FULL RUMSFELD INTERVIEW

Here is the fuller interview with Donald Rumsfeld about Obama's awful treatment of Netanyahu and why the prime minister's speech for Congress matters. Rumsfeld says the speech can elevate public dialogue on Iran's totalitarianism. And it should. In fact, one could say it's happening already, and the Obama administration's only achieved the opposite of what they'd prefer.

UH-OH/OMFG: Putin foe - Boris Nemstov - assassinated in Moscow!

THIS ASSASSINATION SHOULD SURPRISE NO ONE.

PUTIN IS A KGB, TSARISTIC TYRANT WHO REPRESENTS A SERIOUS THREAT TO EASTERN EUROPE.

PUTIN'S POWER GRABS WITHIN RUSSIA AND ON RUSSIA'S BORDERS ARE ALL THE RESULT OF OBAMA'S POLICIES.

OBAMA AND HILLARY'S "RUSSIAN RESET" APPEASED PUTIN AND EMBOLDENED HIM, AND OBAMA'S POLICIES HAVE WEAKENED THE WEST.

OTHER TYRANTS NOTICE, TOO - AND THEY'RE ARE EMBOLDENED AS A RESULT.

AND THAT'S WHY THINGS SOON MAY VERY WELL SPIRAL OUT OF HUMAN CONTROL...

Egyptians furious that Obama met the emir of Qatar in the White House

The Egyptians are furious with U.S. President Barack Obama for meeting in the White House this week with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani; here's why:

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Many Arabs and Muslims see the meeting between Obama and Qatar's al-Thani as a gift to Qatar for its continued support of Islamic radical groups across the Middle East, including Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
On the eve of Obama's meeting, Egyptian sources revealed that Qatar was providing weapons and ammunition to members of the Islamic State in Libya. The sources said that 35 Qatari aircraft were involved in transferring munitions.
Arab political analysts are also concerned about Obama's ongoing attempts to appease Iran, which continues to expand its presence in Arab countries such as Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon -- as well as in Syria, where it is deeply involved in backing Hezbollah and operating along the border with Israel. A Reuters report revealed that Iran also has hundreds of advisors in Iraq.
Qatar is also one of the biggest funders of Hamas, whose leader, Khaled Mashaal, is based in Qatar's capital, Doha. During the past few years, Qatar has provided Hamas with hundreds of millions of dollars -- money used to purchase and develop weapons to attack Israel.
By the time Obama leaves the White House, Iran will most likely be in control of more Arab countries, and Qatari-backed terror groups will be much stronger.

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The meeting came less than a week after the Egyptian envoy to the Arab League, Tareq Adel, accused Qatar of supporting terrorism. In response, Qatar recalled its ambassador to Cairo for "consultations." The latest crisis between Cairo and Doha erupted after Qatar expressed reservations about Egypt's airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Libya in retaliation for the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians. On the eve of Obama's meeting with the emir, Egyptian sources revealed that Qatar was providing weapons and ammunition to members of the Islamic State in Libya. 

OBAMA IS NOT FOR PEACE; HE'S ON THE OTHER SIDE.

IT IS A SAD SAD DAY WHEN THE EGYPTIANS ARE MORE ANTI-JIHAD THAN THE US PRESIDENT.

SATMAR OVERLORD COMES OFF SOUNDING LIKE AN IMAM

I'm not kidding. Aaron Teitelbaum, who, like his late relative Joel Teitelbaum, mentally abused thousands of brains, recently and predictably attacked Netanyahu, and some of what he says, if this is correct, comes close to sounding like the overlords of another religion he may want to emulate:

The Satmar Rebbe, who is currently in Antwerp, Belgium for several days, on the occasion of the inauguration of the new study hall, strongly condemned last night (Saturday night) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for European Jews to immigrate to Israel.

At the inauguration of the new study hall the Rebbe said, “the Prime Minister of the infidels (Netanyahu) begs Jews living in Europe – Leave Europe go up to Israel”.

“When there was a terrorist attack in Har Nof or Hebron, did you also tell them to leave Har Nof or Hebron? It is great audacity, and if he has the power to save the country, why is it that what happens there, happens?” the Rebbe roared.

First, note his terminology of "infidels". That sounds eerily similar to what Muslim clerics say about non-Muslims! And is Teitelbaum saying Netanyahu should call on Jews to leave Hebron and the Har Nof neighborhood? Don't be surprised if a man as hostile to Israel as Teitelbaum is sees nothing wrong with that. And he doesn't stop there:

The Rebbe added, “The head of the klipa of the Zionists (Benjamin Netanyahu) got up and delivered meaningless sermons after these events, he called for European Jews to immigrate to holy Israel, does this proud nothing also open his mouth when 3 young men are killed in Hebron, does he also tell all settlers to leave their homes? When he went to war last summer, killing more than 70 Jewish soldiers, did he say to flee from the land of Israel? How has he the audacity and nerve to say to Europe’s Jews to move to Israel? Can he protect them?”

This is enough to make my jaw fall of my face and crash to the floor in disbelief. It was Islamofascists who killed those soldiers, not Netanyahu and Zionists! Teitelbaum is as monstrous as they come. He's one of the crowd opposing Netanyahu's speech to Congress, and misusing taxpayers' money in Kiryas Joel as he directs his Chelmites to live by socialism, in contradiction of the Torah.

What Joel Teitelbaum did to Haredis like these caused massive psychological damage that'll take centuries to repair. Neither he nor his descendants deserve to live in Israel if that's the mindset they take, but at the same time, they cannot be allowed to exploit welfare. Something must be done to put a stop to that abusive behavior as well.

SARA NETANYAHU UNFAZED BY LEFTIST MEDIA'S EFFORTS TO DEMONIZE HER

Naomi Ragen interviewed Sara Netanyahu about her life as the prime minister's wife, and how, despite all the attempts by the left-wing media, including, but not limited to, Yediot Achronot's own Noni Moses, she's succeeded in standing firm against their horrific attacks. It also begins by noting something about their former caretaker, Menny Naftali:

It is 3:59 P.M. on February 18. I am sitting in the office of former house manager Menny Naftali, who is suing the Netanyahus for $290,000 claiming he was insulted, treated unfairly, yadda, yadda, yadda. There are piles of plastic bags stuffed with unidentifiable material, a randomly placed iron, an unhappy plant, a round top to something or other, and a half-eaten bar of Elite chocolate. I’m thinking: If this is the way Naftali left it, the Netanyahus should be suing him. At four PM the Comptroller’s Report is due to be released concerning the Netanyahus use of public funds in maintaining the Prime Minister’s residence.

Since she brought this up, I should take the time to note that a neighbor of Naftali's reported seeing him bringing home packages of food to his in-laws:

A resident of Afula files a complaint with police claiming that Menny Naftali, former caretaker of the Prime Minister’s Residence, transferred cartons full of food items to his relatives on a weekly basis between 2011 and 2012.

The complainant, Avi Gabay, lived in the past few years close to the home of Naftali’s in-laws. He says Naftali would come every week and bring between five and seven boxes full of groceries.

“I used to stand at the window of my house and see Mr. Naftali as well as the boxes he was carrying, sometimes to his father in law, sometimes to his mother in law. Some of the boxes were open and so I could see from above what was inside them,” the complainant said.

What are the odds Naftali took these goods from the prime minister's residence? If so, then he is a pure disgrace, and for all we know, he's probably accountable for expenses at the prime ministerial residence.

Let's go back to Ragen's interview now:

“Would you like to say something about the Comptroller’s Report?” I ask her right off the bat, wanting to usher the elephant out of the room.

“The timing is surprising,” she says. “A few weeks before the election, and there is no sense of proportion. There was supposed to be a line by line comparison of costs between the running of the Prime Minister’s official residence, with the cost of running similar public institutions like the President’s House. Without that, how is the average person supposed to judge what’s going on?”

Precisely. It's pretty apparent by now it was all deliberate.

“Let’s talk about something a little more pleasant,” I say quickly, happy to put this unfruitful topic aside. “Let’s start with your childhood. I’ve read many articles about you, but I never heard you once describe your upbringing.”

“That’s because no one ever asks me and no one is interested,” she replies, giving me my first glimpse into her fraught relationship with the Israeli press, which has hounded her for years, creating a narrative in which she is usually pictured as a cross between the Wicked Witch of the West, Marie Antoinette and Imelda Marcos. “She is the most hated woman in Israel,” someone wrote me recently in a talkback.

And here I am sitting next to the object of almost apocryphal derision as she graciously pulls up a chair beside me instead of barricading herself behind her desk, answering my questions as we pour over baby pictures together (she was an adorable blonde cherub between three older brothers, her family’s pride and joy). “We had a very close family. I wouldn’t say our parents spoiled us—there was very little money in those days for that—but they spent time with us, and education was very important to them. It was a warm and nurturing household.”

And this matters not to the leftist press. Their judgement is not based on color of character but on political standings. Is it any wonder they wouldn't care about her childhood or how she managed her early life, which the article has more about, including her army service?

I don’t have to ask why it is we’ve heard almost nothing about this part of Sara Netanyahu’s life. Working with children and their families to give them better lives, and a better educational experience simply doesn’t fit into the narrative of the spoiled, frivolous, extravagant woman the Leftist press has taught us to hate.

Doing social work for children's benefits is a very admirable job. No wonder the leftist media despises this part of her life.

OBAMA, THE 8TH CENTURY CALLED. THEY WANT THEIR FOREIGN POLICY BACK

ROMNEY WAS RIGHT ABUT RUSSIA.

AND HILLARY AND OBAMA'S "RUSSIAN RESET" HAS BEEN A DISASTER FOR US AND OUR ALLIES AND A BOON FOR PUTIN:

PUTIN HAS ANNEXED CRIMEA AND IS CHIPPING AWAY AT UKRAINE AND IS HOLDING WAR GAMES ON THE BORDERS OF THE BALTIC STATES.

BUT A FEW YEARS AGO, OBAMA GOT AWAY WITH THIS LINE IN THE FINAL DEBATE WITH ROMNEY:

WELL, NOW I SAY TO OBAMA, "THE 8TH CENTURY HAS CALLED AND THEY WANT THEIR UNSUCCESSFUL FOREIGN POLICY BACK!"

IN THE 8TH CENTURY, ARABS INVADED NORTH AFRICA AND BEGAN TRANSFORMING IT FROM A WEALTHY, EDUCATED CHRISTIAN REGION INTO AN IMPOVERISHED, IGNORANT MUSLIM REGION.

NORTH AFRICAN CHRISTIANS OF THE 8TH CENTURY FAILED TO DEFEAT THE INVADERS.

THE INVADERS LOOPED UP INTO THE  IBERIAN PENINSULA AND SPAIN FOUGHT FOR SEVERAL CENTURIES TO EXPEL THEM.

OBAMA SEEMS EVERY BIT AS SUCCESSFUL AT REPELLING JIHAD AS THE EUROPEANS WERE IN THE 8TH CENTURY.

UNDER OBAMA, THE SECOND GREAT INVASION IS TAKING HOLD - FROM THE PHILIPPINES TO BRITAIN... PERHAPS EVEN ACROSS THE ATLANTIC... CHRISTIANS AND JEWS ARE BEING ROUTINELY INTIMIDATED AND SLAUGHTERED WITH INCREASING REGULARITY AND THE ENEMY HAS NO FEAR OF REPRISAL BECAUSE IN RESPONSE OBAMA OFFERS EXCUSES FOR THEM AS HE SCREWS ISRAEL, JEWS AND CHRISTIANS.

OBAMA MIGHT NOT SECRETLY BE A MOLE ACTUALLY WORKING FOR THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND IRAN, BUT HE MIGHT AS WELL BE.

HERE'S A COUNTER-ATTACK STRATEGY THAT CAN DEFEAT GLOBAL JIHAD

For the last decade, when we have been attacked by a group of jihadists, we have only counter-attacked against the specific jihadists connected to that attack.

It's one reason our government have assiduously tried to identify the group behind each attack.

Was it AQ or AQAP or ISIL or Boko Haram or MILF and so on....

For example, the USG took months and months of FBI investigations in Libya to determine the exact groups or persons connected to the attack on our compound in Benghazi that killed our Ambassador and three others. Then they arrested one terrorist.

After the Hebdo attack, investigators tried to determine if the perps were lone wolves or under the control of a known jihadist group. And, when authorities fail to identify a group controlling a terrorist, then they do not retaliate.

THIS WAS NOT ALWAYS THE CASE.

President Clinton retaliated against the embassy attacks by launching cruise missiles against jihadist locations NOT directly connected to this specific attack, BUT CONNECTED GENERALLY, tangentially - by ideology, shared goals, and communication and articulation.

We should return to this Clinton strategy.

We must stop being concerned with retaliating against the SPECIFIC group tied to a specific attack and instead announce that going forward we will respond to any attack by any islamist or jihadist group anywhere in the West, or against any ally, by a disproportionate counter-attack against any islamist or jihadist group anywhere of our choosing.

For example, an attack by ISIS on our allies in Iraq might be retaliated against with a counter-attack against Boko Haram in Nigeria.

And we can legally do this with our 2001 AUMF which states we can and will attack any ally of Al Qaeda. An ally of Al Qaeda is any group or person or persons actively working to reestablish the caliphate or to establish sharia law where secular law is now in place.

This is a global religious war and we have to fight back globally.

And this need not mean sending troops everywhere if we are willing to counter-attack using missiles and drones against opportune targets.

And we must accept that there will be collateral damage.

This policy would send a message to everyone that it's not safe to be connected to jihadism or to live or work near the jihadist enemy.

The list of targets could be extended to include people and institutions which aid, abet or finance the enemy.

IN OTHER WORDS, if the jihadist enemy anywhere - under any aegis - fails to get the message and attacks us, then the jihadist enemy anywhere will be under threat of attack if not annihilation by drones or missiles.

Eventually they will get the message or they will be erased from the face or the earth.

It's them or us, and I choose us.

Ironically, today a single man - reputedly a pal of Osama bin Laden - was convicted  on 4 counts of conspiracy to murder Americans.

http://nypost.com/2015/02/26/bin-laden-aide-found-guilty-in-98-us-embassy-bombings/

His conviction today - 17 years after the attack- and with global islamo-jihadist terror at the highest levels ever -  proves just how pointless a law enforcement approach is, and how pointless it is to focus on retaliating against only those directly connected to a particular attack.

When we were attacked by Japan on December 7th 1941 we did not seek to arrest the Japanese pilots or merely declare war  against the Japanese air force. We counter-attacked against all of Japan and all of Japan's interests and allies.

So must we do now: when attacked by a jihadist anywhere we must counter-attack against jihadism anywhere.

RUMSFELD ATTACKS OBAMA'S "SHABBY TREATMENT" OF NETANYAHU

Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that he is “shocked” at the way the White House has been treating Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu:

“These statements not only deflect the conversation from the important issues to the peripheral ones, they also strengthen the states who oppose Israel, and aid those who support Iran,” Rumsfeld said. In an interview with Yisrael Hayom, which will appear in the newspaper's Friday edition, Rumsfeld recounted the “shabby treatment” he argues Netanyahu has been experiencing at the hands of President Barack Obama, who has made it clear that the Israeli Prime Minister will be an unwanted guest in Washington when he speaks to Congress about Iran's nuclear program next week. 

The “noise” surrounding Netanyahu's visit and Obama's opposition to it is diverting attention away from the main issue – namely, Iran, said Rumsfeld. “The main issue must be a discussion about Iran,” Rumsfeld stressed. “This is a state that supports terror, is rabidly opposed not only to Israel and the United States, as well as others. Usually, when there is a difference of opinion with friendly states, you resolve them behind the scenes, instead of openly insult them.”

OBAMA TREATS IRAN AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD BETTER THAN HE TREATS ISRAEL.

HE MIGHT NOT BE SECRETLY WORKING FOR THEM, BUT HE MIGHT AS WELL BE.

WEST CANNOT ABANDON COMMITMENT TO STOPPING A NUCLEAR IRAN

As some leftist sources continue to seek ways to undermine Netanyahu's government with smears like "Bottlegate" and even a potentially biased report about expensive housing, Netanyahu's spoken about how the west cannot forsake a dedication to preventing Iran from going nuclear:

As criticism in both Israel and the US of his planned speech to Congress continues to mount, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu framed the debate over Iran in life-and-death terms on Wednesday.

“I respect the White House and the US president,” he said of the friction triggered by his decision to address Congress, “but on a matter so fateful that it could determine whether we exist or not, my obligation is do everything to prevent such a great danger to the State of Israel.”

Speaking to a Likud gathering in Ma’aleh Adumim, Netanyahu – after addressing the comptroller's report about housing – said the biggest threat to life in Israel and to the state is an Iran armed with nuclear weapons.

“We have many reasons to worry about the agreement that is being formulated now,” he said. “The world powers committed themselves to preventing Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, but from the emerging accord it appears that they have given up on that commitment and have come to accept the idea of Iran – gradually over the years – developing the ability to make the fissile material needed for many nuclear bombs.”

While the world may have come to accept this notion, “we have not,” he said.

Netanyahu said it is his responsibility as Israel’s leader to do everything he could to warn of the dangers and to oppose the deal.

It's also the responsibility of world leaders to combat jihadism too, and many of them abandoned it long ago, ditto the responsibility to their own populations.

3 JIHADISTS ARRESTED IN NEW YORK

Looks like 3 ISIS supporters were captured before they could go to perform barbarism overseas (Hat tip: The Jawa Report):

Three men were charged on Wednesday with conspiring to support Islamic State, including two who planned to travel to Syria to fight on behalf of the radical group, U.S. authorities said.

One of the men, Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, of Kazakhstan was arrested early on Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, where authorities said he was attempting to board a flight to Turkey on his way to Syria.

Another defendant, Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, 24, of Uzbekistan, had previously purchased a ticket for a March flight to Istanbul, said Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn.

Abror Habibov, 30, of Uzbekistan, was accused of helping to fund Saidakhmetov's efforts, prosecutors said.

All three men live in Brooklyn.

The jihad sympathisers are turning up everywhere, more and more all the time. Something has to be done to stop them, or to keep them out of civilized countries and ensure they never return if they're already on the outside.

ACT WITH INTUITIVENESS

Nir Barkat wrote about his heroic deed stopping a jihadist with a knife and says:

In moments like these, facing a terrorist, you act mainly by intuition and do what anyone would be expected to do -- take out the terrorist. Terrorism is a global problem and needs to be dealt with harshly -- in Paris, in Tel Aviv, in Jerusalem, and anywhere else.

Exactly. Dr. Haim Shine's made a similar argument, that Israel can only rely on itself.

Barkat's given his support to Benjamin Netanyahu for this election, and with good reason. Only with a competent government will we be able to maintain safety and keep the crime rate as low as possible.

Update: Barkat's also got advice for Americans:

Barkat’s word of advice to Americans wanting to avoid terrorist attacks on U.S. soil? “The Iranians are the bad guys. They want nukes. They’re very radical and extremist people. Don’t trust them.”

Indeed no, we should not.

ISLAM'S WAR OF CULTURAL GENOCIDE AND WHAT MUST BE DONE ABOUT IT

In July of 2001, I was invited to dinner by a friend in Cable Television and his fiancée - the daughter of a national newsanchorman - to have dinner and meet a a friend of the fiancee who was from the charming southern city where I went to undergraduate school. We dined outside, at a café downtown, in Soho - with a view of the WTC Twin Towers. Conversation turned to regrets and I was asked what I regretted. I said I regretted that I was no longer very political. I grew up in a highly political household that was very left-wing and I regretted not being active at all, politically. They asked me what issues I would  most likely devote myself to and I said fighting islamo-fascism - which I saw as the biggest threat in the world.

I told them for two reasons: first, that March the Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan - a unique World Heritage site. Second, there were many reports that women in Pakistan who were not wearing a veil had acid thrown in their faces, permanently disfiguring them. Jay Leno's wife was actively fighting this. My friends shrugged my concerns off. And a few months later I would be proven correct.

Nothing since then has changed my mind. In fact, the enemy has only grown more threatening the last 6 years.

 I am reminded of this story by news today that ISIS has destroyed a library in Iraq and burned 8000 extremely rare books.

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/isis-burns-down-mosul-library-destroys-8000-rare-books-manuscripts-624375

Islamists have long burned books because islamists believe that the koran is the only book humanity needs.

Human knowledge is precious to humanity.  The accumulated knowledge and history of humanity were hard-earned and our future depends on saving our culture and not letting it be replaced with islamism.

 We must defeat these islamists, perhaps kill 10 of them for each book destroyed  and 100 for each Christian killed. And we must stop being concerned with retaliating against the SPECIFIC group tied to a specific attack and instead announce that any attack by any islamist group anywhere in the West or against any ally will be retaliated against disproportionately against any islamist group anywhere of our choosing. For example, an attack by ISIS on allies in Iraq might be retaliated against by counter-attacking against Boko Haram in Nigeria. And we can legally do this with our 2001 AUMF which states we can and will attack any ally of Al Qaeda. An ally of Al Qaeda is any group or person or persons actively working to reestablish the caliphate or to establish sharia law where secular law is now in place.

This is a global religious war and we have to fight back globally.
And this need not mean sending troops everywhere if we are willing to counter-attack using missiles and drones against opportune targets.

And we must accept that there will be collateral damage. Which send a message to everyone that it's not safe to be near the enemy.

The list of targets could be extended to include people and institutions which aid, abet or finance the enemy.

IN OTHER WORDS, if the enemy anywhere fails to get the message and attacks us, then the enemy anywhere gets whacked.

Eventually they will get the message or they will be erased from the face or the earth.

It's them or us, and I choose us.

JOE LIEBERMAN SUPPORTS NETANYAHU, AND SO DOES RUDY GIULIANI

Senator Joe Lieberman's come out in defense of Netanyahu's speech to Congress for March 3, and so too has former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani, who's said this week that unlike Obama, Netanyahu's fighting for Israel.

PLO OWES OVER $200 MILLION IN DAMAGES FOR JIHAD

A victory has been found for victims of terrorism at a NYC court:

The Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority were the catalysts for a series of terrorist attacks in the early 2000s in Israel that killed or wounded several Americans, a U.S. jury found Monday at a high-stakes civil trial.

In finding the Palestinian authorities liable in the attacks, jurors awarded the victims $218.5 million in damages for the bloodshed. The U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act could allow for that to be tripled.

The case in Manhattan and another in Brooklyn have been viewed as the most notable attempts by American victims of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to use U.S. courts to seek damages that could reach into the billions of dollars. [...]

In closing arguments, plaintiff attorney Kent Yalowitz had urged the Manhattan jury to order the PLO and Palestinian Authority to pay $350 million for providing material support to terrorists involved in six bombings and shootings from 2002 to 2004.

No amount could make up for the human toll, he said. “But if the only thing you can give them is money, then money has to stand in as compensation for the unspeakable loss,” he added.

Good point. It would be even better if the PLO leaders were thrown in prison for what they enabled, and someday, they will end up paying very dearly for all the trouble they'll continue to cause.

HERZOG TRIES TO HIDE LIVNI FROM CAMPAIGN

It's clear the awful Livni is an embarrassment, so "Zionist Union" has downplayed/hidden her presence in their campaign:

Is the Zionist Union no longer "Winning Together"?

The Labor-Hatnuah joint list has adopted a new strategy, hiding its No. 2, Tzipi Livni. The Zionist Union's slogan of "Winning Together" -- a reference to the partnership between Livni and leader Isaac Herzog -- has been changed to "Herzog -- A Reasonable and Responsible Leader."

The change was initiated by Reuven Adler, recently hired by the Zionist Union to serve as its chief strategist. The Zionist Union is publicly trying to downplay the change, but the message to campaign operatives has been clear -- emphasize Herzog as the Zionist Union's prime ministerial candidate and don't mention the Herzog-Livni rotation agreement.

If that's how they intend to run their campaign, why don't they leave Herzog out of it too? He just implied Iran's not the threat it happens to be:

Meanwhile, Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog told the Washington Post in article published on Saturday that he trusted Obama on Iran, and that the Islamic republic's nuclearization was "a big threat," but not an existential one.

"I trust Obama to get a good deal," Herzog told the newspaper. "I agree that a nuclear Iran is extremely dangerous, and I believe that it must be prevented. No Israeli leader will accept a nuclear Iran. All options for me are still on the table [including a military strike]."

However, Herzog made it clear that confronting Obama or Kerry were not options he intended to pursue, saying, "I would rather hold face-to-face talks and renew the trust that is necessary between the United States and Israel."

Asked if Iran was an existential threat, he responded: "It is a big threat. That’s enough." In a second question-answer piece published by the Washington Post, Herzog did not directly restate these opinions.

Likud officials were quick to attack Herzog's oppositional stance.

"While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is working night and day to explain the significance of the existential threat Iran poses to the State of Israel, [Herzog] is operating without security experience and out of cynical and political considerations, which harms Israel's efforts to stop the Iranian threat," a Likud statement said.

Herzog has just proven why, if he's elected, he'll only prove a fiasco for this country. He is truly awful.

PEOPLE BECOME JIHADISTS FOR THE SAME REASON PEOPLE BECOME LEFTISTS

The left have argued for years that poverty and the remnants of colonialism are what cause otherwise peaceful, sweet, tolerant, progressive Muslims to become jihadists who behead people or burn them alive with seemingly pious glee.

"if they had jobs, then they wouldn't become jihadists", the people on the left tell us.

It's a load of crap.

Binladen and Zawahiri and Atta (who led the 9/11 attacks) were all educated and well-to-do.

A jihadist is as likely to be rich as he is poor, educated as ignorant.

But they are all devout muslims emulating their prophet.

The search for a hidden reason these people chose jihadism is driven by puzzlement: It's simply strange to most people who live in the affluent, tolerant, post-enlightenment west that, given the choice of becoming educated, enlightened and affluent that anyone would choose a discredited ideology which has, for 1400 years, promulgated poverty, ignorance, misogyny, terror and war and general mayhem wherever it went.

So - to explain it away - leftists blame their favorite bogeymen: Imperialism; colonialism - which in  their minds includes Israel; and Western racism which  - in leftist ideology - created Third World poverty and the resulting widespread feelings of resentment of Third Worlders.

Again: this is just total crap. We might as well as why educated, affluent people in the west become leftists! After all, leftism gave us Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Pol pot - even Saddam and Assad were Baathists and Baathism is socialist and therefore leftist. The fact is that leftism killed more people in the 20th century than any other Western ideology did in the preceding 20 centuries. Only Islam has killed more people, and islam is non-western and they had 14 centuries!

Despite the genocidal nature of leftism, and the fact that they have always failed to deliver the goods and have always made economies poorer many so-called intellectuals - many of whom were well-to-do - chose and continue to choose leftism.

Kim Philby, Bill Ayers, Ernesto Guevara, Alger Hiss, even Francois Hollande and Barack Hussein Obama Junior were all educated and relatively wealthy folks who chose to fight for an ideology which has committed genocide and impoverished and virtually enslaved hundreds of millions of people.

Why did they do this? Is it for the same reason other have chosen jihadism?

I think it is. I think these people are egomaniacal utopianists who think they can bring about a better world for everyone - "whether you like it or not" - and are so sure of it that they are willing to lie, cheat, murder, use terror and even commit treason and genocide.

When Obama lied 30 times and told us over and over that "if we liked our healthcare, then we could keep our healthcare - period ... " he was willing to lie because he was convinced his leftist program was for our own good - democracy and truth be damned.

It is this sense of superiority, elitism and the utopianist urge that drives some people to become leftists and others to become jihadists.

Libertarians and conservatives on the other hand believe that humans and society are imperfectable; therefore libertarians and conservatives endeavor to create, not a perfect place, but a "more perfect" one - meaning one that allows individuals and families as much freedom to make their own lives what they want them to be; one that allows us each to pursue happiness in our own way. This is why libertarian and conservatives are so adamant about defending the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution: because they specifically limit federal power and generally limit all governmental power while asserting the inviolability of the individual - not because we are each perfect, but because we are each unique and imperfect in our own way. And this is why our families, and communities and states and nations are also imperfect. We merely have to respect each other's innate rights and do our best to get along to thrive in a society of greatest liberty and bounty - after all, prosperity is a by-product of liberty.

What keeps this from becoming a reality are the utopianist bullies of the left and of jihadism.

That's why we must defeat both.

THE TRAIN ON THE RR TO SERFDOM. OR: WHAT IF THE LEFT PASSED A LAW CALLED "OBAMACARS" AS IN AUTOMOBILES?

OBAMACARS!

That would be n obamunistic law that says everyone must buy a car, and all cars must have 4 doors, and front and rear and side airbags, and get 40MPG and be made of recyclable materials. And of course, they would cost 2x more than the average car now. And of course it would mean you couldn't buy the car YOU want or like - like a 2door or a ragtop or a sportscar or and Hummer.

This law would be rejected on ts face.

But the Dems passed a similar law for health insurance. One size fits all. The dems still call less expensive plans that we USED  TO be above to buy IF WE WANTED TO as "inferior plans".

BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY kNOW BETTER THAT WE DO WHAT WE NEED OR WANT OR DESERVE TO HAVE.

That's fascism folks.

The usual corrupt leftist scum are out there touting the success of Obamacare.

They might a well be saying the trains are running on time.

The trains on the railroad to serfdom.

NIR BARKAT AND BODYGUARD CAPTURE JIHAD KNIFER

The Jerusalem mayor himself stopped a Muslim knifer who'd stabbed a man:

The mayor of Jerusalem and his bodyguard stopped a knife assault on a man in the city Sunday, wrestling the attacker to the ground and holding him until police arrived, officials said.

Nir Barkat, 55, was riding in his car when he saw the attack unfold in front of him, said his spokesman, Brachi Sprung. Security camera footage showed the attacker swinging at a crowd of pedestrians with a knife near city hall when he struck an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man, Reuters reported. The video then shows Barkat and his bodyguard holding the attacker down at a pedestrian crossing.

"My bodyguard took out his weapon and when he aimed at the terrorist, the terrorist dropped his knife and we immediately tackled him on the ground to make sure that he cannot continue with the terror attack and then went out to see the wounded person that, thank God, was relatively slightly wounded we gave him first aid," Barkat told reporters shortly afterward.

The wounded man, who is in his 20s, was taken to a hospital for medical treatment, the Israel Police Foreign Press spokesman said on Twitter. He wasn't seriously wounded, medical officials said.

The alleged attacker, an 18-year-old Palestinian, was arrested. He didn't have authorization to live in Israel.

Elected Jerusalem's mayor in 2008, Barkat formerly served as an officer in the paratrooper's brigade.

The Likud's said this is just why "Zionist Union" would be dangerous, since they could divide the city:

Reacting to the recent terror stabbing attack in Jerusalem on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party warned that a left-wing government headed by the Zionist Union would divide Jerusalem “and bring Hamas into the heart” of the capital.

“The attack this evening took place after Tzipi Livni, the Labor Party’s hidden candidate for the premiership, once again said that she was willing to consider a division of Jerusalem,” the Likud statement read. “If Tzipi and Buji (Labor Party chief Isaac Herzog’s nickname) form a left-wing government, Hamas will be in the heart of Jerusalem.”

Yes, they could very easily be. That's why no sane person should vote for them.