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Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 12:17 PM

Subject: Action-Items-CCVI [Israel-Gaza]


http://www.scribd.com/doc/234882711/Action-Items-CCVI-Israel-Gaza

Overnight, a few reactions/suggestions were received andbecause one has time-value [reprinted @
the bottom]they are now disseminated; one full-length/must-read article is provided because it seems
to have elucidated all key-arguments regarding the potential demise of ObamaDontCare. As has now
seemingly become routine, what had been envisioned to become a terse summary of selected points
has ballooned into a more in-depth analysis of Israel/Gaza, Politics, Corbett, and ObamaDontCare.
[Because of the length of this Blast e-mail, it is being conveyed in two parts, with the first focused on
what is transpiring in the Middle East; Israels plight (military, diplomatic, etc.) is being managed well,
but the multi-layered challenges being faced-down must be parsed-out so that they can be understood.


Israel/Gaza

I feel the decision by the FAA [channeling pressure from BHO/Kerry] to stop flights to Ben Gurion Airport
will redound to Israels benefit, for it will increase internal pressure to demilitarize Gaza; any purported
cease-fire that allows for continued rocket-fire [it could be argued] would risk another shutdown and,
thus wouldnt be permissible. [Israel will Open International Airport near Eilat in Response to Flight
Cancellations.] Jim Geraghty noted that this constitutes a Sudden De-Facto Travel Ban on Israel [noting
that Cruise ships are altering their courses and canceling stops in Israel, concluding This sure feels like a
backdoor way to pressure Israel to accept a ceasefire on terms it doesn't like. In any case, despite this
effort to isolate Israel [c/w the BDS Movement], Israeli airline El Al is still flying, and a guy most folks on
the right don't like very much is taking a bold stand:

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg is heading to Israel Tuesday night, flying on El Al in a
show of unity with the Jewish state "and to demonstrate that it is safe to fly in and out
of Israel. Ben Gurion is the best protected airport in the world and El Al flights have
been regularly flying in and out of it safely. The U.S. flight restrictions are a mistake
that hands Hamas an undeserved victory and should be lifted immediately. I strongly
urge the FAA to reverse course and permit US airlines to fly to Israel.

It seems Israel is winning on the ground because Israel is getting tough [e.g., a military official said IDF
dropped 120 bombs on Saja'yya, location of an entire Hamas battalion] while showing overwhelming
restraint; although a US intelligence source claimed Hamas has many more tunnels than Israel says, it
seems that Obama is coming to the rescue of Hamas, noting that his National Security Adviser Ben
Rhodes said Israel 'Can Do More' to Avoid Civilian Deaths. Overall, BHO may not want Israel to achieve
these ends, lest seeking/achieving overt military-victory be invoked to motivate him to fight Islamists
elsewhere. {Also note that, although the UK Ambassador to Israel Blamed Hamas for Gaza War, a British
MP, under fire after tweeting that he would shoot rockets at Israel, will be treated by the Liberal
Democrat party as a disciplinary issue.}

According to Hamas top terrorist Ismail Haniyeh, the terror group will fight until the
last drop of blood in its efforts to destroy Israel. We will continue the struggle until we
liberate the land, Jerusalem, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and return the 'refugees' to their
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homes. He said Hamas has a long-list of cease-fire demands, including: an immediate
end to Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza on land, in the air, and
by sea; an end to targeted elimination of Hamas terrorists; a cessation of the policy of
destroying terrorists' houses; a halt to the flyovers by the Israel Air Force over Gaza; the
reopening of land crossings, and the rehabilitation of the Gaza seaport; the free flow of
goods into Gaza; a guaranteed supply of fuel and building materials; an end to
collective punishment of Gazans; and continued supply of free-electricity.

As Hamas continues praising its human-shields *Dead Gaza civilians privileged to have died this way],
Israel Can't Be Held Back by Hamas' Cynicism, for Israel's Response Is Proportionate to Hamas' Threat.
This constitutes a A Fight for Israel's Existence and Israel has the Right of Self-Defense because Hamas
Has to Be Disarmed. This is illustrated by the fact that Palestinian-Arab Rocket Fire at Israel Continued
Tuesday, causing damage, extending both to Central Israel and to the Bedouin City of Rahat in Israel;
Foreign Ambassadors were Forced to Run to a Bomb Shelter During Visit to Ashdod.

On MSNBC, Daily Beast reporter Eli Lake disparaged the idea that media coverage of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict was pro-Israel on Ronan Farrow Daily, after a rant by MSNBC
contributor Rula Jebreal where she complained Palestinian voices didnt receive equal
airtime on the network. {One reader disagreed on another plane, complaining that Wolf
Blitzer and Jake Tapper (an Akiba/Barrack graduate) have not acquitted themselves to
be fair/balanced when interviewing [for whatever reason(s)].}

The EU supports the continued existence of Hamas but claims "Terrorist Groups in Gaza Must Disarm."

Armed Palestinians Move Under Cover of Gaza Humanitarian Truce - Several of the
hidden Hamas tunnels discovered by Israel in the past three days were found to lead
back to Sejaiya in Gaza, which is 1-2 km. from the Israel frontier. Almost 10% of all
rockets fired against Israel during this conflict are said to have come from there. The
presence of militant fighters in Sejaiya became clear Sunday afternoon when, under the
cover of a humanitarian truce, several armed Palestinians scurried from the scene.
Some bore their weapons openly, slung over their shoulder, but at least two, disguised
as women, were seen walking off with weapons partly concealed under their robes.
Another wrapped his weapon in a baby blanket and held it as if it were a baby.

Here are Pamela Gellers overnight observations:
o Kuwaiti Cleric Tareq Al-Suwaidan to Hamas: Do Not Agree to Ceasefire until They Bow Before Us.
We Must Contemplate a Plan to Erase Israel
o More Hamas rockets found at another UN school in Gaza
o New photo shows Saudi doctor who joined Islamic State holding combat knife
o Fascists Falling Out: Obamas BFF Wont Take His Calls
o VIDEO: US Designated Terror Group Hamas Using UN Trucks
o After Hamas rocket falls near Ben Gurion Airport, FAA bans all flights to Israel
o German Leftist and Muslim Protesters Chant Gas the Jews at Anti-Israel Jew-Hatred Rallies
o Tunisia Fights Jihad: Closes mosques
o Obama to send $47 million to Gaza jihadists

My having wondered-aloud why Israel hadnt previously bulldozed its way into finding the openings to
Gazan tunnels [opening on Israeli turf] resonated with a reader: How did the Intelligence NOT know
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about any existence of these tunnels or activities surrounding them until this operation began? Could
there be a "trader" embedded? Recalled was the fact that two prominent assassination victims were
killed by "their own" [not an enemy]; Sadat was killed by Extreme-Islamists [Arab] and Rabin was killed
by an extreme-Zionist [Jew]. Im not into conspiracy-theories, but the query persists. {Also note this
compilation of Presidential Assassinations and Assassination Attempts.} Perhaps these pieces should
help to explain what has transpired:

Israel Learning of Tunnels It Did Not Know About - Israeli casualties have caused great
elation among Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The Israeli intelligence community believes this
is fueling their intransigence over cease-fire negotiations. Uncovering the terrorist
tunnel network is progressing more rapidly than expected, and intelligence gathered
during the fighting in Gaza has led Israel to tunnels it did not know about. The IDF is
learning things it did not know before about the structure of the tunnel system and the
way the terrorist intended - and still intend - to operate them. Hamas is indeed showing
increased resistance, but almost every encounter between combatants on both sides
ends in heavy losses to the terrorists. Losses on Israel's side cause great grief among the
Israeli public, which sees every soldier in Gaza as a member of the family. But unlike
during the Second Lebanon War, there is also public perception that this sacrifice is not
in vain and that the war is justified.

Hamas' Attack Tunnels: Initial Implications - Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister,
delivered a revealing speech on March 23, 2014, in which he stressed the strategic
importance of the Hamas attack tunnels, which, he argued, have changed the balance of
power with Israel. Tunnel warfare provides armies facing a technologically superior
adversary with an effective means for countering its air superiority. The tunnels from
Gaza penetrate deep into Israeli territory. Hamas has accumulated a great deal of
experience in using the tunnels for operational purposes. Since 2000, hundreds of
tunnels have been dug along Gaza's border with Egypt, providing a lifeline for Hamas'
military buildup. Based on Hizbullah's experience in the Second Lebanon War, and with
the assistance and guidance of Iran, Hamas has also made use of the tunnels to build an
underground network of missile launchers. The attack tunnels create a new equation in
the power balance between Israel and Hamas. They give Hamas an ability to infiltrate
Israel and carry out strategic attacks involving mass killing, along with an ability to
launch missiles from locations concealed within civilian population centers.

Getting from Gaza to Israel, by Underground Tunnels - Tunnels from Gaza to Israel have
had a powerful hold on the Israeli psyche since 2006 when Hamas militants used one to
capture an Israel soldier, Gilad Shalit, who was held for five years before being released
in a prisoner exchange. There have been several deadly clashes between Israeli soldiers
and Palestinian militants emerging from tunnels on the Israeli side of the border.

The [mea-culpa] essay by Dershowitz [By Targeting Ben Gurion Airport, Has Hamas Ended the Prospects
for a Two State Solution?] was published both by Gatestone and Algemeiner; my comment awaits
moderation @ both sites. Meanwhile, my view of why Israel should not accept a cease-fire is shared:

The Road to a Cease-Fire Goes Through Cairo - On Monday, Egyptian Foreign Minister
Sameh Shukri announced that he saw no reason to make any changes to his country's
cease-fire proposal. Over the previous few days, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's
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advance team had tried to discuss alterations in the proposal's wording, but was met
with an aggressive Egyptian refusal. Cairo doesn't intend to give Hamas any discounts -
at least not at this stage. For now, it seems Egyptian President Sissi isn't too upset over
the prospect of Israel continuing its military operation in Gaza.

Let Israel Decide: A Premature Gaza Cease-Fire Would Help Hamas - The reality is that a
cease-fire now would help Hamas. Now that it has moved on the ground, Israel will lose
if it stops before it achieves its main military objectives. This means blowing up the
entire network of tunnels that Hamas uses to infiltrate into Israel and to smuggle
weapons into Gaza from Egypt. It also means destroying the stockpiles of rockets and
storage sites. The Israelis are best positioned to judge their progress, and the U.S.
should publicly support its military response in a war it didn't start. Thi is what will bring
the most rapid end to the violence.

If Israel Is Forced to End Gaza Ground Operation Prematurely, Arabs May Perceive
Hamas as Winner, due to its successes in massive rocket firing towards most of Israel
without suffering heavy casualties among its military-terrorist ranks or its political
leaders. Hamas is wracked by internal divisions between military and political cadres,
extremist and pragmatic politicians, and Gaza-based and external leaderships. Hamas'
isolation in the regional context is greater than ever. Saudi Arabia and most of the Gulf
countries support Egypt's fight against the Muslim Brotherhood and by extension
against Hamas. Qatar, one of the main providers of funds to Hamas, is much more
cautious since the advent of the young Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hama Al Thani and in
light of the intense pressure by its powerful Gulf neighbors to cut off support for
Brotherhood and jihadist forces in the region.

Of course, the rest of the Middle East remains unstable, as reticence to acknowledge the dangers of the
efforts to create a worldwide Caliphate remains problematic:

Gloves have Come Off between Syrian Regime, Islamic State - The Islamic State (IS) now
controls more than a third of Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights. The group's stunning victories in Iraq have been repeated in Syria. IS now
controls nearly all of the oil-rich eastern province of Deir ez-Zor. After ousting its rival,
the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, from the provincial capital, IS is now face to face
with regime forces. The undeclared truce between the regime and IS seems to have run
its course. The devastating assault by IS on the al-Shaer gas field in Homs on July 16 left
up to 300 regime troops and civilian employees dead. Meanwhile, the Syrian regime has
launched airstrikes on IS headquarters and training camps.

Iran Is Pushing Limits on Nuclear Deal, Former Obama Advisor Warns - Robert Einhorn,
who was a special advisor on arms control at the State Department until May 2013, says
the Iranians have been quietly extending what they claim they are entitled to on
enrichment - what Einhorn calls "rights creep." Last year, the Obama administration
publicly acknowledged for the first time that it could support Iran having a domestic
enrichment program. But now Iran contends that it is entitled to produce enough
enriched uranium to supply a huge nuclear power generation program by 2021. Instead
of cutting back its capacity to a fraction of what it is today, as the West is now
demanding, it wants to keep operating al the machines that are now producing; pursue
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unlimited research and development; limit the duration of the deal to eight years or
less; and be free to expand to industrial scale once the deal lapses. If Iran sticks to these
demands when talks resume, "it will ensure continued deadlock," Einhorn warned.

During the current rocket-war with fanatical Hamas in Gaza, Nancy Spielberg [Steven's sister] came to
Israel to premiere Above and Beyond at the Jerusalem Film Festival, her film documentary on volunteer
Jewish aviators who blazed a trial for the current generation of IAF pilots and crews. [IAF F-16 and drone
remote pilots defending Israel are worthy successors to those Mahal pilots in the early days of the IAF
from the UK, US, Rhodesia and South Africa who made a difference in the fledgling IAF 101 Squadron.]
The best example of their ranks was Lou Lenart, a Hungarian Jew by origin and WWII Marine Fighter ace
who stopped an Egyptian armored column from reaching Tel Aviv with a few well placed bombs; he is
"the man who literally saved Tel Aviv" in Israel's War for Independence; the 94-year-old Lenart [who
served as a US Marine in World War II and led the IAFs first mission on May 29, 1948] was also present.
To follow are excerpts from an e-mailed essay about this film:

Three years ago, her knowledge of flying was mainly to do with how to return her seat
to the upright position. But when she saw an obituary for Al Schwimmer, an American
World War II veteran and flight engineer who has been called the godfather of the Israel
Air Force, she was fascinated.

I thought, how did an American become the godfather of the Israel Air Force? she
said. Spielberg, who had done promotional writing and had produced and worked on
several documentaries [among them Elusive Justice: The Search for Nazi War Criminals]
had one hesitation before she proceeded with plans to begin making Above and
Beyond: It sounded like a Spielberg movie.

Once her brother, Steven, who had thought of making a movie on this topic at one point
in the Nineties, gave her his blessing, she immersed herself in everything to do with the
Machal, volunteers from abroad who helped the Israeli army during the War of
Independence, particularly those who created the IAF.

I learned quickly, Im a sponge, she said. I learned a lot out of doing research, talking
to these guys. At first when people talked about Messerschmitt, and an ME, and an ME
109, I didnt realize these were all the same thing....I read a lot of books. One of them
that was very helpful was Ehud Yonays No Margin for Error, I learned a lot of tech air
force jargon.

I got it, felt it, saw it, like I was watching Top Gun.

She went looking for a director and found Roberta Grossman, who had made a number
of acclaimed documentaries, among them Hava Nagila and Blessed is the Match: The
Life and Death of Hannah Senesh.

There was only one hitch. At first, Grossman wouldnt take her calls, which puzzled
Spielberg.

Then she discovered another one of the perils of having a brother who is among the
most famous directors on the planet. Roberta always told her assistant, If Spielberg
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calls, tell him Im busy. Once Grossman understood that it was Nancy Spielberg on the
line, the director and producer starting work together and interviewed the surviving
pilots. Spielberg also assembled the archival material she knew she would need for the
film.

On this trip, Spielberg has been visiting her daughter, Jessica Jessy Katz, a contestant
on The Voice, who lives in Tel Aviv, and noticed, People were standing outside trying to
film the rockets as they fall. But back when the IAF was starting, Israel had no money for
cameras. There wasnt time or energy to document what they were doing the way we
do today.

But she did manage to find wonderful photos and even some live action footage,
although she somewhat reluctantly supplemented this with carefully done recreations
of some of the action.

One of the hardest parts of making the movie was deciding what I had to leave out.
There were so many capers, so many stories, you cant include them all, she said.

There was no room for all the details of how Schwimmer actually created dummy
companies in order to be allowed to buy planes, and how some of the pilots were
arrested when US Treasury agents discovered that the planes were headed for
Palestine.

In addition, There were certain basics that we have all been taught in the Jewish world,
that I had to include so that it would hold up for a mainstream audience.

The film is headed for a theatrical run in 2015, and Spielberg hopes to make it widely
available afterwards via DVD and live-streaming.

Next up for Spielberg: The feature film version of this story.

Thats a big switch for Spielberg, who has spent years distancing herself professionally
from her brother, and is proud that she accepted no financial help from him for Above
and Beyond and did her own fund raising. But she feels comfortable now working in
filmmaking.

When the shoe fit, I put it on, she said.

Spielberg was happy to participate in the Jerusalem Film Festival, and not fazed by the
current conflict.

Her daughter Jessy has been living in Israel for years, And its very hard to be apart in
times like this... If I was in the US watching the rockets, Id be so scared. Spielberg was
accompanied on this trip by her husband, Shimon Katz.

Their younger daughter, Melissa, is an accomplished equestrian.

I was happy Jessy was with me in Jerusalem *during a recent rocket attack+. Its not a
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situation to make light of, but in our family we deal with things like this with nervous
laughter. In a tense moment, we let off some steam with a chuckle.





Buses arrive at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel parking lot at 3:00 p.m.,
departing for Center City promptly at 3:30 p.m.,
returning immediately at the conclusion of the rally.
(No one under 4 permitted on the bus.)




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Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:34 PM
Subject: Action-Items-CCVII [ObamaDon'tCare, Illegals, GOP's-Civil-War]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/234898492/Action-Items-CCVII-ObamaDon-tCare-Illegals-GOP-s-Civil-War

These are the domestic issues that arose overnight, focused on Politics and ObamaDontCare. Also,
Corbetts struggles continue *PA SENATE LAWYERS UP OVER VETOES] as the Senate GOP leadership
asked Corbett to Re-appoint Office of Open Records director Terry Mutchler; Im continuing to blog
regarding how Corbett *and Rs+ can win. [Corbett appears to concur with my view that the pension
crisis and property taxes are key campaign issues and Dermody is fuzzy on pension history.] Indeed, as
Republicans ponder how to maximize the results of the mid-terms, they may wish to ponder Ten
Reasons Why I Am No Longer a Leftist; regarding BHOs Scandal-Sheet, there has been a renewed hunt
for Lois Lerners emails, although the IRS Commissioner said *amazingly+ Were Not Investigating The
Missing Emails Right Now. Quietly, Big Tobacco just got bigger, as JOY BEHAR claimed PALIN SHOULD BE
'TURNING LETTERS OVER ON SOME GAME SHOW.' {Also, Two Ukrainian fighter jets were shot down
over separatist territory not far from the site of the Malaysia Airlines crash, an attack the rebels took
credit for but that Kiev said it believed came from Russian territory.}

Cheney said any attempt to impeach Obama would be distraction.

Regarding Illegals, Obamas Border Narrative percolating into the media *that it constitutes a sudden
humanitarian crisis of unaccompanied child refugees] is Unraveling; the implication of their narrative is
that this is akin to a natural disaster that requires an immediate increase in spending to treat the crisis,
but now it appears that the entire narrative is based on falsehoods, for this immigrant invasion was
planned and anticipated by the Obama administration as early as 2012. Even Senate Democrats want to
trim Obamas border request by $1B, but Mitch McConnell wont say whether he backs Ted Cruzs push
to attack Obamas deferred action policies on immigration; the Senate minority leader believes Cruz
should get a vote on his proposal. Cruz (R-Texas) is urging Republicans to support a divisive effort that
would prohibit any further expansion of Obamas Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program that
shields some young undocumented immigrants from deportation. {Through it all, the NYT advocates
GRANTING AMNESTY and CENTRAL AMERICAN PRESIDENTS WANT THEIR CHILDREN BACK.}

National Public Radio's Morning Edition aired an extraordinary story about U.S. Customs
and Border Patrol on Friday. The story was not about the ongoing wave of illegal aliens
from Central Americamany of them childrencrossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Rather, it was about the rules on when deadly force may be used by Border Patrol
agents in the course of their duties, with a view to making it harder for them to do so.

Whereas Politico reported Perdue won Georgia Senate runoff without discussing Amnesty/Illegals and
then suggested that Georgia could flip to the Dems in 2014; PERDUE PINNED PRO-AMNESTY CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE SUPPORT ON LOSING OPPONENT for, in the days leading up to election day, he made a
big push to tie the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's support for amnesty to Kingston, who had benefited
from over $3 million dollars in campaign spending from the lobby group. {Senate Conservatives also
touted the fact that Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) won the Republican primary runoff election for the 11
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Congressional District in Georgia.}

Another issue separating the Establishment-GOP from the more conservative-Rs is the
battle being waged by Bob Dole against home-schoolers on disabilities treaty. An
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international treaty on rights for people with disabilities [U.N. Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities, adopted in 2006 and signed by Obama in 2009, modeled
after the Americans with Disabilities Act] is intended to help guarantee that people with
disabilities can access education, jobs, health care and other opportunities afforded to
countries mainstream populations. It will either have no effect on American law or
infringe on the rights of parents whose children have disabilities, threaten states rights
and become a legal tool for pro-choice advocates pushing against restrictive abortion
laws. The treaty now includes several recommended add-ons [called reservations,
understandings or declarations] that would clarify that it couldnt affect American law.
Therefore, if that be the case, then why pass it?

In addition to promoting Wolf [against Roberts] in Kansas, the Senate Conservatives are promoting Joe
Carr [against Alexander] in Tennessee; Laura Ingraham said Lamar Alexander is aged and Out of Touch,
comparing him to an old sweater that had become full of moths, with faded colors.

Democratic staffers whose bosses lose in November may be in for more bad news in
January. Staffers leaving Capitol Hill as a result of a retirement or election loss will enter
one of the tightest K Street labor markets in recent memory as firms of all sizes have
struggled to gin up new business and keep existing clients amid several years of anemic
growth and stalled legislation.

Regarding POTUS-16, Santorum and Dr. Ben Carson [who famously claimed the 2
nd
Amendment should
appplied differently in urban America when compared with the rest of the country] are Starting to Think
About 2016 WH Runs, but far more ominous are activities of Rand Paul [Pentagon Official: Why Rand
Pauls Ideas Scare Me, And Why They Should Scare You and Rand Paul Slams Voter ID: Its Offending
People]. Regardless of these maneuvers, it is clear that Limbaugh Was Right regarding the need to
oppose everything BHO wants, and some feel Krauthammer, Will, and Kristol Should Apologize.

Regarding the Media, DAVID GREGORY IS REPORTEDLY OUT AT 'MEET THE PRESS.'

Regarding ObamaDontCare, the White House [predictably] will Ignore Court Ruling and Keep Handing
Out Subsidies; per Politico, Obamas court strategy [packing the D.C. Appellate Court] may help save
Obamacare, although most commentators predict the issue will be faced next year by the SCOTUS.
Although customarily biased, this piece by Politico elucidates the major forces-at-play currently:

Democrats still haven't learned Obamacare lesson

Memo to Democrats: This is what happens when you pass a law where you cant fix
simple drafting errors.
Within hours of each other, two federal courts reached exactly opposite conclusions
Tuesday about whether the vague wording of Obamacare allows people to get subsidies
through the federal health insurance exchange. One said, sorry, thats not what the law
says. The other said, sure, they can get the subsidies the Obama administration has
the power to do that.
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The conflicting rulings were another wake-up call for Democrats about the fragility of
the health care law and a reminder that whenever they think a lawsuit is no threat to
the law, its probably a threat to the law.
Its all because of what most Democrats insist is a drafting error in the law, but its kind
of a big one. The federal health insurance marketplace is now serving 36 states that
couldnt or wouldnt set up their own exchanges.
And now that the two courts have issued conflicting rulings, the odds are higher that the
Supreme Court may have to settle the question once again putting the fate of a major
part of the law before the high court.
Theres no guarantee that the Supreme Court would take up the issue. But if it does, its
not at all certain that the justices would allow the subsidies to keep flowing in the
federal exchange. If it doesnt, that could jeopardize the coverage for more than 7.3
million low- and middle-income people who would need those subsidies to be able to
afford Obamacare coverage. Yes, the court upheld most of Obamacare in 2012 but
that was a different set of legal questions.
The split decision in the courts Tuesday is the classic formula for a Supreme Court
review, maybe on a fast track, said William Galston, a domestic policy expert at the
Brookings Institution.
Its a lesson, some health care experts say, in why President Barack Obama and
congressional Democrats took their chances in 2010 when they passed the Affordable
Care Act using a special procedure called budget reconciliation. That allowed the Senate
to pass the bill with just 51 votes, because they couldnt get 60 votes after Republican
Scott Brown was elected to fill Ted Kennedys Senate seat in Massachusetts.
But it didnt allow Congress to fix simple wording mistakes in the law an earlier
version of which had squeaked through the Senate with GOP support in late 2009. The
rules allowed only limited changes with a clear budget impact. Its a bit like the college
student who slaps together a rough draft of a term paper, expecting to clean it up
before its handed in, only to find suddenly time is up.
The sloppy language stayed and it came back to bite the Democrats on Tuesday.
When you pass a bill by any means necessary, you can fix a lot, but you cant fix
everything, said Thomas Miller, a health care expert at the conservative American
Enterprise Institute. The staff writes it late at night. Its never reconciled and they
say, Oh well, well fix it after its passed.
The Obama administration and congressional Democrats insist they still have the
stronger legal hand in the long run. We are confident in the legal position that we
have, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said during a briefing after the first
ruling. It is pretty obvious what the congressional intent was.
Supporters of the ACA from academics and legal experts to Democrats on Capitol Hill
have long downplayed the laws legal challenges, accusing the plaintiffs of trying to
kill the law for partisan reasons. But some of those challenges have been successful. The
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most vivid example was the Supreme Courts Hobby Lobby decision last month, when
the high court ruled that the administration overreached by mandating that most
employers provide contraception even if they had religious objections.
And in 2012, the court ruled the laws Medicaid expansion had to be optional for states.
But in that same decision the Supreme Court did uphold the individual mandate a
victory that makes the laws supporters confident that the subsidies will survive, too.
The full law was put before the Supreme Court, and the law stood, said Tony Carrk,
director of the Health Care War Room at the liberal Center for American Progress Action
Fund.
The latest legal threat to Obamacare comes from a basic mistake in the wording that
2009 drafting error. The law encourages states to set up their own health insurance
marketplaces, but it also creates a federal marketplace as a fallback.
Yet the section on health insurance subsidies says they can be paid to anyone who signs
up for coverage in an Exchange established by the State. It doesnt say anything about
the federal exchange.
Oops.
Democratic leaders insisted in a legal brief that the point always was to make the
subsidies available in all exchanges, not just the state ones. But the opponents of the
law say it was much more than a drafting error. They say that the laws crafters
purposely made subsidies available only in the state-run exchanges to encourage states
to set them up. Besides, they said, the IRS cant just change the law.
Until Tuesday, most supporters of the ACA dismissed the possibility that the wording
presented any real legal threat. Congress obviously meant to include the federal
exchange, they said, and thats how the courts will see it.
But then, the three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-
1 that the law has to be read literally. Its not our job, the judges wrote, to go beyond
the clear wording of the law and guess about congressional intent.
This limited role serves democratic interests by ensuring that policy is made by elected,
politically accountable representatives, not by appointed, life-tenured judges, Judge
Thomas Griffith wrote in the opinion.
Hours later, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals came to the opposite conclusion. It wasnt
exactly a ringing endorsement of the language, and there was no declaration that this
is clearly what Congress meant. The wording was sloppy, the court wrote, even self-
contradictory and ambiguous. But they said Supreme Court precedent says that the
federal agencies have significant deference when crafting rules so the IRS decision
was valid.
Simply put, the statute is ambiguous and subject to at least two different
interpretations, the judges wrote. Confronted with the Acts ambiguity, the IRS crafted
a rule ensuring the credits broad availability and furthering the goals of the law.
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That ruling gave Democrats just enough cover to predict with confidence that the
subsidies will be fine and blast Republicans for continually trying to kill a health care
law thats already covering millions of people and lowering the rate of uninsured
Americans.
The American people deserve better than Republicans lawsuits and legislative nihilism.
We are confident that as these cases advance, the plaintiffs obviously false
interpretation of the law will be exposed as the baseless and desperate Republican
distraction that it is, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, whos leading his partys Obamacare
messaging in the Senate, tweeted a dismissive reaction. Weve seen this play before.
Outlier lower court dents #ACA, higher courts correct. Fed. exchange subsidies will be
upheld.
But Republicans insisted that the Democrats brought the mess upon themselves by
using a partisan process and skirting House-Senate negotiations in which language
problems are typically worked out.
If the governments position *that Congress intended to have subsidies go to all states+
was right, this should have been sorted out in the conference between the House and
the Senate, said Tevi Troy, a former deputy secretary of Health and Human Services
during the George W. Bush administration.
For now, the subsidies arent going to screech to a halt. Theyll continue for everyone
who has signed up this year. The Obama administration plans to seek a ruling from the
full D.C. appeals court, and Democrats predict the full court will uphold their reading of
the law. Theyre already dismissing the ruling because it was written by two Republican-
appointed judges.
I believe it will be appealed to the full D.C. circuit court and will lose there. Two other
[courts] have turned thumbs-down to similar suits, and I expect the D.C. court will do
the same, said John McDonough, a health care expert at Harvard who helped write the
law as a Democratic Senate staffer in 2010.
AEIs Miller isnt so sure. Its uphill *for the other judges+ to say, Well, we disagree with
you because we were appointed by Democrats, he said.
But the real issue, health care experts say, is what happens if the dispute eventually
reaches the Supreme Court. That could be more perilous for the law given the courts
conservative majority.
And if the subsidies do eventually lose in the high court, Obamacare opponents say,
thats no ones fault but the laws authors.
If people lose those subsidies, it is because the courts have ruled that those subsidies
are and always have been unlawful, said Michael Cannon, who is director of health
policy studies at the Cato Institute and strongly backed the lawsuit in amicus briefs.
The issue also has serious implications for Obamacares employer mandate an
unpopular piece of the law that has proved troublesome for the administration. The
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mandate is triggered only when a companys employees go to the exchange to get
subsidies. So if a person cannot get subsidies, there is really no mandate and no fine on
the employers.
And if the subsidies are ultimately struck down, it would also cripple the individual
mandate.
In a brief filed with the D.C. court, several economists who support the law wrote that if
subsidies couldnt go to federal exchange states, insurance would be unaffordable for 99
percent of the people who qualify for subsidies today. That means they would be
exempt from the individual mandate because coverage was unaffordable under the
ACA.
So the individual mandate would still be on the books, it would still operate in those
states, but far more people would be exempt from penalties in those states, said
Cannon.




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Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 4:46 AM
Subject: Action-Items-CCVIII [Israel]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/234947246/Action-Items-CCVIII-Israel

Perhaps because Im fearing that Israel is confronting a major existential threat, or perhaps because Im
concerned that others are insufficiently worried about the risk to America posed by the Islamic State,
this Blast e-mail is focused on recalling three *3+ available briefings regarding whats occurring in Gaza.
The phone-conferences to be held [all are e.d.t.] follow, noting that #2 requires pre-registration and
that it is advised that interested-parties should start calling 3 to 5 minutes before the scheduled-call.
[Also, regarding #2, I submitted ahead-of-time the following query: Why didn't Israel attempt to detect
the tunnels that open in Israeli territory (one, underneath a school) prior to the current conflict?+

8:00 AM
EMET Phone Seminar
Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, Former Israeli National Security Advisor
The Necessity for and Objectives of Operation Protective Edge
(712) 432-0075 - Participant Code: 397784

12:30 PM
Israeli-American Council
Minister Yuval Steinitz, Israeli Minister of Strategic and Intelligence Affairs
AN INSIDER'S VIEW OF OPERATION PROTECTIVE EDGE
Click here to register

3:00 PM
ZOA
Danny Danon, Member of Knesset, Chair, Central Committee of Likud
Israel's Former Deputy Minister of Defense
Security, military situation in the Hamas/Fatah/Abbas/PA war against the Jewish State of Israel
(800) 743-8584



Within this context, Im told that the only way to help to educate Americans is to go around the POTUS
and to ID a Hollywood-Star to serve as a credible messenger, perhaps offsetting BHOs sycophants;
therefore, a few lists have been unearthed [Famous Jews who changed their names (with an unusual
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commentary @ the end); Famous Jews of Hollywood (note the music); 100 MORE Jewish actors &
actresses of Hollywood (none of whom encompass the stars of the first half of the 20
th
Century, such as
the Marx Brothers); and Jews Run The Media (the title, of course, is misleading)]

Feast your ears on BBs interviews by BILL MAHER and when debating as a 28 year-old;
then compare/contrast his ideas with those of Jimmy Carter and Ex-CIA Michael Scheuer
(who would Dump the Israelis Tomorrow). Once one goes onto this type of you-tube
page, other opportunities abound, such as when Jesse Ventura battled a Jewish
reporter on Fox *despite the fact that Brian Kilmeades religion is unknown] and when
David Duke claimed Israel is the Real Terrorist State [Uploaded on Feb 17, 2012]:

IMPORTANT: This video is not anti-Semitic. It is anti-Zionist. If you don't
know the difference, then you are a part of the problem, not the
solution. Look past the messenger. The proof I speak of is in the news
reports shown in this video, not the word of the narrator. This video
reveals who the real terrorists are. The traitors in our government
support this because they are paid off by AIPAC (American Israel Public
Affairs Committee), the Zionist Israel Political Action Committee in
Washington. Most of our politicians in Washington sign an agreement of
allegiance with AIPAC in order to receive the bribes and the money they
pay out to support their re-election campaigns. These politicians are
clearly traitors and terrorists, and have repeatedly sold out American
lives in staged terror attacks and unconstitutional, immoral and
genocidal wars for their own political gain. And they continue to support
acts of terrorism and treason. They will take us into World War 3 with
Israel unless we stop them now! Support Ron Paul! He is the only
candidate in the race for the presidency who is not bought off by the
terrorists.

Then note that Cruz vowed to hold nominees until he gets answers on Israeli flight ban,
inasmuch as he fears the unprecedented FAA-decision was triggered by BHO.

Also, interacted via e-mail with Dinesh DSouza *regarding a typo in his book+ and heavily-critiqued a
review of his movie by a lib [America: 2/3 good]; in his Blast e-mail, he noted that Republican
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher is demanding to know why Google fumbled the search results
for Dinesh D'Souza's movie America for nearly three weeks. {Also, blogging regarding Corbett was
amplified and codified.}


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Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 6:58 AM
Subject: Action-Items-CCIX [Israel, Illegals, D'Souza, GOP, Hillary]


http://www.scribd.com/doc/235067952/Action-Items-CCIX-Israel-Illegals-D-Souza-GOP-Hillary

This summarizes, primarily, the three conference-calls regarding Israels invasion of Gaza; also included
is a time-line that provides raw-data reflecting the exigencies of this war and my personalized four-part
take on the forces at-play [A view from the PMO in Jerusalem]. My views are c/w those of John
Boltons Gatestone Institute [There Must Not Be a Ceasefire and War "Statistics": The New York Times
Deceives Again]; the bottom-line point is that BBs activities must be supported, fully-recognizing that
BHOs support for the Muslim Brotherhood constitutes the theme of all his *mis-]behavior patterns.

In conjunction with concern regarding the coat-tails of the PA-gubernatorial race, note
that Minority Leader Costa said Dems can take state Senate if Wolf expands lead over
Corbett, a point I have been incessantly making for two years and that prompts me
until Corbett holds a PSU-themed endless press-conferenceto hope still that Cawley
might supplant Corbett. For what its worth, I fervently want Corbett to win (noting
emergence of Wolfs tax-and-spend policies and Corbetts anti-Pension Bomb
forthrightness) but, channeling Guzzardi (I suppose), one must impose tough-love.

First, a few political observations are provided, tethered to key-issues previously explored extensively;
personal priorities remain focused on two items of unfinished business *Temple Us Lerro (no one
called-back, not surprisicngly) and starting a Log Cabin Republican Chapter in PA (officers have emerged
and model-bylaws have been obtained, but organizational logistics pend)]. Many of the domestic-issues
are highlighted during the weekly Heritage-Action Sentinel call *which some consider to be dry but
upon which news-gluttons such as myself routinely feast+, inasmuch as they reflect whats happening
behind the scenes; such behavior is more revealing than that which might be highlighted on newscasts
for [in particular] the true-conservatives reveal themselves as RINOs open themselves to be discredited.

It is desirable, at the onset, to cite Dinesh DSouzas book *America], three weeks after
having distilled the first five chapters thereof and one week after having distilled three
subsequent chapters thereof. Chapter 9 depicts the decline of racism [as MLK, Jr.
appealed not for new rights but for the enforcement of rights already granted in 1776],
Chapter 10 explains why the value of prosperity [derived from its underlying merit]
extends to the collective, and Chapter 11 undermines the claim of exploitation by noting
the existence of mutual-consent. [The photos between Chapters 10/11 serve to remind
the reader of what he had, by now, presumably seen in the Documentary.]

Issues:

"Why Am I Moving Left? I used to be right down the middle. But America's changed, and
so have I," by Thomas E. Ricks, former WSJ and WashPost military reporter, on Politico
Magazine: "I have again and again found myself shifting to the left in major areas such
as foreign policy and domestic economic policy. ... [Some factors:] Disappointment in
the American government ... Torture. I never expected my country to endorse torture.
... How we fought. ... Intelligence officials run amok. ... Growing income inequality. ...
Bailouts for bankers. ... Democracy for sale. ... Gun massacres." {Personal experience
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talking with him when he spoke years ago @ the National Constitution Center
undermines this claim, for he was totally anti-Iraq, AFTER the successful surge; it is
notable, of course, that this conversion is dutifully transmitted via Politico.}

This-a.m., I sent Bill Godshall *Smoke-Free Pennsylvania+ an item-of-interest,
claiming E-Cigs are Safe; this-p.m., he remitted his compilation of articles about
Big Tobacco [focused on harm-reduction], to be uploaded onto the Internet.
[Godshall has been solely focused on this concern since the 1980s.+

SENATE TO VOTE ON $10.8 billion HIGHWAY BILL NEXT WEEK, to replenish the fund that
covers the federal share of highway and mass-transit spending, a timetable that would
leave just days to spare before the money is expected to run dry. Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said the Senate will take up the bill the House passed earlier
this month, but will allow votes on four amendments. Members from both parties are
eager to replenish the Highway Trust Fund, which accounts for about one-quarter of the
nation's spending on mass-transit systems and the repair, operation and maintenance of
highways. The House-passed measure keeps the fund going through May 2015."

Govt Sting Operation: Fake ObamaDontCare Applications Approved!

Cancer-Stricken Vietnam-Veteran [unable to walk or speak] was Denied disability
Benefits and Told to Get a Job by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Guns continue to be used for personal protection [Alabama Grandmother Shot Burglary
Suspect in Head; Four Students Robbed at Gunpoint on Gun-Free Campus in Ohio; and
Restaurant Owner said Business Up With 'Guns Are Welcome' Sign On Front Door].

A doctor wounded by a patient in a deadly shooting at a hospital
campus in Delaware County [Fitzgerald-Mercy] appears to have been
the person who returned fire and wounded the suspect, authorities
said. The gunfire was reported around 2:30 p.m. Thursday on the top
floor of Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital's wellness center, across from the
hospital, at 1503 Lansdowne Ave. in Darby. The doctor had his own gun
and acted in self-defense.

Planned Parenthood advised Girls to Experiment with Getting 'Spanked, Whipped, or
Hit'

Todd and Scarborough fighting for Gregory's Meet The Press chair [after the mid-terms]

ABC News Brian Ross Thanks US Officials 32 Years After Hostage Crisis [shocking backgrounder]

Illegals:

Obama Admin. Warned About Migrant Crisis in 2011

Missing Word from Boehner Group's Proposal: 'Obama' - The top line recommendations
of Speaker John Boehners border crisis working group recommendations do not
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address President Barack Obamas executive actions on immigration, like the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has been widely cited as a key
reason the illegal alien children are coming to the U.S. by the tens of thousands,
including by the immigrants themselves.
Jeff Sessions: Boehner Group's Border Plan an 'Institutional Surrender' to Obama's
'Planned Illegality'
Marsha Blackburn: Illegal Alien Children 'Pawns' in Obama's 'Political Agenda' - On the
border crisis, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is leading the Ted Cruz brigade in the House.

Illegal Alien Children Dumped in Maine
Maine Gov. Blasts WH After Discovering Illegals Dumped in State on Conference Call
500+ migrant kids sent to PA
90% of Illegals No-Shows in Dallas Immigration Court
La Raza President: 'Un-American' to Protest Illegal Immigration
PEW: VAST MAJORITY OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT 'CHILDREN' TEENAGERS
$840 Million of Border Crisis 'Emergency' Spending Bill Goes to Other Issues
House Republicans unveiled their own fix to the border crisis, including changes to a
2008 anti-trafficking law that would make children from Central America be treated the
same as minors from Mexico or Canada.
FLEMING TO BOEHNER: DON'T GIVE OBAMA BORDER BILL UNTIL HE RESCINDS
EXECUTIVE AMNESTY
HOUSE GOP TO HOLD BORDER CRISIS SUMMIT
BOEHNER: PRESIDENT OBAMA 'AWOL' ON BORDER CRISIS
Gang of Eight Republicans Promise: We're Not Trying to Sneak Our Bill Through - Senate
Gang of Eight Republicans are vowing not to try anything sneaky, as Congress
considers legislation to address the border crisis.
Rubio: No Immigration Reform Until Obama Deals With Border [belated declaration]
NO MIGRANT AGREEMENT BEFORE RECESS
Rick Perry Slams Critics Claims He's 'Militarizing' Border

BHOs Proclivities:

Obama's biggest White House 'fails'
Henninger: 'Most Provincial' President Tells World 'Drop Dead'
HOLLYWOOD HORROR: OBAMA MOTORCADE TRAPS PREGNANT WOMAN IN LABOR

Senate:

Goodbye to the Republican Wave? [wishful thinking c/o the NYTimes]
Obama Warned Democrats to Avoid Repeat of 2010 Midterm Elections
Regarding the Senatorial race in Montana, it may be recalled that significant attention is
being paid by Sen. Reid [and other Dems] to the native Americans; this is viewed as
explaining why they are pushing the Redskins issue and why Sens. Tester and Walsh
hailed new Land Buy-Back agreements in Indian Country. Thus, although
RealClearPolitics rates this lean-R, its probably going to be reassigned as solid-R
because Walsh [D, Montana] plagiarized his War College thesis and Walshs Brings Jobs
Home Act is identical to legislation written by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) that
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failed in 2012, when Stabenow was running for reelection. Senator claimed PTSD after
caught plagiarizing master's thesis.
The NY-Times and WaPo websites provide a break-out, and commentary from the LA-
Times appears corroborative.

Hillary:

Hillary Book Rank Dips Below Two Anti-Clinton Books
Latest front in Clinton wars: Virginia suburbs - "The backdrop [is] the Virginia suburbs, ...
where a onetime congressional staffer who made her name digging up dirt on the
Clintons, Barbara Comstock, is trying to win a seat in Congress ... Lining up behind
Comstock are some of the Clintons' chief '90s-era adversaries, including Ken Starr, Dan
Burton and David Bossie. Determined to stop her is a host of Clinton loyalists led by
[Gov.] Terry McAuliffe ... Comstock's bid against Democratic Fairfax County Supervisor
John Foust has reopened the old wounds of Travelgate, Filegate, Monicagate."

GOPs Civil-War:

Tea Partys Joe Carr Looks to Ride Anti-Amnesty Wave Past Lamar Alexander
SARAH PALIN ENDORSES JOE CARR FOR SENATE AGAINST LAMAR ALEXANDER
Tennessee Tea Party Leaders: Lamar Alexander a 'Mushy Moderate'

ROMNEY OMITS CRUZ, PERRY, RAND FROM PRESIDENTIAL LIST
Rand Paul Scrubbed Anti-Israel Student Reading List from Website

Ukraine:

Russia firing artillery into Ukraine in escalation of conflict
State Dept.: Russia attacking Ukrainian military targets
Ukrainian PM resigns, says parliament could no longer do its work
Ukrainian journalist working for CNN detained by pro-Russian rebels
OPINION: What US needs to do with Putin, Ukraine
Majority think Putin has upper hand in Ukraine
TIME COVER, "COLD WAR II: The West is losing Putin's dangerous game," - His
increasingly overt goal is to splinter Europe, rip up the NATO umbrella and restore
Russian influence around the world. As if to put an exclamation point on that manifesto,
the pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine apparently resumed their antiaircraft attacks less than
a week after the destruction of Flight 17. ... And Putin evidently will keep going as long
as each new crisis only makes him stronger. The 21
st
century czar has mastered the dark
art of stirring up problems that only he can solve, so that Western leaders find
themselves scolding him one minute while pleading with him the next. The crisis in Syria
last year is a perfect example.

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Israel & Islamism:

last-remaining-christians-flee-iraq-mosul
ISIS Orders Women to Undergo Genital Mutilation

Danon handled the BBC very well
CHAOS IN WEST BANK AS THOUSANDS RIOT
IDF Video Proves Hamas Fired from a Hospital
The UNs Propaganda War Against Israel
Israeli Ambassador REAMED-OUT CNN for not reporting UN statement that says Hamas makes
UN schools a target
CNN Exposed Emmy Winning Former CNN Journalist Blows The Whistle: CNN Is Paid By
Foreign And Domestic Government Agencies For Specific Content
Israel surprised by number and sophistication of Gaza tunnels
Why a Gaza cease-fire could reinforce long-term conflict
Sen. Graham: White House 'throwing Israel overboard'
Howard Stern Gives Impassioned Defense of Israel
Fears grow that Hezbollah may join Hamas in fight
IRAN SUPREME LEADER: Only solution is Israel's destruction
Kerry Wrestles With Egypt and Turkey, Because Gaza Isn't Tough Enough [c/o lefties]
PRESSURE ON ISRAEL
FAA LIFTS TRAVEL BAN TO TEL AVIV, a prohibition that had brought the agency furious criticism
from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg; the agency said it
lifted the ban after it worked 'with its U.S. government counterparts to assess the security
situation in Israel."
At LOVE Park, advocates for Israel, Palestine face off

Letter-to-the-Editor [probably to the Inqy, noting authorship of the article that provoked it]:

To the editor,

For years we have been told that support for Israel limited American influence in the
Middle East. But the current conflict has been different. Major Arab states, including
Egypt have recognized Hamas for what it is, a terrorist organization that is the
Palestinian version of the Islamists spreading hate throughout the region, political
siblings of those now persecuting Mosuls Christians, and threatening Iraq, Afghanistan,
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other relatively moderate Arab states. These neighbors have
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recognized Hamas for the danger it represents, withholding the usual reflexive
support.

It is painful to watch the destruction of civilian lives in the Gaza fortress that Hamas
built in and under homes, schools and hospitals, just as it is painful to see selective
outrage over the death and destruction in Gaza that is but a fraction of the carnage in
Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere in the Middle East. The effort Israel has made to minimize the
loss of civilian lives is unique in the annals of warfare, while Hamas has literally poured
billions of dollars in aid and many hundreds of thousands of tons of concrete into the
ground to build bunkers, rocket launching sites, and 80 foot deep tunnels that have only
one purpose, to facilitate attacks on Israels Jews. Arab recognition of Hamas and its
credo as an existential threat to the future of not just Israel but to the Palestinians, the
region and even the Western world is fortunate, not a problem as the Inquirer suggests.

John R. Cohn
1015 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-923-7685

As Hamas looks on Egypt with suspicion, U.S. limited
July 24, 2014

By Nancy A. Youssef McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

WASHINGTON To understand the reluctance of Hamas to accept a cease-fire plan
mediated by Egypt, one needs look no further than the coverage Egypts state-owned
news media offers of the conflict.

Azza Sami, a writer for the government-owned al Ahram newspaper, took to Twitter to
thank Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his campaign in Gaza. Thank you
Netanyahu, and God give us more men like you to destroy Hamas! the tweet read.

Another columnist wrote he could not support Gazans since they had voted for
Hamas.

The Egyptian medias attacks on Hamas highlight amajor change in Mideast politics
that has limited U.S. influence in the conflict: The Egyptian government of Abdel-Fattah
el-Sissi is virulently anti-Hamas, and Hamas does not trust it.

That hasnt stopped Secretary of State John Kerry from using Egypts proposal as a
template for a cease-fire arrangement. On Wednesday, Kerry left Cairo for Jerusalem to
keep pushing for a deal even after Hamas rejected it and Egypt declined to alter its
terms.

Kerry is trying to light the fuse to solve the problem, said Jon Alterman, director of
the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a
Washington research center.

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Egypts standing with Hamas is a turnaround from the role it played in 2012, when
Israel and Hamas last came to blows. At that time, Egypts president was Mohammed
Morsi, a longtime figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, the secretive Islamist society that
had close ties with Hamas.

Last week, Egypt presented a cease-fire deal that was similar to the 2012 deal. But
while the deal was endorsed by the Arab League and Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas called it effectively a surrender that met none of its demands.

The triad of hour-long webinars focused on Israel [and not Iran, for example]; information gleaned
therefrom emphasizes the fact that Hamas has fired 2100 rockets @ 70% of population [from Haifa to
Eilat], which remains in shelters. Israel has found 30 tunnels thus far, although they have not all yet been
destroyed. Body-counts are often unreliable, so it is simply desirable to note 800 Palestinian-Arabs were
killed, of whom appear to be aligned with Hamas. Already destroyed is the domestic missile
production capacity; the total has been attenuated from 9K by 2K [although guestimates may be
unreliable], thus far. Thus, the UN Charter justifies defense.

The goal remains to achieve quiet, not necessarily to destroy Hamas or occupy the
entire Strip; the latter may occur in the future, but it would take as long as a year [high
casualties, fighting in populated areas, etc.] The triad of sub-goals includes: [1]No
Hamas infiltration via tunnels, while using the Iron Dome; [2]Intelligence to ID the
Hamas infrastructure; and [3]destroy network of bunkers in Gaza perimeter
(following-up Egypts historically-supportive efforts) to allow the IDF to have easy-entry.

Thus, the plan is to reassess key-data after noting what is accomplished, over time. Therefore, this effort
will be as extensive as is needed to end 14 years of almost-daily attacks. It is not a right/left political
football, for mayors and people concur; the IDF must bring peace and quiet to the south [and, as has
now been witnessed, to the entire country]. This is why people will sit in shelters for as long as it is
necessary; also recognized with appreciation by L.A. Consul-General David Siegel are the morale-
boosting rallies that have been held in multiple US cities.


IDF Said Bombing and Deaths at Gaza UNRWA School
May be From Hamas Rocket Falling Short

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LIVE BLOG: Israel's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza [excerpts]

Thursday, July 24

4:00 p.m. Europe's Aviation Safety Agency, which had issued a "strong
recommendation" against flights to Tel Aviv, retracted its warning on flights to and from
Israel.

3:40 p.m. Binyamin Netanyahu spoke at the Knesset at a cabinet meeting, saying Israel
is continuing its operation in Gaza in full force from the ground and the air. He opened
his remarks by saying the IDF has delivered a powerful blow to the Hamas
infrastructure. "We are continuing the operation in full strength," he said, adding that
the IDF was making big gains in Gaza. "In the past day, we have worked to overturn the
FAA ban on flights to and from Israel, and that has gained fruit." He went on to discuss
the fallen soldiers: "In the name of all the people of Israel, I express deep condolences
to the families, the fathers and mothers, of our soldiers that have died protecting our
country."

2:08 p.m. The Egyptian army thwarted an attack against Israel on Wednesday night,
killing a suicide bomber who ran towards the border near Kerem Shalom, Egyptian
military sources said. The Egyptian sources told the Palestinian Ma'an News Agency in a
report published Thursday that the suicide bomber carried an explosive device as well as
wearing an explosive belt on his body. The sources also said that the army destroyed a
vehicle loaded with Grad rockets before they were fired at Israel. The attack on the
vehicle killed two individuals, taking place in the north Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid near
the border with the Gaza Strip.

2:00 p.m. Rocket sirens went on in Ashdod, Ashkelon, Hof Ashkelon, Kiryat Gat and
Kiryat Malachi.

12:40 p.m. Turkey is working with international partners to negotiate both a cease-fire
in the Gaza conflict and access for humanitarian aid, the Turkish foreign minister said on
Thursday. "The US, Turkey, Qatar and Egypt have been working for the last five days to
ensure an immediate cease-fire," Ahmet Davutoglu said in an interview with Turkish
broadcaster AHaber, adding Turkey was in constant contact with Palestinian leaders.

12:29 p.m. Rocket sirens heard in Ashkelon, Netivot and communities near Gaza.

11:35 a.m. Code Red rocket alert sirens sound in Sderot.

11:34 a.m. Several pieces of rocket shrapnel land in Tel Aviv.

11:30 a.m. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke with British Foreign
Secretary Phillip Hammond on Thursday where he expressed regret for the heavy
civilian casualties in Gaza but insisted that the IDF is doing its utmost to prevent such
casualties. The PM also added that nothing would prevent Israel from continuing to
protect its people from Hamas tunnels which "penetrate our country."
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11:22 a.m. Sirens sound in central Israel and the Sharon region for second time in
minutes. Iron Dome intercepts 6 rockets.

11:05 a.m. Rocket alert sirens sound in Kfar Saba and Petah Tikva.

11:00 a.m. Rocket barrage fired from Gaza reached as far as Emek Hefer and Binyamina
while explosions were heard throughout the greater Tel Aviv area. Sirens went off in
Ramat Gan, Givatayim and Herzliya.

10:46 a.m. Brazil on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations in
protest over the IDF's operation in the Gaza Strip. A statement put out by the Brazilian
foreign ministry said that Brazil considers escalation of violence between Israel and
Palestine as unacceptable. We strongly condemn the disproportionate use of force by
Israel in the Gaza Strip.

8:30 a.m. The IDF took some 150 Hamas terrorists prisoner after they surrendered in
last night's offensive on the neighborhoods of Khan Younis and Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
The prisoners will be transferred to the Shin Bet for questioning regarding the
movements and operations of Hamas in Gaza.

8:02 a.m. Rocket sirens activated in Gaza frontier towns.

7:05 a.m. The FAA lifts its flight ban to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport after reassurances
from the Israeli government of new security measures put in place.

6:27 a.m. The IAF struck over 30 terror sites in Gaza overnight, says Army Radio.

6:11 a.m. Palestinian youths in Bethlehem clashed overnight between Wednesday and
Thursday with Palestinian security forces and Israeli military, showing solidarity as
fighting continued to rage in Gaza, displacing thousands more Palestinians in the
battered territory.

Palestinian riot police were seen trying to prevent youths from getting near Israeli
soldiers but eventually moved aside as scores of youths streamed into the streets
throwing stones and firebombs at Israeli soldiers, who responded with tear gas and
skunk water fired from a cannon.

4:41 a.m. Palestinian health authorities reported that 18 people were killed in IDF
operations in the last few hours, according to AFP. The health officials said the
Palestinian death toll in Operation Protective Edge had reached 714.

3:21 a.m. More than half of the Palestinians want an immediate cease-fire between
Israel and Hamas, according to a public- opinion poll published Wednesday. An
overwhelming majority of respondents, 93%, said they had a negative view of the US
role in the crisis.

1:53 a.m. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "expresses his outrage and regret at the
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placing of weapons in a U.N.-administered school," a United Nations statement said.
UNRWA is sheltering 102,000 people in 69 of its schools amid the renewed violence. "By
doing so, those responsible are turning schools into potential military targets, and
endangering the lives of innocent children, UN employees working in such facilities and
anyone using the UN schools as shelter," the statement said. {Remember, the rockets
were then returned to Hamas.}

1:09 a.m. In the last 24 hours, over 95 rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza, the IDF
says.

12:44 a.m. The funeral for Paratrooper St.-Sgt. Li Mat, 19, will take place Thursday at 6
p.m. at the Har Herzl military cemetery, the IDF announced.

12:05 a.m. The ADL condemns the vote by the UN Human Rights Council to establish a
commission of inquiry into Israels alleged human rights violations in Gaza, calling it
"absurd" and another shocking perversion of the Councils mandate.






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Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 3:35 PM
Subject: Action-Items CCX [Illegals, Israel, Islamism, Rush]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/235103781/Action-Items-CCX-Illegals-Israel-Islamism-Rush

Try to have a pleasant weekend after having skimmed these headlines; again, the focus is upon events in
the Middle East, noting that the duffer-in-chief should get-off-his-duff for any number of reasons.
Indeed, one wonders why the Christian Community hasnt mobilized against the Islamic State. Anyway,
my narrative-analysis of whats happening in Israel *and beyond+ wasnt challenged @ Isapundit
[critique invited]; again, Israel must stay-the-course. To follow is a reprise of one other item in the
immediate-past Blast e-mail [plus the response it generated and my reaction thereto]:

"Why Am I Moving Left? I used to be right down the middle. But America's changed, and
so have I," by Thomas E. Ricks, former WSJ and WaPo military reporter, on Politico
Magazine: "I have again and again found myself shifting to the left in major areas such
as foreign policy and domestic economic policy. ... [Some factors:] Disappointment in
the American government ... Torture. I never expected my country to endorse torture.
... How we fought. ... Intelligence officials run amok. ... Growing income inequality. ...
Bailouts for bankers. ... Democracy for sale. ... Gun massacres." {Personal experience
talking with him when he spoke years ago @ the National Constitution Center
undermines this claim, for he was totally anti-Iraq, AFTER the successful surge; it is
notable, of course, that this conversion is dutifully transmitted via Politico.-

The disappointment should properly be with the rascals in government
not the overall system. On a personal level and I believe you and I agree,
there are too many anti-American bastards running things at all levels
and unfortunately too few saints who grasp the American essence..

In plainer language, people like Reid, Pelosi, Obama and Rahm Emanual,
are problems. So are to a lesser extent, Boehner and a few Rs.

Re Torture. America didnt torture. Rendition wasnt exactly the right
solution either but known terrorists have information thats dangerous
to Americans. It seems like a moral cusp but being practical what other
way was there?

Islam in dangerous because its basis is irrational on many levels but
without opening up the fundamental arguments its practical to devise
and implement solutions like the invasion of Gaza. Israel probably
knows it can easily defend itself when the bad ones are concentrated
and Gaza is where to do it. Yes, Israel gave up territory but its simply
providing the land for a prison.

Anyhow, until a more perfect system comes along, America is the best
solution.

Totally concur; rather than parsing-out the BS, I undermined its credibility globally.
Actually, this is c/w BHOs battle-plan, namely, get everyone mad @ government
1974

[including Congress] to distribute/distract. {This approach is c/w Lessons in Guerrilla
Journalism from a Former Leftist Activist.}

Regarding PA, Corbett will keep health care program for disabled and Corbett brought his pension plea
to Bucks. Regarding Global-Warming, a Study cast doubt on rate of Antarctic sea ice growth, even as
Obamas latest plea regarding Climate Changeis that We Must Make Sure the Planet Works. Regarding
the Media, Bowe Bergdahl's Grandstanding Attorney Vilified Fox News. Regarding Common Core, the
[liberal] Slate has been forced to wonder whether Common Core can Make It Anywhere for, in a very
short time, opposition to Common Core has evolved from a fringe Republican position that blue-staters
laugh at, to a position that clearly wins out in blue New York. Regarding VA REFORM, TALKS COLLAPSED
due to partisan fiscal-conflict. Regarding gun-laws, an Armed Psychiatrist Shot and Stopped a Gunman in
PA Hospital [Fitzgerald-Mercy], contrasting with events in Massachusetts [MA Police Chiefs Want 'Sole
Discretion' to Decide Who May Own a Long Gun and Boston Top Cop: City Residents Do Not 'Need' to
Own Shotguns, Rifles]. James Carville said BHO Doesnt Really Care What The American People Think
and Thanks to Obama, Democrats Will Lose the Senate.

Illustrating why hes the swing-vote, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said the
Constitution is 'Flawed' and implied that those who believe in the original intent of the
Constitution by swearing fealty to the original, literal meaning are misguided.

Regarding HILLARY, shes CHANGING HER TUNE ON 'IT TAKES A VILLAGE' and she claimed Bill Clinton
was addicted to sex because he was abused by his mother as a child. Regarding RINOs, Chris Christie
incurred the wrath of Rick Perry because he Snubbed NYs GOP Candidate for governor [Astorinp],
allegedly because Andrew Cuomo is a pal of Christie. Regarding QUALITY-Republicans [focusing on Ted
Cruz], Ted Cruz said the Obama White House is the 'Most Anti-Israel Administration in American history';
Ted Cruz said it is Unprecedented for Senate to 'Lie Down & Meow Like Kitty Cats' While Obama Abuses
Power; and ED RENDELL said, TO THE 'AMERICAN PEOPLE,' TED CRUZ 'LOOKS LIKE A JERK.' {Also, note
that [again] TMZ freaked-out ON SARAH PALIN: 'BITCH,' 'HORRIBLE MOM,' 'DUMB.'}

Regarding Putin:
Russian rebels using airliner victim's credit cards, answering cell phones
Top U.S. military officer: Putin just like Stalin, threatens all of Europe.
Russia Accuses USA of Faking MH17 Evidence
Hillary on Putin: 'The reset worked'
The EU's Tactics Over Ukraine Are Fatally Flawed
UKRAINE REBEL COMMANDER ACKNOWLEDGES FIGHTERS HAD BUK MISSILE
Ukrainian Prime Minister Announced Resignation
Ukraine President Says No Need to Ditch Government after PM Quits

Regarding Illegals:
Jeb Bush: Use Border Crisis to Pass Amnesty Bill
Jeb Bush: Send Majority {not all?} of Unaccompanied Minors Back Home
Inhofe: Illegals Very Disruptive to Military
Feds Considering Allowing Hondurans to Apply for Asylum from Home; Could Approve Up to 50%
30,340 Illegals Released Across US This Year
Obama Again Told Mexican President: No Amnesty for Migrants *but didnt mention the imprisoned
Marine].
CT Gov. Dannel Malloy Open to Housing Young Illegals Amid Pro-Amnesty Pressure
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Illegals Comprise 10% of 'Several' NY High Schools as State Braces for Thousands More
New York Times Challenges Obama to Grant Amnesty to Millions of Illegals already in the country and
let the illegal immigrant children who are flooding across the border remain in America.
'Huffington Post' Ignores Texas Gov. Perry sending Troops to Secure Border
Smugglers and Aliens Often Fight With Authorities
San Diego-Area Community Poised to Reject Illegal Immigrant Shelter
New California Law to Reduce Deportations of Immigrants Charged with Crimes
Issa Asserts Poverty, Not Violence, Driving Immigrants Here

Regarding Venezuela [which one reader considers under-reported]:
Venezuela Government Moves Squatters from 'Tower of David' Slum
Trial Starts for Venezuela Opposition Leader Lopez

Regarding Islamism:
Obama administration knew Islamic State was growing but did little to counter it
The Coming Storm in the Middle East [read entire piece]
Obama Fiddles While Iraq Burns
U.S. Running up to 50 Surveillance Drone Flights over Baghdad a Day to Combat ISIS
Iraq MPs Stall Presidential Vote as Violence Rages
Huge Attack on Iraq Prisoner Convoy Kills at Least 60
Muslim Professor Killed for Decrying ISIS Persecution of Christians
NY Times Decried ISIS's 'Brutal Crackdown' on Iraqi Christians; Big Three Networks Yawned

Breitbart's Dr. Gorka: ISIS Invasion a 'Jihadist Blitzkrieg'
ISIS Blows Up Jonah's Tomb in Mosul, Iraq
ISIS Demanded Women Wear Full Veils to End 'Pretext Of Debauchery'
ISIS Jihadists Seized Fourth Century Christian Monastery and Expelled Monks
Factionism and In-Fighting May Doom ISIS
Australian Jihadist Poses with Decapitated Heads
Smirking jihadi poses with 'bucket full of heads'

Extensive Taliban Assault Challenges U.S. Military Facility in Kabul, Afghanistan
Afghan Gunmen Kill Two Female Christian Charity Workers
Taliban Stops Cars, Kills Passengers in Central Afghanistan

100 Days a Slave: The Christian Girls Kidnapped by Boko Haram
11 Parents of Nigeria's Abducted Girls Die

French Christians, Including 100 MPs, Rally for Christians in Iraq

Islamic State Releases Recruitment Video for Indonesia

Norway Faces 'Imminent' Terror Threat from Syrian Islamic Militants

After Death Sentence and Imprisonment for 'Apostasy,' Sudanese Mother Arrives in Italy

Influential Muslim Group Condemned Christian Treatment by Islamic State in Iraq

1976

Kerrys Insensitivity

Secretary of State John Kerry attended the funeral of 24-year old Max Steinberg. Though
an American citizen from Woodland Hills, Steinberg joined the Israeli Defense Forces. He
died in the line of duty.

According to the Jewish Journal, Steinberg decided to join the Israeli Defense Forces on
a birthright trip to Israel in 2012. There, he saw the grave of Michael Levin, an American
who also served the IDF and lost his life in duty.

The funeral was quite emotional as the parents grieved the loss of their young son. In
Jewish culture, however, this was just the beginning. Following the funeral, the family
enters into shiva, a weeklong mourning period in a Jewish mourning tent. As Kerry
approached the family in the shiva to pay his respects, he asked Evie Steinberg, the
grieving mother, a question.

Kerry asked, Hows your day? Mrs. Steinberg replied, Hows your day? My days
going better than yours, he said.

He followed those remarks by saying, I am so honored to be here. I am in awe of your
son, truly. And I think you know, I served in the military, and I have great respect for
anybody who especially puts themself willingly in harms way. And as an American,
were so proud of the affection that he felt, just the love he felt, and the roots he found
in this country.

Regarding Gaza:
The history behind the war between Israel and the Palestinians
Ben Stein: 'Jew Hatred' Exists 'in the Media'
L.A. Times Prints Front-Page Defense of Hamas Terror Against Israel
Democrats and their Mendacity with Israel
Politically Outspoken Hollywood Cowers In Silence for Israel
Hamas Morale Collapsing, Terrorists Flee IDF - In an otherwise excellent article Friday on the Hamas
terror tunnel network in Gaza, the Jerusalem Post buried the lede. An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier
in the field told the Post that while Hamas fighters offered fierce resistance when the ground operation
began, now Hamas operatives are fleeing, abandoning their positions, leaving behind weapons and
other material that the IDF is using to expand its assault on the terror group.
Hamas Killed 160 Palestinian Children to Build Terror Tunnels - used child labor
Hamas Mega-Attack Planned through Gaza Terror Tunnels
Quoting Jposts LIVE BLOG [Israel's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza+, on Thursday, July 24 - @ 10:40
p.m., the IDF Spokesperson's Office says initial investigation into shelling of UN-run school in Gaza found
that terrorists opened fire from the vicinity of the school, and the army returned fire. At the same time,
Hamas fired in the general direction of the school, the army said.
5 Ways Hamas Kills Palestinian Arab Children
Infant Among Casualties as Hamas Continues to Stage Attacks Using Human Shields
IDF Says UN Lying about Gaza Civilian Casualties
Hamas Is Not About to Fold; It's Sure It's Winning - Hamas is adamant that it will continue to fight until
Egypt and Israel accept its demands. Hamas has not been sufficiently damaged and does not feel its
future is existentially threatened, and therefore is not seeking compromise, much less surrender. Its
1977

military and political command echelons are unharmed, its gunmen are killing IDF soldiers, and its rocket
capabilities have been slightly weakened but not destroyed.
Hamas Is Trying to Violently Extort the International Community
Hamas Is Not About to Fold; It's Sure It's Winning - Hamas is adamant that it will continue to fight until
Egypt and Israel accept its demands. Hamas has not been sufficiently damaged and does not feel its
future is existentially threatened, and therefore is not seeking compromise, much less surrender. Its
military and political command echelons are unharmed, its gunmen are killing IDF soldiers, and its rocket
capabilities have been slightly weakened but not destroyed.
The Most Dangerous Weapon in Gaza is the vicious ideology of Hamas that is focused on Israel's
destruction and a culture that has been entrenched in Palestinian society for generations.

In West Bank, Hamas Is Hailed for Its Fight Against Israel
RIOTS HIT WEST BANK
MASSIVE WEST BANK CLASH BRINGS SLEW OF CASUALTIES, ARRESTS
Palestinian Authority Officials Called For 'Day Of Rage' In West Bank

30,000 Israelis Attended Funeral for L.A.'s Steinberg, Killed in Action
More L.A. 'Lone Soldiers' Prepare to Fight for Israel

Turkish Prime Minister: Israel Has 'Surpassed What Hitler Did To Them'
TV host burns Israel flag on air [although Israel having issued warnings is included in the text]
What David Petraeus Can Teach Us About Gaza - Applying U.S. lessons of counterinsurgency may help
John Kerry Drafts Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Proposal
Kerry's Failure Points to Israel's Tough Task

Israel Prepares to Escalate Gaza Offensive
The Next Stage in the Gaza War Israel's Operation Protective Edge has been a gradual effort designed
to extinguish Palestinian mass rocket attacks through a carefully planned deterioration of Hamas'
strategic position. Hamas has had opportunities before each stage to opt for a truce and signal that it is
serious about enforcing a calm border. But Hamas' leadership decided to continue to confront Israel. In
the next phase, the IDF will be instructed to attack and destroy Hamas' military assets all over Gaza.
No Signs of Imminent Truce, as Netanyahu Signals Hamas Demands Are Unrealistic - Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu is saying publicly that Operation Protective Edge is continuing in full force, and
privately that Hamas' conditions for a cease-fire are a non-starter. "As long as Hamas has closed the
door to the cease-fire, the other [military] option will be pursued vigorously," one Israeli official said. He
noted that compared to Israel's previous military operations over the past decade, there is much less
pressure on Israel from abroad - especially from the Arab world.
Israeli Communications Minister Gilad Erdan, a member of the security cabinet, said Israel's key goal is
to ensure Gaza has been Demilitarized at the end of the conflict, "otherwise what would have been the
point?" Israel is not seeking a cease-fire with Hamas at present because the IDF first needs to complete
its ground offensive, with its focus on finding and destroying Hamas' network of cross-border tunnels.
Dealing with the tunnels "will take another week or two" and, after that, if Hamas was still firing rockets,
Israel would have to decide whether to send the army deeper into Gaza to find the Hamas leadership
"hiding in its holes."
Israel's Operation in Gaza Is Morally Justified
Israel Cannot Relent in This Fight

1978

Unseen Scars of War: Psychological Consequences of the Hamas Attacks on the Israeli Civilian
Population
Paris Bans Pro-Palestinian Protest After Recent Violence
French Police Discover 'Arsenal' on Bus Heading for London
[Hollande's Socialism 'Catastrophic', Economy Shows 'No Sign of Recovery' Says French Union Chief]
Berlin Protesters Display Extreme Anti-Semitic Rhetoric at Anti-Israel Rally
British Muslims Ask for Support in Banning Burka
Israel Abandoned
Anti-Semitism in Northern Ireland
The Israel-Haters Are a Problem for Europe
Italian Marxist Intellectual: 'Shoot Those Bastard Zionists', 'Buy Hamas More Rockets'
Bachmann Leads Congressional Call to Outlaw Muslim Brotherhood
IDF Leaves No Manand No DogBehind - Israeli forces carried a wounded bomb-sniffing dog off the
battlefield.
Joan Rivers Defended Israel In Emotional Rant

Quote Gems from Rush Limbaugh

"The president of Honduras lacks pride and wont fix the problem in his own country
because he looks at BHOs America as a Giant Bank."
"Liberals demand tolerance for whatever they do and think, but they do not tolerate
anybody who disagrees."
"Well, ladies and gentlemen, the Israeli and Palestinian, slash, Hamas conflict has just
reached a new level of seriousness with the low-information voters finally getting clued
in. There is now a hashtag on Twitter. Can the end of this war be far behind?"
"The Palestinians, Hamas, you name it, are modern-day Nazis where Jews are
concerned. They are the current incarnation of Adolf Hitler. It is their total hatred for
Jews and their anti-Semitism that defines their existence. That's the root of the
problem!"
"I've always asked myself, "Why do we not just let Israel win?" What is wrong with
this? They are our ally. They don't seek to eliminate all Arabs from the face of the earth.
They don't seek to march every Arab they can find into the Mediterranean. They don't
seek to bomb every Arabian capital off of the map. That is the objective of their
enemies, though, where the Jews are concerned."
"We dropped those bombs on Japan to show the rest of the world the power we had. It
was a message of 'don't mess with us. You can only take us so far, and then we have this
capability,' and they haven't been used since."
"This is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Your quest for truth begins and ends
here."
"Yes, ladies and gentlemen, a hashtag. #JewsAndArabsRefuseToBeEnemies is the new
hashtag, and, as such, we can expect peace to break out any moment."
1979

"To understand this administration's lack of support for Israel all you have to do is take a
look at the Middle East and try to find who a leftist would think the victims are. Because
the victims are always what dominate everything. The victims are on whom and around
whom policy will be based."
"People ask me frequently at five minutes before showtime, 'What are you going to lead
with today?' It happened yesterday, I got a note: 'What are you going to lead with?' 'I
don't know yet.'"
"For many people social media is the only thing that gives their lives meaning. They have
some measure of fame, they think, because they have followers, or they have friends or
what have you, or they have people that retweet them."
"My point is that Obama's actions tell us exactly who he is: $47 million, not to the Gaza
Strip, to the Palestinian Authority."
"War is not clean. I've always thought that this phrase 'war crimes' is kind of
redundant. What Hamas is doing is criminal already."
"Never mind the fact that Palestinian and Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, you name it --
militant Jihadist leaders -- were trained, they were collaborated with by the Nazis. They
held something in common: The hatred of the Jews. The Nazis aligned, back in the
thirties and forties, with anti-Jewish interests in the Middle East. There is no solution to
this problem."
"Peace to the Israelis is what peace is to you and me: The absence of war, the absence
of conflict, the absence of threat, and the presence of justice. That's what the Israelis
seek. It's not what the Palestinians seek."
"I love this country; I want everybody to. I'm very proud of this country; I wish
everybody was. I appreciate being born in this country; I wish everybody did. I, of
course, am trying to spread that word."
"The head of the IRS, that would be the commissioner John Koskinen -- the guy looks
like a cross between a turtle and a lizard. I have both in the backyard, so I know what I'm
talking about."
"Do you know the Israelis are actually texting and calling Palestinians in Gaza in advance
of launching response attacks, saying, 'Look, we're firing. If you're civilian, get the hell
out of the area 'cause we have a couple rockets we're launching here in 10 minutes.'
Nobody does this!"
"As many of you know, I am, compared to average consumers, an expert when it comes
to tech. I would be considered, by average users, to be a power user. I'm actually not,
but compared to average users, I am. And I know about hard drives."
"Obama has sent a team of 'experts' to the Texas-Mexico border to assess whether
there is any need for Governor Rick Perry to send the National Guard down there. I'm
not kidding. Obama's still not sure that there's any problem on the border!"
1980

"It's easier to let somebody go steal something and give it to you than work for it
yourself in some people. That's the kind of thing I would like to counter."
"We don't need bipartisanship. What we need is super partisanship. We need more
people admitting that they are conservative and voting that way and that's how this
country's going to be saved."
"I don't want to go out on a limb and say Obama is afraid of Putin, but you could be
excused for thinking so, because it's clear that he doesn't want to anger Putin. He
doesn't want to taunt Putin. He doesn't want to challenge Putin in any way, shape,
manner, or form."
"We need more people willing to speak up proudly. Even though being conservative's
mocked, ridiculed, laughed at, made fun of and scorned in the Drive-By Media, it's
worth standing up for. It is the solution. It's the way the country was founded. And I
have no qualms whatsoever in saying so."
"This stuff that's going on at the border is all about liberals not liking this country."
"Suspicion of government control, that's a natural thing to have. Look, there are certain
things that in physics just happen, and one of them is government gets bigger and gets
bigger and wants more power, and that's the natural state of government. It's why you
constantly have to fight for smaller government."
"Obama is not going to visit the border because once you see what's going on there, you
have no choice, you got to shut it down. But if he doesn't go, if he doesn't see it, then he
won't shut it down. And he does not want to shut this down. The Dems do not want to
shut this down. The Dems think we deserve this."
"Inside establishment Washington, there isn't that much disagreement with what
Obama's doing, because they're all part of the Government-Is-the-Center-of-the-
Universe Crowd. They're all part of the Corporate Cronyism Crowd, where government
and Big Money get together, form alliances, and that's that. Lobbying is the key.
"Opposing liberalism does not equal hate. But that's what they want it to be. You
oppose Obama, you hate him. You oppose Biden, you hate him. You oppose La Raza,
you must hate Hispanics. If you oppose the Reverend Jackson, you must hate blacks.
Screw that, folks."
"Obama's still not sure that there's any problem on the border. Obama and his buddies
are saying that the border's secure."

1981

Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 4:33 PM
Subject: Action-Items-CCXI [Illegals, D'Souza's "America," Corbett, BHO]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/235226811/Action-Items-CCXI-Illegals-D-Souza-s-America-Corbett-BHO

Three levels of feedback prompt prompts clarification: that which is received via e-mail, that which
emerges from having re-viewed America yesterday-p.m. with critical minds, and that which is emitted
by thinking-libs. Focus on that which others may have missed is desirable, but more desirable remains
receipt of any/all critique of the conclusions drawn from these meta-analyses of myriad hyperlinks;
when it is suggested that most arise from Drudge/Breitbart, the retort is that many are drawn from
KeystoneReport/PoliticsPAalthough many leftie-sites are insufficiently factual. The ideal *constantly
drawing from everywhere, no matter how inane+ is yielding to the sufficient *drawing upon lefties who
require clarification, rather than comprehensively]; as it is, the ongoing desire is to streamline ASAP.

The speako is a neologism prompted by the claim by an ObamaDontCare Architect,
who claimed his Comments [when he Admitted in 2012 that States without Exchanges
Lose Subsidies+ Were Just A Typo.

Anyone watching America @ the 4:30 viewing in the Regal *Plymouth Meeting albeit on Ridge Pike+
would have been struck by the applause that spontaneously erupted @ the end; indeed one person who
was watching this with my little group was still tearing after Bonos Georgetown quotes *Keeping Faith
with the Idea of America] @ the end during the closing rendition of the National Anthem by Megadeath
[channeling Jimi Hendrix @ Woodstock]. The extensive discussion thereafter was introduced by moi,
noting the discussion prompted by [lib] Stu Bykofsky column [America: 2/3 good], where I posted a four-
part analysis and held-off all critics; the consensus was that the movie indeed had three parts, amplified
by a few literary-licenses [the indictment of America, the response to the indictment, and the underlying
reasons for the indictment]. Those who were libs were non-plussed, whereas those who were
conservatives were blown-away by the production values and the enlightenment conveyed.

My theme was that I hadnt known of the impact of Howard Zinns Peoples History of
America *which even permeated the Sopranos, per a clip that DSouza invoked+ and,
thus, that there was a definable educational-value thereof; indeed, at least one
lawmaker wants to Push Bill Requiring Dinesh D'Souza's 'America' Be Shown in Schools.
The counter-critique was that DSouza cited extremists *e.g., Ward Churchill]; I replied
by noting that he chose people to encompass the major components of the attackers of
America for theft *encompassing Native Ameicans, Mexicans, Blacks, the world, the
populace]. The counter-critique that was claimed to have been omitted inappropriately
was female-exploitation; I replied that this was not customarily included in indictments
of American Exceptionalism [and others noted that Susan B. Anthony, etc. were mostly
Republicans]. Some felt it was laden with excess hype; I opined that there aint nuttin
wrong with a lidda good ol fashioned patriotism, as long as it wasnt functioning as the
last refuge of the scoundrel. Everyone agreed the visuals were gripping, although some
felt the film didnt live-up to its subtitle *imagine a world without her+; I observed that
one cannot disprove a negative, and that DSouza was showing so many positives that
the viewer/reader was tasked with recognizing and then imagining what a loss it would
have been if these achievements *entrepreneurship, etc.+ hadnt occurred. The database
was left intact, although it was claimed that others had also shed slavery; this led to the
somewhat classic back-and-forth as to whether the War Between the States was based
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primarily on abolishing slavery vs. preserving the Union. [In my view, this is a false issue,
because the way the South wanted to preserve slavery was by abolishing the Union.]

The meat of the flick was the unabashed attack on BHO and Hillary
[plus Elizabeth Warren, in two brief clips], noting their Alinsky-roots.
Indeed, the last-third of the flick was devoted to probing these forces,
clearly an intellectually honest pursuit. Some people are contented with
attack-attack-attack; DSouza not only answered the indictment by the
lefties, but he then probed the progressive forces-at-play that have now
created this perfect-storm. He even referenced his own conviction for
having paid others to support a NY-candidate/friend; he pulled no
punch in the process, conveying refreshing I have no secrets candor.

It must be noted that there are many touches in the flick that arent in the book, so it
is advised that both be experienced. Although these data are pulled from different sites
it seems that America *$11.4M] compares favorably when compared with the gross of
two top documentaries: Roger and Me [$7,706,368+ and DSouzas 2016 *$33,349,941].
Perhaps the best way to sculpt expectations is to compare the tomato-meter [9%] and
the audience-support [89%]

It may be desirable to recall prior critiques of his book during the past month [the first five chapters,
three subsequent chapters, and three additional chapters]; Chapter 12 *A Global Success Story+
climaxes [after having noted American leadership in creating this environment, and having shown that
on some levelMarx was corrupted by Lenin+ thusly: The bottom line is that, in a globalized economy,
the job goes to the people who can do it best and at the most affordable price. *page 197+. In the
process, he notes how colonization no longer exists, particularly within countries [such as his native
India] where technology has flourished. [The last four chaptersEmpire of Liberty, The Biggest Thief of
All, American Panopticon, and Decline is a Choicewere skimmed prior to re-viewing the flick, but the
juiciest morsels thereof will be provided after a re-reading; they serve only to amplify prior points.]

The Independence Hall Tea Party Association, the largest Tea Party group in the tri-state
region of PA, NJ, and DE, will be removing Tea Party from its name and will henceforth
be known as the Independence Hall Foundation. The organization will also be shifting
its focus and dissolving its PAC. My uploaded-comments about this entity are subject to
being discussed more thoroughly [orally] but, suffice-to-say, this event may actually
reflect the fact that its leadership [the Adams-Siblings] never really felt comfortable
consorting with TEA-Party-types; it may, however, fade in potency as a direct result.

In PA, Corbetts Pension-Reform Gambit continues to attract pixels *e.g., As $50B pension debt weighs
on PA, other states have embraced retirement overhauls], even as PSU/Sandusky-related items abound
[Son: Joe Paterno feared wrongly accusing Sandusky and Judge denies Spanier bid to halt criminal case];
meanwhile, much to the consternation of gun-control advocates, the Fitzgerald-Mercy Hospital shooting
has dramatized the self-protection issue [Armed doctor's actions in Philly shooting reinvigorates debate
on gun-carry and DA: Gunman offended by hospital's 'gun-free' policy]. {Also, the POPE will visit Philly.}

As BHOs lawlessness continued to blossom *SHOWDOWN: Top Political Adviser Ignores
Subpoena Again as White House Defies Issa; Dem: 'You don't have right to know' what's
going on; and New IRS Form Proves President Fibbed About Individual Mandate Tax],
1983

Sarah Palin raised the Impeachment issue; at the time, I noted that this was sufficient
for this issue to be polled, moving the topic-of-conversation to an area that assumes
incompetence-plus has already been established. It is desirable for an environment to
exist ASAP [prior to the mid-terms, sustained for the subsequent two years] to prompt
people to want to count the days prior to BHOs departure on 1/21/2017.
As anticipated, the churning continues [Rep. Puts Impeachment On
Table In Closed Door Immigration Meeting+ replete with Boehners
denials [as the GOP laughs-to-the-bank], OBAMA HAS ALREADY
CHECKED OUT, Plays Golf With ESPN Hosts -- Again, CNN POLL:
Americans wish they'd elected Romney]; attempting to spin this
atmospheric to promote $-raisingdespite the fact that the House
wont want to repeat the mistakes of 1999the Dems have lapsed into
indignant attacks on this issue [WHITE HOUSE WARNS ON
IMPEACHMENT, Senior Obama adviser on impeachment: 'I would not
discount that possibility', 'BEGGING TO BE IMPEACHED', Dems suggest
'imminent,' use to raise cash, and Aide: GOP Will Be Coming].

That a POLL showed that One-third of Americans want it merely illustrates disgust;
because one mustnt rest on own-laurels, the GOP must message the distinction that
this rejection of Big Government philosophies should not encompass the House-GOP.

A spate of articles about Illegals serves to illustrate prior themes *BHOs arrogance, etc.+:
Obama Readying 'Very Significant' Executive Action On Immigration
Unilateral grant of 'work authorization'
Millions of Illegals to Get Work Permits Under Obama Plan
Gutierrez: Amnesty for 5 million
Sessions: Will 'end immigration enforcement'
Plea to America: Melt Congressional Phones, Kill Executive Amnesty

Idaho Governor Tells Feds Not To Dump Illegals In His State...TOO LATE!
Feds use vans instead of buses to transport illegals; Avoid attention
More than 200 dumped in Indiana
Residents get robocalls about plans to shelter children
Mayor in Town Besieged by Migrants Accosted by Actvists
FL schools brace for flood
Mexican Immigrant With Drug-Resistant TB Goes Missing in CA
Residents Protest in MA
GODFATHER: Send them to us
Texas Officials Seize Jet Ski Used By 'Coyotes'
TX official sees 'tsunami'
NYT: CONCERN OVER NATIONAL GUARD TRAINING; LACK OF FED OVERSIGHT

'Death Train' to increase traveling speeds to deter migrants
HONDURAN PRESIDENT UNLOADS: 'Our Neighbor Isn't Doing Its Part'
Feds consider letting Hondurans into USA without making trek
PELOSI: If Egypt didn't accept Moses, we wouldn't have 10 Commandments!

Hillary Spokesman: Anti-Hillary Books Should Not Be Allowed [book-burning?]
1984


Regarding pot-legalization, a consensus appears to be congealing [Rand's Quiet Weed Overture, New
Paul Bill Addresses Pot Brownies, Feds Test How Stoned Is TOO STONED To Drive, and Repeal
Prohibition, Again]. Meanwhile, a Wonder drug could break Medicaid [to treat Hepatitis C].








1985

Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 9:27 PM
Subject: Action-Items-CCXII [Israel-Gaza, Illegals, BHO, guns]


http://www.scribd.com/doc/235240050/Action-Items-CCXII-Israel-Gaza-Illegals-BHO-guns

The issues regarding the Israel-Gaza conflict are burgeoning and, thus, it is vital to focus on key-facets;
that is why a Blast e-mail devoid of foreign-policy was emitted. As Breitbart [mostly] was being mined
for a more definitive presentation of whats happening in the Middle East, a few other domestic policy
hyperlinks were unearthed; also IDed was some levity *54 Colorized Photos From Last Century; Russia
in color, a century ago; Sophia vs Jayne: The OTHER Photos behind that Sideways Glare; and 20 Photos
Will Leave You Speechless]. The domestic-policy concerns are provided with minimal commentary, for
the key-concern is to emphasize what may have been missed *including todays talking-head shows].

Independent Hopefuls May Widen PA-Gubernatorial Field [the deadline is Friday]
Pope Francis to Make First Visit to the United States next year, per Archbishop Charles
Chaput of Philadelphia; he will attend the World Meeting of Families that will take place
in Philadelphia.

Obama: US Must 'Embrace an Economic Patriotism That Says We Rise or Fall Together'
Obama Job Approval at Dismal 39%
Obama: Republicans in Congress 'Harming Million Of Americans'
Obama Blamed His Supporters for His Failures
Obama Again Attacked His Media Friends
CNBC Reporter Challenged Obama's Economic Numbers During Interview
When a Commander-in-Chief Stops Caring

[Who is to blame? Government? Where is that nanny-state when we really need it???]
Pregnant Florida Woman Killed While Admiring Gun Collection
Nineteen-Year-Old Shoots Home Invaders to Save Girlfriend
Police: Armed Burglar Cried When Homeowner Pointed Gun at Him
Federal Judge: DC Ban On Carrying Handguns In Public Is Unconstitutional
MSBNC: NRA Voters Spell 'Trouble For Democrats' In November 2014

CELL-PHONE BAN WHILE DRIVING HAD NO EFFECT IN CALIFORNIA

Dem-led governance:
Health Law Analyst: ObamaDontCare 'Setting People up for Large and Avoidable Premium Increases'
The Shocking Cost of Free Water in Detroit
[Recall the NY-Times Mag cover-story of a fortnight ago (Detroit Through rose-colored gasses) and it
must be concluded that the revival is yet to arrive (p. 38, near end of article).+
Obama Proposes Lower Safety Standards to Haul Oil by Trains Than by Ships [inconsistent and political]
MARK LEVIN TAKES OBAMA'S EPA TO TASK IN COURT [inconsistent and political]

Steny Hoyer: Dems Will Win Back House in 2014 [yeah, right]
DEMOCRAT AL FRANKEN ACCUSED OF MASSIVE PLAGIARISM [18 examples]

Hillary Clinton: Let Hondurans, Guatemalans, El Salvadorans Apply for Asylum from Home
1986

El Salvador's Ambassador Suggests Migrant Surge Sign of 'Upward Mobility'
Honduras President: U.S. Wants to Deport Illegals 'on a Massive Scale'
Central Americans Migrating to US Instead of Closer, Safe Countries
Obama to Central American Presidents: Illegal Immigrants Will Get 'Fair Deal'
Obama Promises No Asylum for Migrants Fleeing Poverty or Bad Neighborhoods
Los Angeles Times Suggests Illegal Immigrants Have Civil 'Right' to Work Permits
FEMA Looking to House Illegals in Empty Big Box Stores, Aircraft Hangars
TN Gov Found Out About Illegals Dumped in State on HHS Website
More Than 30,000 Unaccompanied Minors Already Released to Families in US
Dem Rep. Joe Garcia: Border Is Safer Than Ever, Obama Should 'Parole' All Illegals
Jeff Sessions: Amnesty for DREAMers' Parents Will Lure More Adults, Create Bigger Crisis
Zuckerberg Pushes Amnesty Letter-Writing Campaign After Becoming Richer than Google Founders
White House Fears Impeachment If Obama Unilaterally Grants Amnesty
Palin: More Americans Will Support Impeachment if Obama Lawlessly Enacts Another Executive
Amnesty
Rep. Steve King Predicts Impeachment if Obama Grants Executive Amnesty
[UK Government Spends 80,000 Deporting 200 Migrants... Who then Return Weeks Later]
Hillary explained that Darth Vader leads her in presidential poll because their "deeper
meaning" is that people "love fantasies."

The GOPs Civil-War Rages:
Joe Carr to Lamar Alexander: Support Ted Cruz Border Bill to Prevent Expansion of Obama's Amnesty
Program
Salon: How the Chamber of Commerce Became Toxic
Chamber of Commerce Hired Top Marco Rubio Aide to Push Amnesty
GOP Congressman Returns Award to U.S. Chamber of Commerce Because of Group's Amnesty Support

Washington and Lee Capitulated: Took Down Confederate Flags & Locked-out Sons Of
Confederate Vets {Perhaps NOW we can declare the War Between the States is OVER?}

FOX NEWS COVERAGE OF MH17 CRUSHED CNN, MSNBC RATINGS
BuzzFeed Fired Editor Over 41 Instances of Plagiarism
Wikipedia Bans Anonymous Edits by House Members and Their Staff
Wikipedia Bans Congressional IP Address from Editing Entries

[faux-newsbuff leftie-comedians demonstrate ignorance and prejudice]
BILL MAHER CLUELESS THAT TEA PARTY BASHES CRONY CAPITALISM
Maher to DeGrasse Tyson: Republicans Dont Like You Because You're Black
Levin Blasts Putrid Stewart: Read up, Ivy League Boy

CNN TOUTED NON-EXISTENT 'CEASE-FIRE DEAL'
CNN Put False News Of Israel Rejecting 'Cease-Fire Deal' Over Faces of Injured Children
Journalist Jeremy Scahill: Israel Guilty of 'War Crimes,' Murder of Children
[These latter cites can segue into the Middle-East.+

Foreign Affairs in Latin America are captured in Fausta's Blog [they get short-shrift, here, sorry]
VENEZUELAN GENERAL ARRESTED ON US WARRANT FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
1987

ALBRIGHT: 'THE WORLD IS A MESS' [her CBS-Interview was milquetoast; Shieffer never pressed]
Iceland Could Become Russia and China's 'Secret Weapon' Against U.S. [another hot-spot?]

Embargo Wouldn't Hurt Russia
MAYOR KILLED IN CENTRAL UKRAINE
Gen Hayden: 'Putin Will Lose Control Over The Surrogates He Continues To Arm' [yeah, sure]
Police visit to MH17 disaster site canceled
When Burying a Terrorist, You Might Want to Remove the Suicide Vest First [video]

Islamism:
Boko Haram Militants Seize Cameroon Vice-PM's Wife [this is why they must be stopped in Africa, too]
Taliban fighters scoring new wins in Afghanistan

On the Lisa Benson Show [with M. Zuhdi Jasser] Dr. Sherkoh Abbas spoke [today] with
Jerome Gordon regarding Kurdistan and the Middle East conflicts, in general.

Muslims Cut Off Heads of Fifty Innocent People, And Place Them On Poles Throughout The Area
San Diego Iraqis Furious at ISIS Takeover
ISIS Leaders Could Be Added to U.N. War Crimes List [tangential]
ISLAMIC STATE SEIZES SYRIAN ARMY BASE IN RAQQA [bold]
Shock Video: Children Swear Allegiance to Islamic State's Caliphate [unnerving]
Too Many Mujahideen, Not Enough Engineers Crippling ISIS's 'Socialist' Project in Syria *they dont care+

Iranian elite forces re-took gas field from ISIL in Syria ,Theorizing- Turkey has been
working closely with the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq; Ankara has been
importing crude oil and fuel from the Kurdish Regional Government, angering Baghdad.
Turkey collaborates with Barazanis Iraqi Kurds to weaken the PKK in Syrian Kurdistan.
Barzanis group is weak in Syrian Kurdistan but he hopes to improve with Turkeys help.
Turkey sends reinforcements to Syrian border in fight with Kurdish fighters.

Bradford Schools Facing Claims of Islamist Takeover
MORE UK SCHOOLS IMPLICATED IN ISLAMIST TAKEOVER PLOTS
EXCLUSIVE: UK City Council Enables Pro-Hamas Group in Propaganda Effort and Fundraiser
We Are All Hamas!': Thousands Attend London's Gaza Protest Glorifying Terrorism [MSNBC used this
line last week c/o Melissa Harris-Perry; she never challenged her guest+

More Than 50 killed in Libya's Benghazi, Tripoli After Heavy Clashes [filling vacuum, post Qaddafi]
US Evacuates Embassy in Libya Amid Clashes [Rhodes (vide infra) wont admit this is failure.+
Iran's Supreme Leader Claims to Seek Annihilation of Israel, Not Jews [false distinction noted]

Shiite Militia Displays Jihadist Bodies in Iraq City *now, these are the good-guys?+

Anglican Vicar: End of Christianity in Iraq Is 'Very Near'
Call from Iraqi Christians: Obama, Obama, Where are You?
Krauthammer: Obama Talked About How Disrespectful We Were To Muslims; When will he Stand-Up
For The Christian Minorities
Christians Describe Inhumane Treatment by ISIS in Mosul, Iraq
LONDONERS RALLY IN SOLIDARITY WITH IRAQI CHRISTIANS
1988


ALEX PIERSON, Canadas Megyn Kelly, came to Israels defense when she interviewed
Douglas Murray [author of Islamophilia+: There's not much award-winning journalist
Alex Pierson hasn't seen or taken on over her 15-year career as a reporter and anchor.
She's gone toe-to-toe with pit-bull-hating politicians, faced-off against Black Block
protesters during the G20, and her reports on the Ontario trucking industry not only saw
her drive a big rig - but garnered her two national awards and changed licensing laws in
the province. After spending several years at Citytv and CP24 in Toronto, she moved to
Global News where she continued her anchor-role while covering the court beat.

The Gaza-War Sparked Worldwide Demonstrations [plus in Philly]:
Thousands take to NYC streets to protest Israel
Bank attacked, smeared with fake blood
Hundreds ignore ban in Paris to protest Gaza offensive
Nazi salutes
Online anti-Semitism runs rampant
10,000 march in London
Thousands in NYC
Paris's Kristallnacht
Israeli Peace Rally Cut Short by Rockets
POPE: 'PLEASE STOP'
Jewish students shown 'photos of ovens and told to get in'

Rhodes: Kerry Searching for 'Common Place' Between Israel and Hamas [a more deceptive
interview would be difficult to ID; he avoided specificity throughout]

Risk of War-Expansion:
SHOWDOWN: TURKEY TO SEND GAZA FLOTILLA
Anti-Semitic Turkish academic tweets in support of Treblinka death camp
turkey-sent-reinforcements on syrian-border as battles withkurdish-fighters-intensified
Hamas Seeks North Korea Support Against Israel as Munitions Run Low
Hamas and NKorea in secret arms deal

McConnell Submitted Bill to Keep Harry Reid from Exploiting Israel's Iron Dome in
Border Crisis Package [BHO is so devious, such prophylaxis is needed.]
In phone call with Netanyahu, Obama stressed need for immediate Gaza cease-fire
IRON DOME

Goal of Hamas Is Global Caliphate
Hamas chief: We cannot coexist with occupiers
Israel: Hamas Continues to Utilize Human Shields as Israeli Cabinet Rejects Kerry Proposals
Palestinian Mosques: Arsenals or Houses of God?

UN Human Rights Council Accused Israel of 'Acting in Gaza Like the Nazis' [they seem
conveniently to have forgotten already that the UNRWA school had missileswhich they
returned to Hamas]

IDF Spokesperson Announcement
1989

Findings of IDF Inquiry of the UNRWA School Incident in Beit Hanoun
July 27, 2014
Location: Tel Aviv

Since Thursday, July 24, 2014, the IDF has conducted a comprehensive
inquiry regarding the incident in which the UNRWA school was fired
upon. The inquiry concluded that during the intense fighting between
IDF forces and Hamas militants, the militants operated adjacent to the
UNRWA school. The militants fired anti-tank missiles at IDF soldiers,
who then responded by firing several mortars in their direction.

The inquiry and the documented footage presented here concluded
that a single errant mortar landed in the courtyard of the UNRWA
school, when it was completely empty.

The IDF stresses it does not operate or target international
organizations in the Gaza Strip, and the ongoing coordination conducted
via the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT)
is continuous without change, even during times of combat.

In light of the inquiry's findings, the IDF rejects the claims that were
made by various officials immediately following the incident, that
people were killed in the school premises as a result of IDF operational
activity.

Graham: U.N. move 'anti-Semitic'

'This is an Offensive War': An Inside Look at the Campaign to Take Down Hamas
Why Gaza must go [by MARTIN SHERMAN, JPOST] - The only durable solution requires dismantling Gaza,
humanitarian relocation of the non-belligerent Arab population, and extension of Israeli sovereignty
over the region.
Netanyahu: Future funds to rebuild Gaza must be linked to its demilitarization
Israel must destroy Hamas now because Israels technological advantage may soon disappear, as per
input from a member of the military; Iran is currently transferring to Hamas more capable missile
guidance; future Hamas rockets will be guided by GPS and have the ability for evasive trajectories. Thus,
the hypothetical Israeli casualties that were avoided by Israels employment of Iron Dome will become
actual Israeli casualties in the future engagement; this is why Hamas looks forward to an eventual truce
during which they will reorganize.

Regarding PR, great resources include the israel video network, Israpundit [Palestinian people
are an invention], and Breitbart [Wonder Woman Gal Gadot Slams Hamas 'Cowards' Who Hide
Behind Women and Children and No, Supporting Hamas is Not 'Feminist'].

Hamas Tunnel Threat at Center of War with Israel
What You Need To Know About The Tunnels That Bring Life And Death Into Gaza
Hamas Admits to Killing More than 100 Children to Build Tunnels
1990

IDF Develops Tunnel Detection Technology; Expert: Retaking Philadelphi Corridor Now an Option -
Canadian expert Paul Bauman, whose team discovered Atlantis off the coast of Spain, has worked with
the IDF in the past
IDF didnt follow up on MRI-style, below-surface technology to find tunnels

Egypt army destroyed 13 more Gaza tunnels

Forty-Third IDF Soldier Killed in Gaza Overnight [by Ted Belman]; since the "humanitarian
ceasefire" started on Friday evening 8 soldiers were killed.
Bolton: International Opinion Can go Take a Flying Leap!

The best way to appreciate what has animated the cease-fire badminton-game is first to appreciate the
flurry of reports that accompanied recognition that 86.5% of Israelis oppose cease-fire:

Israel extended Gaza truce until Sunday despite Hamas rocket fire - Security Cabinet
voted in favor of UN humanitarian ceasefire after Hamas answers Israels extended four-
hour lull with rocket fire; Hamas: No deal if Israel does not remove forces, source: Calm
in fighting means we can focus on dismantling Gaza tunnels.
Hamas Rejects 4-Hour Gaza War Truce Extension
Israel Rejects 7-Day Ceasefire, Agrees to 12-Hour Ceasefire
Israel, Hamas to observe 12-hour cease-fire
Netanyahu: Hamas violating own ceasefire
Israel extends Gaza truce until Sunday despite Hamas rocket fire
Israel, Hamas to observe 12-hour cease-fire
Netanyahu: Hamas violating own ceasefire
ROCKETS FIRED AT ISRAEL AS EXTENDED TRUCE REJECTED

As Israel methodically degraded the Hamas tunnels [although there may be as many as 5000 of them,
including branches], Obama and Kerry galloped to the rescue of Hamas; the destruction of the tunnels
continued unabated during cease-fires, and the IDF is now set for electronic and signals control of
Hamas, Islamic Jihad command centers, after rocket fire [according to DEBKA]:

Before it ended with Hamas rocket fire Saturday night, July 26, the 12-hour ceasefire
between Israel and Hamas was used by both parties for regrouping, re-arming,
strengthening fortifications and digging in current lines and positions while the sights
and sounds of devastation in the Gaza Strip came fully to light. The pause in hostilities
also offered Israeli forces a valuable opportunity for collecting intelligence. In the heat
of the fighting, the IDF and its clandestine arms were unable despite strenuous efforts
to obtain electronic and SIGINT access to the hidden Hamas and Islamic Jihad command
and control centers.

Nevertheless, Israeli Officials were 'Horrified' at Kerry Ceasefire Proposal, for it constituted a 'Complete
Cave-In' to Hamas. Reprinted in their entirety are three versions [DAVID HOROVITZ, ARLENE KUSHNER,
and J.J.GOLDBERG] of what occurred [annotated]; note that #3 has been composed by a leftie:

John Kerry: The betrayal
Astoundingly, the secretarys intervention in the Hamas war empowers the Gaza
terrorist government bent on destroying Israel
1991


BY DAVID HOROVITZ July 27, 2014, 2:55 pm


When The Times of Israels Avi Issacharoff first reported the content of John Kerrys
ceasefire proposal on Friday afternoon, I wondered if something had gotten lost in
translation. It seemed inconceivable that the American secretary of state would have
drafted an initiative that, as a priority, did not require the dismantling of Hamass
rocket arsenal and network of tunnels dug under the Israeli border. Yet the reported
text did not address these issues at all, nor call for the demilitarization of Gaza.

It seemed inconceivable that the secretarys initiative would specify the need to address
Hamass demands for a lifting of the siege of Gaza, as though Hamas were a legitimate
injured party acting in the interests of the people of Gaza rather than the terror
group that violently seized control of the Strip in 2007, diverted Gazas resources to its
war effort against Israel, and could be relied upon to exploit any lifting of the siege in
order to import yet more devastating weaponry with which to kill Israelis.
Israel and the US are meant to be allies; the US is meant to be committed to the
protection of Israel in this most ruthless of neighborhoods; together, the US and Israel
are meant to be trying to marginalize the murderous Islamic extremism that threatens
the free world. Yet here was the top US diplomat appearing to accommodate a vicious
terrorist organization bent on Israels destruction, with a formula that would leave
Hamas better equipped to achieve that goal.
The appalled response to the Kerry proposal by the members of the security cabinet on
Friday night, however, made plain nothing had gotten lost in translation at all. The
secretarys proposal managed to unite Israels disparate group of key political leaders
from Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Liberman on the right, through Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, to Yair Lapid and Tzipi Livni on the center-left in a unanimous
response of horrified rejection and leaked castigation.
The Netanyahu government has had no shortage of run-ins with Kerry in the mere 18
months he has held office. The prime minister publicly pleaded with him in November
not to sign the interim deal with Iran on its rogue nuclear program, and there has been
constant friction between the two governments over thwarting Irans bid for the bomb.
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon in January ridiculed Kerrys security proposals for a
West Bank withdrawal, calling the secretary messianic and obsessive in his quest for
an accord with the Palestinians that simply wasnt there. The collapse of the talks in
March-April was accompanied by allegations from Jerusalem that Kerry had botched the
process, telling Israel one thing and the Palestinian Authority another, including
misrepresenting Israels position on Palestinian prisoner releases.
But none of those episodes, though deeply troubling and relating to issues central to
Israels well-being, provoked the kind of outraged disbelief at Kerrys performance that
has been emanating from the Israeli leadership in the past 48 hours. Leaked comments
from unnamed senior government sources to Army Radio, Channel 2 and other
Hebrew outlets have described the secretary as amateurish, incompetent, incapable of
understanding the material he is dealing with in short, a blithering fool.
1992

But actually, its worse than that. What emerges from Kerrys self-initiated ceasefire
mission Israel had already accepted the Egyptian ceasefire proposal; and nobody
asked him to come out on a trip he prefaced with sneering remarks about Israels
attempted pinpoint strikes on Hamas terror targets is that Jerusalem now regards
him as duplicitous and dangerous.
Contrary to his public claim at his press conference in Cairo that his ceasefire proposal
was built on the Egyptian initiative, it manifestly is nothing of the kind. As indicated by
the unconfirmed text reported by Issacharoff, by other subsequent reports of its
content, and by the cabinets outraged rejection, it is a proposal that, to quote an
unnamed official cited by Channel 2, tunneled under the Egyptian initiative, a
document, to quote from another of those leaked comments, that reads like it was
drawn up for or even by Hamass Khaled Mashaal.
And Kerry didnt let up after unleashing his dreadful proposal. Following Fridays fiasco,
he jetted off to Paris and, quite extraordinarily, convened further consultations
dominated by countries that overtly wish to do Israel harm. He met with his
counterparts from Turkey, whose Hamas-backing leadership has lately accused Israel of
attempting genocide in Gaza and compared Netanyahu to Hitler, and with Qatar,
Hamass funder in chief, directly accused by president Shimon Peres last week of
financing Hamass rockets and tunnels. Staggeringly, he did not bring Israel, Egypt, or
the PA to his Paris sessions.
There were further leaks from the cabinet at the weekend to the effect that Netanyahu
and his colleagues did not formally announce their unanimous rejection of Kerrys
ceasefire proposal to avoid provoking a public diplomatic confrontation with Israels
most important ally. Instead, word of the rejection was allowed to find its way out. That
seems rather quaint given what is clearly a major crisis in Israel-US ties at a time when
Israel finds itself in the midst of a complex and costly war.
When Kerrys predecessor, Hillary Clinton, got involved in the effort to broker terms for
ending Operation Pillar of Defense in November 2012, it was self-evident, first, that a
ceasefire was at hand, and, second, that the diplomatic work was being coordinated
effectively with Jerusalem to ensure that Israels vital interests were being served. It is a
testament to Kerrys incompetence (or worse), and to the collapse of faith between him
and Israel, that, when he headed ignominiously home on Saturday, neither of those
assumptions held sway.
Whether through ineptitude, malice, or both, Kerrys intervention was not a case of
Americas top diplomat coming to our region to help ensure, through astute
negotiation, the protection of a key ally. This was a betrayal.

Time to Finish the Threat

By Arlene Kushner - July 27, 2014 at 04:30PM

1993

I only intend to review the essential outline of what has been transpiring and then look
at the bottom line basics that matter most.
~~~~~~~~~~
In the period leading up to Shabbat, on Friday, Israel was said to be considering a
proposal for a week long ceasefire that had been put on the table by Kerry. In the end,
that proposal was unanimously rejected by the Israel Security Cabinet; its members
were, to a person, furious: Kerry had come out solidly on the side of Hamas.
Communicating with representatives of Qatar and Turkey in putting together his
proposal, Kerry had, in the words of unnamed Israeli sources cited by Times of Israel,
dug a tunnel under the Egyptian ceasefire proposal which Israel accepted and
Hamas rejected last week and presented the Israeli government with a text that
accepted most of the demands raised by Hamas...
To the horror of the Israeli ministers, the Kerry proposal accepted Hamass demands
for the opening of border crossings into Gaza where Israel and Egypt fear the
import of weaponry; the construction of a seaport; and the creation of a post-conflict
funding channel for Hamas from Qatar and other countries, according to the sources.
The proposal, meanwhile, did not even provide for Israel to continue demolishing the
Hamas network of terror tunnels dug under the Israeli border. (All emphasis added)
Channel 2s diplomatic reporter Udi Segal said voices from the cabinet had described
Kerry as negligent, lacking the ability to understand the issues, and incapable of
handling the most basic matters.
I myself think describing Kerry thus is cutting him too much slack. He is not the rocket
scientist of the diplomatic world, true. But hes not so foolish that he cannot perceive
the implications of failing to call for demolishing the terror tunnels into Israel. What we
are seeing is not an attempt to stop the fighting that is simply lacking in conceptual
clarity. Were seeing an ally of Hamas express his distain and malice toward the people
of Israel. Make no mistake about this, or about the fact that Kerry speaks for the man in
the White House.
Times of Israel editor David Horovitz calls what Kerry did a betrayal, and says the
result is that Jerusalem now regards him as duplicitous and dangerous.
This is an awakening that I see as all to the good.

~~~~~~~~~~

Subsequent to this, Kerry went to Paris where he met with representatives of Qatar and
Turkey to continue working on the ceasefire. I believe he met there as well with Ban
Ki Moon, whom my readers know well as another duplicitous anti-Israel diplomat.
Should you feel inclined (you may not), you can see here a recent video of a press
conference with Netanyahu and Ban. Our prime minister very vividly lays out the picture
of what we are contending with regarding Hamas, after which Ban professes sympathy
1994

and then advises us that we cannot solve the problem until there is no more
occupation and a two state solution. We should start talking to each other.
Today, Ban made a comment about how the people of Gaza have suffered enough. As if
we were causing that suffering on purpose and calling a halt to it is all that matters.
~~~~~~~~~~
After Israel rejected the week-long ceasefire that had been proposed by Kerry, Ban Ki
Moon, in Paris, working with other diplomats, called for a short humanitarian
ceasefire to allow supplies to be brought in and the dead to be brought out to be
honored from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM yesterday. That was accomplished.
The UN then asked that the ceasefire be extended for another day. We agreed to four
more hours. But at 8:01 PM Hamas started firing again, declaring that We didnt agree
to an extension. In spite of this, we held our fire.
Yet another extension another day of ceasefire was then requested and at about
midnight last night the Security Cabinet met again (they are in very frequent session)
and voted to agree to that further extension I believe 20 hours - even though it was a
one-sided ceasefire. It was about at that point that I went into my WHAT ARE THEY
DOING? mode.
Today we started shelling in Gaza again, because Hamas did not honor the ceasefire and
enough was enough.
~~~~~~~~~~
AFTER we started shooting again, Hamas suddenly decided a ceasefire was a good idea
after all, and called for it to be mutually instituted. This time Netanyahu said, Nothing
doing. Hamas had violated five ceasefires, two in the last 24 hours. Just since midnight
last night, Hamas has launched over 40 rockets.
~~~~~~~~~~
One can readily see, reading this description of what has been transpiring, how the head
might spin. But the precise details are not important its the bigger picture that
matters.
There have been many questions raised about how much work was being done on
dismantling the tunnels during times when we were holding fire. Ive gotten different
reports on this from various sources, but my sense is that very little was done. Thus do
these humanitarian ceasefires unsettle me because they have the potential to shut us
down a little at a time. Before everything we have set out to do has been done.
~~~~~~~~~~
However, in the end, its not just about dismantling the tunnels we have uncovered: The
stark truth is that we are not going to get all of the tunnels.
1995

Several times I have a great sense of unease as our prime minister has said, We are
moving ahead with our goals, but there is no guarantee we will get 100% of the
tunnels. And slowly, the picture has become clear.
Reports say we have identified about 35 tunnels. I cited a report from Steve Emerson
the other day that said the Americans, utilizing infrared censors in a satellite, had
identified 60 tunnels. Just today I picked up reliable information that, from the
terrorists we have arrested in Gaza, we have learned that there are somewhere
between 70 and 100 tunnels.
What is more, we are not fully dismantling all of those tunnels we have identified a
difficult job because of that reinforced concrete.
We are, at least in some cases, apparently doing such things as detonating charges at
the mouths of tunnels and pouring sand into them. Is it far-fetched to wonder whether
some of them would be able to be reinstated as working tunnels with some effort by
Hamas?
~~~~~~~~~~
Preventing Hamas from using these tunnels is the top priority now. A major story has
been making the news about what Hamas had planned. Ive heard alternately that
written plans for this were picked up inside of some of the tunnels, or that the
information came from some of the terrorists who have been captured. I cannot verify
the story and thus normally would not even mention it. But it sounds like something
Hamas might have been planning. They didnt build the tunnels for recreation. If it
wasnt this, it would be something similar:
Hamas had apparently been preparing a murderous assault on Israeli civilian targets for
the coming Jewish New Year Holiday, Rosh Hashanah, which begins on September 24,
according anonymous sources in the Israeli security services, as reported today by the
Israeli daily Maariv.
The Hamas plan consisted of what was to be a surprise attack in which 200 fighters
would be dispatched through each of dozens of tunnels dug by Hamas under the
border from Gaza to Israel, and seize kibbutzim and other communities while killing
and kidnapping Israeli civilians. (Emphasis added)
~~~~~~~~~~
So, if we take out 45 tunnels and 15 or 20 remain each with several exit points in
Israel? It does not bear thinking about. But we have to think about it.
Other means must be devised for preventing this. The threat must be finished. And it
remains the responsibility of the government to do so.

~~~~~~~~~~

It is very much to the good that Netanyahu is saying that the only ceasefire proposal on
1996

the table is Egypts, and that the rehabilitation of Gaza will depend on its
demilitarization:
There is, as well, the need for the development of techniques at the Gaza border on our
side that will reveal any underground activity, or interfere with it. There are many
cutting-edge engineers we can draw upon. We think out of the box: We need the
attention and the dedication to see this through.
~~~~~~~~~~
What I ask, then, is that you please write to PM Netanyahu. Let him know that you are
with him as he stands strong that standing strong against all demands that weaken
Israel is imperative. Tell him that the job must be done right. Hamas must be
sufficiently weakened or eliminated, so that it is no longer a threat to Israel. In
particular, Hamas must be totally blocked from its ability to attack Jews in Israel via
tunnels. The nation of Israel is depending upon him; and the Western world requires his
model of strength and determination.
E-mail: Memshala@pmo.gov.il also pm_eng2@it.pmo.gov.il (underscore after pm) use
both addresses.
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The rockets also must be contended with. Some tens of thousands remain (in truth, we
cannot be certain precisely how many). They present less of an immediate threat than
the prospect of large scale attacks via tunnels because of Iron Dome and our use of
shelters. But this threat, too, must be eliminated.
You will note that a constant refrain of Hamas is that their borders must be opened.
This would facilitate the transfer of more rockets into Gaza. And I mention here that
Hamas reportedly expects to acquire new rockets from North Korea:
Hamas *has+ signed an arms deal with North Korea in order to replenish its depleted
rocket arsenal...according to The Telegraph.
In an exclusive report the British paper sited senior security sources who claimed that
the deal, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, had already been signed, having been
made via Lebanese intermediaries. Hamas has reportedly made an initial down
payment in cash to Pyongyang, and is hoping for an imminent delivery to Gaza.
These plans signal the attitude of Hamas leaders they are not feeling defeated, but
want to pick and go on. Our methods of dealing with them must be informed by their
attitude.
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As of today, 43 of our soldiers have died.
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A new poll indicates that 86.5% of Israelis do not want a ceasefire now.
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The spirit of the nation is incredible, as people gather to pray for the soldiers, and pack
gift packages to bring to them. Almost everyone is involved somehow.

Gaza Tunnels: How They Work, What Israel Knew
By J.J. Goldberg - July 26, 2014, 4:45pm


In my last post I promised to translate Alex Fishmans Friday column in Yediot Ahronot
discussing Hamass tunnels. Here it is.
He briefly traces Israels growing awareness of the problem over more than a decade.
He reaches much the same conclusion as Nahum Barnea: the fact is that everyone
saw, everyone knew, everyone understood, and yet the test of results ended in
failure
Theres a lively debate right now in the Hebrew press over whether or not Israel
realized the full extent of the threat. That is, given that the threats existence was long
known, is there any truth to the claim that Israel was surprised? Ive got some links
below to follow the debate if your Hebrew is up to it. It cant be understated how
misleading the English-language reporting on the topic has been; more on that below,
after the translation.
Both Barnea and Fishman conclude, as my translations show, that the IDF and
government knew enough to grasp the full dimensions of the threat, if not the details
of every tunnel, long before this operation. Whether or not theyre right will be
determined soon enough, as Harel writes. I generally read Barnea and Fishman first
because theyre commonly described as the best informed, best connected and
smartest in the field in Israel Barnea in political analysis, Fishman in reporting from
inside the mind of the military. Unfortunately, Yediot doesnt publish on line its Ynet
site is a fully separate publication and doesnt translate its print material into English.
My translations are as literal as I can make them.
Ive often heard friends and readers in the last few weeks expressing bewilderment that
the IDF had such a hard time finding technology to locate tunnels or detect excavation
in real time. Fishman wrote about that a few weeks ago. His basic thrust was that
normal sensor equipment is only effective down to about 10 meters, and Hamas
attack tunnels are around 25 meters down. And the sophisticated equipment used for
oil and gas exploration is too sensitive for concrete structures just 25 meters down
theyre looking for tiny signals from miles down, and closer to the surface they tend to
go off whenever a truck goes by.
Anyway, heres Fishman:
Damaging the National Project
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On Wednesday this week the defense minister returned to the Gaza
Strip to examine the destruction of the tunnels. When he was at the
headquarters of the division in charge of cleaning out Sejaiyeh, fire
opened up from the windows of Wafa Hospital, whose patients had
been evacuated at the beginning of the week after Israels Coordinator
of Government Activities in the Territories directly approached the
hospital director and asked him to leave. Since then the place had been
officially converted into a forward position of the Izz a-Din al-Qassem
Brigades.
The defense minister immediately authorized the destruction of the
building, and an air force plane eliminated it. The secondary explosions
that were heard long after the bombing made clear that the hospital
had been serving not only as a firing position but as a storehouse for
rockets. The patients were lying directly above huge quantities of
explosives.
By the middle of this week the army had destroyed most of the tunnel
exits on the Israeli side and near it. The problem is destroying the
tunnels along their full length. It turns out that Hamas built the tunnels
in a cluster pattern. Each one of the terrorist organizations six brigades
was given responsibility for tunneling in its sector and dug tunnels, one
alongside the other, in pairs or threes. Channels were dug between the
tunnels to connect them. Each tunnel had a number of exits, to permit
the scattering of the forces that emerged from them. Hamass tunnel
planner took account of the fact that there are communities and
military camps scattered around the Israeli side of the Gaza border, and
tried to concentrate the tunnel cluster in the direction of strategic
locations. Thus when an order was given, the men would be able to
break out simultaneously through numerous shafts and scatter across a
broad sector of Israeli territory. If one tunnel collapsed or was exposed
they could simply cross over to the next. From their point of view it was
a project of genuinely national scale. For the purpose of breakout
Hamas trained select forces, since it required descending to a depth of
up to 25 meters [80 feet or about 7 or 8 stories jjg] and movement
along hundreds of meters, up to a kilometer [0.6 of a mile], carrying a
full load of equipment thats reminiscent of IDF equipment, and with
very little oxygen. At each opening a storeroom was prepared with
combat equipment for a combat unit consisting of 15 to 17 men at
every invasion point.
In the 2007 annual report of the State Comptroller [Israels national
government inspector general jjg], the army itself is quoted speaking
about the danger of the attack tunnels. Between 2001 and 2004, 14
soldiers were killed as a result of activity that emerged from the tunnels,
whether the blowing up a military installation, encounters with
terrorists emerging from tunnel shafts or in the course of activity to
locate them. The military personnel who say that everyone knew about
the danger are correct. The defense minister, too, relates that just in the
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last year we have attacked four tunnels, and that during the current
activity intelligence personnel are leading the forces directly to the
tunnel mouths. The infiltrations into Israeli territory carried out during
Operation Protective Edge have been interdicted, some at the cost of
soldiers lives, and have not ultimately reached any communities or
military installations.
And still, the fact is that everyone saw, everyone knew, everyone
understood, and yet the test of results ended in failure. Miraculously,
Hamass combat doctrine did not speak of fighters emerging
simultaneously from all the tunnels in the first stage of a campaign, but
preferred the use of medium- and long-range rockets as the opening
strike. Its true that the line in the IDF Southern Command was on the
alert in the last few months for a scenario of breaking out of tunnels,
but its doubtful whether it would have been possible to prevent all the
incidents of bloodshed or kidnapping.
The preparations that Hamas undertook in the area of tunneling, rocket
production, smuggling military equipment, training forces and
strengthening their endurance all point to one clear conclusion: this is
not an army of barefoot hooligans. There is planning, command,
technology and doctrine. Its possible to tip ones hat to their
professionalism for a moment, before going in and demolishing their
national projects.
Shai Gal at Mako-Channel 2 runs through a 20-year history of failed efforts to find a
technological solution and debates over whether it really mattered. Yoav Zeitun at Ynet
details some proposed solutions developed and scrapped over the years. This piece by
Doron Nahum at Nana-Channel 10, from November 2013, describes the mounting alarm
inside the IDF over the scope of the problem, culminating in a decision to send soldiers
out on foot patrols to look for whatever they could find.
This piece by Pazit Ravina in Maariv puts the blame on former (2005-07) IDF chief of
staff Dan Halutz, who she says bulked up the air force budget at the expense of tunnel
research. Its one of several claiming solutions could have been found given enough
effort and money; blame is variously placed on the IDF or Treasury. Haaretzs Amos
Harel, writing (in English!) last Monday, says regardless of whether the IDF was fully
aware of the problems scope, it knew enough and the failure to resolve earlier is about
to become a major national scandal.
As for English-language reporting on the issue, nothing captures the insipid quality
more vividly than an exchange yesterday on the revered PBS News Hour. Anchor Gwen
Ifill started it off with a question to a Washington pundit, opening with the observation
that Israel regards the tunnels as a strategic threat while Hamas considers them an
economic lifeline. Shes talking about two entirely distinct and dissimilar sets of tunnels.
The ones leading south into the Sinai city of Rafah were the economic lifeline. Theyve
been demolished by Egypt, which was able to locate them on its side of the border
because the openings were cargo loading and unloading zones. The ones leading east
into Israel are entirely useless as economic channels, leading only to empty fields near
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Israeli villages and IDF installations. Theyre entirely military in nature. Israel cant easily
find them on its side of the fence because theyre not opened until an attack is
mounted. Hence the technology dilemma.

pamela gellers input:
o Huffington Post, Ahmadi Muslim leader Qasim Rashid whitewash Qurans teaching about
subjugating Infidels
o IDF Calls Out UN for Lying About Gaza Civilian Casualties
o Nigeria: Devout Muslims of Boko Haram Kill 75 with Two Bomb Blasts
o Saturday Night Cinema: The Awful Truth
o Colorado convert to Islam charged with conspiracy to aid Islamic State
o Israel: Muslim Drives into Crowd of Jews
o Pro-Hamas Muslims and Leftists Defy Ban in Paris in Support of terror Against Israel
o Massive Hamas Mega-Attack Planned for Jewish New Year Through Gaza Terror Tunnels
o Hamas Violates Ceasefire Again
o Obamas Epic Failure: U.S. Evacuates Embassy Compound In Libya Amid Jihad Fighting
o Hamas murders 25 Palestinians
o Israel uncovers Hamas tunnel filled with maps, weapons, and IDF uniforms
o Iranian FM: Iran will not allow Israel to continue assault, Huge al-Quds Day rallies call
for Death to Israel
o France jails pro-Hamas terror rioters
o Jihad in Thailand: Huge Thailand truck bomb kills, maims
o VIDEO: Hamas members brutally beating civilians of Gaza who leave their homes
following IDF warning
o Bennett to Sky News anchor: Do you want to fight instead of us in Gaza?
o IDF Sets Up Hospital for Gazans
o Police Storm Diverted Flight After Muslim Makes Bomb Threat on Sunwing Flight 772
o Sharia in Lebanon: Australian Woman Charged with Adultery; I would put a bullet
between her eyes, says her brother, I hope she rots in hell
o Two years ago Australian homicide bomber Adam Dahman was your typical northern
suburbs teen..
o Paris: Jew beaten after Facebook page publishes pics of French Jews



Great quote from Hamas



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Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 10:40 PM
Subject: Action-Items - CCXIII [summary]


http://www.scribd.com/doc/235243660/Action-Items-summary

The opportunity to remit these two graphics yields the ability to tie a loose-end; having remitted 2000
pages since early-December [and another 1000+ during the prior half-year], it is possible to congeal the
immediate challenge [and, upon request] to tether it to long-term concerns [both amply documented].
Regarding the necessity to fight Islamism, it is clear that they never ceased contesting the Crusades
*recognizing that the Jewish portion of the Judeo-Christian Ethic has gained prominence since Israel
was re-established in 48+. Therefore, particularly noting establishment of the Islamic State, it is vital that
the USA ponder the need to organize efforts to defeat these savages ASAP [also, lest Iran get the credit
and, in the process assume control of the heart of the Middle East+. In the interim, it is vital that BHOs
anti-colonialism *and Kerrys progressivism+ be halted by the adults in the room who wish to preserve
some semblance of global recognition of the historically-merited American Exceptionalism. Israel must
be provided whatever support is needed to uproot Hamas and Kurdistan should be recognized ASAP;
regarding Putin, the Ukraine should be included within the NATO umbrella, for Russia is now unmasked.

Judging from feedback received after having remitted the prior Blast e-mails, it is
necessary to be clear; BHO is trying [directly and indirectly] to achieve a hudna for
Hamas, a cease-fire that would allow it to regroup prior to destruction of the tunnels.

BHO must be opposed aggressively as he continues to exhibit the lawlessness of a tyrant [not enforcing
laws that he swore to uphold, applying political discretion when deciding which laws to enforce, and
making new laws by invoking an ethereal executive privilege to issue sweeping executive orders.
Through it all, the systemic-corruption of BHOs Scandal Sheet *not just IRS/NSA/Benghazi-Gate] must be
exposed aggressively through Congress *eschewing talk of impeachment+. ,I feel Hillary wont run.-

Deportation of Illegals and support for Godshalls cigarette risk-reduction efforts
[steadfastly pursued for a quarter-of-a-century, plus!+ are vital; the top, down fashion
in which government appears to be tolerated is antithetical to grass-root conservatism.

Meanwhile, the TEA Party Movement must be assisted in its efforts to focus upon primary-challenges in
its effort to reform the GOP [curtailing expenditures such as the Highway Bill and expanding the debt];
the working-hypothesis regarding POTUS-16 continues to be support for a Cruz/Walker ticket [in
whatever sequence]. In this context, it seems a potential [albeit never fulfilled, for reasons that can be
explained] ally in this effort has demurred; the Independence Hall Tea Party Association [and PAC] are
no more, for this Philly-Based Tea Party Group Changed its Name and Shifted its Focus. My comments
are worth reprinting in this regard, for they affect other stances:

Arguably, these goals were extant all-alongparticularly the desire to embrace the Pro-
Life movementbut dissolving the PAC reflects the possibility that strong politicking
wont be easy.

This should not be perceived as a retrenchment because it reflects an evolving
recognition that the conservative values that have animated the Adams-Siblings have
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Judeo-Christian roots that encompass the Constitution [but can now be perceived as
mutually exclusive thereof].

To translate that last graph, it would appear that they will want to maintain their
linkage to an established identity [Independence Hall] in a more positive/assertive
fashion [devoid of any trappings of engrained desires to "protest"]; IMHO, they will do
well to invite their supporters to create regional subgroups [starting with a tri-state
division] which they might then coordinate [depending upon the issue being pursued].

*

@ Matt *who had written: Let them do what they want, theyre still the most
irrelevant political advocacy group in the city.+:

You are incorrect; although I have been critical of some of their moves [such as the
early-endorsement of Romney], it is undeniable that they have built a steady
constituency, manifest [in particular] each 7/4.

Illustrative of this cultural success is their ability to have migrated from the sweltering
heat/humidity outsideto the ballroom inside *charging a nominal fee+ on that date;
they attract national figures [such as Pamela Geller] and provide awards to otherwise-
unsung heroes.

They also have developed a niche within certain facets of conservative society [such as a
go-to media presence on Sunday-a.m. news-shows and strong relationship with Dom
Giordano]; thus, rather than disparage the selfless energies the Adams-Siblings have
devoted to helping to save America from the ravages of BHO, you may wish to recognize
how they have chosen to manifest the independence in their appellation.

Every effort must be made to support Corbett, whose policies are preferable to those of Wolf; it doesnt
matter if anyone else enters the race *Libertarian and Green Parties+ by weeks end. It is still problematic
that Corbett has not held an endless press conference to discuss why nothing seems to have occurred
during 2010 [3 troopers, part-time] and why he fired JoePa precipitously [absent a modicum of study].
Exhaustively documented is inability to trust the national media [and the Inqy, noting how it lionizes
Trudy Rubin] so, regardless of what happens to the PSU-leaders who are soon to be tried, accusations
beyond the dyad just depicted may be subject to a charge of overkill *notwithstanding the botched
roll-out by AG-Kane]. Common Core and ObamaDontCare also should be robustly opposed, and the
desire to achieve gun-control must be neutralized by recognition of the import of the 2
nd
Amendment.
,Any doubt about American Exceptionalism should be dashed by reading/viewing DSouzas America.-

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