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Obama to Muslim World: I'll See Jewish Settlement Stops
Jun 6th, 2009
Daily NewsJerusalem Newswire - Stan Goodenough
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Warning

US President Barack Obama Thursday effectively and publicly stripped Israel of its special place in American foreign relations, marking "a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world."

Israel is to be made to pay to ensure Obama's effective "reaching out" to the planet's 1.5 billion adherents to Islam, and especially to those who are Arab.

To engage the Muslim world, the president made it clear that the United States will at least partially disengage from the Jewish world, specifically from that part that holds to the faith of its fathers.

In what was widely applauded as a momentous and historic address, the president told the cheering audience at the Cairo University - and untold millions of approving onlookers around the world - that he will "personally" see to it that the heart of the Jewish homeland is rendered Jew-free and handed to the Palestinian Arabs for the creation of a state of their own.

"The only resolution" to the Arab-Israeli conflict, he said, "is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security."

This was "in Israel's interest, Palestine's interest, America's interest, and the world's interest. That is why I intend to personally pursue this outcome."

The American maintained that "to see this conflict only from one side or the other is to be blind to the truth."

Despite the fact that the Jews have both a biblical injunction to settle the land (Numbers 33:53) and international legal recognition of their right to do so (the Balfour Declaration and League of Nations' San Remo Conference); and despite the fact that the Geneva Conventions do NOT apply to "the occupied territories" of Judea and Samaria, Obama insisted that "the United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements."

Building these homes for Jews "violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace," he declared.

"It is time for these settlements to stop!"

To establish some form of positive recognition of America in Muslim minds, the president sought to "dumb down" the unique and incomparable historical experience of the Jews to the level of the quite unremarkable - and certainly not unprecedented - recent experience of the Palestinian Arabs.

Obama compared 2000 years of Jewish suffering that culminated in the feeding of six million victims into the maw of the Holocaust, with the "pain of dislocation" suffered by the Palestinian Arabs who were made into refugees as a result of their own peoples' aggression against Israel, and whose leaders have preserved them in that status as pawns with which to achieve their own political and religious aspiration, which is Israel's demise.

"For decades," Obama said, "there has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate aspirations, each with a painful history that makes compromise elusive."

Israel's repeated willingness to compromise - to the severing of two-thirds of its promised land by the British, to the further dismemberment of that territory by the United Nations, to the further shrinkage of that territory under the Oslo Accords; and the Arab's steadfast refusal to compromise at any point over the past 100 years, was glossed over.

According to Obama, America's relationship with Israel is an "unbreakable bond." But instead of acknowledging that this bond is rooted in belief in the same God, the God of Israel, the president said it is based "upon cultural and historical ties, and the recognition that the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied."

He proceeded to parallel the Jews' millennia of yearning to return to their God-given and once gloriously independent national homeland with the Palestinian Arabs' sixty-year long hopes of establishing a homeland for the first time in history on land they have never nationally possessed.

The audience at the university, which remained unmoved when Obama mentioned Jewish suffering and Jewish hopes, burst into repeated applause at every mention of America's standing with and taking up the cause of the "Palestinians."

Obama insisted that Israel - whose 4,000-year existence has been richly recorded, both biblically and extra-biblically - must acknowledge that the Palestinian Arabs' "right to exist" as a nation, despite it having no more than six decades of history, and never having had a national homeland, a national flag or any other national symbol, to its name, "cannot be denied."

Not only must the Jews surrender their most precious national assets to Arabs, but it is also Israel's obligation, Obama continued, "to ensure that Palestinians can live, and work, and develop their society."

"Progress in the daily lives of the Palestinian people must be part of a road to peace, and Israel must take concrete steps to enable such progress," he said. Informed observers will know that Israel's repeated efforts to enable "normal Palestinian life" have always backfired at the cost of innocent Jewish lives and sometimes devastating blows to the economy of the Jewish state.

What Obama would not do, is place the onus on the Arab states - who have the land, the resources, and the moral obligation - to ensure that there is hope and a future for the "Palestinians." (En route to Cairo, Obama stopped for consultations in Saudi Arabia - the nation where Islam was spawned in the 7th Century, and with whom the United States has long had enormously lucrative oil dealings.)

Of the "six specific issues" Obama said he believes America and the Islamic world "must finally confront together" - "violent extremism," "the situation between Israelis, Palestinians and the Arab world," "the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons," "democracy," "religious freedom," and "women's rights," - the American gave the most time to the Arab-Israeli conflict. And it was the subject focussed on most intensely and gleefully by Israel's traditional media enemies, among them CNN and the BBC.

Obama the 'christian:' Peace be Upon Mohammed
Jun 6th, 2009
CommentaryJerusalem NewsWire - Stan Goodenough
Categories: Commentary;Warning

US President Barack Obama deceitfully sought to knit together Christianity, Judaism and Islam in his speech in Cairo Thursday, grossly misrepresenting the latter religion with a smile on his face and sincerity in his voice.

The American leader, who has Islamic roots but professes to be Christian, was on a quest for "a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world."

To establish "common ground" and find what he was looking for, Obama asserted "the truth:" That America and Islam...share common principles - principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings."

This statement was delivered, straight-faced, into the teeth of history, and in the capital of one of many Islamic states universally known to treat its people with an iron hand of injustice, and to demonstrate zero tolerance towards those of other faiths who seek to share their beliefs.

Referring repeatedly to "the Holy Koran" - a book whose author charges both Judaism and Christianity with having perverted "God's" (Allah's) "revelation" to man - Obama wowed his audience.

"As the Holy Koran tells us: 'Be conscious of [Allah] and speak always the truth,'" he said, before proceeding to speak anything but the truth, (though Muslims would agree that it was true.)

"Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality."

As documented exhaustively by scholars like Bat Y'Or, Islam forces Jews and Christians to pay a second-class citizen tax and live a second-class citizen existence or become Muslims. Other non-Muslims have been forced to convert or die. And any Muslim who converts to Christianity must recant or be executed. In some Muslim states, like Israel's peace partner Jordan, just selling a piece of land to a Jew is a capital offense.

Obama's ignorance of Islam (which means submission to Allah) was further revealed by his statement "that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't."

Islam is nothing if it is not what its founder and most venerated follower, Mohammed himself, practiced. This includes terrorism, sexual perversion and massive oppression of free peoples.

Partnership between Islam and America must really be based on this?

The president, who has adamantly denied being any type of Muslim despite his family background and his middle name - Hussein - said he considers it "part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."

According to him, the population of America for which he is responsible includes "seven million Muslims" - the outside number according to demographers, who admit that it's impossible to get a number because the US Census is forbidden by law from asking questions about religion.

At the most then, Muslims comprise 0.5 percent of the US population, but more likely 0.3 percent. Nonetheless, said Obama, there should be "no doubt [that] "Islam is a part of America."

Speaking to complaints that "rules on charitable giving have made it harder for (American) Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation," the president said he is "committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfil zakat."

Not referenced was the fact that some of these restrictions were designed to stop abuse by major Muslim "charities" that acted as fronts to funnel funds to groups like Hamas.

Obama listed the benefits already enjoyed by American Muslims, including "a mosque in every state of our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders.

"It is important for western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit," he added.

European nations are being rapidly Islamized precisely because they have opened their doors to Muslim immigrants and allowed them to set up Islamic enclaves in their towns.

"Indeed, faith should bring us together," Obama argued. "That is why we are forging service projects in America that bring together Christians, Muslims, and Jews. That is why we welcome efforts like Saudi Arabian King Abdullah's Interfaith dialogue and Turkey's leadership in the Alliance of Civilizations. "

Left - Leaning Evangelicals Misleading Young People
Jun 6th, 2009
CommentaryOneNewsNow
Categories: Commentary;Apostasy

Some prominent evangelicals who are backing the "hate crimes" bill awaiting a vote in the Senate are making a concerted effort to get evangelicals to abandon their traditionally conservative voting habits.

The homosexual activist group, Human Rights Campaign, held a "Clergy Call" rally last week on Capitol Hill to urge passage of legislation that would add "gender identity" and "sexual orientation" to the list of protected categories under federal hate crimes law. HRC distributed statements from some influential evangelicals who support the bill, including Mercer University Christian ethicist David Gushee and Florida mega-church pastor Joel Hunter.
 
Pastor Hunter says he "strongly endorse[s]" S. 909* because it "protects both the rights of conservative religious people to voice passionately their interpretations of their scriptures and protects their fellow citizens from physical attack."
 
Mark Tooley, president of the Washington-based Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD), says such statements from figures like Hunter and Gushee are finding fertile ground -- particularly among a new, younger generation of evangelicals.
 
Mark Tooley, "Clearly [these clergy] are a part of an evangelical left crowd who are strategically attempting to shift evangelicals away from conservative social issues to liberal economic and foreign policy [issues] -- and in this case, in the case of hate crimes legislation, social issues as well," he states.
 
In a statement released on Monday, Tooley argues that increasingly, the evangelical left is "indistinguishable from the secular left."
 
"Christians of all traditions are called to transform the culture -- not conform to it," he says in reference to Romans 12:2. "But the evangelical left repeats arguments from The New York Times' editorial page and seems to think such cultural conformity will win applause. History shows that accommodationist Christians are ultimately irrelevant Christians."

Editors Note....It seems that the drift of Evangelicals into apostasy cannot be stopped.

American Capitalism Gone With a Whimper
Jun 6th, 2009
CommentaryPravda. - Stanislav Mishin
Categories: Commentary;Warning

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather than the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas than the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us (Russia) about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blinds the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox (Russian Orthodox) churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more than another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more than ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "freeman" whimper.

So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.