said so. He would make the sand in the ISIS Caliphate glow.

TRUMP IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE; TRUMP SUPPORTS ETHANOL SUBSIDIES

Trump is using his fame to channel voter disgust for the ruling elite - politicians and pundits.

But, Trump offers no principled alternative, merely the vague promise he will do a better job. This has some credibility because of his decades of personal success.

His demeanor fluctuates between the grotesque and the wild. Like a carnival barker he seeks to excite and entice, not to illuminate or lead.

I have no confidence in his leadership because he is unprincipled, and that's why I believe he would make a terrible presidential candidate and a terrible president.

Ted Cruz is principled, and his principles are those I believe in and I think these principles will make America great again, and safe.

I hope Iowans look past Trump's braggadocio, bravura and BS, and Trump's pandering, and choose the deliberative and principled conservative: Cruz.

WHAT WE MUST DO IF WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT ENDING MUSLIM RADICALIZATION

These videos show muslim RADICALIZATION, which is routine in Gaza, the Arab controlled parts of Judea and Samaria, and in many MANY mosques and madrassas all over the world - including the West.



... and this...



These types of attacks are coming to a town and city near you UNLESS we do something, and do it NOW.

Here's what I suggest and why:

FDR bombed the munitions factories of the Nazis - and other assets of the Nazi war machine.



If we want to win, then we must do the same, and against this enemy that means eradicating the mosques and madrassas which radicalize muslims.

That means shutting them down if they are within our borders and bombing them to smithereens if they are not.

And it means deporting non-citizen imams who advocate sharia and radicalization, and perhaps jailing citizens who advocate sharia - which is totalitarianism - for sedition: DEPORTING AND JAILING RADICALS ACCORDINGLY IS BOTH LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL UNDER CURRENT AND LONG-HELD/UPHELD FEDERAL LAW.

18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy

Current through Pub. L. 114-38. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.)
US Code 

If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

And it also means we must demand that these mosques and madrassas and imams no longer be funded internationally by enacting sever financial sanctions against people, companies and nations which support them.

AND ANOTHER THING:

Taking guns away from non-radicalized non-muslims will only make us less safe - as the video of the car/hacking attack proves...

WHAT FRANCE IS LIKE WEEKS AFTER THEIR OWN 9-11

The Times of Israel/AFP tells what Paris and France are like now, in the weeks after the tragedy when 130 people were murdered by ISIS supporters within the country:

Bags are searched during mundane grocery shopping, heavily armed police patrol the streets and bomb disposal teams are frequently called to examine “suspect packages” — four weeks on, the jihadist attacks have left Paris a changed city.

This is France at “war” against the Islamic State jihadist group, as a visibly shaken President Francois Hollande said soon after cafe terraces and a concert hall became scenes of carnage on November 13.

The fading photographs tucked in among the shrines of candles and flowers show just how many youthful faces were among the 130 victims that lost their lives while enjoying a night out.

Outside the Bataclan music venue on Friday, workmen scooped up piles of wilted flowers, as even the deep mourning over the attacks must eventually end.

The tourist trade is recovering in the world’s most visited city, but the attacks have left their mark on its residents in a multitude of ways.

“I really pay attention now to people who get on the train with bags,” said Pierre Breard, 24, who works for a start-up in Paris.

“I look at people’s stomachs” for signs they are wearing explosive vests, admitted Aurelie Martin, a 24-year-old primary school teacher. On the night of the attacks, she was forced to file out of the Stade de France with her hands in the air as police frantically searched for more suicide bombers after three blew themselves up outside while France played Germany in a football match.

It's clear that France will not be the same again for a long time.

This article, however, has the gall to take what the father of one of the terrorists said at face value:

When investigators revealed the identity of the third Bataclan attacker on Wednesday, the father of 23-year-old Foued Mohamed-Aggad from Strasbourg did not mince his words.

“I would have killed him myself beforehand,” his father, Said Mohamed-Aggad, told AFP.

I'm not fooled by what the man says. If he'd really wanted his son to lead an honest, non-violent life, he would never have raised him on Islam or allowed any imams to do the raising for him. The AFP flubbed on that one, which is just apologia and refusal to recognize what's wrong with Islamofascism.

ADMIRING THE FOUNDING FATHERS VERSUS EMULATING MOHAMED, PBUH

American patriots admire the Founding Fathers. The founders wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and created the first real democratic constitutional republic in all human history. The founders had differences, but shared an overwhelming desire for national self-determination based on cooperation, not coercion, and a desire for limited government.

Patriots who admire Washington and Jefferson and Adams and Henry and Madison and Hamilton do NOT emulate them or seek to emulate them, nor are the Founders held up as saints, prophets, or perfect men in any way.

They are admired and thanked for their good efforts while their character deficits are generally set-aside. Washington and Jefferson were slave-owners, for example, an attribute of these two giants which no patriot admires - or seeks to emulate.

The fact that a billion Muslims admire Mohamed, PBUH is not major a problem for non-muslims.

What is a problem for non-muslims are the many thousands, (or many hundreds of thousands, or perhaps millions of muslims), who seek to emulate their prophet - who seek spread islam by the sword... the sword emblazoned on the flag of the Saudi Kingdom.

This is what motivates the jihado-terrorists. Muslims who emulate their prophet cannot logically be called distorters of islam: if Mohamed PBUH practiced islam using the sword, and since he originated islam, then the using the sword to spread islam and its supremacist teachings cannot be called unislamic.

The chief of ISIS and the Caliphate - al Baghdadi- is a college educated islamic scholar.

If muslims were to teach in all mosques and madrassas and colleges and universities that emulating their prophet was no longer proper, then they might crush jihado-terrorism.

Muslims might be able to do this if they adopted the same attitude toward their prophet as American patriots have toward the founding Fathers - and Jews have toward their Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac an Jacob. None are considered perfect men whose ancient lives should be now emulated in every way, in our modern age.

If muslims could ever accept - and teach - that what Mohamed, PBUH did then was right for his times, but not right for our times - and that islam's supremacist teachings cannot be spread by coercion now, (even though it has been for the last 1400 years), then I think a reform of islam is possible.

Muslims would have to interpret their holy books prescriptive teachings in ways which are adapted to the contemporary world. They would have to teach that the teachings about their prophet's wars are descriptive, not prescriptive.

This would mean that they would have to teach that Mohamed, PBUH was not perfect for all time, perhaps - for muslims - just in his time.

This should be possible in any God-centered monotheistic faith. For example, Roman Catholics don't worship the Pope, nor do Catholics emulate him - (most marry, for example), though many admire him.

In the Judeo-Christian world, only G-d is perfect; no man is - not even our prophets.

So it could be with Mohamed, PBUH: Muslims could admire and  revere him without believing that his life must be emulated or that the most pious muslims are those that live and act as he did.

In a way, this would amount to the de-mohamedanization of islam, and it is not likely to occur, but if it could occur then the jihado-terrorists might be marginalized theologically.

AND ANOTHER THING: one might also argue that since Mohamed, PBUH had neither guns, or bombs, or jets, that jihado-terrorists who use these and other modern weapons, and cellphones, and cars, SUV's, tanks, videos etc - are not emulating him at all.

If I were to see a strong movement within islam - coming from the House of Saud and Al-Azhar University and the Supreme Council of Iran - calling for muslims to halt their emulations of their prophet, then I might start to believe that islam can co-exist with non-muslims.

Short of that, I see no way for humanity to avoid an all out war - and I shudder to think what it will take for it to breakout on all fronts, with no holds barred.... an eventuality we seem to be headed for... because I seriously doubt that the Salafists or Wahhabists or Q'tubists will ever be reformed.... and unless they are soon eradicated, and because  their power seems to be growing - and their weapons seem to be getting ever more terrifying - we seem to be headed for the most violent global conflagration of all time...

Sigh...

WB YEATS

  THE SECOND COMING

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.

    Surely some revelation is at hand;
    Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
    The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
    When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
    Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
    A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
    A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
    Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
    Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

    The darkness drops again but now I know
    That twenty centuries of stony sleep
    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

LIBERAL FEMINIST SUPPORTS DEPORTING TERRORISTS FROM THE USA

Breitbart interviewed a liberal feminist named Joy Brighton who takes the stance that Islam is dangerous, and believes that families of jihadists should be deported from America:

“There’s a few things we should be doing to protect our country,” Brighton said. “When a terrorist kills someone in this country or terrorizes someone in this country, the entire extended family must be deported. That way it is very humane—you just get everybody and you put them on a plane. It’s only the family members, and extended family members, who want to stay in this country who can police their own family members.”

Brighton specifically noted, too, that the United States has yet to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.

If the family members refused to do anything to keep their offspring from engaging in any kind of terrorist activity, then they are equally guilty, and deserve to be exiled. Here's one liberal who's making sense. Similarly, Donald Trump's own call for a ban on Muslim immigration to the US is an idea that's clearly resonating with many people. And that's because they care about safety. Something the establishment obviously has to consider.

SADLY, IN THIS GLOBAL WAR, WE HAVE NEITHER AN FDR OR A CHURCHILL... YET...

Steve Rosenberg/BBC:

More than 70 years have passed since the Tehran Conference. But today, in Russia, the idea of "invincible unity" is being revived and repackaged for a new war: the war on terror.
"We understand that international terrorism is an international phenomenon and to combat it we need an international coalition," Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of external church relations for the Russian Orthodox Church, tells me. 

"During the Second World War, on the one side, there were countries which were very different as far as their political systems were concerned. And yet they were able to put aside these differences in order to combat the plague of fascism. What we need now is the same: to put aside the differences to combat together international terrorism."
... In recent weeks, so many of the Russian politicians, officials and religious figures with whom I've spoken have promoted the same message: that Russia and the West should forge a World War Two-style alliance against so-called Islamic State.
President Putin has put forward the same idea. Speaking at the United Nations in September, he called for a "genuinely broad alliance against terrorism, just like the one against Hitler".
...  I [Rosenberg] cannot help thinking that if Roosevelt and Churchill could find a way to work with Stalin, Obama and Cameron can find a way to work with Putin.
Perhaps this will only happen, though, when all sides conclude the threat to their nation is so great and imminent that the only way to win the war on terror is to fight together.

FOR AN EFFECTIVE ALLIANCE AGAINST GLOBAL JIHAD ND THE CALIPHATE. THE WEST NEEDS NEW LEADERSHIP, REAL LEADERSHIP.

DOES ANYONE DOUBT THAT AN ALLIANCE OF PRESIDENT TED CRUZ, PM NIGEL FARAGE, PRESIDENT MARINE LE PEN AND PM GEERT WILDERS, AND PRESIDENT PUTIN WOULD BE INFINITELY BETTER AND MORE EFFECTIVE?

I THINK NOT.

IN 2017 WE MIGHT GET THREE OUT OF THE ABOVE FOUR: LE PEN, WILDERS, AND CRUZ.

(UNFORTUNATELY, BRITAIN IS STUCK WITH CAMERON - LIKE SARKOZY: ALL WORDS AND NO DEEDS, THOUGH IF THEY LEAVE THE EU IT WILL HELP, IMMENSELY...)

I PRAY WE DO GET REAL LEADERSHIP.... AND I PRAY IT IS NOT TOO LATE...

BY THE NUMBERS: WE ARE LESS SAFE NOW THAN IN 2008

There have been 75 plotted radical muslim attacks since 9/11. 

• 64 by radicalized Americans.
• 25 plotted radical muslim attacks were after 9/11 and under bush; they were all thwarted.
• 50 plotted radical muslim attacks since 2009.

Several were not thwarted but failed due to bad bomb-making.

Several were successful.

Here's a complete list of the successful ones: from religionofpeace.com - 
(the numbers are killed and then injured)

2/12/2009	USA	Buffalo, NY	1	0	The founder of a Muslim TV station beheads his wife in the hallway for seeking a divorce.
4/12/2009	USA	Phoenix, AZ	2	0	A man shoots his brother-in-law and another man to death after finding out that they visited a strip club, in contradiction to Islamic values.
6/1/2009	USA	Little Rock, AR	1	1	A Muslim shoots a local soldier to death inside a recruiting center explicitly in the name of Allah.
11/2/2009	USA	Glendale, AZ	1	1	A woman dies from injuries suffered when her father runs her down with a car for being too 'Westernized.' (10-20-09)
11/5/2009	USA	Ft. Hood, TX	13	31	A Muslim psychiatrist guns down thirteen unarmed soldiers while yelling praises to Allah.
12/4/2009	USA	Binghamton, NY	1	0	A non-Muslim Islamic studies professor is stabbed to death by a Muslim grad student in revenge for 'persecuted' Muslims.
4/14/2010	USA	Marquette Park, IL	5	2	After quarrelling with his wife over Islamic dress, a Muslim convert shoots his family members to 'take them back to Allah' and out of the 'world of sinners'.
4/30/2011	USA	Warren, MI	1	0	A 20-year-old woman is shot in the head by her stepfather for not adhering to Islamic practices.
9/11/2011	USA	Waltham, MA	3	0	Three Jewish men have their throats slashed by Muslim terrorists.
1/15/2012	USA	Houston, TX	1	0	A 30-year-old Christian convert is shot to death by a devout Muslim for helping to convert his daughter.
11/12/2012	USA	Houston, TX	1	0	A 28-year-old American man is shot to death by a conservative Muslim over an alleged role in converting a woman to Christianity.
2/7/2013	USA	Buena Vista, NJ	2	0	A Muslim targets and beheads two Christian Coptic immigrants.
3/24/2013	USA	Ashtabula, OH	1	0	A Muslim convert walks into a church service with a Quran and guns down his Christian father while praising Allah.
4/15/2013	USA	Boston, MA	3	264	Foreign-born Muslims describing themselves as 'very religious' detonate two bombs packed with ball bearings at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and causing several more to lose limbs.
4/19/2013	USA	Boston, MA	1	1	Jihadists gun down a university police officer sitting in his car.
8/4/2013	USA	Richmond, CA	1	0	A convert "on a mission from Allah" stabs a store clerk to death.
3/6/2014	USA	Port Bolivar, TX	2	0	A Muslim man shoots his lesbian daughter and her lover to death and leaves a copy of the Quran open to a page condemning homosexuality.
4/27/2014	USA	Skyway, WA	1	0	A 30-year-old man is murdered by a Muslim fanatic.
6/1/2014	USA	Seattle, WA	2	0	Two homosexuals are murdered by an Islamic extremist.
6/25/2014	USA	West Orange, NJ	1	0	A 19-year-old college student is shot to death 'in revenge' for Muslim deaths overseas.
9/25/2014	USA	Moore, OK	1	1	A Sharia advocate beheads a woman after calling for Islamic terror and posting an Islamist beheading photo.
7/16/2015	USA	Chattanooga	5	2	A 'devout Muslim' stages a suicide attack on a recruiting center at a strip mall and a naval center which leaves five dead.
12/2/2015	USA	San Bernardino, CA	14	17	A 'very religious' Muslim shoots up a Christmas party with his wife, leaving fourteen dead.

Here's a list of unsuccessful attacks, thwarted or failed due to bad weapons since 2009: from wiki

May 20, 2009	New York City Synagogues/ U.S. Military Aircraft	Four men were arrested in New York after a plot is revealed to blow up two synagogues and shoot down a U.S. Military Aircraft.[32]	New York, New York	James Cromitie, et al.
September 19, 2009	New York City Subway	Zazi, a native of Afghanistan who lived in Colorado, was arrested and convicted of plotting to bomb the New York City Subway system. He was trained by al-Qaeda in Pakistan. 5 others were also indicted on related charges. " [33]	New York, New York	Najibullah Zazi, et al.
September 24, 2009	Federal Building,Springfield, IL	A 29 year old was arrested on charges that he intended to bomb the Paul Findley Federal Building in Springfieldl, IL. [34]	Springfield, Illinois	Michael Finton
September 24, 2009	Dallas skyscraper	A 19-year-old was arrested on charges that he intended to bomb a downtown Dallas skyscraper.[35]	Dallas, Texas	Hosam Maher Husein Smadi
October 16, 2009	Various overseas targets	Colleen LaRose, also known as JihadJane and Fatima LaRose, is an American citizen charged with terrorism-related crimes, including conspiracy to commit murder and providing material support to terrorists. Lars Vilks was a named target in response to drawings of Muhammad.[36]	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Colleen LaRose, et al.
December 25, 2009	Northwest Airlines Flight 253	A man was arrested after Northwest Airlines passengers jumped him to avoid his detonating an explosive device above the city of Detroit.[37]	Detroit, Michigan	Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab
May 1, 2010	Times Square	A Pakistani American who attempted the May 1, 2010, Times Square car bombing. He was arrested after he had boarded Emirates Flight 202 to Dubai. On June 21, 2010, in Federal District Court in Manhattan he confessed to 10 counts arising from the bombing attempt.[38]	New York, New York	Faisal Shahzad
October 27, 2010	Arlington Cemetery station	A Pakistani-born Virginia man was arrested and accused of casing Washington-area subway stations in what he thought was an al-Qaeda plot to bomb and kill commuters.[39]	Arlington, Virginia	Farooque Ahmed
September 28, 2011	The Pentagonand United States Capitol Building	Rezwan Ferdaus is a U.S. citizen, born and raised in Massachusetts, of Bangladeshi descent, who was arrested by the FBI on September 28, 2011, for allegedly plotting to attack The Pentagon and United States Capitol with remote-controlled model aircraft packed with explosives. He was also charged with supporting al-Qaeda and plotting attacks on U.S. soldiers abroad, by making IED detonators.[40]	Arlington, Virginia;Washington, D.C.	Rezwan Ferdaus
January 7, 2012	Tampa and various other targets	Sami Osmakac is a man who allegedly plotted an attack, to avenge what he felt were wrongs done to Muslims, in the area around Tampa, Florida. Osmakac, an Albanian from Kosovo and a naturalized US citizen, was arrested January 7, 2012, for the alleged attack plan, which involved bombing nightclubs, detonating a car bomb, using an assault rifle, wearing an explosive belt in a crowded area, and taking hostages.[41]	Tampa, Florida	Sami Osmakac
February 17, 2012	United States Capitol	A Moroccan man who was arrested by the FBI)for allegedly plotting to carry out a suicide bombing on the United States Capitol. El Khalifi thought he was working with al-Qaeda operatives, but was actually in contact with undercover FBI agents. He was sentenced to prison for 30 years in September 2012.[42]	Washington, D.C.	Amine El Khalifi
October 17, 2012	New York Federal Reserve	A Bangladeshi man was charged with trying to blow up the Federal Reserve building in New York. While Nafis believed he had the blessing of al-Qaeda and was acting on behalf of the terrorist group, he has no known ties, according to federal officials.[43]	New York, New York	Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis

Obama administration (Second term)[edit]

Date	Target	Description	Arrest location	Suspect(s)
September 11, 2015	9/11 Memorial event in Kansas City. Missouri	A Jewish American man, Joshua Ryne Goldberg, posing as an Australian ISIS supporter, attempted to get an FBI confidential informant to detonate a bomb at a Kansas City, Missouri September 11 attacks memorial event. Goldberg attempted to persuade the confidential informant to coat the shrapnel of the bomb in rat poison in order to maximize casualties. [44][45][46][47]	Orange Park, Florida	Joshua Ryne Goldberg

The increased pace of attacks and number of successful attacks is directly related to the shutdown of Gitmo and the hampering of the NSA and Obama's "leading from behind" - his appeasement of the enemy.

The numbers prove we are less safe now than in 2008.

We can do better. we need better gun control, bomb-making control - to keep these weapons out of the hands of islamists; this means we need to use PROFILING.

And we need better intel - intel not changed to fit a policy of appeasement or to make political decision by politician look better than they really are (s 50 intel officers/whistle-blowers allege)..

And our nation needs a serious debate on how to do this, with everyone at the table - with the views of Trump and Rand Paul and and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz and even Bernie Sanders all represented.

Bush succeeded in doing this, in forging a broad consensus.

Too bad Obama is unable or unwilling to do this.

It will probably have to wait until 2017.

I hope we make it....