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In The Atlantic recently, an in-depth interview by Jeffrey Goldberg with Barack Obama that begins:

‘On Tuesday afternoon, as President Obama was bringing an occasionally contentious but often illuminating hour-long conversation about the Middle East to an end, I brought up a persistent worry. “A majority of American Jews want to support the Iran deal,” I said, “but a lot of people are anxiety-ridden about this, as am I.” Like many Jews—and also, by the way, many non-Jews—I believe that it is prudent to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of anti-Semitic regimes. Obama, who earlier in the discussion had explicitly labeled the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an anti-Semite, responded with an argument I had not heard him make before.

“Look, 20 years from now, I’m still going to be around, God willing. If Iran has a nuclear weapon, it’s my name on this,” he said, referring to the apparently almost-finished nuclear agreement between Iran and a group of world powers led by the United States. “I think it’s fair to say that in addition to our profound national-security interests, I have a personal interest in locking this down.”….’

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov [pictured] has called on America to end its attempt to remove Syria’s President Assad from power in return for Russia’s co-operation to militarily confront Islamic State.

Lavrov reportedly told Bloomberg on 2 June 2015:

“The U.S.’s “obsession” with [Syria’s President] Assad isn’t helping in the common fight against the threat from Islamic State…

People put the fate of one person whom they hate above the fight against terrorism. Islamic State can go “very far” unless stopped, and air strikes alone “are not going to do the trick.

If people continue to acquiesce with what is going on and continue to acquiesce with those who categorically refuse to start the political process until Bashar Assad disappears, then I’m not very optimistic for the future of this region…”

America is part of the Friends of Syria core group known as the London Eleven that has been assisting rebel forces in Syria attempting to overthrow Assad.

Hear from their own mouths who we’ve let into our gates.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/06/03/video-minneapolis-muslims-pine-for-sharia-law-condemn-freedom-of-speech/

Not long ago, six men from a Muslim Somali community in Minneapolis were arrested for attempting to leave the country and join ISIS as terror fighters. The backgrounds of these men were notable, as each held the potential to excel at productive endeavors and create a life of abundance and happiness. These were men who chose, conscientiously, to reject freedom and prosperity in favor of death and destruction.

A filmmaker named Ami Horowitz visited the Ceder-Riverside community which these men called home to ask Muslims on the street whether they preferred to live under American law or Sharia law. He also asked for their views on the freedom of speech and insults against Mohammed.

The answers he received, documented in the video above, demonstrate that the six men arrested for conspiring to join ISIS were not anomalies. Rather, they were predictable products of their culture, a culture which America has welcomed into its gates.

A posting from what claims to be a newly formed ISIS affiliate in Gaza claimed responsibility for firing rockets into Israel tonight.

The IDF reported that two rockets were launched at southern Israel from Gaza. Sirens went off in Ashkelon and Netivot, but no injuries were reported.

Israel struck three Hamas targets in Gaza after the rockets were fired.

The group posting a claim of responsibility online calls itself the Omar Brigades, and said the rockets were retaliation for Hamas killing an ISIS supporter during a Tuesday shootout.

Hamas got props from ISIS in an e-book as “an organisation whose goal is to liberate Palestine entirely and to leave no trace of Israel on the map.” However, ISIS stresses that they and al-Qaeda disagree with Hamas participating in elections because “democracy is shirk (polytheism).” The book labels this a “difference in politics” that has led to fights between the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda/ISIS, and called the Hamas-Israel battles, from the use of Qassam rockets to underground tunnels, “a testing ground for the Mujahideen.”

A Palestinian attempt to get Israel expelled — totally and permanently — from international soccer was dropped at the last minute [1].

The Palestinian complaint was that Israel is impeding the movement of Palestinian soccer players from the West Bank and Gaza, and that Israel’s own soccer league includes five teams based in Israeli West Bank communities.

Israel, noting that the Palestinian players go through checkpoints and the like because of security concerns, offered a compromise wherein their movement would have been eased. The Palestinian side turned it down flat. At the FIFA convention on Friday, it was only at the last minute that the Palestinian delegation, realizing they would not have won the vote, gave up — for now — the effort to oust Israel.

All that 77 million Turks could collect to donate to Gaza stood at $32 million, or about 40 cents per person.

“This is a clear picture of the AK Party’s true colors… How could you not honor your promise to Gaza?” — Mehmet Gunal, opposition member of parliament.

Underneath its “Pro-Palestinian” mindset, Turkish solidarity with the Palestinians is less related to the Palestinian cause and more to the Islamists’ devotion to the dream of conquest.

Five years ago this week, on May 31, 2010, a Turkish flotilla with hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists aboard sailed toward the Gaza Strip in order to break Israel’s naval blockade. Israel had established the blockade to prevent weapons from being shipped to the Hamas terrorist organization, which rules Gaza and is openly committed to Israel’s destruction.

The Clinton Foundation followed Rahm Emanuel’s adage of never letting a crisis go to waste when Swedish companies faced potential blacklisting over sanctions on doing business with Iran. John Solomon ands Julie Riddell of the Washington Times report:

Bill Clinton’s foundation set up a fundraising arm in Sweden that collected $26 million in donations at the same time that country was lobbying Hillary Rodham Clinton’s State Department to forgo sanctions that threatened its thriving business with Iran, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Times.

The Swedish entity, called the William J. Clinton Foundation Insamlingsstiftelse, was never disclosed to or cleared by State Department ethics officials, even though one of its largest sources of donations was a Swedish government-sanctioned lottery.

As the money flowed to the foundation from Sweden, Mrs. Clinton’s team in Washington declined to blacklist any Swedish firms despite warnings from career officials at the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm that Sweden was growing its economic ties with Iran and potentially undercutting Western efforts to end Tehran’s rogue nuclear program, diplomatic cables show.

This looks exactly like a shakedown racket. And it was not the foundation alone that profited enormously:

Wow!Science mag is publishing a blockbuster paper today, June 4.Oh boy!Get ready to watch yet another big fight about climate change — this time mainly among different groups of climate alarmists.Is there a “pause”?Did global climate really stop warming during the last dozen years, 18 years, or even 40 years, in spite of rising levels of the greenhouse (GH) gas carbon dioxide?

The renowned National Climate Data Center (NCDC), a division of NOAA located in Asheville, NC, claims that the widely reported (and accepted) temperature hiatus (i.e., near-zero trend) is an illusion — just an artifact of data analysis — and that the global climate never really stopped warming.If true, what a blessing that would be for the UN-IPCC — and for climate alarmists generally, who have been under siege to explain the cause of the pause.

Of course, NCDC-NOAA may end up with egg on their collective faces.It does look a little suspicious that NCDC arrived at this earth-shaking “discovery,” after “massaging” its own weather-station data at just the right time, just before the big policy conference in December in Paris is supposed to stop the rise of CO2 from the burning of energy fuels, coal, oil, and gas.

I think she is waiting until the S.S. Hillary goes down and sees herself as the last minute savior. For someone not running she sure is making waves that the media keeps highlighting….rsk

This week the lefty outfits MoveOn.org and Democracy for America announced that they’ve given up trying to persuade Senator Elizabeth Warren to run for President in 2016. Maybe it’s because she doesn’t want to wait that long.

Across the landscape of economic policy, the Massachusetts Democrat is bidding for control of the Obama agenda over the final 19 months of the President’s term. The latest salvo from the Warren ’15 campaign came Tuesday when the Senator lunged for control over the appointments process at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Ms. Warren was ostensibly sending a letter to SEC Chair Mary Jo White to air various complaints about the latter’s management of the agency. But the 13-page screed, accusing the former prosecutor of broken promises and weak leadership among other alleged offenses, reads like a direct-mail piece from a political fundraising operation. We’d expect kinder words in a Harry Reid letter to Ted Cruz. Adding to the bizarre nature of Tuesday’s campaign literature, we’re told that when Sen. Warren and Chair White have met privately, discussion has been cordial.

In the U.S. it takes six working days to start a business. In Israel: 34.

Israel is a remarkable country with big problems. The existential threats it faces from abroad are well known; only slightly less so, the troubled relations between the Jewish majority and the (mostly) Arab minority within its own population.

By contrast, most Americans know little about Israel’s economy, and most of what they think they know is shaped by the country’s vibrant high-tech sector. But Israel’s economy is more varied—and its overall performance more troubled—than glowing reports about the latest IT breakthroughs convey.

Put simply, the Israeli economy is an island of innovation in a sea of bureaucracy. “Start Up Nation” faces off against “Can’t Get Started Nation.” The result: The economy is functioning well below developed-world standards, and average families are paying the price.