1. “British Prime Minister David Cameron: ‘Israel’s technology is protecting British and NATO troops in Afghanistan….’ UK-Israeli trade is at an all-time high, despite recent rumblings by the EU over the labelling of products from the West Bank and calls in some quarters for a boycott of Israeli goods….HSBC, Barclays, Rolls-Royce, GlaxoSmithKline and Unilever have a major presence in Israel. One out of every seven prescriptions filled by Britain’s National Health Service is from an Israeli pharmaceutical firm…. There are raft of government initiatives to propagate growth spearheaded by a recent trip to Israel, by Prime Minister David Cameron, as well as favorable tax treaties…. Britain’s trade with Israel reached a record high of £5.1billion last year after doubling during the last decade. The UK is Israel’s second largest trading partner after the US…. More firms listed in London’s stock exchange last year from Israel than from anywhere in the world, other than the UK itself…. Technology from Israel is used by a host of British firms, from cyber security used to protect High Street cash machines to chips that go in TV set-top boxes.”
Reading Robert Spencer’s PJ Media article of July 1th, “Chattanooga Shooter Marinated in Self-Pity Over ‘Islamophobia,’” and Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs article, “Chattanooga Jihadi’s Anti-American Diary: Wanted to be a Suicide Martyr for Islam” of July 20th, I was struck by the similarities between the empty vessel that was Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez and the average Moonie.
What is a Moonie?
A Moonie is a member of the Unification Church of the United States, a religious or cult-like movement that was imported to the U.S. from South Korea by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon (1920-2012). Here is some background on Moon and his religion.
When he was 15 years old [in 1935], at Easter, he believes that Jesus Christ appeared to him in a vision, charging him with the responsibility of completing the work in the world that Jesus had started. During his adult life he has had trouble with legal authorities, having been arrested for practicing capitalism (a crime in North Korea), charged (but not convicted) in South Korea of other activities, and convicted of tax evasion in the United States. During 1948, the Presbyterian Church of Korea felt that his views were incompatible with traditional Christianity; they excommunicated him.
Former Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry called Donald Trump’s campaign for the Republican nomination a “cancer on conservatism” that would ultimately destroy the “cause of conservatism” if it is ignored.
Trump recently posted a photo on Facebook with Perry, which was taken in Trump’s office. The caption read, “Rick Perry in my office last cycle playing nice and begging for my support and money. Hypocrite!”
PJ Media asked Perry about the photo. “I have no response to that,” Perry said.
The common theme of Perry’s speech at the Opportunity and Freedom PAC forum in Washington was Trump’s candidacy.
“Let no one be mistaken – Donald Trump’s candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded. It cannot be pacified or ignored, for it will destroy a set of principles that has lifted more people out of poverty than any force in the history of the civilized world – the cause of conservatism,” Perry, who also ran for president in 2012, said.
Hillary Clinton’s favorability ratings are underwater in three swing states President Obama won handily:
A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday found that Clinton has strikingly negative favorability ratings among voters in Virginia, Iowa and Colorado, especially compared with where she stood in the spring.
The numbers come at a time when Clinton has a massive fundraising lead, relatively weak competition for the Democratic nomination and more federal government experience than other candidates. Even with these advantages, the poll shows Clinton may be vulnerable in states that by all accounts will have an outsize say in who wins the White House next year.
Many political meetings are held to take the “necessary measures.” The attack turned lives upside down. All they can do is “analyze the current situation”?
You can write a ton of articles about terrorism attacks but you can never feel it. You will not be able walk with your friend during lunch break without turning around to see if someone is following you. You will not feel comfortable around a bearded man. You want to wake up in the morning without being worried that someone will attack you. You are not witnessing the destruction of your country.
You stare mechanically at the flat television screen . Many political meetings are held to take the “necessary measures.” The attack turned lives upside down. All they can do is “analyze the current situation”?
You cry alone in your house. Your parents are late and you do not know if they are okay or not. You do not to know if you will come back from the beach with all your family safe.
Iran’s negotiations with the P5+1 powers are narrowly defined to include only the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. However, Tehran’s abysmal record on human rights should reveal to the world what to expect by way of compliance on any nuclear deal.
In facilities under their control, both the IRGC and the MOIS are permitted to execute prisoners without trial or effectively any judicial proceeding.
Iran will also have permission to import or develop Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) with the ability to deliver a nuclear weapon to other continents, including to the United States.
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s human rights record is among the earth’s worst. Iran’s horrific treatment of its own citizens, however, has long been obscured by headlines of the ongoing nuclear negotiations, from which human right issues have been excluded.
With the world in turmoil following the recent deal between Iran and the P5+1, the Israeli Defense Forces are preparing to serve as the world’s best defense against a nuclear Iran.
“Over the years, the Israeli Defense Forces have managed to thwart the evil plans of our enemies,” said Dr. John Grossman, chairman of American Friends of LIBI, the IDF’s unit supporting humanitarian aid to soldiers. “We have no doubt that the IDF will continue to play a vital role as Israel’s and the Jewish people’s first line of defense.”
Since April, amid the foreshadowing of the acceptance of an agreement between Iran and the P5+1, the IDF has been instructed to prepare plans for a military response to the Iranian problem. Israel for some time has been developing air defense systems that will be able to counter Iranian missiles with a nuclear payload, such as David’s Sling, the Arrow, and the Patriot missile systems, as well as Iron Dome for smaller missiles.
However, Israel has no physical defense system in place to prevent the smuggling of a nuclear bomb into the country and being detonated in a population center by Iranian supported terrorist groups such as Hamas or Hezbollah. That is, aside from the soldiers of the IDF.
If Iran remains a threat, the deal bars the US from taking any steps to counter it aside from all-out war.
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius is a reasonable man. After hearing back to back interviews with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the Obama administration’s pact with Iran’s ayatollahs, he tried to balance them out.
Speaking Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation, Ignatius equivocated that on the one hand, “My takeaway [from Kerry] is that the details of this deal are pretty solid, that it’s been carefully negotiated, that it will hold up for 10 years or more.”
“In the meantime, there is nothing to see here as devout Muslims, shouting Allahu Akbar, kill military personnel; Jews in delis; artists caricaturing Muhammad; writers not showing appropriate sensitivity and reverence; people in the street, in buildings, in cafes, in hotels, in railway stations. The perpetrators must all be mad or driven to desperation by disadvantage and historical injustices. They don’t represent Islam. They think they do, as do those radical Islamic scholars who have spent their whole lives studying the sacred texts. We know better.”
The problem with Islam is not its fanatics, diabolical though they are. No, the problem is the vast majority of self-identifying Muslims who do not, of course, want to kill other people, thereby creating the impression that their creed is peaceful. As the devout demonstrate with their every outrage, it isn’t.
I flicked between Fox News and CNN on the day (last week) when five marines were gunned down and killed, and two other people wounded, in Tennessee by twenty-two-year-old Mohammad Yousuf Abdulazeez. He was apparently a devout Muslim born in Kuwait but brought up in the US from a young age. He apparently did well at school, was well liked, and earned an electrical engineering degree at college. His father had been on a terrorist watch list at one point but had been taken off some years ago. A picture (below) of the killer and his family showed his mother and two sisters in hijabs. Presumably all of the family were devout.
Defenders of the system say bureaucratic hurdles prevent failure. Have they not heard of the RAH 66 Comanche?
Here’s an anecdote that illustrates the problems with U.S. defense acquisition: The Navy, concerned about corrosion of equipment that spends its operating life surrounded by salt water, began requiring paperwork to certify that new systems would be corrosion free. But the rule applies without exception, meaning Navy staff go through the motions to certify the corrosion resistance of, say, new software programs they acquire.
Rep. Mac Thornberry cited this example when rolling out legislation in March that would overhaul Pentagon procurement. Mr. Thornberry, who leads the House Armed Services Committee, wants to give program managers more responsibility and eliminate dozens of reports required by Congress or the Pentagon. “The system has just grown these barnacles around it that’s made it so sluggish it’s a wonder anything comes out the other end,” he told the Washington Post.
