Democrats: America's Original Hate Group - Rich Logis

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by Rich Logis

Democrats espouse hate against those whom they are supposed to represent because they know they can do so with impunity.

The New York Times, a major DMIC (Democrat Media Industrial Complex) colluder and conspirator, recently reported that California has more organized hate groups than any other state. The Gray Lady didn't realize her own irony: isn't it quite interesting that arguably the most Democrat state in the nation boasts the most hate groups and potential terrorists?

When the Trump presidency concludes January 20, 2025, at noon EST, there will be many unintended benefits and victories that he himself likely hadn't ever thought of. One of those is that our win didn't create hate — it revealed the hate of American Democrats.

Not long ago, U.S. rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) celebrated the countdown until whites are a minority demographic in America. It's not just that Democrats hate America's freedoms and her Constitution — a document crafted to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. Democrats want our nation to go extinct, the Hell with all those who have built our nation, those who have sacrificed and those who have died and lost limbs. Our Founders warned us of an epoch, when a rising domestic enemy threatened the existence of the greatest and most miraculous nation in world history. Many races, ethnicities, religions, and non-religions have made contributions; normal thinking people respect the humanity of good and decent people. Our nation is the most diverse in world history.

Democrats? It's not just that they're anti-white; they fervently count down with bated breath the days until an American demographic shrinks. With airy nonchalance, Democrats espouse hate against those whom they are supposed to represent because they know they can do so with impunity, and because they have one goal: to conquer us and rule over us.

"New" Democrats Same as "Old" Ones

Those who say these "new" Democrats are different from the "old" ones are mistaken. They are not at all different politically — just stylistically. The new Democrats are waging their coup d'état against the old ones, much like how Lenin's Bolsheviks overthrew Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov dynasty over a century ago.

Omar's hate isn't unique; the vast majority of American and worldwide terrorism, crime, hate groups, etc. have been shaped by various brands of collectivism, ranging from sharia theocracy to Leninism to Nazism to communism to socialism. Just look at our inner cities, most of which have been run by Democrats for tens of thousands of consecutive days. These influences are all observed in Democrat ideology — an amalgam of the worst mass-suffering ideologies in world history.

Always remember that the first principle of propaganda is to accuse your opposition of what you yourself are guilty of. Whenever Democrats or the DMIC label someone or something "right-wing," bet the farm that they're referring to Democrat-inspired terrorism and hate.

Anti-white is one of the many examples of the Nazism baked into Democrat "progressivism." The Third Reich's basis for the Holocaust was the belief that certain racial and biological traits made one inferior or superior as a human being. Kristallnacht, also known as the "night of broken glass," in 1938, was an attack orchestrated by the Nazis against Jewish-owned businesses as well as synagogues. What many don't know is, weeks before, the Nazis had disarmed the Jews whom they terrorized; they knew who had firearms because of a gun registry. After Kristallnacht, what did Hitler say was the justification? Confiscation of illegally owned guns.

Democrats engage in hate crimes all the time. There are myriad examples, such as Colorado baker and business-owner Jack Phillips, as well as the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, both of whom won U.S. Supreme Court cases last year. Phillips refused to bake a cake celebrating two men attempting to marry each other, and NIFLA, a network of pregnancy centers in California (there's that California hate again), refused to promote abortion. Both cited First Amendment defenses of religious liberty. Rather than just simply disagree, Democrats and the State sought to scorch the earth. Why? Because they hate those who reject their political terrorism of infringement upon our God-given constitutional rights. In the devoutly secular world of Democrats, the State is God.

Want a Soviet example? Look no farther than the Mueller–Russian "collusion" scam. As Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin's head of the police state, once remarked: show me a man, and I'll show you his crime. The Democrats' Stalinism has been on naked display in their guilty-before-proven innocent hate crime. I'm convinced that the Democrat politicians who have peddled the Russia conspiracy theory for three-plus years have done so to dissuade future Trump-type candidates — independent nationalists who are beholden to zero special interest groups — from running for office. Like all dictators, the Democratic Party believes that the American people should live in fear of weaponized law enforcement agencies. If Democrats are willing to weaponize taxpayer-funded law enforcement agencies against a sitting president, what makes you think they wouldn't come after you and your family?

2020 Democrat Hate 

Speaking of presidential elections, likely 2020 Democrat nominee Uncle Joe Biden recently got in on the hate act, claiming that "Jim Crow racism" is enjoying a comeback. Someone get Biden a history book not written by Democrats! Jim Crow segregation was one of the Democrats' most notorious inventions.

Biden and Democrats always commit the hate crime of whitewashing history for two main reasons: first, Democrats rewrite American history because they are responsible for most of the worst of American history — the Trail of Tears, segregation, the Ku Klux Klan, gun control, and infanticide, among others. Second, they revise world history — such as their impugning of American nationalism as Nazism and Aryanism — because they have modeled their party after many of mankind's most evil despots.

Biden is the Democrats' 2020 sacrificial lamb — the guy who thinks rotating the deck chairs on the Titanic will somehow keep the ship afloat. He has absolutely no interest in campaigning or being president. Biden has been running for president for over 30 years, and the best he could muster was a smartphone-looking campaign launch video that regurgitated the debunked Democrat and DMIC lie that Trump called Nazis "fine people." Biden's candidacy is DOA, and he knows it. I want Biden next year so we can, once and for all, plant the tombstone at the grave site of the Obama years. 

Credit the Democrats with having successfully duped tens of millions of Americans — and especially our youth — into ascribing to hammer-and-sickle mass-murdering politics. Our political war wasn't won in 2016; that's when it began, and the war will be long and arduous. I'm optimistic, however. There are only two sides: America first or the Democrat hate of "it takes a village," "democratic socialism," and "fundamental transformation." There has never been as stark a contrast between the two sides as now. The only way to bridge the divide is for one side to conquer the other, and I think I speak for Trump-supporters in saying we have no plans on getting conquered anytime soon.

Everyone's on a side. What side are you on?


Rich Logis is host of The Rich Logis Show, at TheRichLogisShow.com, and author of the upcoming book 10 Warning Signs Your Child Is Becoming a Democrat. He can be found on Twitter at @RichLogis.

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/democrats_americas_original_hate_group.html

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The lost Jewish tribes of Nigeria still hope for aliyah - Israel Hayom Staff

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by Israel Hayom Staff

i24NEWS' "Afrique" reports from the African country about the Igbo Jews, who practice Judaism and yearn for Zion, but have yet to be embraced by Israel

Members of the Igbo Jewish community in Nigeria pray | Screenshot: i24NEWS

Finding people who recite traditional Jewish prayers in Nigeria is not an easy feat. In fact, if you ask Israelis if there are any Jews in Africa, they would probably point to South Africa and Ethiopia, not Nigeria. 

But i24NEWS’ Afrique magazine program managed to capture an authentic snapshot of what that that vibrant, albeit remote, community does, how it practices Judaism and how it yearns to return to its ancestral homeland in the land of Israel. 



The Igbo Jews, as they are called, are a small community in Nigeria within the large Igbo ethnic group. Nigeria’s overall population stands at some 180 million, but the Igbo Jews are a fraction of that.  Israel has repeatedly explored the possibility of recognizing them as Jewish, but their status among rabbinical authorities remains in limbo. 

“They claim to be descendants of the lost tribes of Israel and today observe religious practices very similar to rabbinical Judaism,” i24NEWS reporter Elinor Lalo says as she shows footage of the Igbo Jews praying the traditional Jewish afternoon prayer. 

“Since we do not have a mikveh, the ritual bath, we save water from the rain, and put a big pan under the rain, we let the water go into a pan,” one woman says. 

The report suggests that the Igbo Jews, young and old, appear to know more than what a secular Israeli Jew would know about Judaism. 

“While some are ready to leave everything behind for Israel, and others live very happily here in Nigeria, one dream unites them all – to one day set foot in the holy land,” Lalo says. 

You can see the full report on i24NEWS.tv


Israel Hayom Staff

Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/05/17/the-lost-jewish-tribes-of-nigeria-still-hope-for-aliyah/

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Did IDF use Kabbalist rabbis to locate terror tunnels? - Arutz Sheva Staff

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by Arutz Sheva Staff

Report claims rabbis warned IDF of the existence, location, of terror tunnels - but the IDF is too afraid of 'mysticism' to act.

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A rabbi identified the terror tunnels destroyed in 2014's Operation Protective Edge - before the IDF located them, Zman Yisrael reported Monday.

In 2015, senior IDF officials received a report from Colonel A., the Home Front Command's Northern Commander, titled, "Report on Joint Activities on the Issue of Locating Underground Mediums" and discussing actions taken to locate enemy tunnels on Israel's northern border.

The report focused on two rabbis, Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda, and his aide Rabbi Moshe, whose full names were withheld.

"In this region there is a huge underground water reservoir, which cannot be detected unless it was pointed out specifically," A. wrote in the report. "The rabbi located, without us saying a word, the underground site and the empty space under the region. When we continued touring, he located another two underground spaces, and was able to describe criminal activity carried out by armed [people] which had occurred near the site over three years prior."

"I am not a religious person," A. emphasized at the beginning of the report. "I am a rational person, and most of my actions in my professional and personal life have stemmed from rational thinking and examining everything intellectually."

"I saw an honest person who has some interesting abilities and who wants to help. In my estimation, when looking at the larger picture, there is no reason not to use the rabbi to help us with regards to various operational challenges."

Zman Yisrael interviewed various individuals in the IDF, as well as Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Moshe. Those in the IDF who agreed to speak to Zman Yisrael refused to allow their names to be published, due to concerns that they would be seen as too spiritual or mystically-oriented.

"If the army were more open, people's lives would be saved," Rabbi Moshe said. "We know of dozens more tunnels along the border, both in the north and south. If the army weren't so suspicious of everything which smells of religion, then the major-generals and lieutenant colonels we spoke to would have given us a chance to help. It's a shame, because 'one who saves a single Jewish life is considered to have saved an entire world.'"

Lieutenant Colonel Oded, a former battalion commander in the 91st Division, said, "I'm not a religious person but I was taught not to rule anything out before looking into it. At the beginning, I was skeptical, also because I was afraid it would not be taken well. I told him, 'The system will not take kindly to this, because it's not considered acceptable to allow civilians to wander around the system fence.' But I decided to give it a chance."

"I asked our brigade commander, Colonel Alon, for approval. He didn't love the idea but I convinced him to allow Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Moshe to join a tour with our battalion's engineering officer and another few soldiers. I told him that in the worst case scenario, it would make the residents feel better. This way, at least, we can tell them that we are doing everything possible to investigate their complaints and they'll calm down."

"They rode in an army vehicle along the western area...and they came back with amazing results. I remember that the engineering officer was shocked."

"When the brigade commander received my update he responded indifferently. I told other colleagues in the area and they weren't impressed either. I decided not to write an official document on the matter."

In January 2014, Rabbi Yehuda located 31 terror tunnels, and marked the exits from several of them. Several months later, during Operation Protective Edge, the IDF located and destroyed 32 terror tunnels.

Israel Police told Zman Yisrael: Regarding everything concerning the tunnel threat, the way the tunnels are discovered, and how they are handled - turn to the IDF, which is responsible for the issue.

The IDF told Zman Yisrael in response "We did not find any communications with mystical sources."


Arutz Sheva Staff

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263403

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Rep. Tlaib strives to alter narrative of hate fomented by Arabs - Melanie Phillips

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by Melanie Phillips

Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib presents Palestinian Arabs as victims of the Holocaust’s victims. The reality is that they were hopeful ancillaries to the Nazi genocide of the Jews.

What has caused the deeply alarming upsurge in anti-Semitism across the West? As many have observed, there are three principal sources: the political Left, Islamic culture and neo-fascist or white-supremacist cults.

One additional factor, though, is crucial. Never disappearing altogether, anti-Semitism can be kept to a low level by condign social disapproval that deems anti-Semites to be totally beyond the pale.

However, if that social stigma is lifted and society tolerates, excuses or sanitizes anti-Semitism, it then later roars out of control.

That’s precisely what is happening now. In America, it is being facilitated and mainstreamed by Democratic Party grandees.

Look at what happened over remarks made by Michigan’s Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib. The congresswoman, whose parents were born in east Jerusalem and Ramallah, said thinking of the Holocaust gave her a “calming feeling.”

This was because her Palestinian ancestors “lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in many ways” in order to “create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. And I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that right, in many ways. But they did it in a way that took their human dignity away and it was forced on them.”

This was a vicious travesty of history. Wickedly, she presented Palestinian Arabs as victims of the Holocaust’s victims. The reality was that those Arabs were actually hopeful ancillaries to the Nazi genocide of the Jews.

Far from giving their lives to provide a safe haven for the Jews, as she claimed, the Arabs of Palestine did everything they could to stop them from coming in and slaughtered as many as possible – all to prevent the Jews from obtaining the homeland that could have saved thousands from the Nazi genocide.

Much worse still, they intended to perpetrate a Final Solution for the Jews in Palestine and beyond. The grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, formed a pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler that held that if Germany were to win World War II, the mufti would ensure that every Jew in the Middle East was exterminated.

As the Nazis stepped up their persecution of the Jews in Europe, Arab storm-troopers marched in Palestine shouting “Heil Hitler” and branding the Jews “the human sexual disease” and “a menace to all mankind.”

The Palestinian Arabs have never stopped waging the war of extermination. They write the Jews out of their own history in the land to which the Arabs lay false and ahistorical claim.

They vandalize priceless archeological sites to destroy the physical evidence that Israel was the Jews’ national kingdom centuries before the Arabs invaded. They teach their children to kill Israelis, steal their land and hate Jews.

Indeed, they have never stopped bombing, shooting, knifing and decapitating Jews in Israel. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who worships al-Husseini, recently admitted the PA’s central role in promoting attacks on Israelis when he justified paying salaries to the families of terrorists.

His spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said: “It is impossible to send a soldier to war and then not take care of his family. We are talking about someone who acts on our behalf and receives orders from us.”

The ancestors of today’s Palestinian Arabs were Hitler’s army in the Middle East and their descendants can justly be regarded as the last undefeated front in the Nazi war against the Jews.

For making such remarks, Tlaib should be thrown out of Congress. As U.S. President Donald Trump rightly said about “her horrible and highly insensitive statement” on the Holocaust: “She obviously has tremendous hatred of Israel and the Jewish people.”

But instead of treating her as a pariah to be shunned, the Democrats have circled the wagons around her. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that “desperate attempts to smear” Tlaib and misrepresent her comments were “outrageous.”

Tlaib was neither smeared nor misrepresented. It was Pelosi’s defense of her remarks that was outrageous. Worse, this is now part of a pattern by Pelosi of sanitizing and normalizing Islamic antisemitism.

Although Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar accused Israel of “hypnotizing the world” and prayed that “Allah awaken the people and help them see [Israel’s] evil doings,” Pelosi appointed her to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. And after Omar claimed that Jews use their money to bribe American politicians to act in Israel’s interest, Pelosi played down the remark.

The speaker also invited a radical Islamist imam, Omar Suleiman, to deliver the noon prayer in Congress.

Suleiman has not just compared Israel to Nazis and incited violence against Israelis. As detailed by Islam researcher Andrew Bostom, Suleiman has a long history of virulent anti-Semitic comments, in line with Islamic religious texts, depicting the Jews as cosmically evil and as having been transformed into apes and pigs and so forth for incurring God’s wrath.

Yet this is the man that the Democrats not only honored in Congress but whose behavior they defend by smearing those who dare call out his bigotry as “Islamophobes.”

In Britain, the struggle against anti-Semitism of the Labour Party is getting nowhere at all, despite repeated outrage and even resignations by a number of decent Labour MPs.

A major part of the problem is that this derangement is by no means confined to the supporters of Labour’s far-left leader Jeremy Corbyn. This was shown by last weekend’s revolting anti-Israel hate-fest in London. Chanting demonstrators brandished posters declaring that Jews control the media, Jews are the new Nazis, Jews have no right to a state, Jews bring anti-Semitism upon themselves and so on.

Yet faced with this chilling display, the media could barely bring itself to shrug. This is largely because progressive people refuse to acknowledge that their signature Palestinian cause – so revealingly exposed by the mind-bending distortions of Rashida Tlaib – is the new anti-Semitism.

And that’s because they refuse to acknowledge that Palestinianism itself is fundamentally anti-Jew.

This denial of a most inconvenient truth – that the Arabs’ hatred of Israel derives from their murderous hatred of the Jews – was illustrated by one aspect of a BBC documentary last week about the border riots in the Gaza Strip.

In it, a Gazan boy says, “The revolutionary songs excite you, they encourage you … to rip a Jew’s head off.” But, instead of accurately translating the Arabic word “yahud” that he and others used for Jew, the BBC translated it as “Israeli.”

The BBC insists this was “both accurate and true to the speakers’ intentions.” This is simply untrue. In Arabic, yahud means “Jew.” When Arabic media refer to Israel, they use that word in Arabic letters.

A chant frequently heard among Muslim religious extremists is “Khaibar, Khaibar, ya Yahud, Jaish Mohammed, sa yahud,” which means “Jews, remember Khaibar, the army of Mohammed is returning.”

Anyone who reads Islamic religious texts can see that hatred of the Jews is embedded in Islamic religion and culture. Yet in America and Britain, this is all but unsayable.

Anyone who points out that Islamic society is fueled by hysterical and obsessional anti-Semitism is deemed to be Islamophobic – not least by prominent British Jews.

Astoundingly, they equate Islamophobia – the term designed to silence criticism of the Islamic world – with anti-Semitism. So they remain silent about this major threat to themselves from the Muslim community, the group the Left will permit no criticism of, while inflating the threat from “the Right,” the group the Left blames for all the ills of the world – and in which it preposterously lumps together white supremacists, anyone who criticizes mass immigration and all those who voted for Brexit.

Denial of Palestinian and Muslim anti-Semitism is legitimizing, mainstreaming and fueling anti-Semitism in the West.

When confronted with their own bigotry, people like Tlaib and Suleiman claim that the real problem of anti-Semitism comes from “the Right.”

And which groups in both America and Britain hand them this particular Get Out of Jail Free card so they can continue to escalate the climate of Jew-hatred? Why, the Left, of course – and the Jews.

This article is reprinted from JNS.org.


Melanie Phillips

Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/rep-tlaib-strives-to-alter-narrative-of-hate-fomented-by-arabs/

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Trump's Strategy in the China Trade War - Gary Gindler

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by Gary Gindler

Perhaps we are witnessing a grand miscalculation on the part of the Chinese.

A recent stock sell-off was "explained" to the public as "investors are worried due to tariffs on Chinese imports." However, it should be known that market makers are doing this on a regular basis: from a cacophony of daily news, they pick up one story and broadcast it as a "reason" for the stock market moving up or down in a particular day. It makes the unsuspecting public (who is always positioned in a way to maximize losses) feel "good" and "in the know" even if people lose money at every market turn — fake news at its best. However, keep in mind that the sell-off manifests much deeper reasons: reconfiguration and correcting decades-old unfair trade imbalances.

The best tariff (tax on imported goods) equals zero — at least this is what standard economic theory says. However, such a rule is valid only when both trading partners are set at zero. If either side moves one iota above zero in tariffs, it makes its population pay for that move. So what happens when one party does not respond to an unfriendly move from zero to some non-zero tariff? In a short time frame, it hurts the side that makes such a move, but in the long run, it could eventually bankrupt businesses on the other side and, in turn, bring enormous benefits for those who made such a move first. The more time other side keeps indifferent, the more it loses in the end.

Enter China: it established non-zero tariffs years ago on practically all American goods and services, while the United States was busy discussing the stained blue dress, "hanging chads," "9/11 was inside job," "keep your doctor," and "Trump is Putin's marionette." As a result, many American businesses moved to other countries, including China, and took millions of jobs with them. The Maoist Chinese rulers were completely satisfied with this American complacency. (Let us recall that Maoism differs from other leftist -isms in an area of "coexistence." Maoism declares that during the transformational period from capitalism to communism, both capitalistic and collectivistic enterprises coexist — both under strict Communist Party leadership. That is why all Chinese billionaires are close to the Communist Party apparatus.)

American decades-long inaction led to enormous imbalances in the world market. Every independent observer understands that the situation on Trump's plate does not have any suitable solution besides going back to the mutual zero tariffs mode. However, the United States cannot do this unilaterally, because the situation has reached a breaking point. 

Trump knows all this. He also knows that any country that unilaterally increases tariff hurts domestic manufactures in the short term. The solution he implemented to alleviate this is brilliant. Trump decided to increase external taxes (tariffs) and, at the same time, to decrease domestic taxes. 

Will the recent painful moves by the American side in the tariff war make Chinese communists think harder? Not at the moment. China buys about 180 billion dollars' worth of American goods in a year; America buys about 560 billion dollars' worth of Chinese goods. This asymmetry, known as the trade deficit, is a double-edged sword: on the one hand, an increasing trade deficit means increased Chinese profits. On the other hand, it means a loss of leverage in trade disputes simply because the Chinese have a bigger amount to lose. 

To explain Trump's approach further, let us imagine the world economic imbalances as a pair (i.e., the U.S. and some other country) of communicating vessels that use money as their fluid. If the level of fluid in one of such vessels increases (i.e., the wealth of one country in respect to the other), the level of fluid in another vessel will try to compensate. The law of economic gravity equalizes the levels of fluid (i.e., negates economic disparity).

How is it possible to correct such an imbalance? Possibly by relocating businesses from one country to another. China has been doing this for decades by using various tricks; tariffs are just one of them.

Now it is America's turn. Trump pushed for substantial tax decreases for domestic manufacturers and substantial, painful tax increases for the foreign ones. The proverbial "big sucking sound" everybody hears is the sound of businesses relocating back to the U.S., bringing with them jobs, prosperity, and a headache for Democrats. Such massive relocation of businesses and accompanying wealth transfer would not be possible without Trump's double punch — first on the domestic and then the international front. 

The world is on the verge of a massive exodus of manufacturing, investing, and finances from China and all other countries into the United States. The communicating vessels must equalize the trade imbalances, whether one likes it or not, and President Trump's double punch approach triggers ejecting businesses from other countries and injecting them into the U.S.

Leftists dream of "wealth redistribution," too. However, their latest endeavors in this arena failed spectacularly: NAFTA, TPP, and the Paris Climate Accord. All these globalist schemes of redistributing wealth from the United States to underdeveloped countries were either short-lived or dead on arrival. Trump's wealth redistribution differs from the leftists' one not only in scale. It differs in its implementation mechanism: if leftists can achieve their wealth redistribution only by force, Trump's free-market approach employs market's internal mechanism for self-regulation and self-correction.

By retaliating in the decades-old tariff war, Trump has no choice. Either China eventually bankrupts the United States or the United States bankrupts China. Finally, there is the third commonsense desired outcome: both parties settle for free trade with zero tariffs.

In stark contrast with all previous tariff wars known to humanity, all three such outcomes are negative for China due to its deep dependency on the American market and American know-how. 

In an attempt to show Trump who is in charge in Asia, Chinese communists forced North Korean communists to fire two small rockets. Both rockets fell into neutral waters less than 300 miles from the shore. Just to confirm otherwise, the United States launched two ICBMs toward the East. One was launched about 10 minutes after North Korean rockets and flew about 6,000 miles, another one about 7,000 miles. Both ICBMs were unarmed and dived into the Pacific. Everybody noticed the difference, not just in Asia. 

Perhaps we are witnessing a grand miscalculation on the part of the Chinese, who for some reason blindly believe the "mainstream" media that Trump will be soon removed from office via impeachment or that Joe Biden (who is practically under complete Chinese control) has good chances to defeat Trump in 2020 elections. So the Chinese side decided to wait and has torpedoed its recent agreement with Trump. Big mistake.

No wonder the current mood in China among those who do not watch CNN is pretty telling: "manufacturers who mainly sell to Europe and the United States need to start taking pain killers again." The recent Trump moves increased tariffs on about one third of the Chinese goods America buys. Watch and see what happens when Trump approaches the two thirds mark and beyond.


Gary Gindler, Ph.D. is a conservative blogger at Gary Gindler Chronicles. Follow him on Twitter.

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/trumps_strategy_in_the_china_trade_war.html

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The Palestinian Arab war tactic known as BDS - Lee Kaplan

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by Lee Kaplan

Hat tip: Dr. Jean-Charles Bensoussan

Just visit any Presbyterian church vestibule to find anti-Israel literature posted at the front door and BDS promotion. The Poway shooter regularly attended a Presbyterian church.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s actions recognizing the Golan as part of Israel and moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem have certainly buoyed Israel’s eternal optimism for the future, but both the Trump and Netanyahu governments are ignoring when it comes to Israel’s long term survival.

Assuming Trump can be reelected in 2020 for another four-year term as the American leader, his remaining presidential administration might delay the current war to dismantle the Jewish state, but only temporarily. And make no mistake, it is a war, only the tactics have changed.

Trump recently cut off all foreign aid from the US to the Palestinian Authority after Mahmoud  Abbas praised all recent terrorist murders including that of a 19 year-old girl who was raped as well as murdered in Jerusalem by a Palestinian cab driver out for a lark. Israel began to apply a way overdue but only partial  solution to stopping Jew-killing by closing the spigot and announcing Israeli would deduct money paid to terrorists from PA the tax revenues it collects and transfers to them each month..

Abbas defiantly said he won’t take any money from Israel at all as a result, and why should he? The gangbangers in the Muslim countries, the dictatorships and even the prostitutes that make up the EU have already agreed to make up the shortfall. Iran would love to join the gang also and nothing guarantees they won’t be able to jump on board later if Trump is no longer in office. During the last U.S. election Hillary Clinton guaranteed that had she won she would have embarked on a U.S. campaign to fight “Islamophobia” in exchange for money contributed by Organization of the Islamic Conference, the cartel of wealthy Arab oil sheiks who never have money to feed Palestinians but can pay them to kill Jews.

The reason Abbas can so easily make up that shortfall is because, should Trump be president until 2024, Abbas will only lose a little frosting off the cake but more than make up for it elsewhere in following years. Latest estimates on his personal palace are now upwards of 30 million dollars from stolen aid money.

The next Democratic administration will plunge the dagger into Israel’s heart. We’ve already seen Rashida Tlaib  and Ilhan Omar make it clear what they will do on congressional finance committees that Israel ultimately depends on.

Hillary Clinton, had she won, said she would fight “Islamophobia.” The U.S. would already be in Arab terrorist hands had Hillary won. Trump needs to put on the brakes and reverse the course of the ship of state, something he is well able to do. He may have two terms, but if he’s gone, the Arab irredentists and jihadis will have a field day from then on.

While the Trump administration was getting kodak moments moving the embassy (the whole world has known Jerusalem is Israel’s undivided capital since 1967 and statements to the contrary were just hot air from the Muslim ummah), and while the administration was acknowledging claim to the Golan and supposedly defunding terrorism, Abbas and Hamas have intensified their BDS campaign to new heights on the grassroots level.

People in the West, even Jews, do not realize BDS is in reality a war tactic by the Palestinians against the Jews. Contrary to Arab excuses, starving someone out of his homes, businesses and right to exist is a violent act. BDS leaders try to claim their threats and intimidation against Jews and anyone else who does business with them is not violent and even in the name of human rights. If I stood on your doorstep and prevented anybody from bringing your family, food, water, the necessities of life while not-so-quietly cheering another factions from my groups as they murder my family just the same, there’s no way you’d perceive my BDS actions as nonviolent. The Nazis did this to the Jews in 1934, so why is it any different today?

But far worse in the midst of this new Gaza war is the fact Hamas and the PA rely on BDS leadership for how they conduct their war on Israel. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist (excuse the pun) to figure out how Hamas’ rocket war is conducted in tandem with BDS goings on outside of the Holy Land. As BDS fortunes flagged  here recently, the rocket attacks increased .

A case in point is the synagogue shooting in Poway near San Diego. The Washington Post ran an article by a naïve “reporter” who commented about how John Earnest, the shooter, was a good Presbyterian Christian who attended church with his family, the idea being he was an anomaly. Had that reporter done her research she would know the Presbyterian  Synod is run by BDS activists and anti-Israel activists. She made no mention of this. This reporter did not understand that Christian members of the BDS movement are providing strategy to the terrorists.

The Presbyterian Synod was targeted years ago by the BDS crowd and promotes New Theology as is taught by the Palestinian Christian wing of the PLO as part of the International Solidarity Movement. The New Theology teaches that the Palestinian Arabs replace the Jews in the Bible. Run by an Arab named Naim Ateek, his Sabeel Ecumenical Movement was set up to deconstruct Christian support for Israel and the Jewish people. These activists lost control of the Presbyterian Synod two years ago and things improved for a while, but they made sure they padded the voting and got complete control again last year.

And they’ve been doing a bang up job as we can see with the Christian shooter in Poway. Two years ago I attended undercover a national conference of the ISM. I rode in a shuttle to the airport with a woman who was a pastor. When I asked how she could support open advocacy to dismantle Israel and support Hamas’ promotion of Jewish genocide, she told me some nonsense about how being a good Christian obligated her to work for everyone, not just the Jews in the conflict. Of course, she would not condemn terror attacks or calls for genocide of the Jews.

Presbyterians are taught groupthink which means all or nothing. You won’t hear them condemning missiles fired on Israelis because there’s is a new mission: to make the Palestinians the new subjects of their theology.  Naim Ateek’s Sabeel has made inroads into many churches in the U.S., but mainly in the Presbyterian Church. Just visit any vestibule to find anti-Israel literature posted at the front door…

And what about those 600 rockets fired at Israeli civilians recently?

BDS, while it tries to claim it is a grassroots movement, is in fact a war program run by Mahmoud Abbas and the Hamas leadership. When Israel’s fortunes climb like during the embassy change and the Golan recognition,  the BDS movement works in coordination with the terrorists to shore up the fiction that the Jews are using excessive force against the poor Arabs in Gaza. That is the idea heard in the pulpits of the Presbyterian Churches today by the likes of the shooter. Apparently it worked well enough to get a 19 year-old “Christian boy” inspired enough to enter a synagogue and shoot up some Jews. According to his manifesto, he shot up the Jews for the glory and grace of God.

The concessions by President Trump to Israel’s sovereignty inspire some to  consider Trump as Israel’s savior. But to the BDS activists who communicate with Hamas and Abbas it’s a signal to step up the rocket and other attacks against the Jews. And this fervor apparently worked within the Presbyterian Church.

There are 190 Students for Justice in Palestine cells on U.S. Campuses promoting BDS and funded by taxpayer money. A pseudo-intellectual Professor Hatem Bazian leads the movement nationwide like a Rico racket. BDS is following the tactics of Rico and everyone looks the other way.

If President Trump forbids BDS from being promoted - which ultimately plays into those rocket attacks - and if the U.S. government sanctions “allies” who contribute to the boycott, the entire war might come to a halt.

President Trump needs to the right thing here. And Israel needs to understand they can’t kick the can down the road forever.


Lee Kaplan heads Stop the ISM. He is an investigative journalist and contributor to Front Page Magazine, senior intelligence analyst and communications director for the Northeast Intelligence Network, and also heads Defending America for Knowledge and Action (DAFKA). He appears frequently in the US media.

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/23889

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Iranian aggression is all about the economy - Eli Leon

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by Eli Leon

Iran, it appears, is trying to create a crisis in reaction to its worsening economy and its unsuccessful effort to overcome U.S. sanctions.

Iranians burn US and Israel flags during an anti-U.S. and Israel demonstration after the weekly Friday prayer ceremony to show their solidarity with Palestinians | Photo: EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH

The recent escalation with Iran coincided with the anniversary of the U.S. decision to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal with the Islamic republic.

Iran, it appears, is trying to create a crisis in reaction to its worsening economy and its unsuccessful effort to overcome U.S. sanctions.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton recently revealed that the administration was sending an aircraft carrier to the region, as well as strategic bombers, because of “troubling and escalatory indications” suggesting that Iran was planning to attack U.S. interests or its allies in the region.

Hours after Bolton made that statement, the Iranian media reported that the regime would announce its pullout from the nuclear deal. President Hassan Rouhani did exactly that several days later with a televised speech to the nation.

In his speech, he warned that the Islamic republic would resume high-level enrichment of uranium unless its European trade partners found a way to bypass U.S. sanctions.

This latest behavior underscores the changing Iranian strategy for coping with the debilitating sanctions, which have dealt a crushing blow to Iran’s economy.

According to the International Monetary Fund, Iran’s economy will likely contract by 6% in 2019, compared with 4% in 2018. Inflation is set to climb to 40%.

These figures do not take into account the economic impact of the Trump administration’s decision not to renew the waivers it gave eight nations so that they could continue buying oil from Iran.

Meanwhile, the local currency is nosediving against the dollar, exacerbating the discontent.

Iran plans to use pro-Iranian allies to do its bidding by staging provocations that would complement its combative rhetoric.

This new approach was already on display this week, when oil tankers were sabotaged near the Strait of Hormuz, including two Saudi vessels.

Another example was the drone attack on Saudi oil installations near the capital of Riyadh. The attack was claimed to be carried out by the Houthis, a militia rebel group in Yemen backed by Iran.

According to reports in the U.S. media, the administration believes that Iran was responsible for sabotaging the tankers. After all, the incident took place not long after Bolton’s announcement about troubling” intelligence showing that pro-Iranian groups were planning to attack American troops in the region. One of those indications was the transfer of Iranian missiles through the area.

Bolton’s announcement may have helped deter Iran from targeting the U.S. but it did not stop it from engaging in other forms of aggression.

Iran has blamed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for the recent escalation and has cast Bolton as a warmonger. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif repeatedly refers to Bolton, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed as the “B Team” because they are supposedly trying to make Trump go to war with Iran.

But despite the rising tensions, U.S. and Iranian officials have made it clear that neither side wants war. Trump even said that he would like Iranian leaders to call him so that they could make a deal.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responded by saying that he would not renegotiate the 2015 agreement. But he might ultimately buckle if the sanctions continue. It all boils down to the economy.


Eli Leon

Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/05/17/iranian-aggression-its-all-about-the-economy/

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Painting of Muslim Men Sexually Enslaving White Women Triggers Outrage - Raymond Ibrahim

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by Raymond Ibrahim

For over a millennium, Islamic rulers coaxed their men to jihad on Europe by citing its fair women.

^{Originally published under the title "Outrage over Germany's AfD Party Using Painting of Muslim Men Enslaving White Women in Ad Campaign."}

To highlight the apparent threat male Muslim migrants pose to women in Germany, a political party has triggered many on both sides of the Atlantic by using an older painting in its campaign.

Painted in France in 1866 and titled "Slave Market," the painting "shows a black, apparently Muslim slave trader displaying a naked young woman with much lighter skin to a group of men for examination," probably in North Africa.

Slave Market, by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1866.

The Alternative for Germany party (AfD), founded in 2013 and first elected to Germany's national parliament in 2017, has been putting up posters of the painting with the slogan, "So that Europe won't become Eurabia."

"We are strongly opposed to the use of this work to advance any political agenda," objects Olivier Meslay, director of the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, which houses the original painting. He said his museum had written to AfD, "insisting that they cease and desist in using this painting." Despite the rather legal tone, the painting is in the public domain; even Meslay acknowledges that "there are no copyrights or permissions that allow us to exert control over how it is used other than to appeal to civility on the part of the AfD Berlin."

"So that Europe won't become Eurabia."

For its part, the AfD said the U.S. museum's call is "a futile attempt to gag the AfD," adding that "[t]he German public has the right to find out about the truth about the possible consequences of illegal mass immigration."

Other elements in Germany are even more hostile to the AfD's painting/poster: almost as soon as they are put up, every poster has been torn down, so that "party workers have had to repeatedly put up new copies, only to see them destroyed again the following night."

What to make of all this? Objectively speaking, the "Slave Market" painting in question portrays a reality that has played out countless times over the centuries: African and Middle Eastern Muslims have long targeted European women—so much so as to have enslaved millions of them over the centuries (as copiously documented in my recent book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, from which the following quotes and statistics are derived).

The Muslim demand for, in the words of one historian, "white-complexioned blondes, with straight hair and blue eyes," traces back to the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, who enticed his followers to wage jihad against neighboring Byzantium by citing its blonde ("yellow") women awaiting them as potential concubines.

For over a millennium, Islamic rulers coaxed their men to jihad on Europe by citing its fair women.

For over a millennium afterwards, Islamic caliphates, emirates, and sultanates—of the Arab, Berber, Turkic, and Tatar variety—also coaxed their men to jihad on Europe by citing (and later sexually enslaving) its fair women. Accordingly, because the "Umayyads particularly valued blond or red-haired Franc or Galician women as sexual slaves," Dario Fernandez-Morera writes, "al-Andalus [Islamic Spain] became a center for the trade and distribution of slaves."

Indeed, the insatiable demand for fair women was such that, according to M.A. Khan, an Indian author and former Muslim, it is "impossible to disconnect Islam from the Viking slave-trade, because the supply was absolutely meant for meeting [the] Islamic world's unceasing demand for the prized white slaves" and "white sex-slaves." Emmet Scott goes further, arguing that "it was the caliphate's demand for European slaves that called forth the Viking phenomenon in the first place."

As for numbers, according to the conservative estimate of American professor Robert Davis, "between 1530 and 1780 [alone] there were almost certainly a million and quite possibly as many as a million and a quarter white, European Christians enslaved by the Muslims of the Barbary Coast," that is, of North Africa, the telling setting of the painting. By 1541, "Algiers teemed with Christian captives [from Europe], and it became a common saying that a Christian slave was scarce a fair barter for an onion."

With countless sexually enslaved European women—some seized from as far as Denmark, Iceland, and even Iceland—selling for the price of vegetables, little wonder that European observers by the late 1700s noted how "the inhabitants of Algiers have a rather white complexion."

Further underscoring the rapacious and relentless drive of the Muslim slave industry, consider this: The United States of America's first war—which it fought before it could even elect its first president—was against these same Islamic slavers. When Thomas Jefferson and John Adams asked Barbary's ambassador why his countrymen were enslaving American sailors, the "ambassador answered us that it was founded on the laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that ... it was their right and duty to make war upon them [non-Muslims] wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners."

The situation was arguably worse for Eastern Europeans; the slave markets of the Ottoman sultanate were for centuries so inundated with Slavic flesh that children sold for pennies, "a very beautiful slave woman was exchanged for a pair of boots, and four Serbian slaves were traded for a horse." In Crimea, some three million Slavs were enslaved by the Ottomans' Muslim allies, the Tatars. "The youngest women are kept for wanton pleasures," observed a seventeenth century Lithuanian.

Though Gérôme's painting is in the public domain, Olivier Meslay has demanded that AfD "cease and desist" from using it.

Even the details of the "Slave Market" painting/poster, which depicts a nude and fair-skinned female slave being pawed at by potential buyers, echoes reality. Based on a twelfth-century document dealing with slave auctions in Cordoba, Muslim merchants "would put ointments on slave girls of a darker complexion to whiten their faces... ointments were placed on the face and body of black slaves to make them 'prettier.'" 
Then, the Muslim merchant "dresses them all in transparent clothes" and "tells the slave girls to act in a coquettish manner with the old men and with the timid men among the potential buyers to make them crazy with desire."

In short, outrage at the Alternative for Germany's use of the "Slave Market" painting is just another attempt to suppress the truth concerning Muslim/Western history—especially in its glaring continuity with the present. For the essence of that painting—Muslim men pawing at and sexually preying on fair women—has reached alarming levels all throughout Western Europe, especially Germany.

Note: The historic events, statistics, and quotes narrated above—and more like them—are fully documented in Raymond Ibrahim's Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West.

Raymond Ibrahim is a Judith Friedman Rosen Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

Source: https://www.meforum.org/58519/painting-muslims-enslaving-white-women

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Time for Iran to Face a Reckoning - Bruce Thornton

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by Bruce Thornton

The mullahs can only be stopped by means of “the mailed fist.”

While the media obsess over chimeras like the president’s obstruction of justice for nonexistent crimes, and AG Barr’s impeachment for obeying the law, a collision between the U.S. and Iran is brewing in the Middle East. The question now is whether Iran will finally face the reckoning it has invited and deserved for 42 years, or the latest crisis will peter out into U.S. saber-rattling and empty threats.

Donald Trump has made a good start at ending our nearly half-century appeasement of a regime that has declared war on the U.S. and backed it up by murdering Americans and working to create nuclear weapons that would make even more difficult, or even prohibitive, the price of punishing them for their aggression.

Since Jimmy Carter’s timid, feckless response to the 1979 American embassy hostage crisis, we have signaled to the mullahs that we will not exact a cost for their aggression. And this failure has been a bipartisan effort. When in 1983 Iranian proxies murdered 241 of our military personnel in Beirut, the Reagan administration pulled out even as the French and the Israelis strafed and bombed “Little Tehran,” the terrorist camps set up in the Beqaa Valley by Tehran, which nurtured the attackers. Since then Iran has been implicated in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and periodically taken hostage American citizens and sailors. In Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran’s Quds Force, the regime’s shock troops of global terror, have facilitated and participated in the murder of our soldiers. And it has continued to train and financially support terrorist gangs like Hezbollah and Hamas.

More recently, under the leadership of Al Quds chief Qassem Soleimani, Iran has been working to establish bases in Syria, and has sent thousands of Iranians and mercenary jihadists to help prop up thuggish Bashar al-Assad. At the same time, it has been building up an armed presence on Israel’s northern border in preparation for Iran’s long-time goal to “wipe Israel off the map.” Closer to home, Iran has sent forces to Venezuela to prop up caudillo Nicolás Maduro and maintain a friendly base for developing terrorists to sneak into America and attack the homeland.

After 42 years of U.S. appeasement of Iran’s aggression, Trump is pushing back. He has withdrawn the U.S. from Obama’s disastrous “Iran deal,” which removed economic sanctions and paid a $1.5 billion bribe just to buy at best a 10-15-year delay in the mullahs’ acquisition of nuclear weapons. Trump has restored punitive sanctions and is imposing “maximum pressure,” as National Security Advisor John Bolton put it, on the regime to starve it of the oil revenue it uses for its adventurism in Syria and its clandestine nuclear weapons and missile programs. In addition, Trump has placed the Republican Guard Corp, the mullah’s private security firm at home and fomenters of terror abroad, on the list of terrorist organizations, and put sanctions on the Guard’s extensive economic assets.

And the impact on Iran’s economy is starting to bite. A deteriorating economy and runaway inflation––in the last month prices for food, drink, and tobacco have risen 85%–– have roiled the country. According to Middle East analyst Shoshanah Bryen as quoted by Michael Ledeen, there have been scores of public demonstrations in multiple cities; chants praising Reza Shah, the ruler and Westernizing reformer overthrown by the jihadists in 1979; calls for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to “leave the country alone”; and continuing nationwide strikes against the regime by truckers, bazaar merchants, teachers, students, farmers, and railway workers. The government has jailed and killed protestors, but economic conditions continue to worsen, and Iran seems heading closer to civil war.

Feeling the pressure, the mullahs have responded to Trump’s plan to end sanctions waivers for countries still buying Iranian oil by announcing Iran’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal––which we know from Israeli intelligence it has been violating anyway––if the sanctions are not lifted,; and by threatening to close the Straits of Hormuz, through which passes a fifth of the world’s oil. Hamas’ recent 36-hour, 600-missile barrage against Israel on May 4 and 5 was also likely an Iranian-ordered response to Trump’s increasingly tough moves. And an attack last weekend on two Saudi oil tankers and a Norwegian ship near the Gulf likely came from Iran.

According to DEBKA, intelligence reports have also uncovered an Iranian plot to use its proxies to attack the U.S.’s Al Tanf garrison in eastern Syria, strategically located near where the Syrian, Iraq, and Jordanian borders meet. According to CNN’s Barbara Starr, PJ Media reports, US officials have said that “the threats from Iran included ‘specific and credible’ intelligence that Iranian forces and proxies were targeting U.S. forces in Syria, Iraq and at sea. There were multiple threads of intelligence about multiple locations.” In preparation for these attacks, Iranian missiles of varying ranges have been deployed in western Iraq.

In response to these threats, the Trump administration has planned sanctions on Iranian metal exports, its second biggest source of export revenue. More important, he has ordered to the Red Sea the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group, accompanied by the USS Arlington warship; and deployed bombers, stealth aircraft, Patriot anti-missile batteries, and fighter jets throughout the region. We have also made it clear to the Iranians that we will hold them responsible for any attack by their proxies on American forces, and retaliate against Iranian territory and Revolutionary Guard bases.

Such events could be converging towards a violent showdown between the U.S. and Iran. How, then, to respond? On the one hand, Iran could be bluffing, using bluster and histrionic threats to save face. Its domestic economicl weakness and military puniness compared to the U.S. may concentrate the mullahs’ minds and restrain its actions. In Iran’s war with Iraq in the late Eighties, the mullahs attempted to create chaos in the Persian Gulf by attacking international shipping and the USS Stark, killing 37 sailors and injuring 21.  We responded with operation Earnest Will, which destroyed Iranian naval vessels and mine-layers, and Revolutionary Guards bases located on oil platforms. Iran stopped the attacks. The mullahs may not be ready yet to provoke our military might again.

In that case Iran may try to wait out Trump in the hopes that he will be removed from office in 2020, and replaced by a weak-kneed Democrat who like Obama finds “diplomatic engagement” a convenient excuse to avoid action. Given how eagerly our European “allies” want to do business with Iraq and circumvent sanctions, not to mention China’s insatiable appetite for oil, it’s not an unreasonable bet to wait for regime-change in America to restore the appeasement status quo ante. After all, even if Iran has slowed down its nuclear development in recent years, it still maintains the expertise and infrastructure for manufacturing nuclear weapons that can be mounted on missiles capable of reaching most of Europe. As the dysfunctional pygmy-state North Korea has shown, possession of nuclear weapons deters not just weak sisters like the EU, but also a superpower like ours despite the most powerful military in history.

On the other hand, we should not be hasty in assuming that Iran is merely blustering. Its economic weakness and domestic disaffection with its expensive adventurism abroad are seismic forces building towards a political earthquake. And we can’t be sure how the mullahs will respond. They and their praetorian Revolutionary Guards may be just a corrupt gang out for self-enrichment, and will hurry to jet off into exile when the end is near. Or they may be religious fanatics, true believers in an apocalyptic cult that will welcome the domestic and regional violence as an opportunity to destroy Israel and usher in the global triumph of Islam. Can we afford to wait and settle the question with experience, the teacher of fools?

We can’t. We are approaching the time when Iran must face a reckoning and pay for its decades of aggression against us and our interests. More delay brings us closer to Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons, which will radically increase the costs of action and endanger our most important ally, Israel. A Democrat U.S. president and Congress in power will return us to Obama’s appeasing policies that have facilitated Iran’s increasing aggression. Finally, sanctions take time, and economic collapse could spark a civil war that will create chaos with unpredictable consequences.

For now, Iran has given the West 60 days to ease sanctions waivers, and Trump has postponed the sanctions on metal exports for 90 days. But we can’t afford to wait any longer. The president’s actions over the last two years have stopped the appeasement and put the mullahs on notice that we will no longer participate in the kabuki theater of “diplomatic engagement” and unenforced swiss-cheese treaties and “plans of action” that remain all “plan” and no “action.” But all that is just step one. The next step requires mind-concentrating action. If Iran makes good on its threats to close the straits, or if its proxies attack and kill American troops in Syria, then our response must be devastating and linked to escalating levels of destruction until the mullahs get their minds right.

To paraphrase Duff Cooper’s comments about Neville Chamberlain’s infamous deal with Hitler in 1938, the mullahs cannot be stopped “through the language of sweet reasonableness,” but only that “of the mailed fist.” The Europeans and our own globalists will counsel even more of the former, relying on a Micawber foreign policy based on the hope that “something will turn up” to save them from the politically risky costs of action. We should not listen to them. It’s time for Iran to feel the “mailed fist.”


Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, a Research Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, and a Professor of Classics and Humanities at the California State University. He is the author of nine books and numerous essays on classical culture and its influence on Western Civilization. His most recent book, Democracy's Dangers and Discontents (Hoover Institution Press), is now available for purchase.

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273761/time-iran-face-reckoning-bruce-thornton

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