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EMERSON VERMAAT

November 26, 2012 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNews.org – Just recently, I paid a
two-day visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp where more than one million Jews were killed by the Nazis. Most of the victims were gassed in the so-called gas chambers and their bodies were subsequently burned in huge crematoria. Deportation trains packed with Jewish children, women and men entered Birkenau through its “gate of death.” Most of the deportees were murdered on the very day of arrival. But on October 23, 1943, a young Jewish woman named Franceska Mann refused to enter the gas chamber, grabbed the pistol of a notoriously cruel SS-guard and killed him. There are other examples of courageous women who lashed out against the SS-guards, telling them they were murderers and shameless criminals who would sooner or late face death themselves.

When I walked past the infamous unloading ramp inside Birkenau I saw a small
number young people waving the Israeli flag. It was cold outside, but seeing
the Star of David in this hellish place did give me a warm feeling inside. It
showed that Hitler’s diabolical plans to annihilate the Jews and to achieve an
Arab victory in Palestine – a British mandate at the time – eventually came to
nothing.

If Hitler would have won the war, he would indeed have killed all the Jews of
Europe. He did kill six million of them and by 1945 there were still some four
million left. After the Holocaust the founders of the State of Israel realized
that the Jews were entitled to a place of refuge, where they would not be
persecuted by anti-Semitic maniacs and conquerors such as Hitler whose
notorious book “Mein Kampf” was also translated into Arabic. As Golda Meir,
whom I admire so much for her courage, told the United Nations General Assembly
in December 1956: “The concept of annihilating Israel is a legacy of Hitler’s
war against the Jewish people, and it is no coincidence that Nasser’s soldiers
had an Arab translation of Mein Kampf in their knapsacks.” Gamal Abdel Nasser
was the Egyptian president at the time. Nasser’s “holy mission” was the
liquidation of the State of Israel, “driving all the Jews into the sea.”

When SS-officer Adolf Eichmann visited Egypt in the Autumn of 1937 he
discovered that many Arabs sympathized with the Nazis. “They are very elated
when they hear the name of Hitler,” he reported after he returned to Berlin.
The Muslim Brotherhood also sided with the Nazis. During the Second World War,
Hitler in turn praised “the Arab liberation movement” and said he would do
everything to prevent “a Jewish National Home” (a Jewish state) to be
established in “Palestine.” He even planned to conquer the Middle East and
Palestine. By the summer of 1942 his armies were not far from the Egyptian port
city of Alexandria and had penetrated deep into the Caucasus. The Nazi plan was
to “liberate” Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Palestine.

During the war Eichmann was responsible for the killing of millions of Jews. He
traveled to the Hungarian capital of Budapest in March 1944 to personally
oversee the deportation of 438,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz within a period
of just two months. Less than ten percent of the deported Hungarian Jews were
still alive in 1945. The figure of 438,000 was derived from official Nazi
documents written by Edmund Veesenmayer, Hitler’s personal representative in
Hungary at the time.

Hamas: “Kill all the brothers of apes and pigs, the Jews!”

Today, Hamas and Iran not only seek to destroy the Jewish State of Israel and
replace it by their own Taliban-like dictatorship, also do they plan another
Holocaust. Like Hitler and the Nazis they seek to kill all the Jews. In March
2008, Sheikh Yunus Al-Astal, a Hamas legislator and imam, discussed a Koranic
verse suggesting that “suffering by fire is the Jews’ destiny in this world and
the next.” “The reason for the punishment of burning is that it is fitting
retribution for what they have done,” Astal wrote. “But the urgent question is,
is it possible that they will have the punishment of burning in this world,
before the great punishment of hell?” Many religious leaders believe so, he
said adding: “Therefore, we are sure that the Holocaust is still to come upon
the Jews.”

In their crematoria in Auschwitz and other death camps, the Nazis burned the corpses of millions of Jews. Bodies were also thrown into pits outside these crematoria and put on fire. And now militant Hamas leaders announce another Holocaust for the Jews. They want to “finish the job” that Hitler and Eichmann
did not finish, killing all the Jews, that is.

Article 7 of the official Charter of Hamas quotes the Muslim prophet Mohammed: “The Final Hour will not come until Muslims fight against the Jews and the Muslims kill them, and until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, and a stone or tree would say: O Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me,
come on and kill him!” “The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) looks forward to implementing Allah’s promise no matter how long it takes,” the same Charter says.

When I visited Gaza and the West Bank in 1996 and 2002, I was struck by the fact that militant Muslim clerics never referred to “Israeli citizens” or “Israelis” when they addressed their followers in their sermons of hate.
Instead, they invariably lashed out against the Jews, all the Jews, that is. The influential Hamas cleric Yousif Al-Zahar refers to the Jews as “the brothers of apes and pigs.” So does the hysterical Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal who predicted that Muslims will conquer Rome: “Very soon, Rome will be
conquered, just like Constantinople was… Today, Rome is the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility to Islam and has planted the brothers of apes and pigs in Palestine…” (Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden could not have said it better.)

The Jews are the ones who must disappear from the face of the earth. This is the same agenda that the equally hysterical Hitler and the Nazis once pursued. (Ideological and religious hysterics can be extremely dangerous once they are in power.) For Hamas the so-called Israeli occupation is just a pretext to
justify outright hatred of the Jews – a widespread phenomenon in the Muslim world and among too many Muslim immigrants in the West who are often angry and frustrated young males and veiled women. These Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers usually benefit from the welfare system and are causing serious
problems in Europe’s main cities. You will find them in anti-Western and pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris or London. Some of them even joined the so-called jihad or “holy war” and are now dangerous terrorists.

Hamas, Turkey, Egypt, Iran and the neo-Nazis

Hamas is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood which is also rapidly gaining
ground in Syria and Turkey. On November 17, Turkey’s outspokenly pro-Muslim
Brotherhood Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid a solidarity visit to
Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, and also lashed out against “Israel’s attack
on Gaza.” Talks with Israel were not deemed necessary. “Turkish-Israeli
relations are at zero level,” Erdogan lamely explained. He also called Israel
“a terrorist state.” (Did Turkey not retaliate and invade Northern Iraq after
the Kurdish PKK staged attacks on Turkish territory?) Erdogan did not say
anything about the fact that it was Hamas that provoked these attacks by firing
numerous missiles on Israeli territory. New Iranian missiles have been smuggled
into Gaza via Egypt and have a longer range. Last October Israel bombed an
Iranian ammunition factory in Sudan because the weapons from that factory were
smuggled into Gaza – also via Egypt.

“If Israel has peace and quiet, so will Gaza,” IDF Spokeswoman Avital Leibovich
told CNN on Sunday November 18. What she meant to say was that Hamas was the
first to attack Israeli civilians by launching quite a lot of missiles. The
very moment Hamas stops doing so, Israel will cease to retaliate. But Hamas is
not as rational as many liberal journalists and politicians in the West assume.
There is a wide gap between Western rationality and Arab or Muslim
irrationality. Muslims can be easily set on the boil, regardless of the fatal
economic consequences of their behavior. Moreover, Hamas has powerful friends
in Iran and Egypt who supply them with deadly weapons. (Egypt allowed massive
illegal weapons transfers into Gaza.)

Like Hamas, Iran seeks to kill all the Jews in Israel. They are developing an
atomic bomb. A recent IAEA report notes “a sharp increase in Iran’s supply of a
more purified form of enriched uranium that can be more easily converted to
weapon’s grade fissile material.” Iran’s Islamo-Fascist president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said that “the zionist entity” must be wiped off the face of the
earth. In other words, drive all the Jews into the sea – an echo of Nasser’s
policy in the 1950s and 60s. Ahmadinejad is also a despicable Holocaust denier.
His best allies are notorious neo-Nazis and radical socialists and communists
such as Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.

Last October, Egyptian president Morsi joined a preacher in prayer for the
dispersal of the Jews. Just like Ahmadinejad, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and
most neo-Nazis in Europe and the USA, Morsi, too, believes that “the Jews” were
behind the 9/11 attacks – an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, by the way.

Anti-Semitic neo-Nazis in Europe and the United States are siding with militant
Palestinians and Iran. Thus, Hamas co-founder Abdel Aziz Rantisi gave an
interview to the German neo-Nazi outlet “Junge Freiheit.” Iran’s president
Ahmadinejad invited European, Australian and American neo-Nazis to Tehran,
meeting their travel expenses. Ahmadinejad’s view of the Holocaust was hailed
by neo-Nazi publications in Europe.

There are now serious tensions between Iran and Egypt over the civil war in
Syria. Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan belatedly realized that Iran does pose a
threat to the region. Initially, he naively sought to court the Iranian and
Syrian leaders. Citizens from Iran, Syria, Iraq and Jordan no longer need a
visa for Turkey, but Israeli citizens are not welcome. This led to another
unwelcome influx of Muslim asylum seekers and illegal immigrants in Greece, all
of whom want to travel to Western Europe.

Iran and Hamas as the originators of today’s
suicide bombing frenzy

9/11 was the first major suicide attack in the United States. Al-Qaeda proudly
referred to this successful attack as “a martyrdom operation.” Suicide bombing
attacks have really proliferated since then. They occurred in Somalia, Nigeria,
Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Turkey,
Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Australia,
Russia, Chechnya, Spain, Italy, France and Britain. This list is not
exhaustive. Suicide bombing is a virtually incurable cancer. One can only pray
that the suicide attackers or those who sponsor them won’t be capable of
developing a nuclear bomb. These fanatics don’t care about death and
destruction. “Allahu Akhbar” is their holy slogan. It is rather, just like
“Heil Hitler,” a curse on those who die.

The first major suicide bombing attack occurred in the Lebanese capital of
Beirut on April 18, 1983. A car bomb destroyed the U.S. embassy. On October 23,
another car bomb destroyed the U.S. Marine barracks in the same city.
Responsible for both attacks was an Iranian sponsored terrorist group called
Hezbollah. Numerous suicide attacks would follow. Hezbollah leaders were the
first to call their suicide attacks “martyrdom operations.” They claimed that
those who carried out these attacks would go straight to “paradise.”

Hamas was founded in 1987 and they wanted to copy Hezbollah’s successful
“martyrdom operations.” The first Hamas sponsored suicide attack occurred in
Tel Aviv on October 19, 1994. It was a so-called ‘belt bomb.” Numerous
terrorist attacks would follow involving belt bombs, car bombs, truck bombs and
suitcase bombs. The successful suicide attacks carried out by Hamas and its
even more militant rival “Islamic Jihad” were soon copied by Al-Qaeda and other
very dangerous terrorist groups. One can, therefore, conclude that both
Hezbollah and Hamas were, in a way, the inventors or originators of today’s
Islamist suicide attacks – a real frenzy now.

It was in the beginning of 1996 that I was making a television report on “The
making of a suicide bomber.” I had to travel to the Westbank and Gaza to
interview family members of Yahya Ayyash, a notorious Hamas bomb maker who was
killed in a successful Mossad operation. I saw posters everywhere glorifying
Ayyash as a martyr who was in paradise now. I also heard stories about the
promises that radical Muslim clerics made to those who wanted to die in a
“martyrdom operation,” killing as many Jews as possible. There would those “72
very pretty black-eyed virgins” awaiting them in paradise. Wow! The suicide bombers
death is even portrayed as “a wedding.” The so-called “martyrs” are marrying
beautiful virgins in paradise.

Most suicide bombers, also those who carried out the 9/11 attacks, were
sexually frustrated young males, although women are also lured into “martyrdom
operations” by hysterical hate preachers. The first female suicide bomber was a
Palestinian woman named Wafa Idris. Hamas commemorated her as a martyr and so
did the so-called secular Palestinian president Yassir Arafat. (Double-tongued
Arafat also praised Yahyah Ayyash, in Arab, of course, not in English.)

Before they die, suicide bombers write their “last will” and also appear on
propaganda videos which are distributed after the “operations” are over. For
example, Hamas published the last will of Said Al-Hutari, who carried out the
June 1, 2001, suicide bombing outside the disco near the Dolphinarium in Tel
Aviv, that killed 23, mostly teenage girls. “I will turn my body into bombs
that will hunt the sons of Zion, blast them, and burn their remains,” Al-Hutari
wrote. “Call out in joy, oh my mother; distribute sweets, oh my father; a
wedding with the ‘black-eyed’ awaits your son in paradise.”

“The death announcements of martyrs in the Palestinian press often take the
form of wedding, not funeral, announcements,” MEMRI comments. “Blessings will
be accepted immediately after the burial until 10 p.m…. at the home of the
martyr’s uncle,” read one suicide bomber’s death notice.”

All suicide bombers do not go to their imagined “paradise,” but straight to hell
they go instead. They are psychopathic and fanatical little Hitlers bent on
death and destruction, despicable worshippers of evil inspired by a satanic
ideology. The same applies to all those Islamo-Fascist hate preachers who
inspired and still inspire the suicide bombers. These Muslim preachers and
clerics are not on the side of peace, justice and freedom, but on the side of
diabolical and destructive evil – just like the Nazis between 1933 and 1945.

Emerson Vermaat is an investigative reporter
in the Netherlands. He recently published a Dutch study on Adolf Eichmann. He
is currently writing a book on Auschwitz. Website: emersonvermaat.com.

Sources:

Golda Meir, My Life (New York: G.P. Putnam’s
Sons, 1975), p. 304.

Emerson Vermaat, Adolf Eichmann. Technocraat
van de Holocaust (Soesterberg, Netherlands: 2012), p. 186 (Eichmann’s visit to
Egypt in 1937), p. 195-200 (Hitler’s plan to conquer the Middle East and
“Palestine”).

International Herald Tribune, April 1, 2008,
p. 8 (“Hamas ratchets up anti-Jewish rhetoric”). Quotes from Sheikh Yunus
Al-Astal.

Khaled Hroub, Hamas. Political Thought and
Practice (Washington: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2000), p. 271, 272
(Hamas Charter).

Memri Clip No 1739, April 11, 2008, Hamas MP
and Cleric Yunis Al-Astal in a Friday Sermon: “We will Conquer Rome, and from
There Continue to Conquer the Two Americas and Eastern Europe.” (Jews referred
to as “the brothers of apes and pigs.”)

Morsi and Erdogan to Hold Talks on Israeli
Attack on Gaza, Bahrein News Agency (BNA), November 16, 2012.

Iran’s Enhanced Nuclear Capabilities, IPT
News, November 16, 2012 (IAEA report).

Egyptian President Morsi Joins Preacher in
Prayer for Dispersal of the Jews, MEMRI TV, Videoclip 3614, Channel 1 (Egypt),
October 19, 2012.

Robert Sattloff, Getting Egypt’s Morsi to give
up his 9/11 “truther” talk, in: The Washington Post, September 11, 2012.

Khaldoun Al-Chihabi, De Turks-Israëlische
Betrekkingen: Een onherstelbare breuk of tijdelijke wrok? (Gent, Belgium:
University of Gent, 2012).

Anton Maegerle, Die Unheilige Allianz Zwischen
Hakenkreuz und Halbmond. Neonazis und fundamentalistische Islamisten,
Informationsdienst gegen Rechtsextremismus (IDGR), 2001. (Rantisi).

Christoph Reuter, Mein Leben ist eine Waffe.
Selbstmordattentäter – Psychogramm eines Phänomens (Munich: C. Bertelsmann,
2002), p. 88, 89, 110 (Hezbollah’s “Martyrdom operations”)

MEMRI, Inquiry and Analysis Series, No. 74,
October 30, 2001, “72 Black-Eyed Virgins”: A Muslim Debate on the Rewards of Martyrs.”
(Said Al-Hutari).

 ©2012 Emerson Vermaat. All rights reserved

By WILLIAM MAYER

November 23, 2012 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNews.org – Since his rise to the presidency of Egypt – on the wings of a massively fraudulent  electoral process – the Muslim Brothehood’s Mohamed Morsi has rapidly consolidated his power.

On Thursday it appears that task was completed, making Mr. Morsi now the de-facto caliph of Egypt. Declaring himself beyond the jurisdiction of the country’s supreme court and absent a constitution and functioning constituent assembly, nothing can check the exercise of his political will.

Having watched this process play out over the last four years [and having predicted the eventual result of the misnamed "Arab Spring]  Morsi’s actions are not surprising. He was and remains a top ranking member of the Muslim Brotherhood and like his Islamic revolutionary brethren all over the globe, has sought, and has now attained total dictatorial power.

His inspiration is of course a fundamentalist interpretation of the Qur’an.

None of this could have happened without the support of the Obama administration which has paved the way for the Muslim Brotherhood to establish itself as the driving force behind what might be envisioned as the beginnings of a second Fatimid dynasty – the original having extended from the10th through the 12th centuries, roughly.

Of course, this newly forged caliphate does not yet attained nearly the sheer geographical
reach or sway as did the Fatimid empire, which encompassed Northern Africa, the
Eastern half of the Arabian peninsula, including Medina and Mecca and even extended into what is today Syria. But Morsi’s aggressive moves accompanied by a keen sense of politics, suggests that should he so choose, that Egypt could well once roar again.

As far as Mr. Obama is concerned, he seems to be following the template which was finely honed during the Benghazi disaster [perhaps burnishing his "cool" credentials] after which he jetted out to conduct fundraisers in Nevada.

As the rather momentous news bled out of Egypt over the last 48 hours the only visible presidential reactions was to go golfing.

Now much is undoubtedly going on under the surface of the administration’s foreign policy apparatus, if one judges by past actions we have great trepidations regarding what may be in the wings.

At critical periods of time, when the wrong national security policy actions may bring about
more than chagrin, it would be reassuring if there were at least one seasoned foreign policy voice within this administration.

Though there were few issues upon which we agreed with the late Richard Holbrooke – especially as reflected by his viewpoint regarding the Balkans [where we must admit many conservatives, including GW Bush also made tremendous mistakes, siding with forces which had allied themselves with Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini] – we feel that his mere presence, especially as juxtaposed against the pretenders, imbeciles and ego-maniacs which inhabit Mr. Obama’s entire national security team, would have lent some measure of fortitude and perhaps a bit of wisdom to a process which left the tracks a long time
ago.

Resurrecting an Islamic dynasty at any time would be a more than daunting challenge so it seems the forces of history might provide enough protection for the United States to limp through the remainder of this presidency with as little possible long term damage inflicted.

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November 21, 2012 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNews.org – If you rely on the take of the MSM, Team Obama has finally browbeaten Israel into accepting a stand down vis-à-vis Hamas.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

It appears that what Israel has in mind encompasses far more than simply eliminating the immediate threat posed by Hamas and its sponsor, Iran’s Mullocracy.

Some general observations:

1. The immediate Hamas irritants have largely been dealt with. Communication and PR centers for the group have been maimed, as have missile stockpiles and launching platforms.

2. Though not perfect, Iron Dome has proven to be quite effective in its first full scale real-time test. It will only get better. The U.S. military is to be congratulated for assisting in the development of this thoroughly defensive missile shield, hopefully Team Obama will learn, along with the rest of the Democrat doves [who have been spectacularly wrong on just how effective anti-missile technology can be] including such luminaries as John Kerry and his ilk, a lesson here, even if it is a bitter one.

Don’t count on it though.

3  The entire Israeli military is on full alert now. Reserves have been called up and the requisite supplies, munitions and other hardware are either in place or nearly so, to be used when the “go” signal is given for the big show yet to come.

4. Therefore consider the now silenced minor hostilities – in which Hamas was trounced in short order, without the deployment of ground troops – having simply been a dry run or dress rehearsal.

5. In the very near future, Israel – once again provoked by Hamas…and maybe even if not – will move with overwhelming force into Gaza and put an end to this group’s operations once and for all. Many “Palestinians” will die…so sad, the majority of them are irredeemable.

If dying in the way of Allah is their highest aspiration who is Israel to deny them that right? After all Israel is a genuinely pluralistic society.

6. Hamas, though a constant thorn in the side of the Jewish state, in no way represents an existential threat. Iran however does and it grows more powerful each day. As the IAEA reported just days ago, the country’s nuke program is now running in overdrive. It’s only a matter of time, perhaps months, before these death worshiping fanatics possess the means to destroy Israel in a most horrific manner.

7. Therefore when the order is given to garotte Hamas, so too will the hammer be dropped on Iran.

8. That will be the day when Team Obama’s little pretend game of  support for Israel will be laid bare as obviously fraudulent. It’s then that this criminal
administration will show its true colors as it throws in with the rest of the
anti-Semitic world in condemnation of the Israeli attack.

9. So for now this ceasefire is simply the equivalent of a series of probing,
but inconsequential moves in the highest stakes chess game in the last 100
years. However the time is rapidly approaching when Israel announces check and mate; it’s then that the Muslim world will be stunned by the swiftness and violence which be unleashed upon the world’s greater terrorist threat. At that time, were I an Iranian, I would want to be as far away from Tehran and its nuke
installations as possible.

10. Given the Middle East’s rapid descent into confrontational Islamism, one can’t dismiss the possibility that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will be awakened on some early spring morning next year, around 2 am local time, with the brightest, most spectacular sunrise they have ever seen.

It will also be their last…

November 20, 2012 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNews.org – Props to the Telegraph’s Neil Gardner Barack Obama blunders again on the world stage who points out
that Mr. Obama’s amateurish performance in the conduct of diplomatic matters
overseas during his recent trip is an embarrassment to the United
States.

He goes on to say that had it taken place under a GOP administration, the matter would have served as fodder for endless negative commentary by the MSM.

“Barack Obama is already blundering again on the world stage, with
the kind of gaffes that would have been plastered on the front page of The
New York Times if they had been committed by George W. Bush when he was in the White House…”

Gardner points to two instances of almost unbelievable incompetence.

1. While in Asia supposedly touting freedom of expression, Mr. Obama
could not even pronounce the name of Aung San Suu Kyi – a Burmese MP, considered one of the leading human rights activists in the world -  correctly. His bumbling attempts showed such a lack of preparation and ignorance that it was actually painful to watch.

2. In the same vein, Obama’s general lack of understanding regarding Burma’s political complexities was on full public display as he insisted on calling the South East Asian nation Mynamar, the name used by the ruling Burmese military junta, instead of the traditional Burma, the name which Aung San Suu Kyi and her opposition forces prefer.

In a quick Internet search we could find no more than a handful of articles dealing with Team Obama’s latest foreign policy blunders.

Such things, though of little apparent consequence to Obama’s MSM stenographers, nonetheless reflect just how ill-prepared this president is to perform on the world stage. They also seem to demonstrate a degree of intellectual laziness and lack of interest which has assumed dangerous proportions.

In less highly charged times, such comparatively minor issues would be of little import, however in a world in which political allegiances are rapidly changing – to the detriment of U.S.interests – such a cavalier attitude is dangerous.

One would think that Obama’s dreadfully  amateurish  and awkward performances by “The One,” would be of concern to Mr. Obama’s supporters, who always assume that he is the “smartest guy in the room,” but we can see little evidence of this judging by the lack of curiosity being shown by the legacy media.

November 19, 2012 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNews.org – As
the IDF prepares to devastate the Hamas presence in the renegade territory of
Gaza, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is ratcheting up its rhetoric regarding its
support of the “Palestinian resistance.” [Qasam - the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
Brigades - and Hamas, creations of the Muslim Brotherhood]

In a statementissued today Dr. Essam El-Erian, Vice-Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party [FJP] warned Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that attacking Hamas strongholds would have serve repercussions.

[Note, the FJP is the above ground political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, the party to which Egyptian president Muhammed Morsi belongs.]

The operative text of El-Erian’s statement:

“The cause of Palestine is back in the focus of the Arab people.
Egypt has changed, and is now fully behind the Palestinian people. Arabs are
rethinking their entire concept of the peace process. Reconciliation on the
agenda of the resistance is near.” [source http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=30395]

In this case it’s difficult not to read this as a threat that Egypt will fully support Hamas if
and when the IDF launches its response to Hamas’ incessant rocketing of Israeli
cities.

In further developments regarding the escalating Egyptian-Israeli
tensions, Hamas [in the person of Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman for Hamas ] has
issued a statement claiming that Israel is targeting civilians and calling upon
the Muslim world to unite against the Jewish state:

“Arab and Muslim policymakers and stakeholders, in the light of the
Arab Spring and the Islamic Renaissance, must shoulder their responsibilities
and take bold and clear decisions that history will record for them for all
time, away from the speeches and statements that cannot help against the murder
and terrorism crimes committed against the people of Gaza.” [source, http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=30397]

As if to provide punctuation for Egypt’s increasing saber rattling, an FJP spokesman, Dr. Murad Ali, announced that the FJP will lead a support delegation to Gaza on Monday morning headed by that Dr. Mohamed Saad Katatni, chairman of the FJP.

As Egypt’s escalation increases in the face of what could easily become a general
Middle East war, the Obama administration is continuing to fund this now clearly
jihadist state. [see by way of reference http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=30394]

©2012 PipeLineNews.org LLC. All rights
reserved.

November 16, 2012 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNews.org – Upon leaving a closed door briefing by former Dir. CIA Gen David Petraeus [covering on the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya] a somewhat quizzical Representative Pete King [R-NY] indicated that his recollection of Petraeus’ characterization of the nature of the attack – given during a similar September 14 closed door briefing – markedly differed from what was proffered today.

During the Sept. 14 briefing, Mr. King related that Gen Petraeus emphasized that the attack had been caused by a now infamous and little seen amateur video, whereas in today’s testimony the General clearly stated that, very early in the process of assessing the attack he came to the conclusion that it was a well organized attack by terrorists associated with al Qaeda.

Regarding the conflict between Petraeus’ Sept 14 and Nov 16 testimony, King stated on Fox News.

…I had a very different recollection of what he told us…he barely mentioned terrorism at that time…he emphasized the video…

The above inconsistency is further evidence of a massive cover up by the Obama administration regarding the nature of the September 11 Benghazi attack. The false narrative – that the attack was caused by an amateurish video – was established for political purposes. It was knowingly put out there so that the president would not have to deal with the fact that al-Qaeda is indeed still a huge terrorist threat when he had been claiming throughout the campaign that al-Qaeda had been decimated because bin-Laden had been killed.

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November 16, 2012 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNews.org – On November 14, Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party [FJP, the above ground political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization, led by Egypt's president, Mohammed Morsi] strongly declared its solidarity with Gaza’s Hamas government.

In typical Islamist double talk, the FJP does not overtly use the name Hamas, but instead refers to it as the, “Palestinian resistance.”

Note: the Muslim Brotherhood created Hamas with the expressed purpose of using it to destroy the Jewish state.

Below from the Hamas charter:

“The Charter of Allah: The Platform of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

“In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate You are the best community that has been raised up for mankind. Ye enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency; and ye believe in Allah. And if the People of the Scripture had believed, it had been better for them. Some of them are believers; but most of them are evil-doers. They will not harm you save a trifling hurt, and if they fight against you they will turn and flee. And afterward they will not be helped. Ignominy shall be their portion wheresoever they are found save [where they grasp] a rope from Allah and a rope from man. They have incurred anger from their Lord, and wretchedness is laid upon them. That is because they used to disbelieve the revelations of Allah, and slew the Prophets wrongfully. That is because they were rebellious and used to transgress.” Surat Al-Imran (III), verses 109-111 Israel will rise and will remain erect until Islam eliminates it as it had eliminated its predecessors. The Islamic World is burning. It is incumbent upon each one of us to pour some water, little as it may be, with a view of extinguishing as much of the fire as he can, without awaiting action by the others…” [source, http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/documents/charter.html]

Relations between Israel and the Gazan government have always, to put it diplomatically, been strained with an uneasy peace often punctuated by periodic attacks on Israel by Hamas irregulars often using weapons supplied by Iran.

Matters went from simmer to boil upon the IDF’s recent assassination of Ahmed Jaabari, perhaps the key Hamas military chief and responsible for coordinating numerous acts of terror.

As one can see from the text of the FJP/Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas presser, Morsi’s political party is fully supportive of the organization whose only function is to kill and maim as many Israelis as possible.

Also please note that FJP seems quite proud of Hamas’ June 25, 2006 kidnapping of a young IDF soldier, Gilad Shalit, whom it then used to broker the release of over a thousand terror suspects from Israeli prisons in exchange for Mr. Shalit.

FJP statement:
“The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) strongly condemns the assassination by Israeli occupation forces of Qassam commander Ahmed Jaabari, a crime which should see a fast Arab and international response to stop a wave of similarly bloody massacres against the Palestinian people besieged in the Gaza Strip, and which are being used by the Israeli government for leverage in political conflicts raging within Israel.

The FJP believes that Israeli resumption of the policy of target killings against leaders of the Palestinian resistance movements confirms that the Israeli occupation wants to drag the whole region into instability, confusion and chaos, but Israel should be warned that the changes recently witnessed in the Arab region, especially in Egypt, cannot allow Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people to go unpunished as in the past.

Further, the FJP offers sincere condolences to the leaders of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the Palestinian people for the martyrdom of the great warrior Ahmed Jaabari, who was one of the main architects of the deal which secured the release of more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the soldier Gilad Shalit.” [source, http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=30379]

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By WILLIAM MAYER

November 13, 2012 – Washington, DC – PipeLineNews.org – In a strongly worded letter to House Speaker Boehner Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) today called for the creation of a select committee to investigate the terrorist attack in Benghazi and subsequent revelations that followed [text appears below].

Wolf maintained in a statement that such a high level investigation be conducted, “so that Congress can fulfill its constitutional responsibilities to legislate and educate the American people on the circumstances surrounding the attack, which led to the death of four Americans, including a U.S. ambassador.”

The Virginia Congressman has sharp words for the manner in which the WH has so far obfuscated on the deadly September 11 attack which left 4 dead including American Ambassador Chris Stevens. “The White House has repeatedly cancelled scheduled briefings and, to date, has not provided the chairmen of national security committees and subcommittees…the additional information requested regarding the attack and the administration’s response.”

Wolf decried DOJ response to the growing scandal, expressing, “disappointment in the response by Attorney General Eric Holder, saying that the FBI’s recent investigation of CIA Director Petraeus raises further skepticism as the CIA had a central role in the Benghazi attack.

Additionally, Mr. Wolf claims that, “Reportedly, Holder knew about this investigation for months “but chose not to disclose it until after the presidential election – yet another example of Mr. Holder’s politicized leadership of the Justice Department…There are serious questions surrounding this Justice Department’s integrity, similar to those raised during the second term of the Nixon Administration.”

On the palpable sense of frustration welling within Congress on the Benghazi scandal the Congressman concluded, “Too many questions remain surrounding the Benghazi attack and response,” Wolf concluded. “The Congress owes it to the families of the victims of this terrorist attack, and the American people, to fully investigate this tragedy.”

Below, the full text of the letter has been reproduced:

The Honorable John Boehner
Speaker of the House
U.S. House of Representatives
H-232 The Capitol
INSIDE MAIL

Dear Mr. Speaker,

In light of the ongoing revelations stemming from the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) annex in Benghazi, Libya, I ask that you immediately establish a House or bicameral Select Committee on the Terrorist Attack in Benghazi.

Given that this incident and subsequent disclosures involves the CIA, State Department, Defense Department, Justice Department and the White House, I believe the select committee should be comprised of the chairmen and ranking members of the committees on Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, Judiciary and Government Reform and Oversight. Other members could also be appointed at the discretion of House leadership based on expertise. A House or bicameral select committee will prevent the overlap of multiple investigations and hearings, and must have full subpoena authority.

The Congress has an obligation to fully investigate this attack in order to fulfill its constitutional responsibilities as it does its legislative work, particularly when it comes to national security and defending the homeland. It also has a responsibility to educate the American people on the circumstances surrounding the attack, which led to the death of four Americans, including a U.S. ambassador. Basic questions remain unanswered, and when additional information has been released, much of it has been through the media. The White House has repeatedly canceled scheduled briefings and, to date, has not provided the chairmen of national security committees and subcommittees that wrote the president on September 25 the additional information requested regarding the attack and the administration’s response.

The revelations surrounding the FBI’s investigation of CIA Director Petraeus raise even more questions, especially given the CIA’s central role in the Benghazi attack. It has been reported that Attorney General Holder knew about this investigation for months but chose not to disclose it until after the presidential election – yet another example of Mr. Holder’s politicized leadership of the Justice Department. There are serious questions surrounding this Justice Department’s integrity, similar to those raised during the second term of the Nixon Administration.

Too many questions remain surrounding the Benghazi attack and response, and the questions seem to grow by the day. The Congress has a responsibility to the families of the victims of this terrorist attack, and the American people, to fully investigate this tragedy.

Sincerely,

Frank R. Wolf
Member of Congress

By DENNIS T. AVERY

November 13, 2012 – CHURCHVILLE, VA – PipeLineNews.org – IF President Obama still cares about more U.S. jobs and high food costs he can now immediately gain on both.. An economist in Indianapolis just calculated that the U.S. is losing a million jobs this year—along maybe as much as $30 billion in economic growth—because we shifted too much of our corn into ethanol. Tom Elam says direct employment in the food industry would have produced three times as many jobs processing and marketing meat as making ethanol from the same corn. Elam calculates the foregone jobs at 941,000. That doesn’t even count the myriad of jobs that would have been needed to support the newly employed one million Americans.

Based on recent history, U.S. consumers got less meat and milk than they would have liked. Consumer spending on these items veered sharply down from its historic trend after President Bush radically raised the nation’s ethanol mandate in 2007. Elam predicts these problems will only get worse. The EPA‘s approval of 15 percent ethanol in gasoline will likely push corn fuel use up faster than corn yields are rising.

Without the ethanol mandate, U.S. feed exports would increase too (a job creator). Also, our cost of driving would come down even as the prices of pork chops, broilers, and hamburger came back within the reach of stressed-out US food buyers.

No need to worry about Green protests on this one. The environmental groups have turned against the “renewable” fuel they once supported. Ethanol does little to reduce U.S. greenhouse emissions, but diverting grain from to fuel is ramping up survival costs for the poor across the world.

Naomi Klein, a best-selling “green” author from Canada, says climate change is not a big issue to the left. Rather, “ideology is the main factor in whether we believe in climate change. If you have an egalitarian and communitarian worldview, and you tend toward a belief system of pooling resources and helping the less advantaged then you believe in climate change.” But there has obviously been no warming trend on the planet for 15 years, and the U.S. unemployment problem is now center stage. Especially for the lower income workers who are prominent in food processing and transport.

Grain farmers are bidding up the prices of their own cropland to twice the 2006 levels—cleverly raising their own corn production costs for the future. Meanwhile the more numerous livestock farmers risk bankruptcy due to redoubled feed costs. Congress is urgently studying a further bailout of dairy farmers, who can no longer afford to feed their cows. But the nation’s debt limit is looming.

Even after this drought-stricken corn-growing season, the EPA has refused to suspend the ethanol mandate. The EPA has apparently feared perceived failure of a “green fuel” program on President Obama’s watch. A word from the President could set Lisa Jackson’s mind at rest, and create those additional jobs in short order.

However, a temporary suspension of the ethanol mandate is unlikely to work. Temporary moves are discounted by business, as the President found with his stimulus spending. The President should now lift the ethanol mandate as a waste of taxpayer money, a drag on blue-collar job creation—and a threat to many thousands of livestock farmers. To add insult to injury, ethanol is expensive to make and has 35 % fewer BTU’s per gallon. The EPA approved 15% blend will melt fuel lines and burn valves in many cars. Who will pay for the repairs?

End Notes:

Thomas Elam, Ethanol Production: Economic Impact on Meat and Poultry Consumption, Value and Jobs, FarmEcon LLC, Indianapolis, In., Oct 30, 2012. (Dr Elam is a highly experienced agricultural economist who has served on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Outlook and Situation Board and held responsible jobs in agribusiness.)

“Interview with Naomi Klein,” Common Dreams, Feb. 29, 2012.

Dennis T. Avery, a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., is an environmental economist. He was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State. He is co-author, with S. Fred Singer of Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years. Readers may write to him at PO Box 202 Churchville, VA 2442; email to cgfi@hughes.net or visit us at www.cgfi.org

By Dennis T. Avery

November 1, 2012 – Churchville, VA – PipeLineNews.org – Mitt Romney says he could create 12 million jobs in a four year term. Could he really do it? The odds are he could.

Romney would start, of course, with energy, where gasoline prices have doubled under Obama. High energy costs have scuttled lots of small businesses; people could no longer afford their goods or services. High gas prices also drove some employees out of the job market as they could no longer afford commuting to a job with modest pay.

Obama campaigned on raising energy costs even higher; to protect us from the man-made global warming that is not occurring. He even hints about further slashing fossil fuel use after he wins “more flexibility” in a second term.

Romney would also eliminate the fear that the EPA will restrict the fracking that is delivering a wealth of lower-cost oil and gas. This should, instead, create more and more new jobs. Writing in London’s Daily Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says “Swathes of American industry have acquired a massive and lasting advantage in energy costs over global rivals [due to fracking]. . . . Europe is going in the opposite direction, drifting toward energy suicide.”

With fracking, some 50 new U.S. petrochemical projects have recently been unveiled. Royal Dutch Shell is planning a big ethane plant near Pittsburg. Dow Chemical is shutting down operations in Belgium, Holland, Spain, the UK and Japan—but pouring money into a new propylene plant in Texas.

The American Chemistry Council says shale fracking has also reversed the fortunes of the aluminum, iron, steel, rubber, coated metals and glass industries. It is encouraging a “homecoming” of machine tool, electrical products, transport equipment, and furniture industries back from China, says PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Chinese wages have been surging, so our new low-cost gas offsets higher U.S. wages— under a government they can trust.

Interior Secretary Salazar has sharply reduced permits for drilling on Federal lands and offshore waters. Now he’s quietly put half the National Petroleum Reserve in the Alaskan tundra off limits to drilling. That reserve has been designated for energy development since 1923! The eco-activists already have the nearby Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge for the caribou and migrating birds—though today’s North Slope oil production doesn’t even threaten them.

Romney would also end Obama’s senseless war on coal, restoring vitality to the heartland states, which depend on burning coal cleanly to keep their electricity costs competitive.

Then there’s the huge uncertainty of Obamacare. One of the President’s health-care advisors has just predicted the cost of private health insurance will rise 30 percent by 2016. At the same time, large numbers of doctors are opting out of Medicare because their mandated government payments won’t cover their costs. One of those rising costs is medical liability insurance—the “tax” imposed by the trial lawyers who support Obama.

That’s all before we even get to the mounting debt and the out-of-control spending he seems determined to continue. “Investments” in education and infrastructure still will cost money we don’t have, unless we cut spending elsewhere. On debt, spending, energy, health care, appointing Supreme Court justices–and even following the laws on the books—I label Barack Obama the “uncertainty President.” His National Labor Relations Board even barred Boeing from building a new plant in South Carolina!

Obama seems to want to dismantle the country that elected him and wrestle it into some different shape only he can see. That means a President Romney could eliminate the political uncertainties that have kept even companies with cash from expanding in the Obama years.

Twelve million more jobs? It might well be more.

Dennis T. Avery, a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., is an environmental economist. He was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State. He is co-author, with S. Fred Singer, of Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years. Readers may write to him at PO Box 202 Churchville, VA 2442; email to cgfi@mgwnet.com. Visit our website at www. cgfi.org