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[25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Revelation 16:10-16 – And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, [11] And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. [12] And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

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[13] And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. [14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. [15] Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

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Turkey drawing closer to Iran in fighting Kurds and to Syria through Bilateral Ties!

October 17, 2007

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Recent developments, particularly in the last six months, show a very definite trend of Russia and China drawing closer together against the U.S. and Israel as demonstrated by massive military exercises practiced along their borders, secular Turkey returning to its Islamic roots amid contacts with Iran and Syria, and the former Soviet Union countries around the Caspian Sea showing how their majority Islamic occupants are linking with Islam rather then the West. The final act on the world stage is preparing itself for an eventual war in which Israel will find herself driven into the Negev, where she will remain for some three and one half years prior to Armageddon and the Second Advent of Messiah.

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Assad visits Turkey, may push for help reviving talks with Israel

Compiled by Daily Star Staff

October 17, 2007

Syrian President Bashar Assad arrived in Turkey Tuesday for a four-day visit to discuss regional issues and bilateral ties, Anatolia news agency reported. Assad was to dine with Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul on Tuesday evening ahead of formal talks on Wednesday that will include meetings with Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Ali Babacan.

He will also travel to Istanbul before wrapping up his visit on Friday.

Last week, Assad said in interviews with two Tunisian newspapers that Turkey was trying to mediate between Syria and Israel. Turkey has close ties to Israel.

The visit comes weeks after Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike in northeastern Syria near the border with Turkey against a target that remains unknown, though widespread reports say it may have been a nascent nuclear facility, a claim Syria has denied.

Turkey complained to Israel about the September 6 strike because the aircraft dropped fuel tanks on its territory during the incursion. Assad has said the planes struck an empty warehouse, but both Syria and Israel have been unusually silent over the incident.

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Turkish-Syrian relations have improved in recent years since a long period of animosity ended in 1998 when Damascus forced Turkish Kurd rebel Abdullah Ocalan to leave his long-time safe haven in Syria. Ocalan was subsequently captured in Kenya in 1999 and jailed for life.

Ankara believes it can use the thaw as leverage to help ease Middle East tensions, drawing also on its close ties with both Israel and the Palestinians.

Turkey’s foreign minister visited both Israel and Syria earlier in October.

“We have told them [the Turks] that our stance toward peace does not change. All we want is a clear declaration by Israeli officials of their desire for peace and the return of [occupied] land to Syria,” the Syrian president said.

– Agencies

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Is Turkey Still a Western Ally?

The AKP’s foreign policy is driven by two new factors: Islam and money.

By Soner Cagaptay

January 22, 2009

From today’s Wall Street Journal Europe

I spent part of 2008 in Turkey to figure out whether Ankara could still be considered a Western ally. That it’s necessary to raise this question at all is an indication of how far the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) has isolated the country from its traditional partners.

For years Turkish foreign policy was driven by shared Western values, including democracy, membership to institutions like NATO and a sense of common destiny with Europe and the U.S. Since the AKP assumed power in 2002, Turkish foreign policy is increasingly driven by two new factors: religion and money.

Over the past year, the neo-Islamist AKP government has hosted a series of anti-Western leaders, including the presidents of Iran and Sudan, with whom Ankara seeks closer relations. At the same time, Turkey has ratcheted up its verbal attacks on its traditional Western allies, especially Israel. While the AKP seems to mirror Western policies toward such countries as Sudan, Iran or Russia, it fosters intimate ties with these governments.

Last July in Istanbul, for example, I witnessed Turkish joy over the capture of Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, the “butcher of Bosnia” who was indicted for genocide at The Hague tribunal. Just days later, however, the AKP welcomed Omar Al-Bashir, the even bigger butcher of Darfur. Ironically, the visit of the Sudanese president to Turkey coincided with The Hague court’s prosecutor request that Mr. Al-Bashir be arrested for committing genocide in Darfur.

Yet President Al-Bashir received a warm welcome in Turkey, where he alleged that his government “had restored peace to Darfur,” and defended the implementation of Shariah law in resolving the Darfur conflict. The AKP, the governing party of a secular state,

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did not challenge these statements. Instead, it chose to discuss oil investments in Sudan.

Later on in August, the AKP welcomed Iran’s president to Istanbul. Turkey officially stands against Iran’s nuclear project. But the AKP embraced Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, shutting down Istanbul’s busy beltway for his travel comfort. In another favor to Mr.

Ahmadinejad, the AKP departed from the tradition of having visiting Muslim heads of state pray in the isolated Dolmabahce Mosque which has served as Istanbul’s protocol mosque. Instead, the government allowed him to pray in the central Blue Mosque with thousands of other worshippers, whereupon he put on an anti-American and anti-Israeli show which I had the displeasure of witnessing after attending Friday prayers there.

The Iranian leader left Istanbul happy, with a security cooperation treaty under one arm and a draft treaty for Turkish investments in Iranian gas fields under the other — the latter in violation of Western financial sanctions against Tehran.

Turkish media reported that U.S. pressure prevented the investment treaty from being finalized. Nevertheless, in November Turkey’s energy minister visited Tehran for further discussions on energy deals.

The AKP empathizes with the Islamist regime in Sudan — which it sees as a victim of the West — and with the mullahs in Iran because it sees Turkey in religious communion with these states. In March 2006, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed an Arab League summit in Khartoum, saying, “the West is using terrorism to sell us weapons.” It appears that Mr. Erdogan has finally answered the question of where Turkey belongs — and that in his opinion, it’s not with the West.

On Iran, Mr. Erdogan told a Washington crowd on Nov. 14 that the AKP’s policy is that “countries that oppose Iran’s nuclear weapons should themselves not have nuclear weapons.”

At the same time, the Iranians know how to exploit Turkey’s security concerns. Ankara is upset about insufficient U.S. and European assistance against the terror infrastructure of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq and Western Europe, respectively. Tehran courts Turkish hearts and minds by bombing PKK camps in Iraq and by providing Turkey with intelligence support against the PKK. Financial instincts cement this religious sympathy. As polls show that Turks increasingly value Iran’s friendship, energy and other cooperation projects with Iran will go down well in Turkey.

Energy politics also bring Ankara closer to Moscow. Only days after the U.S. condemned Russia’s invasion of Georgia, calling for Moscow’s isolation, the AKP invited Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to Ankara for consultations.

In 2002, Russia was Turkey’s sixth-biggest trading partner. Bilateral commerce has skyrocketed since then, turning Russia into Turkey’s top trading partner in the first half of 2008. Accordingly, few Turks question the close ties with Moscow, and realists point out that Turkey depends on Russia for two-thirds of its gas.

Last but not least, Israel has become Mr. Erdogan’s sandbag while Hamas sits in his heart. Turkey has long had warm ties to the Jewish state, since Turks did not wear ideology or religion on their sleeves in their relationship with Israel. But under the AKP, those relations are getting frostier. The conflict in Gaza has given the AKP an excuse to bring Turkish-Israeli relations to their lowest level in decades. Shortly after Jerusalem launched its offensive, Mr. Erdogan started a disingenuous initiative to “end the war in Gaza,” traveling to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Egypt — but not to Israel.

Mr. Erdogan’s rhetoric, meanwhile, has reached Islamist fever pitch.

Earlier this month he suggested that “Allah would punish Israel” for attacking Hamas, and that Jerusalem’s actions would lead to its own “destruction.” On Jan. 16, he questioned whether the Jewish state should still be allowed in the U.N. While accusing Israel of deliberately attacking civilians, Mr. Erdogan claimed that “Hamas’s rockets are not causing any casualties in Israel.”

His attacks worked. After Mr. Erdogan bashed Israel almost daily on nati

onal TV since the beginning of the operations in Gaza, 200,000 Turks showed up on Jan. 4 in the freezing rain in Istanbul, calling for the “death” of the Jewish state. Pro-AKP papers, meanwhile, question Turkey’s military cooperation with Israel.

Now, Turkey’s tiny and well-integrated Jewish community feels physically threatened for the first time since 1492, when it found safe haven in the Ottoman Empire after fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. There have been threats of violence against Jews and, even more shocking, banners have been plastered on Jewish-owned businesses, asking people to boycott them.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and the European Union face a challenge in Turkey. The country’s messy foreign policy is a harbinger of things to come. Under the AKP, Turkey will increasingly side with its radical, anti-Western neighbors, even if it remains committed, at least verbally, to the West.

I hate to say it, but this is not your mother’s Turkey.

Mr. Cagaptay, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, is the author of “Islam, Secularism and Nationalism in Modern Turkey: Who is a Turk?” (Routledge, 2006).

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3 Talking Heads Ride into a Valley of Death!

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Into The Far Off Sweet Forever,

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James 1:22-25 – But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

[23] For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: [24] For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

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[25] But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Revelation 14:12-16 – Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

[13] And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. 14] And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. [15] And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. [16] And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.

I Corinthians 15:50-52 – Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. [51] Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, [52] In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and

the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

I cannot imagine three liberal political personages which fit the title “talking heads” better than Barack Obama, George Mitchell, and Hillary Clinton. They have an excellent chance, through diplomatic dialog, of producing a brief period of false peace in the land of Israel, but no chance of bringing in a permanent one.

I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

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Diplomacy: Meet our new peace processor

January 22, 2009

Herb Keinon , THE JERUSALEM POST
A senior government official quipped this week that, regarding the Middle East, the difference between US President Barack Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush, is that while the latter concluded that the best one could hope for now was an Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the former actually believes he can forge peace.

And to this end he has designated, at least according to media reports, former senator George Mitchell of Maine as his Middle East envoy. Despite months of speculation and jockeying, it’s apparently Mitchell, and not Daniel Kurtzer; Mitchell, and not Dennis Ross; Mitchell, and not Martin Indyk – though that trio of old Oslo hands is still expected to play a role in Obama’s Mideast policy.

In selecting Mitchell, the new US president has chosen a man who believes that all troubles have solutions, that no problem is intractable. He has chosen a man who believes in conflict resolution, not merely conflict management, which – to a large degree – was the default setting of the Bush administration and the Sharon and Olmert governments.

The failure of the Oslo process in the 1990s, and the violent eruption of the second intifada, prompted a switch both in Jerusalem and in Washington, from the belief that we were on the cusp of solving, for-once-and-for-all, the Arab-Israel conflict, to a belief that the best we can do now is manage the conflict until attitudes and patterns of behavior fundamentally change on the ground.

Israel went from then-prime minister Ehud Barak’s drive to forge an “end to the conflict” agreement with Yasser Arafat at Camp David in 2000, to building the security fence and disengaging from Gaza – polices propelled largely by a belief that the conflict was unsolvable, and that the best way to manage it was to take unilateral steps that the government thought would best serve the country’s interests.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s pre-Operation Cast Lead comments about withdrawing from the Golan Heights, parts of Jerusalem and most of the West Bank was a 2008 throwback to that “let’s-solve-the-conflict” philosophy.

But, if the Israeli polls are any indication, the country isn’t interested. Not because it doesn’t want peace, but because over the last nine years it has been mugged by the reality of drive-

by shootings, suicide bombings, and unending Kassam rockets. Binyamin Netanyahu and the right-wing bloc are leading in all the polls, and they are leading not because they are promising sweeping peace in the Middle East.

But don’t tell Obama, or Mitchell.

Obama, in his first phone call to regional leaders on Wednesday, said that the arms smuggling to Hamas had to stop, and also that he was committed to “active engagement in pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace from the beginning of his term.”

And Mitchell? Mitchell believes in the power of diplomacy to untie even the tightest knot. He is a true believer that conflicts, all conflicts, can be solved.

How does he know

? Because he was the US envoy to Northern Ireland who helped forge the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 that led to an end to Northern Ireland’s “troubles.”

And does that experience color the way he looks at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

? As Sarah Palin would say, “You betcha.”

“I UNDERSTAND the people in the Middle East are discouraged,” Mitchell told The Jerusalem Post last month, after delivering a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. “I understand your feelings.”

The soft-spoken, very personable Mitchell continued: “But from my experience in Northern Ireland, I share the feeling that there is no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended. Conflicts are created by human beings, and can be ended by human beings. It may take a long time. But with committed, active and strong leadership, it can happen here in the Middle East.”

When the warring sides in Northern Ireland got together last year to adopt a power-sharing agreement, Mitchell said, it happened “some 800 years after Britain began its domination of Ireland; 86 years after the partition of Ireland; 38 years after the British Army formally began its most recent mission in Ireland; 11 years after the peace talks began; and nine years after the peace agreement was signed.”

He said that in the negotiations which led up to the agreement, “We had seven-hundred days of failure and one day of success.”

His message was clear, and this is also the message Obama has opted to send out by selecting Mitchell as his Mideast point man: If they can do it in Nor

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thern Ireland after 800 years, they can do it in the Middle East.

But can they? With the appointment of Mitchell, many will now draw parallels between

the two conflicts. It is, therefore, instructive also to look at the differences.

THE FIRST important difference is that while the basic goal of the IRA was to bring about a united Ireland, it never posited as its aim the replacement of England with Ireland. It wanted to bring Ireland

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to Ulster, not bring Ireland to London.

John Bew and Martyn Frampton, two Cambridge University fellows who, with Ingio Gurruchaga, authored a book to be published in March entitled: Talking to Terrorists: The Search for Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country, wrote in the summer that “the aims of the IRA posed no existential threat to the British. This is not the case where Israel and Hamas are concerned.

“The objectives of Hamas require the destruction of the state of Israel. Moreover, whereas the political goals of the IRA were confined locally to the future of the island of Ireland, Hamas, by its own admission, is part of a global Islamist movement,” they wrote in an article for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Furthermore, while the IRA hated the British and killed innocent Brits – while they saw Britain as the enemy – they never denied the legitimacy of the British state. IRA leaders never gave blood-curdling lectures and sermons lauding the day when there would be no England, when Catholic rule would reign in Britain. The same cannot be said of Hamas or fellow travelers in the Arab world.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, presently promoting a one-state solution called “Israstine,” told students via a video conference at Georgetown University Wednesday that “If you want to preserve this group, the Jews as an ethnic group, Palestine is not really the right place. The Middle East is a sea of Arabs. Take them to Alaska or Honolulu or the Hawaiian Islands or the Pacific islands, and they can live peacefully in an isolated setting.”

The IRA and their supporters, as much as they hated the British, never advocated carting them all off to Nauru or Tuvalu. The IRA was a brutal terrorist organization, but it was a terrorist organization much different from the ones that Israel copes with. For instance, it sometimes sent warnings before detonating bombs; it did not have the support of the Catholic Church; and it did not sanctify death and perpetuate a death cult.

Furthermore, the IRA didn’t really pose a grave threat to any of Britain’s neighbors. Granted, at times it made common cause with the Basque separatists in Spain, but neither Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands nor Germany were threatened by the IRA.

Contrast that to Hamas and Hizbullah, whose radical brands of Islam threaten Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and perhaps even the Persian Gulf.

The neighborhood also plays another dimension in the differences between the situations. As Brew and Frampton pointed out, by the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Republic of Ireland “had become a force for stability and peace in Northern Ireland and worked in close cooperation with the British government in the search for a settlement. The same cannot be said of Israel’s neighbors. On the contrary, Iran and Syria continue to support Hamas and encourage its violent campaign, offering it arms, funding, training and sanctuary.”

Mitchell obviously understands all this and, at a speech at the INSS in December said, “No two countries, no two conflicts are the same.

So what happened in Northern Ireland cannot be precisely replicated here or anywhere else. But it does offer an example of what can happen when peace makes a better life possible.”

Still, when setting out, Mitchell – an avid sports fan, who chaired a committee in 2006 that investigated the rampant use of steroids in baseball – would do well to keep in mind the following observation heard in Jerusalem when word filtered down that he would be Obama’s Israeli-Palestinian czar: “The Middle East is Northern Ireland, but on steroids.”

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Straight Skinny on a Truly Tragic Farce!

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Straight Skinny on a Truly Tragic Farce

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I first encountered the expression “straight skinny” during my service in the Middle East in 1952 and 53. The field in which I served was always full of rumors and half truths that had undergone changes as they had passed down chains from original statements. Do you know what the expression “skinny dip” means? When I was in my youth, boys used to go up the Batesville Bayou to very secluded places to remove their clothes, and then jump in the clear, sand bottom waters of the bayou in a stark naked condition. It was called “skinny dipping.” When one has to strip off layer after layer of the excess outer baggage attached to the truth after it left the source, until the time it was received, then after the stripping you have what is known as the “straight skinny.” It could be better defined as the “naked truth” when compared to “skinny dipping.”

The following reference from “World Wide Words” by Michael Quinon gives the history of the expression “straight skinny.”

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R V Cassill, was quoted in the 1980 American Speech article as remembering that he first heard the word “persistently and widely used by nearly everyone in the Army and Navy in World War II.” That is partially contradicted by this column filler printed in The Charleroi Mail, Pennsylvania, on 19 February 1945:

The “straight skinny” isn’t an elongated person, but is the “correct dope,” in marine jargon. The expression cropped up for the first time during the heat of battle on Bougainville. Some unidentified marine (gyrene in “slanguage”) asked a mate in a foxhole, “Is that the straight skinny?” and it sounded so natural that it took on. It is now part of the marine vocabulary.

[Gyrene is GI plus marine.]

This snippet was right to connect its popularity with the services but wrong to assume that it was created by a serviceman, or indeed only shortly before he wrote. That’s because it’s known slightly pre-war.

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In 1938 Richard Hallet wrote in his autobiography, The Rolling World, “Had she really given me the skinny of an actual legend from the archives of her race?”

As to what the unsung inventor, whenever or whoever he was, had in mind, there’s little consensus. The most plausible suggestion comes from Robert Chapman in his Dictionary of American Slang in 1997: that it includes the normal meaning of skin but implying “the naked truth”.

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I have sung the praises of Carolyn Glick for many years because she strips off the layers of “political correctness, bull manure, and guile in American foreign policy”, particularly as it affects Israel. I don’t recall ever disagreeing with her on the many articles she has written in the Jerusalem Post.

Before you read what follows,

lest you accuse me of religious or racial prejudice, I want to tell that simply is not true. One of the best friends I have is 100 per cent Lebanese, and I would trust him with my life. So please keep this in mind as you read what follows.

So, If you really want the “straight skinny” on the present and future political farce Israel is facing, please read and consider her article which follows! With George Mitchell back in the saddle again, we are about to reenter the Twilight Zone as we drift under Cumulonimbus embedded in chaotic skies. I call it the Twilight Zone because I have never been able to rest easy with George Mitchell in the saddle.

Former Senator George Mitchell is constantly stated to be a man of great honesty and integrity, particularly in the Democratic circles of political correctness, but it is quite easy to detect in some of the things of his youth, that much information has been screened out and is simply not included, or certainly not accentuated in the glowing accounts of his track record. He does indeed have a brilliant track record in political circles of effort and persistence, so I must admit that my assessment of his ability to be fair handed to Israel may not be correct.

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Nevertheless, I do intend to at least discuss a question I have about his dealings with Israel and the Arabs.

I have never been comfortable with George Mitchell as a director of negotiations between Arabs and Jews. He is the son of George Mitchell, Sr., the orphaned son of Irish immigrants and adopted

son of Lebanese immigrants. George Sr. was married to Lebanese Mary Saad. They had four boys and a girl. George Sr. spoke fluent French and Arabic. Mary Saad never learned to read English. The Marionite sect of Lebanese Catholicism is the majority faith in Lebanon. George Mitchell Jr, was appointed as an altar boy in Saint Joseph’s Maronite Church in Waterville, Maine, during World War II.

The first Maronite patriarch, John Maron, was appointed in the late 7th century.

Although reduced in numbers and estimated to have lost their status as a majority in Lebanon itself, today, Maronites remain one of the principal religious groups in the country.

I am hopeful that former Senator George Mitchell’s background of Lebanese and Maronite upbringing will allow him to be unbiased as he deals with the Israeli and Palestinian peace process, just as I am also hopeful that President Barrack Obama’s Muslim background and upbringing will also allow him to do the same.

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Column One: History’s tragic farce

January 23, 2009

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST

It is a fundamental truth that while history always repeats itself, it almost never repeats itself precisely. There is always a measure of newness to events that allows otherwise intelligent people to repeat the mistakes of their forebears without looking completely ridiculous.

Given this, it is hard to believe that with the advent of the Obama administration, we are seeing history repeat itself with nearly unheard of exactness. US President Barack Obama’s reported intention of appointing former Sen. George Mitchell as his envoy for the so-called Palestinian-Israeli peace process will provide us with a spectacle of an unvarnished repeat of history.

In December 2000, outgoing president Bill Clinton appointed Mitchell to advise him on how to reignite the “peace process” after the Palestinians rejected statehood and launched their terror war against Israel in September 2000. Mitchell presented his findings to Clinton’s successor, George W. Bush, in April 2001.

Mitchell asserted that Israel and the Palestinians were equally to blame for the Palestinian terror war against Israelis. He recommended that Israel end all Jewish construction outside the 1949 armistice lines, and stop fighting Palestinian terrorists.

As for the Palestinians, Mitchell said they had to make a “100 percent effort” to prevent the terror that they themselves were carrying out. This basic demand was nothing new. It formed the basis of the Clinton administration’s nod-nod-wink-wink treatment of Palestinian terrorism since the Palestinian Authority was established in 1994.

By insisting that the PLO make a “100 percent effort,” to quell the terror it was enabling, the Clinton administration gave the Palestinians built-in immunity from responsibility. Every time that his terrorists struck, Yasser Arafat claimed that their attacks had nothing to do with him. He was making a “100 percent effort” to stop the attacks, after all.

After getting Arafat off the hook, the Clinton administration proceeded to blame Israel. If Israel had just given up more land, or forced Jews from their homes, or given the PLO more money, Arafat could have saved the lives of his victims.

Mitchell’s plan, although supported by then-secretary of state Colin Powell, was never adopted by Bush because at the time, terrorists were massacring Israelis every day. It would have been politically unwise for Bush to accept a plan that asserted moral equivalence between Israel and the PLO when rescue workers were scraping the body parts of Israeli children off the walls of bombed out pizzerias and bar mitzva parties.

But while his eponymous plan was rejected, its substance, which was based on the Clinton Plan, formed the basis of the Tenet Plan, the road map plan and the Annapolis Plan. And now, Mitchell is about to return to Israel, at the start of yet another presidential administration to offer us his plan again.

MITCHELL, OF COURSE, is not the only one repeating the past. His boss, Barack Obama, is about to repeat the failures his immediate predecessors. Like Clinton and Bush, Obama is making the establishment of a Palestinian state

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the centerpiece of his foreign policy agenda.

Obama made this clear his first hour on the job.

On Wednesday at 8 a.m., Obama made his first phone call to a foreign leader. He called PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. During their conversation, Obama pledged his commitment to Palestinian statehood.

Fatah wasted no time responding to Obama’s extraordinary gesture. On Wednesday afternoon Abbas convened the PLO’s Executive Committee in Ramallah and the body announced that future negotiations with Israel will have to be based on new preconditions. As far as the PLO is concerned, with Obama firmly in its corner, it can force Israel to its knees.

And so, the PLO is now uninterested in the agreements it reached with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. For Israel to enjoy the privilege of negotiating with the PLO, it must first announce its willingness to expel all the 500,000 or so Israeli Jews who live in Judea, Samaria and the neighborhoods in east, south and north Jerusalem built since 1967, as well as in the Old City, and then hand the areas over, lock, stock and barrel, to the PLO.

This new PLO “plan” itself is nothing new. It is simply a restatement of the Arab “peace plan,” which is just a renamed Saudi “peace plan,” which was just a renamed Tom Friedman column in The New York Times. And the Friedman plan is one that no Israeli leader in his right mind can accept.

So by making this their precondition for negotiations, the PLO is doing what it did in 2000. It is rejecting statehood in favor of continued war with Israel.

What is most remarkable about the new administration’s embrace of its predecessors’ failed policy is how uncontroversial this policy is in Washington. It is hard to come up with another example of a policy that has failed so often and so violently that has enjoyed the support of both American political parties. Indeed, it is hard to think of a successful policy that ever enjoyed such broad support.

Apparently, no one in positions of power in Washington has stopped to consider why it is that in spite of the fervent backing of presidents Clinton and Bush, there is still no Palestinian state.

SINCE ISRAEL recognized the PLO as the “sole, legitimate representative of the Palestinian people” in 1993, the US and Israel have based their plans for peace on their assumption that the PLO is interested in making peace.

And they have based

their plans for making peace by establishing a Palestinian state on the assumption that the Palestinians are interested in statehood. Yet over the past 15 years it has become abundantly clear that neither of these assumptions is correct.

In spite of massive political, economic and military support by the US, Israel and Europe, the PLO has never made any significant moves to foster peaceful relations between Israel and the Palestinians. Not only did the PLO-led PA spend the six years between 1994 and 2000, in which it was supposedly making peace with Israel, indoctrinating Palestinian society to hate Jews and seek their destruction through jihadist-inspired terrorism. It also cultivated close relations with Iran and other rogue regimes and terror groups.

Many are quick to claim that these misbehaviors were simply a consequence of Arafat’s personal radicalism. Under Abbas, it is argued, the PLO is much more moderate. But this assertion strains credulity. As The Jerusalem Post’s Khaled Abu Toameh reported on Monday, Fatah forces today boast that their terror cells in Gaza took active part in Hamas’s missile offensive against Israel. Fatah’s Aksa Martyrs terror cells claim that during Operation Cast Lead, its terrorists shot 137 rockets and mortar shells at Israel.

Abbas’s supporters in the US and Israel claim that these Fatah members acted as they did because they are living under Hamas rule. They would be far more moderate if they were under Fatah rule. But this, too, doesn’t ring true.

From 2000 through June 2007, when Hamas ousted Fatah forces from Gaza, most of the weapons smuggling operations in Gaza were carried out by Fatah. Then, too, most of the rockets and mortar shells fired at Israel were fired by F

atah forces.

Likewise, most of the suicide bombers deployed from Judea and Samaria were members of Fatah.

The likes of Madeleine Albright, Powell and Condoleezza Rice claimed that Fatah’s collusion with Hamas and Islamic Jihad and its leading role in terror was a consequence of insufficient Israeli support for Arafat and later for Abbas. If Israel had kicked out the Jews of Gaza earlier, or if it had removed its roadblocks and expelled Jews from their homes in Judea and Samaria, or if had prevented all Jewish construction beyond the 1949 armistice lines, then Arafat and later Abbas would have been more popular and able to rein in their own terror forces. (Incidentally, those same forces receive their salaries from the PA, which itself is funded by the US and Israel.)

THE PROBLEM with this line of thinking is that it ignores two essential facts. First, since 2000 Israel has curtailed Jewish building in Judea and Samaria. Second, Israel kicked every last Jew out of Gaza and handed the ruins of their villages and farms over to Fatah in September 2005.

It is worth noting that the conditions under which the PA received Gaza in 2005 were far better than the conditions under which Israel gained its sovereignty in 1948. The Palestinians were showered with billions of dollars in international aid. No one wanted to do anything but help them make a go of it.

In 1948-49, Israel had to secure its sovereignty by fending off five invading armies while under an international arms embargo. It then had to absorb a million refugees from Arab countries and Holocaust survivors from Europe, with no financial assistance from anyone other than US Jews. Israel developed into an open democracy.

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Gaza became one of the largest terror bases in the world.

Four months after Israel handed over Gaza – and northern Samaria – the Palestinians turned their backs on statehood altogether when they elected Hamas – an explicitly anti-nationalist, pan-Islamic movement that rejects Palestinians statehood – to lead them.

Hamas’s electoral victory, its subsequent ouster of Fatah forces from Gaza and its recent war with Israel tells us another fundamental truth about the sources of the repeated failure of the US’s bid for Palestinian statehood. Quite simply, there is no real Palestinian constituency for it.

Even if we were to ignore all of the PLO’s involvement in terrorism and assume like Obama, Bush and Clinton that the PLO is willing to live at peace with Israel in exchange for Gaza, Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem, what Hamas’s control of Gaza and its popularity throughout the Palestinian areas show is that there is no reason to expect that the PLO will remain in control

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of territory that Israel transfers to its control. So if Israel were to abide by the PLO’s latest demand and accept the Friedman/Saudi/Arab/PLO “peace plan,” there is no reason to believe that a Jew-free Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem wouldn’t then be taken over by Hamas.

Given that there is no chance that Israeli territorial giveaways will lead to a peaceful Palestinian state, the question arises, is there any way to compel American politicians to give up their fantasies of fancy signing ceremonies in the White House Rose Garden that far from bringing peace, engender radicalism, instability and death?

As far as Mitchell is concerned the answer is no. In an address at Tel Aviv University last month, Mitchell said that the US and Israel must cling to the delusion that Palestinian statehood will bring about a new utopia, “for the alternative is unacceptable and should be unthinkable.”

So much for “change” in US foreign policy.

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Putin and Obama are Twin Teflon Swingers!

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

The Second Excerpt IS A ‘Whing Dinger’

Putin mimics a new White House Swinger.

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So US also has elected neat Teflon Pleaser,

Coming forward as our vocal symbolic Figure,

As a personification of American people’s Rigor!

Obama’s Teflon cause criticism to him won’t Stick,

His IQ of 121 is capable of using every known Trick,

Believing all conservatives are truly red-necked Hicks!

America about to see rule by talking head majority Pick,

Won’t stop talking diplomacy while failing to use the Stick,

And the Islamic Jihad will love it as he leads us up the Creek,

With Diplomatic Dialog Based on U.S. turning the Other Cheek,

But it will not be until the 2nd Advent earth is ruled by the Meek!

January 23, 2009

http://www.tribulationperiod.com/

Begin Excerpt from The Star Online via Worldupdates

Thursday January 22, 2009 MYT 12:02:59 AM

Russian PM Putin untarnished by crisis – poll

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has retained sky-high approval ratings despite an economic crisis that has put hundreds of thousands out of work and cut 20 percent off the value of the rouble, a poll showed on Thursday.

Eighty-three percent of Russians polled by the independent Levada Centre said they approved of Putin’s leadership, the same level recorded in October.

President Dmitry Medvedev, a Putin ally, saw his rating fall 1 percentage point from October to 75 percent, the poll showed.

Since that poll on Oct. 17-20, the value of the rouble has fallen by almost 20 percent against the dollar, the sharpest fall since a 1998 crisis ravaged the economy.

Russia’s unemployment rate has climbed 20 percent to 1.5 million since the start of October, Medvedev said on Wednesday.

The percentage of Russians who believe the country is going in the right direction has fallen from 54 to 4 3 percent

since October, the poll showed.

But Putin, Russian president from 2000-2008, has avoided being tarnished by this disillusionment, said Lev Gudkov, the director of the Levada Centre.

“From early in his presidency we noticed that Putin’s rating did not have a practical character,” Gudkov said.

“He puts himself forward as a symbolic figure, as a personification of people’s hopes. It’s not for nothing we call him the Teflon president because criticism doesn’t stick.”

Medvedev’s popularity consistently tracks that of his mentor Putin, Gudkov said.

The full impact of the crisis had not yet been felt in Russia, said Gudkov, whose pollsters estimate that only 10-15 percent of people have seen their lives get significantly worse as a result of the economic

crisis.

The Levada Centre polled 1,600 Russians on Jan.

16-19 in a poll with a margin of error of 3 percent.

I RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING EXCERPT FROM ROY PHILLIPS WHICH CAME FROM THE UK DAILY MAIL.

I AM INCLUDING HIS NAME SO WE WILL BE ALLOWED TO BE IN THE SAME CELL AFTER WE ARE ARRESTED!

Begin Excerpt from UK Daily Mail

The Daily Mail (UK National Paper) wrote this editorial about Obama on 1/6/2009. (for confirmation, Google “London Daily Mail Obama’s Victory”)

Obama’s Victory — A British view An editorial from the London Daily Mail

A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for the cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth.

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Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.

A victory for Hollywood , the most dysfunctional community in the world.

Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros and Sarandon. Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meager political fashion.

Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative.