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Assad and Hizbullah are becoming as One!

Assad will regret this bonding in the Future!

Hizbullah is likely to be involved in a Takeover

By new Syria leader who may be the Antichrist!

October 26, 2008

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‘Syria-Hizbullah ties growing stronger’

October 26, 2008

JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST

Despite recent Syrian overtures towards Israel which have given way to a series of indirect negotiations between the two countries, Damascus has yet to minimize its collusion with Hizbullah, and has instead opted for continually increased cooperation with the organization, Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin said

on Sunday.

“Assad currently trusts Hizbullah more than his own army,” Yadlin said while briefing ministers at the weekly cabinet meeting. “Hizbullah operatives are working from within Syria. The Syrians are loosening all restraints, and [are irresponsibly giving] Hizbullah access to almost all of their strategic capabilities.”

“Currently, Assad is continuing to open up its warehouses to Hizbullah,” Yadlin continued, adding that Syria was “turning into the arms granary” for the guerilla organization.

He also said that Iranian and Syrian involvement in Lebanon was a ruse for wanting to take control of the country.

“Syria and Iran are buying the regime in Lebanon, and are pouring substantial money into buying parliamentary representatives and into conducting dubious business deals,” the MI chief said.

“The Iranian offer to assist in the building of the Lebanese army is an [Iranian] and Hizbullah guise to take control of Lebanon,” he surmised.

Moving on to the issue of Iran, he said that the Islamic Republic was exploiting the current political uncertainty in Israel and the United States to forward its agenda.

“The changing of the governments in the United States and Israel, and the world economic crisis, is being exploited by the radical axis in order to improve its situation,” Yadlin said. “Iran is exploiting the weakness in the international theater, in anticipation of the new government in the US, in order to move forward on its nuclear program, and to soften the network of international opposition.”

While the world financial crisis was taking its toll on Iran, causing the country to lose 15 billion dollars in oil profits, Yadlin warned that the economic situation also worked in Teheran’s favor, negatively affecting the passage of tougher sanctions against the state.

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King of the North Positions for Future Drive,

Against the King of the South and Jerusalem Conquest,

Which I believe will occur at a point in time between 2010 & 2015!

October 26, 2008

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Daniel 11:40 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

Zechariah 14:2 – For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Syrian Troops Enclose Lebanon, Rice Contacts Hamas

From DEBKA-Net-Weekly updated by DEBKAfile

October 25, 2008, 8:14 PM (GMT+02:00)

As part of the incipient thaw in US relations with Damascus, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has relayed a friendly message to Hamas political leader Khalid Meshaal through Syrian foreign minister Walid Muallem’s aides.

The message, described by Moussa Abu Marzouk, one of the heads of Hamas’ Damascus headquarters, as a “verbal communication.” was received as four Syrian divisions completed their deployment on Lebanon’s borders last week.

In the message, Rice praised the Palestinian terrorist group for halting its missile fire into Israel.

DEBKA-Net-Weekly 369 of Oct. 24 exposed the complete deployment – from the Syrian 4th Division along Lebanon’s northern border and the 10th, 12th and 14th Divisions on Lebanon’s eastern frontier opposite the Hermil mountains and the Beqaa Valley, and down to the Hermon Mountains facing South Lebanon and northern Israel.

Neither the Americans nor the Israelis had expected Damascus to round off this troop concentration so fast. It was taken for granted that Damascus would wait to the spring of 2009, after the rainy season. However, president Bashar Assad saw two advantages in going ahead before the Nov. 4 US presidential election:

First, Israel would be unlikely to strike in the days leading up to the US election and, second, Damascus would present the new man in the White House with a fait accompli.

The first concentration of 6-8,000 Syrian troops was disclosed in DEBKA-Net-Weekly 367 on Oct. 3 when two Syrian commando brigades of the 4th Mechanized Division took up positions along 2 km of the El Kebir River which marks that sector of the border – opposite northern Lebanon and its largest town of Tripoli.

Then, last week, Damascus consigned the 12th Mechanized Division to

the border of the Lebanese Beqaa Valley and its central mountains, so completing the encirclement.

Syrian military positions now range from points opposite the northern Lebanese town of Al Qaa on Mt. Hermil to points further south up to the Massena border crossing 50 km north of Beirut. The Syrian 4th and 12th Divisions abut on the 10th Division ranged opposite South Lebanon and the disputed Shebaa Farms enclave. The military chain continues with the 14th commando division positioned on the Syrian slopes of Mt Hermon opposite Israeli military positions.

Not only are Lebanon’s borders enclosed, but Syria, in conjunction with Iran, has also established a military presence inside Lebanon. In the summer, they emplaced radar stations on the tall Lebanese peaks of Mt. Sannine and Barukh of the central mountain range, giving them a detailed view of every move on Lebanese territory, in northern Israel and on the eastern Mediterranean.

All these movements were performed with a nod and a wink from Washington.

Three years after forcing Syria to quit Lebanon, the Bush administration was ready to okay Syria’s massed troop concentration on Lebanese borders.

Permission was granted in an apparently cursory meeting between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Syrian foreign minister Walid Muallem on Sept. 27 at UN Center in New York.

Damascus counted this as validation of its drive for restored domination of Lebanon by dint of its military.

Washington also satisfied itself that the deal promised major profits:

1. The Assad government sounded willing for the first time to obstruct Hizballah and hold up its supplies of military hardware.

Syria’s 4th and 12 Divisions are in position for blocking Hizballah’s primary smuggling routes.

2. It was inferred that Damascus was at last beginning, albeit two years late, to honor UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which banned arms supplies to Hizballah as part of the ceasefire which ended the Israel-Lebanon war. Syria and Iran mocked that resolution for two years by smuggling weapons in bulk to the Shiite terrorists.

3. Damascus’ implied willingness to go against Hizballah was taken by Washington as a measure of Assad’s readiness to stand up to Iran at present – and break away in the future.

4. And might not that willingness be extended to embrace Tehran’s other terrorist protégés, the Palestinian Hamas and Jihad Islami, both of whose headquarters have long been welcome in Damascus?

DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s Middle East sources stressed that, for the time being, all these exciting benefits are no more than fond hopes, which the Bush administration cannot hope to see fully developed in the short months remaining of its term – if at all. Bashar Assad’s relations with the United States are littered with a trail of broken promises, as Rice’s predecessor, Colin Powell, can affirm.

Nevertheless, the secretary of state keeps pushing on.

DEBKAfile’s Washington and Middle East sources reveal that the message she addressed to Hamas’ political chief Khaled Meshaal in Damascus was the first communication ever from a senior US official to the Palestinian fundamentalists, which Washington lists as a terrorist group.

Rice even complimented Hamas for halting its missile and rocket fire into Israel and voiced the hope that Palestinian organization would go further and join Palestinian-Israeli diplomacy.

After Moussa Abu Marzouk on Oct. 22, spilled the beans of what he called American recognition of his organization, the state department issued a hurried denial and set up an interview for Assistant Secretary of State David Welch with the London-based Saudi paper Shawq al Awsat.

The interviewer, Manal Lutfi, pushed hard for an admission of the US-Syrian détente, citing examples. But Welch stuck to his guns: “…I say there is no revision of our policies towards Syria.”

Formally speaking, he was truthful.

However, the groundwork has certainly been laid for the major revision which he denied. Syrian troops have been allowed to openly close in on Lebanon without a demurral from the Bush administration. Washington has been caught out communicating with Bashar Assad’s extremist Palestinian guest, Hamas, for the first time.

The outcome of these preliminaries – milestone in themselves – will no doubt come to light only when a new president sits in the White House and Israel has a new government after a general election early next year.

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Europe and C

atholic Church will back Islam

But will eventually pay a terrible price for doing So!

October 25, 2008

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Europe and the Catholic Church have now become fully aware of the vast Islamic hoard that has become a huge part of Europe’s population, and are horrified as they watch it grow like a population of jack rabbits in north Texas high grass in the forties. To state it plainly, both are running scared of Islam and it can only get worse. When the Islamic beast of Revelation 13, 17 and 18 attacks Israel, I guarantee Europe, the Catholic Church, and many of her Protestant offspring churches, are going to verbally support the forces of Islam, NOT Israel. The churches of Europe supporting Islam and the European Union represent the woman who rides on the Revelation Beast.

However, for their cowardly action against Israel, their flesh will perish and their church buildings will be burned after they have served the purposes of the beast.

Revelation 17:1-6, 12-16 – And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying

unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: [2] With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. [3] So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. [4] And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: [5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,

THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. [6] And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration (amazement). [12] And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

[13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. [14] These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. [15] And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

[16] And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

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Ahmadinejad’s ‘excellent’ speech at the UN

October 21, 2008

NASRIN AMIRSEDGHI , THE JERUSALEM POST

Father Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, the 75-year-old Nicaraguan Catholic priest, winner of the International Lenin Peace Prize and newly elected president since September 16 of the UN General Assembly for the current session, is not just a “fan of plain words,” he is also a fan of heroic deeds. On September 23, we were witnesses to a 21st-century chamber of horrors

at the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly, when he said: “On behalf of the General Assembly, I wish to thank his excellency the president of

the Islamic Republic of Iran and request the representatives to remain seated while I greet the president.”

Brockmann, who personally thanked “his excellency,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for his “excellent” speech, which was dripping with anti-Zionism and hate, interrupted the session and rushed down the stairs to warmly, even enthusiastically, hug and kiss Ahmadinejad. Everyone in the hall clapped and cheered – and here in Europe and everywhere there is dead silence about it.

The Rheinische Post reported on it, days later, on September 27: “Steinmeier chastizes Iran,” according to which the German foreign minister accused the Iranian president of “pure anti-Semitism” because of his speech. But not a word was uttered about the behavior of the “wannabe humanist,” the president of the UN General Assembly on September 23.

Once you look more closely into the personal background of Brockmann, you aren’t at all surprised at such heroism.

As the “son of a wealthy career diplomat who served during the Somoza dictatorship,” he is a Nicaraguan socialist with US citizenship. He wandered since his birth in Los Angeles back and forth “between luxury and revolution,” and “as one of the few remaining companions he is still a close friend, political consultant and father confessor to [Sandinista leader Daniel] Ortega.”

So he developed an enormous need for altruism and charity, which he demonstrated on September 23, 2008 in New York. That is why he is also working to reform the UN Security Council. Brockmann is pushing for a “democratization” of the organization, a kind of “Durban 2,” the conference that will meet in Geneva on April 4, 2009 to install another 21st-century chamber of horrors.

THE THINGS that Ahmadinejad is proclaiming in front of the UN General Assembly are certainly nothing new. Even before the mullahs assumed power in Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was calling on the world’s Islamic communities for a “holy jihad” against Israel back in 1973.

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The belief that the Jews had to disappear was not just empty words by Heinrich Himmler in his notorious speech to a select group of SS officers at a troop leadership conference in Posen in October 1943, but rather the announcement of the most terrible crimes committed in modern day history that resulted in millions of Jews as the victims.

And today Ahmadinejad is shouting about very similar things, just with a different bent: “Israel must be wiped off the map.” In 1943 Germany did not yet have nuclear weapons, but Iran is moving toward them. They are doing what they are saying. They did what they said they were going to do. Back then the world reacted very late, and today it isn’t saying anything.

“WE HAD the moral right, we had the duty to our own people, to kill this people who wanted to kill us… In general, however, we can say that we have carried out this most difficult task out of love for our own people. And we have suffered no harm to our inner self, our soul, our character in so doing” – Heinrich Himmler 1943 in Posen.

And Ahmadinejad, the representative of his regime, justifies his hate for Israel with a similar moral diffusion, but in the name of “mahdi” to save the Muslim “umma.” The former is a thing of the past with all its terrible consequences; the other is the future with the impending dangers for the future.

For a while now, Europeans have kissed and cuddled with their allies, undemocratic countries such as Russia and China and the mullahs, have bought and sold billions and billions of goods and, in the meantime, they share the hope for patience and reason from both sides.

Everyone pleads for “direct diplomacy,” “talks on equal footing” and much much more.

According to the European way of thinking, this is good and has proven itself, but the questions remain: Can someone who doesn’t understand the core alphabet of democracy and diplomacy, someone who apart from a ghastly fantasy that is rooted in Shi’ite piety such as the one-time belief in the “return of the mahdi,” someone who literally makes his own people’s lives a living hell, dips his arm up to his shoulder in blood and who scorns the principles of human rights be a valued partner?

DIDN’T NEVILLE Chamberlain try that back in 1938? He returned to England full of hope and with a signed agreement, convinced that Hitler wasn’t crazy, just “erratic and emotional,” and then millions of Jews ended up in the gas chambers.

Today people call his actions the low point of the “appeasement” policy and view it as a warning not to underestimate dictators. And the Europeans are adhering to the same policy with Iran as Chamberlain did with Germany.

Sitting with Iranian mullahs at a table legitimizes their barbaric domestic policies and their uncivilized foreign policies. The main responsibility for the future lies in the hands of Europe, and particularly the German government. Germany and the Jews were finally liberated from Hitler’s barbaric tyranny with the help of the Allies. Today it is Germany’s duty to take this threat seriously and take action. It needs to look for “democratic allies” (the United States, Great Britain, France, Israel, etc., not Russia and China) and with their help finally free the world and the Iranian people from the mullahs’ barbaric tyranny. Anyone who does not recognize this danger should not be surprised when Iranian atom bombs are flying everywhere.

Today more than ever we need the iron-clad determination of the world community to do everything it can to stop Iran’s progress in building nuclear weapons. Ninety percent of the Iranian people hate their regime and long for democracy and human rights; their most elemental political and cultural wishes are free elections, freedom of the press, equal rights for men and women and those with different beliefs, and a lot more that make up the democratic standards.

What is currently on the agenda in Iran is pure barbarism of the Shi’ite mullahs under the reigning president. It’s like Shimon Peres said on September 25, Ahmadinejad is a “disgrace to Islam” and “Iran stands at the center of world’s violence and fanaticism.”

Ms. Amirsedghi is a publicist and orientalist who fled the Islamic Republic of Iran and lives in Mainz, Germany. She spoke this past May at the Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin Conference, Business as Usual!

The Iranian Regime – The Holy War Against Israel and the West and the German Reaction.

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An Assessment of Obama’s Mettle

October 24, 2008

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The excerpt which follows our heading, by Caroline Glick from the Jerusalem Post, is the best assessment I have read of the international scene which would follow the election of Senator Obama.

Senator Obama is no John F.

Kennedy. He will not stand up to tyrants while they carve up the world for themselves, but he will make eloquent speeches to inform the American public why that

is best, and why it will give us peace and great prosperity during his administration in due time.

Senator McCain is no Ronald Reagan. But as a military war hero, the chance of his being tested is much less than Obama being tested. What our foes want to know is the ACTION the President WOULD take, and I think they already know in McCain’s case. All this is a case of PERCEPTION on the part of our enemies. So I am in no way inferring McCain is more likely to be a President who would cause war sooner than Obama. Quite the contrary, if our enemies perceive weakness in our resolve, then war will come sooner,

In these last days, we need a President who has walked the walk, not one who has just talked the talk!

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Column one: Testing Obama’s mettle

October 24, 2008

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST

In a week and a half, American voters will elect the next US president. Their decision will impact the entire world.

Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama now enjoys a significant lead in the polls against Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. For McCain to win, a lot of Obama supporters will need to reassess their choice for president. This week, Obama’s running-mate Senator Joseph Biden gave Obama supporters a good reason to change their minds.

In much-reported remarks to campaign donors in Seattle on Sunday, Biden warned that if Obama is elected to the White House, it will take America’s adversaries no time at all to test him. In his words, “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama…. The world is looking…. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis,

a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate.”

Biden then continued, “And he’s gonna need help….We’re gonna need you to use your influence…within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”

Many commentators have minimized the importance of Biden’s remarks by claiming that all new leaders are tested. But this is not exactly correct. World leaders test their adversaries when they perceive them as weak. When Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected US president in 1952, the Soviet Union did not move quickly to test the man who had led Allied Forces in World War II. When Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, the Iranian regime released the US hostages it had held for a year and a half.

In speaking as he did, Biden essentially acknowledged three things. First, he recognized that Obama projects an image of weakness and naiveté internationally that invite America’s adversaries to challenge him.

Second, by stating that if Obama is tested a crisis will ensue, Biden made clear that Obama will fail the tests he is handed as a newly inaugurated president. After all, when an able leader is tested, he acts wisely and secures his nation’s interests while averting a crisis.

Finally, Biden made clear that Obama’s failure will be widely noted, and hence, “it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”

IN LIGHT of Biden’s dire warning about his running-mate, the central question that Americans ought to be asking themselves is whether or not Biden is correct. Is it true that Obama projects a posture of weakness and incompetence internationally and is it likely that this posture reflects reality?

Unfortunately, it appears that Biden knows exactly what he is talking about.

Take Iran for example. Obama has stated outright that if he is elected US president he will offer to conduct direct negotiations with his Iranian counterpart President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without preconditions. Yet two weeks ago, the Iranians made clear that their dispute with America is not about who occupies the White House, but about the nature of the US.

Speaking to the official Iranian news service IRNA, Iranian Vice President for Media Affairs Mehdi Kalhor stipulated that Iran will only agree to meet with a US leader after America has bowed to Teheran’s will. In his words, Iran will refuse to hold such high-level talks “for as long as US forces have not left the Middle East region, and [the US] continues its support for the Zionist regime.”

Kalhor explained, “It is stupidity to hold talks without any change in US attitudes.”

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Then on Wednesday, in a visit to US-ally Bahrain, the speaker of the Iranian parliament Ali Larijani gave Obama the regime’s official endorsement. Larijani said, “We are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and rational.”

Iran’s pre-US election behavior indicates that Iran will waste no time testing Obama’s mettle. Iran is behaving as if it fully expects Obama to do what his supporter Rev.

Jesse Jackson expects him to do. That is, like Jackson, Iran expects Obama to end “Zionist control” of US foreign policy.

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In his remarks on Sunday Biden made clear that he does not believe that Obama will agree to use the US military to confront Iran or any other enemy. His rejection of the use of force is not due to a sense that force is not necessary.

Rather it is due to his dim assessment of America’s military capabilities.

In his words, “We do not have the military capacity, nor have we ever, quite frankly, in

the last 20 years, to dictate outcomes.

… It’s so much more complicated than that. And Barack gets it.”

Given the Democratic ticket’s belief that the US military is too weak to protect American interests, it could be expected that Obama and Biden would support strengthening the US military. But the opposite is the case. Obama has called for slashing the US military budget, cutting back the US’s anti-missile programs and scaling back drastically the US nuclear arsenal.

That is, although Obama has claimed that he will never take the option of the use of force off the table, by refusing to strengthen the US military which he perceives as weak, he is making certain that the US military option is ineffectual.

IN CERTAIN respects, if Americans elect Obama to lead them on November 4, they will be repeating the decision of Israeli voters who elected Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to lead them in March 2006. Like Obama, Olmert ran on a platform of appeasing Israel’s enemies.

In addition to his plan to curtail US military options by decreasing US military budgets, Obama’s appeasement platform includes his pledge to abandon the Bush administration’s sole foreign policy success in its second term by pulling US forces out of Iraq. He has also promised to exacerbate Bush’s second term policy failures by expanding the outgoing administration’s penchant for courting US adversaries.

In 2006 Olmert’s electoral platform included a naïve and defeatist pledge to unilaterally withdraw Israeli civilians and military forces from Judea and Samaria. As for Iran, Olmert’s policy was to abdicate Israel’s responsibility to prevent its own destruction by relying on the Americans and the Europeans to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Biden’s warning that Obama will be tested and found wanting by America’s adversaries almost immediately after entering office echoes warnings by politicians and commentators in the lead-up to Olmert’s electoral victory in 2006. As subsequent events showed, Olmert’s critics were correct.

Olmert was tested and found wanting when in July 2006 Iran’s Hizbullah proxy went to war against Israel. Just as Olmert’s political opponents warned, and Israel’s enemies expected, Olmert’s naïve perception of international affairs, his strategic incompetence and his exaggerated view of his own importance caused him to fail abjectly when his country needed him.

Largely due to Olmert’s weakness and poor judgment, Israel was defeated by Hizbullah. And Israel’s defeat fomented a radical reordering of the regional balance of power in Iran’s favor. Hizbullah took over Lebanon. Hamas took over Gaza.

Syria is being feted by the Europeans. Iran stands in the doorway of

the nuclear club.

Olmert’s failure not only strengthened Israel’s enemies, it caused its own allies to reassess its value. After the war, the Bush administration embraced Europe’s failed strategy of appeasing Iran and the Palestinians. Washington eschewed confrontation with Teheran and has renewed its push to compel Israel to withdraw from Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem despite the certainty that any territory Israel vacates will fall under the control of Hamas and Iran.

Iran will likely be the first US adversary to test Obama. And Obama will have no idea what to do. While Obama has stated repeatedly that a nuclear-armed Iran is a “game-changer,” Obama’s own rule book for international relations has no relevance for dealing with Iran’s game.

Obama views international relations as a creature of American will. If America is nice to others, they will be

nice to America. But the fact of the matter is that regimes like Iran hate the US regardless of how it behaves. The only question with strategic relevance for Washington is whether the Iranians also fear the US. And Obama has given them no reason to fear him. To the contrary, he has given them reason to believe that under his leadership, the mullahs can defeat America.

AMERICA STANDS to elect its new president in times of nearly unprecedented dangers. Iran is on the threshold of nuclear weapons. Thanks to the Bush administration, North Korea now feels free to vastly expand its nuclear proliferation activities. Oil rich states like Venezuela, Russia and Iran recognize that with global oil prices decreasing, now is the time to strike before they are impoverished. And the international economic turmoil will cause Western nations to recoil from international confrontations and so embolden rogue states to attack their interests.

For Israel, this state of affairs could not be more dire. As these threats mount, we find ourselves bereft of political leadership. Although Olmert has finally resigned, he remains in office as the caretaker prime minister until someone forms a new government. In the best case scenario, elections will be called and Olmert will remain in office for the next four to six months. In the worst case scenario, he will be replaced by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.

Like Obama and Olmert, Livni is perceived as weak and incompetent by Israel’s enemies. Unlike Obama, Livni is judged not only by her words, but by her deeds. As foreign minister, Livni was an architect of the cease-fire with Hizbullah under which Hizbullah has taken control of Lebanon and rearmed. She is an architect of Israel’s current policy of expanding the Hamas terror state to Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. She is an architect of Israel’s policy of doing nothing to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

The prospect of an Obama-Livni partnership in policy failure is enough to keep men and women of good faith up at night. Certainly it should suffice to convince some Obama supporters to reconsider their options.

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A VERY RARE EVENT FOR ME!

October 24, 2008

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It is rare when I read a long article giving numerous points of opinion by the one who wrote it, that I agree with everything he or she stated.

The viewpoints expressed by Huntley Brown are an overlay of mine, but because I am white I have not openly stated all of them in print for fear of being accused of racial prejudice. The color of a person’s skin makes no difference to me, but his practice of voting consistently for practices directly opposed to Biblical principles, placed in our form of government by our founding fathers, does make a great difference.

I cannot vote for the candidate Senator Obama for the same reasons expressed by Huntley Brown, and I applaud his having the courage to write what follows.

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Huntley Brown

Editorial by pianist Huntley Brown explains why he won’t vote For Barack Obama.

Collected via e-mail, October 2008

Why I Can’t Vote For Obama

By Huntley Brown

Dear Friends, A few months ago I was asked for my perspective on Obama, I sent out an email with a few points. With the election just around the corner I decided to complete my perspective. Those of you on my e-list have seen some of this before but it’s worth repeating…

First I must say whoever wins the election will have my prayer support. Obama needs to be commended for his accomplishments but I need to explain why I will not be voting for him.

Many of my friends process their identity through their blackness. I process my identity through Christ. Being a Christian (a Christ follower) means He leads I follow. I can’t dictate the terms He does because He is the leader.

I can’t vote black because I am black; I have to vote Christian because that s who I am. Christian first, black second. Neither should anyone from the other ethnic groups vote because of

ethnicity. 200 years from now I won’t be asked if I was black or white. I will be asked if I knew Jesus and accepted Him as Lord and Savior.

In an election there are many issues to consider but when a society gets abortion, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning to name a few, wrong economic concerns will soon not matter.

We need to follow Martin Luther King’s words, don’t judge someone by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I don’t know Obama so all I can go off is his voting record. His voting record earned him the title of the most liberal senator in the US Senate in 2007.

NATIONAL JOURNAL: Obama: Most Liberal Senator in 2007 (01/31/2008)

To beat Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton as the most liberal senator, takes some doing. Obama accomplished this feat in 2 short years. I wonder what would happen to America if he had four years to work with.

There is a reason Planned Parenthood gives him a 100% rating. There is a reason the homosexual community supports him. There is a reason Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Castro, Hamas etc. love him. There is a reason he said he would nominate liberal judges to the Supreme Court. There is a reason he voted against the infanticide bill. There is a reason he voted No on the constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. There is a reason he voted No on banning partial birth abortion. There is a reason he voted No on confirming Justices Roberts and Alito. These two judges are conservatives and they have since overturned partial birth abortion. The same practice Obama wanted to continue.

Let’s take a look at the practice he wanted to continue

The 5 Step Partial Birth Abortion procedures:

A. Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby’s leg with forceps.
(Remember this is a live baby)
B. The baby’s leg is pulled out into the birth canal.
C. The abortionist delivers the baby’s entire body, except for the head.
D. The abortionist jams scissors into the baby’s skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole.
E. The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child’s brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.

God help him. There is a reason Obama opposed the parental notification law. Think about this: You can’t give a kid an aspirin without parental notification but that same kid can have an abortion without parental notification. This is insane.

There is a reason he went to Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years.

Obama tells us he has good judgment but he sat under Jeremiah Wright teaching for 20 years.

Now he is condemning Wright’s sermons. I wonder why now

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Obama said Jeremiah Wright led him to the Lord and discipled him. A disciple is one in training. Jesus told us in Matthew 28:19 – 20 “Go and make disciples of all nations.” This means reproduce yourself. Teach people to think like you, walk like you; talk like you believe what you believe etc. The question I have is what did Jeremiah Wright teach him

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Would you support a White President who went to a church which has tenets that said they have a …

1. Commitment to the White Community

2. Commitment to the White Family

3. Adherence to the White Work Ethic

4. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community.

5. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for
Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions

6. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the

White Value System

7. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.

Would you support a President who went to a church like that

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Just change the word from white to black and you have the tenets of Obama’s former church. If President Bush was a member of a church like this, he would be called a racist. Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton would have been marching outside.

This kind of church is a racist church. Obama did not wake up after 20 years and just discovered he went to a racist church. The church can’t be about race. Jesus did not come for any particular race. He came for the whole world.

A church can’t have a value system based on race. The churches value system has to be based on biblical mandate. It does not matter if it’s a white church or a black church it’s still wrong. Anyone from either race that attends a church like this would never get my vote.

Obama’s former Pastor Jeremiah Wright is a disciple of liberal theologian James Cone, author of the 1970 book A Black Theology of Liberation. Cone once wrote: “Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him.

Cone is the man Obama’s mentor looks up to. Does Obama believe this

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So what does all this mean for the nation

? In the past when the Lord brought someone with the beliefs of Obama to lead a nation it meant one thing – judgment.

Read 1 Samuel 8 when Israel asked for a king. First God says in 1 Samuel 1:9 “Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do.”

Then God says 1 Samuel 1:18 ” When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day.” 19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.” 21 When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD. 22 The LORD answered, Listen to them and give them a king.”

Here is what we know for sure.

God is not schizophrenic

He would not tell one person to vote for Obama and one to

vote for McCain. As the scripture says, a city divided against itself cannot stand, so obviously many people are not hearing from God.

Maybe I am the one not hearing but I know God does not change and Obama contradicts many things I read in scripture so I doubt it.

For all my friends who are voting for Obama can you really look God in the face and say; Father based on your word, I am voting for Obama even though I know he will continue the genocidal practice of partial birth abortion. He might have to nominate three or four Supreme Court justices, and I am sure he will be nominating liberal judges who will be making laws that are against you. I also know he will continue to push for homosexual rights, even though you destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for this. I know I can look the other way because of the economy.

I could not see Jesus agreeing with many of Obama’s positions. Finally I have two questions for all my liberal friends.

Since we know someone’s value system has to be placed on the nation,

1. Whose value system should be placed on the nation.

2. Who should determine that this is the right value system for

the nation?

Blessings, Huntley Brown

Origins: Huntley Brown is, as described on his web site, a “a Christian concert pianist whose versatile repertoire includes classical, jazz, gospel, reggae and many other styles.” An e-mail to Mr. Brown about the item reproduced above, an explanation attributed to him about why he would not be voting for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, drew the
following response:

Yes, I wrote this e-mail. I was responding to my friends who asked me to vote for Senator Obama because he is black.

It was not my intention to send it around the world.

I did not post this e-mail or send out any pictures attached. I wish they had not done that.

My friends did not ask me to vote for Senator Mccain which explains why my e-mail was geared towards Senator Obama.

My e-mail was not meant to influence public opinion in any way, but simply to share with my friends my views on why I could not vote for Senator Obama.

I have problems with both candidates, but the differences I have with
Senator Mccain are pale in comparison with the ones I have with Senator Obama

For the record, I am not a politician. I am not a Democrat or a Republican. I am a Christian independent who just loves the Lord.

If Senator Obama wins he can count on my prayer support every day.

I tell my friends it’s like a family where you have different opinions, but you love each other just the same.

I love and appreciate Senator Obama but our views are diametrically opposed.

If I knew my e-mail would have generated this much interest on a national level, I would have left out a few points. I don’t want people to think I am against gay people or against people who have had abortions. (I am not) We are all sinners saved by grace but we need to have some absolute laws to govern society or else we will self destruct.

What has really bothered me is our beautiful black women constitute only 6% of the population, yet they comprise 36% of the abortion industry’s clientele. Obama has done nothing to stop this.

Most people don’t know that the leading abortion providers have chosen to exploit us blacks by locating 94% of their abortuaries in urban neighborhoods with high black populations.

Obama has done nothing to stop this?

To be honest I can’t wait to vote for the first black President but it has
to be a person who shares the values I read in the Bible.

Thanks for checking to make sure my e-mail is legit it is.

The sad part is I have been getting hate mail and my family is being harassed. As you can imagine not everyone is happy with my e-mail.

God bless
you richly.