Latest intelligence on the world situation, updates on US military capabilities, news that affects Military retirees, and news that will probably never be reported by the "Liberal American Media!"...

Military Newsletter

 

Latest intelligence on the world situation, updates on US military capabilities, news that affects Military retirees, 

and news that will probably never be reported by the "Liberal American Media!"

 

Edited by Lt Col Kent Vasby, USAF, Ret

 

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Parade, ceremonies, live webcast to mark Pearl Harbor Day Today

 

The 74th anniversary of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will be commemorated Monday with ceremonies, a parade and a host of other events from Washington, D.C., to the site of the attack in Hawaii that drew the United States into World War II.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/12/06/parade-ceremonies-live-webcast-mark-pearl-harbor-day-monday/76884248/

 

 

 

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If Obama had been President for Pearl Harbor 

 

Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtjdfi8skj0

 

 

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Six Years Later: Obama Finally Calls Fort Hood a Terrorist Attack

 

 

Almost Radical Islam? - Obama on ISIS: 'They are thugs and killers,' a 'perverted interpretation of Islam'

 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/12/06/obama-on-isis-they-are-thugs-and-killers-a-perverted-interpretation-of-islam/

 

 

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U.S. Intel to Obama: ISIS Is Not Contained

 

A new U.S. intelligence report on ISIS, commissioned by the White House, predicts that the self-proclaimed Islamic State will spread worldwide and grow in numbers, unless it suffers a significant loss of territory on the battlefield in Iraq and Syria (and Libya).

 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/06/us-intel-to-obama-isis-is-not-contained.html

 

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ISIS Inc: Extraordinary documents show terror group's masterplan for world domination

 

ISIS has created staggeringly sophisticated levels of administration in a bid to turn its self-declared caliphate into a legitimate state.

 

The terrorists have created departments to administer over the health, education and the treasury sectors.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3349348/ISIS-Extraordinary-documents-terror-group-s-masterplan-oiled-admin-machine-plans-health-education-two-week-annual-jihadi-refresher-course-weapons-training.html

 

 

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Investigators search home of shooter's former neighbor again

 

Police believe Enrique Marquez purchased the two modified 'assault-style' weapons that were used in Wednesday's massacre that left 14 dead

 

Yes, this is Enrique!

 

Marquez admitted himself to a mental health facility in Long Beach after Wednesday'sattack and has been unavailable for questioning

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3348328/The-baby-faced-nerd-bought-assault-style-weapons-childhood-best-friend-Syed-Farook-checked-mental-hospital-hours-office-party-massacre.html#

 

 

 

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Crowded skies!

 

 

Unusual footage: Russian drone films American drone over Syria

 

According to the Russians, during the last few days the US-led coalition in Syria has deployed three times more drones than before with up to 50 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles often up in the air at the same time.

 

http://theaviationist.com/2015/12/05/unusual-footage-russian-us-uav/

 

 

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After 60 Years, B-52s Still Dominate U.S. Fleet

 

The B-52 is an Air Force plane that refuses to die. Originally slated for retirement generations ago, it continues to be deployed in conflict after conflict. It dropped the first hydrogen bomb in the Bikini Islands in 1956, and laser-guided bombs in Afghanistan in 2006. It has outlived its replacement. And its replacement's replacement. And its replacement's replacement's replacement. 

 

Air Force commanders are now urging the Pentagon to deploy B-52s in Syria.

 

The B.U.F.F. is like the rook in a chess game, said Maj. Mark Burley, Just by how you position it on the board, it changes the posture of your adversary.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/us/b-52s-us-air-force-bombers.html?

 

 

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Turkey angered by rocket-brandishing on Russian naval ship passing Istanbul 

 

Turkey accused Russia of a "provocation" on Sunday after a serviceman on the deck of a Russian naval ship allegedly held a rocket launcher on his shoulder while the vessel passed through Istanbul.

 

Read more at Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-turkey-russia-idUSKBN0TP0JW20151206#

 

 

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Erdogan: Turkey Can Find Alternatives To Russian Energy

 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Ankara may find alternatives to buying Russian oil and gas as bilateral relations deteriorate over the downing of a Russian warplane. 

 

http://www.rferl.org/content/turkey-russia-energy-alternatives/27409842.html

 

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The Alternative is Israel?

 

 

Turkey-Israel agree to start works on pipeline project

 

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/finance/9460948.asp?scr=1

 

 

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Northrop Grumman to develop GPS backup for subs

 

 

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $19.8 million Navy contract to develop a backup navigation system for submarines when GPS isn't available. 

 

http://www.c4isrnet.com/story/military-tech/geoint/2015/12/04/northrop-grumman-develop-gps-backup-subs/76783464/

 

 

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Carson: No need for transgender troops

 

 

GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson opposes allowing openly transgender people in the armed services, saying it would amount to "using our military as a laboratory for social experimentation." 

 

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/262258-carson-no-need-for-transgender-troops

   

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Penis Transplants Being Planned to Help Wounded Troops

 

Within a year, maybe in just a few months, a young soldier with a horrific injury from a bomb blast in Afghanistan will have an operation that has never been performed in the United States: a penis transplant. 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/07/health/penis-transplants-being-planned-to-heal-troops-hidden-wounds.html?

 

 

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Here's how to replace military service records and awards

 

Army veterans and retirees who served on active duty or in the reserves and their family members are eligible to receive a variety of service-related documents for free. It's just a matter of knowing how. 

 

http://www.armytimes.com/story/veterans/2015/12/06/heres-how-replace-military-service-records-and-awards/76730686/

 

 

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Few women choose to stay in submarine force

 

 

For the first women to earn the coveted dolphin pin, it's decision time about whether to stay in the Navy. 

 

And so far, only three of the original 24 have signed up. 

 

http://www.navytimes.com/story/military/careers/navy/2015/12/06/sources-few-women-choose-stay-submarine-force/76605940/

 

 

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The other migrant crisis: Cubans are streaming north in large numbers

 

 

No worries - we need more future presidential candidates

 

A year after President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro announced with great fanfare their plans to normalize relations, an old source of tension has stubbornly returned, with a rush of Cubans trying to get to the United States. 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/the-other-migrant-crisis-cubans-are-streaming-north-in-large-numbers/2015/12/05/3160772e-992f-11e5-aca6-1ae3be6f06d2_story.html?

 

 

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Videos

 

PTSD - quite a song

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wq0X0bwMprQ?feature=player_embedded

Thanks, Marty

 

In response to Obama's "Address to the Nation" last night.

Thanks, Tom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AKrhKJUerU0

 

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Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding,  subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Thanks, Dick P

 

Here are the winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

 

2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

 

3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

 

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

 

5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

 

6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

 

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high

 

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

 

9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

 

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

 

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious                                                           bummer.

 

12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

 

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

 

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

 

15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

 

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

 

17. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

 

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The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

And the winners are:

 

1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.

 

2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.

 

3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

 

4. Esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.

 

5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.

 

6. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.

 

7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.

 

8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.

 

9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.

 

10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.

 

11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.

 

12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

 

13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.

 

14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

 

15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

 

16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

 

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INVENTION OF THE CAR BACK-UP SENSOR

Thanks, Marty

 

Most of the newest cars have a Back-Up Sensor that warns the driver before

the rear bumper actually comes in contact with something.

 

Most people probably think that this valuable feature came out of the minds of engineers,

but it was recently disclosed that the concept was first developed by a Chinese farmer.

 

His invention was simple and effective.

It emits a high-pitched squeal when the vehicle backs into something.

 

 

 

 

Well ...what can I say without offending Obambo?

Through provoking random thoughts .... One picture is worth a 1000 words!

 

See: http://conservativerefocus.com/blogs/blog5.php/2015/12/04/us-department-of-homeland-security  there are 72 EMPLOYEES at the department of Homeland Security that are on our U.S. Terrorist Watch List

 

  

  

 

 

Obama's plan for climate change.......

Sinaloa: arrests made in the Australian surfer murders...

Borderland Beat

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Sinaloa: arrests made in the Australian surfer murders Posted: 04 Dec 2015 06:03 PM PST Lucio R. Borderland Beat republished from NYT with info from Reforma Take it or leave it, authorities have solved the crime, and arrested the suspects, the same authorities who previously claimed the bodies sustained no gunshots...here is what they now claim ......LR Three suspects ( Julio Cesar Gonzalez Muniz, Martin Rogelio Muniz Ponce and Sergio Simon Benitez Gonzalez) have been detained in connection with the presumed killing of two Australian tourists who went missing last month, prosecutors in Mexico's Sinaloa state said Friday. State prosecutor Marco Antonio Higuera said the three men were robbing motorists on a stretch of highway leading south through Navolato, Sinaloa. He said two other suspected members of the robbery gang remained at large. The three were arrested on low-level drug-dealing and weapons charges, but Higuera said he expects homicide charges to be filed against them soon. "This is just a gang of five people who committed highway robberies. They don't have links to drug cartels," Higuera said. One of them had previously been investigated for the killing of a man in a similar robbery, prosecutors said. The gang is alleged to have killed Adam Coleman and Dean Lucas after Coleman resisted the robbery just after midnight Nov. 21. The thieves allegedly shot the two Australians to death, then doused their van with gasoline and set it afire. Two charred bodies found inside the van the next day have not yet been positively identified. Tests are continuing. But the van's vehicle identification number matched one registered to Coleman in Canada. Evidence presented at a news conference showed the arrested men had rifles, a shotgun, pistols, 124 small bags of methamphetamine and jackets with police logos on them. It was unclear whether they were wearing the police jackets at the time they allegedly stopped the van. According to prosecutors, a lookout for the gang spotted the van before it got to Navolato and advised his accomplices it was a likely target. The thieves apparently stopped the van after it passed a toll booth, as the two Australians drove south through Sinaloa toward Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city. Prosecutors said the thieves, traveling in an SUV, forced the van to stop. Coleman purportedly struggled with the thieves, and one of them shot Coleman, but he didn't die immediately. The van was then driven to a rural road, where both victims were apparently shot to death and one member of the gang lit the van on fire. Coleman and Lucas were traveling to Guadalajara from Edmonton, Alberta, and failed to arrive as planned on Nov. 21. The two surfers got off a ferry from the Baja California peninsula at Topolobampo, Sinaloa, at about 10:30 p.m. on Nov. 20. The burned-out van was found the next day.

Reasons to vote for Conservative principals...Vote Responsibly!

 

Russia's Failed Adventure in Syria by Con Coughlin  •  December 1, 2015 at 5:00 am Then there is the question of just how long Russia can afford to sustain its expensive military adventure in Syria. The Russian economy already has enough difficulties without having to bear the cost of Mr Putin's latest act of military aggression. Left: A Russian SU-24 bomber crashing after being shot down by a Turkish F-16 fighter on Nov. 24. Right: A Syrian rebel fighter prepares to fire a TOW missile at an Assad regime tank. Russian President Vladimir Putin may well come to regret agreeing to Iran's request for Moscow to intervene militarily in Syria's brutal civil war. The shooting down of a Russian warplane over the Syrian border by Turkey has graphically illustrated the risks Moscow faces after the Kremlin agreed to intervene on behalf of Syria's beleaguered President Bashar al-Assad. Mr Putin took his fateful decision to launch military action in Syria after meeting Major-General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's notorious Quds Force, in Moscow last August. Visiting Moscow shortly after the conclusion of June's deal on the future of Iran's nuclear programme (JCPOA), Soleimani delivered a blunt warning to the Russian leader that the Assad regime, Russia's long-standing strategic ally in the Middle East, faced defeat without outside support. Continue Reading Article

Turkey sharply escalated Russian-NATO relations on November 24 by downing a Russian Su-24 bomber near the Turkish-Syrian border. ...

Russia Security Update:  November 18-25, 2015

by Hugo Spaulding, Daniel Pitcairn, and Daniel Urchick    Turkey sharply escalated Russian-NATO relations on November 24 by downing a Russian Su-24 bomber near the Turkish-Syrian border. Turkey reported that the Russian bomber had violated Turkish airspace and ignored repeated warnings before Turkish F-16s shot the aircraft down. Syrian rebels killed one Russian pilot, and a subsequent search-and-rescue mission in northern Syria resulted in the death of a Russian marine and the destruction of a Russian helicopter. Russia is likely to take escalatory measures to project force against NATO's southern flank in response to Turkey's actions. Russia has already announced the deployment of its most advanced S-400 air defense system to the Russian airbase in Latakia and the resumption of fighter jet escorts of its bombers, a practice reportedly halted in the wake of an October 20 memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Russia also announced that its flagship missile cruiser near the Syrian coast would "destroy" any aircraft threatening posing a threat to its warplanes. The first downing of a Russian plane by a NATO member since the Korean War represents a direct challenge to the great power image President Putin seeks to cultivate and is likely to accelerate Russia's intervention in the region.  The expansion of Russian military activity in the region underscores Russia's primary grand strategic objective, to assert itself as a great power rival to the U.S. and a direct rival to NATO. Russia's escalation, which increased sharply after the ISIS attacks in Paris on November 13, accelerated further with the transit of long-range strategic bombers around Western Europe's coast and the launch of cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea on November 20. This escalation signaled Russia's intent to challenge Western states while it claims to conduct counterterrorism operations. The U.K. scrambled jets as Russian long-range bombers passed near its airspace and has reportedly been conducting joint search operations with Canada and France for a Russian submarine, though it is unclear that the submarine is destined for Syria. Russian long-range bombers and cruise missiles from the Caspian disrupted air traffic in Iraq, including U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition flights out of Iraqi Kurdistan. Russia also disrupted air traffic into and out of Lebanon over the Mediterranean.   As Russia projects aggression against its opponents, it continues to pursue deeper ties with its new regional partners, namely Iran and Egypt. Russia loosened a ban on the export of nuclear equipment and technology to Iran and signed an agreement to help build Egypt's first nuclear power plant. Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Iran for the first time since 2007 to meet with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who called for "closer interaction" with Russia to counter the U.S. in the Middle East. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu later met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo, where he said Russia was ready to "closely cooperate" against ISIS's affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula. Russia's efforts to expand its partnerships with Iran and Egypt are a key component of its intervention in the Middle East which aims to project Russian military power at the expense of U.S. influence in the region. Russia views France as both a potential partner and rival to its military intervention. France confirmed that its newly deployed Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier began deconflicting operations with Russian naval assets near the Syrian coast. Russia seeks to draw France and some U.S. regional partners into its proposed alternative counterterrorism alliance without sacrificing its freedom of action in Syria. French President Francois Hollande signaled that he would be unwilling to partner with Russia if Russia continues to strike non-terrorist targets on behalf of the Syrian regime ahead of his meeting with Vladimir Putin on November 26.          Read this update online

WHAT A LEADER WITH A CLEAR WORLDVIEW AND SOLUTIONS SOUNDS LIKE ...

One Citizen Speaking...

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WHAT A LEADER WITH A CLEAR WORLDVIEW AND SOLUTIONS SOUNDS LIKE ... Posted: 21 Nov 2015 02:30 AM PST There is little doubt that the leader of the greatest nation on the face of the Earth, the United States of America, could learn much from the leader of one of the smallest nations on the face of the Earth, Israel. There is little doubt that Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, not only can explain free market economics, but that he understands exactly what is occurring in the Middle East. And, has proven he can implement policies, with his strongest ally, the United States of America, to keep his nation and people safe among bloodthirsty nations that would like nothing better than to annihilate the State of Israel. Here is a video of Netanyahu speaking at the American Enterprise Institute … Netanyahu on economics … So how do I explain the idea of free markets and their centrality in today’s world? And so, three weeks later, I did a press conference and I said, I want to fall back on my first day in basic training in the Israeli paratroops. The commander put us in a straight line and he said, you are now going to take a race. But it’s a special kind of race. Each man looked to his right; you are the first man, he pointed to me. Put the guy to your right on your shoulders, and the next guy did that, and then the guy after him did that. And I got a pretty big guy. He was heavy. The next guy was the smallest guy in the platoon, and he got the biggest guy on his shoulders. And the third guy was a big guy, and he got a small guy, and so on. And then the commander blew the whistle. I barely managed to move forward. The next guy, the guy next to me, the small guy with the big guy on his shoulders, collapsed. And the third guy took off like a rocket and won the race. And I said, in the modern economies, all national economies are pairs of a public sector sitting on the shoulder of the private sector. In our case, the public sector became too big, too fat. (Applause.) And we’re about to collapse. So we have to put the fat man on a diet and we have to strengthen the guy at the bottom, give him a lot of oxygen in his lungs. That means lowering tax rates. And, third, we have to remove the obstacles, the barriers to the race, barriers to competition.  By the way, this became known as the fat man/thin man thing, and taxi drivers could repeat it. But, effectively, we ended up doing exactly that. We constrained the growth of public spending. We lowered tax rates. I had a big argument about that. They said who’s this guy “Laufer”? I said, no, no, it’s not “Laufer.” His name is Laffer. And we actually tried it. And it works. It worked for us, big time. (Applause.) And we instituted a lot, a lot of reforms. I mean, even earlier, as prime minister in my first term, I removed, you know, all constraints on foreign currency exchange. And that was supposed to collapse our economy. And, of course, everybody was warning me that a mountain of money will move. It did – into the country, you know. An elegant and understandable explanation of why a growing public sector, including its corrupt public employee unions, will eventually collapse the private sector. Netanyahu on the Palestinian issues … The reason, first of all, the conflict that we have in the Middle East is multiple. It used to be said that the core of the conflict, in the singular, in the Middle East is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Well, that went by the window. When you see Iraq collapsing, Syria collapsing, Yemen collapsing, Libya collapsing and everything else in turmoil, nothing to do with us. The core of the conflicts in the Middle East is the battle between modernity and early, primitive medievalism. That’s the core of the conflicts. (Applause.) The core of the specific conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is the persistent Palestinian refusal to recognize a Jewish state in any boundary. This is why this conflict persisted for 50 years before there was a state, before there were territories, before there were settlements.  If that were the core of the conflict, the settlements, why did it take place when my grandfather landed in Jaffa in 1920? Jews were murdered then for what? There was no West Bank. There were no settlements. Now, that continued in 1921, 1929, 1936, 1939, 1948. What was that all about? Nineteen sixty-seven, for nearly half a century we were being attacked because there was a persistent refusal to accept us in any boundary. Well, we got into these territories as a result of the conflict. And what Arab propaganda has done by endless repetition is to turn the result of the conflict into its cause.  Now, how do you know that that’s the case? Because we left Gaza completely, every last centimeter, and they’re still firing rockets at us from Gaza. And when you ask them, why are you doing this? Is it to liberate the West Bank? And they say, yeah, sure. That too, but no. It’s to liberate Palestine, you know, Acre, Haifa, Jaffa. They always get back to Jaffa.  So now I turn to the other guys, to the Palestinian Authority and not to Hamas. At least they don’t practice violence, which is important. And I say, well, what about you? Are you willing to recognize the Jewish state? Are you willing to recognize the fact – you’ll have a nation-state for the Palestinian people.  How about a nation-state for the Jewish people? I mean, after all, we’ve only been there almost 4,000 years, and we recognize there’s two peoples there. We’re willing to make the deal. Are you willing to make the deal? Are you willing to recognize the Jewish state? Because there’s no point in making another Palestinian state, another Arab state that will continue the battle from improved lines against the Jewish state. Are you willing to end the conflict, give up the claim of the so-called right of return? Make peace. And you know what happens when you ask them that? They move. They say, oh, we’re willing to recognize Israel. I didn’t ask Israel. I said are you willing to terminate all claims to the Jewish state? You won’t get Jaffa. You won’t flood us with refugees. Are you willing to do that? And the answer is they’re not. We will have peace when the Palestinians will accord us what they ask us to accord them. We’re willing to have – let them have a state of their own. They have to reconcile themselves to the fact that we have a state of our own and it’s here to stay. That is the core of the problem. (Applause.) In the Middle East, modernity against medievalism, Israel and the Palestinians, the persistent refusal to recognize a Jewish state in any boundary. I hope that changes. Again, an elegant and understandable explanation of why there cannot be any peace between Israel and the Palestinian state. Unfortunately, President Obama, and now John Kerry, keep demanding that Israel cede ground to the Palestinians – but have never gotten beyond a simple declaration that the Palestinians are willing to recognize Israel as a sovereign state and give up their ambitions to occupy Israel in the future. What is going on now … President Obama certainly needs something from the American Jews:  support for the progressive socialist democrats in the upcoming 2016 presidential election cycle. After disrespecting Benjamin Netanyahu and the State of Israel for the entirety of his presidency, Jews are starting to notice that Obama’s worldview is not only pro-Muslim, pro-Palestinian, anti-Jew, but also bad for the economy and the safety and security of the United States. Obama is also having a difficult time convincing his core constituency, the Blacks, that they have not been disrespected, disadvantaged, and murdered in the inner cities under democrat governance. That their jobs are flowing to illegal aliens. And, that any promise President Obama makes is as big a lie as “If you want to keep your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Period.” So how else can you explain the release of a man fairly convicted for selling out his nation to convey classified information to Israel. Yes, we spy on them and they spy on us. But, there are consequences to being a traitor. Jonathan Pollard, American Who Spied for Israel, Released After 30 Years For 30 years, Mr. Pollard was at the center of a profound struggle between Washington and Jerusalem, one that shadowed American presidents and Israeli prime ministers since Ronald Reagan was in the White House. The Americans called him a traitor. The Israelis deemed him a soldier, to some a hero. At times, both made him a diplomatic bargaining chip. The only American ever sentenced to life in prison for spying for an ally, Mr. Pollard was freed on parole to an uncertain future. “After three long and difficult decades, Jonathan has been reunited with his family,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said in a statement from Jerusalem. Noting that he had “raised Jonathan’s case for years” with American leaders, Mr. Netanyahu added, “May this Sabbath bring him much joy and peace that will continue in the years and decades ahead.” <Source> The only thing that could have convinced President Obama to release Pollard is he needs the disaffected Jews to overlook ant-Jewish behavior and return to the fold. In fact, it appears that Obama is hedging his bet for round two – keeping Pollard from traveling to Israel, where he is regarded as a hero by many – until Obama is ready to make secondary demands. Bottom line … Watch Netanyahu’s speak. This is what a patriot sounds like when he is defending his nation and his people; both militarily and economically. Men and women serve openly side-by-side in the Israeli defense forces. There are no social experiments involving gays and transgenders. The Israelis need everyone pulling together to face existential threats. They take care of their own people. They try to unite rather than divide. Israel is perhaps one of the only places where leaders are not deified and vociferously questioned by a tough media and an even tougher public. Israel is the only place where you have arguments for argument’s sake and eleven opinions are likely to come from ten people in the same room. But, in the final analysis, they act together. They have learned that people, Israelis and Arabs alike, will do bad things on occasion; commit heinous acts. But they do not let that define them as a people and their leaders do not exploit the tragedy and crisis for domestic political gain. If we continue under the progressive social democrats into pursuing President Obama’s divisive and transformative politics, we are doomed as a nation. Or as my best friend Al is wont to say, “We are so screwed.” -- steve

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