ZOA: Iran Nuclear Deal Is A Catastrophe  

Provides Path To Nukes & Billions To Hitler Of Middle East

NEW YORK, July 14, 2015 — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is deeply horrified, but not surprised, by the truly terrible nuclear agreement that has been signed by the P5 +1 nations (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, including the United States, plus Germany) and the radical Islamic Iranian regime. This agreement will provide nuclear weapons and hundreds of billions of dollars to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Hitler of the Mideast, and to Iran, the Nazi Germany of the Middle East. Only last Friday, Khamenei and Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, appeared at the latest of a series of regular rallies calling for destruction of the U.S. and Israel.

The ZOA National President Morton A. Klein has issued the following statement:

“The nuclear agreement concluded in Vienna is quite simply a catastrophe and a nightmare. It leaves the world standing at an abyss.

“Everything in the past two years has pointed to precisely such a deal, which leaves Iran with its nuclear weapons program and infrastructure intact, while additionally shredding the international sanctions regime upon Tehran. The deal infuses the Iranian economy with hundreds of billions of dollars through the unfreezing of assets and sanctions relief. Moreover, this deal will terminate personal sanctions against senior Iranian military commanders who have been sanctioned for their responsibility in the murder hundreds of Americans in Iraq.

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16 reasons nuke deal is an Iranian victory and a Western catastrophe  

Op-ed: Has Iran agreed to ‘anywhere, anytime’ inspections, an end to R&D on faster centrifuges, and the dismantling of its key nuclear sites? No, no, and no

By David Horovitz, TOI

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday unsurprisingly hailed the nuclear agreement struck with US-led world powers, and derided the “failed” efforts of the “warmongering Zionists.” His delight, Iran’s delight, is readily understandable.

The agreement legitimizes Iran’s nuclear program, allows it to retain core nuclear facilities, permits it to continue research in areas that will dramatically speed its breakout to the bomb should it choose to flout the deal, but also enables it to wait out those restrictions and proceed to become a nuclear threshold state with full international legitimacy. Here’s how.
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July 14, 2015 | 4:51 pm | 10 Comments »

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Egypt Accuses Turkey of Subversion  

Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah, July 14, 2015

Institute for Contemporary Affairs
Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation

Vol. 15,  No. 22    July 14, 2015

  • The Egyptian military revealed on July 8, 2015, that it had captured Turkish intelligence officers who were actively involved in the guerrilla war waged by the Islamic State in Sinai and inside Egypt itself against the Sisi regime.
  • The Turkish National Intelligence Organization (NIO) operatives named included Col. Ismail Aly Bal (described as a coordinator of battlefield operations), Diaa al-Din Mehmet Gado, Bakoush al-Husseyni Youzmi and Abdallah al-Turki.
  • On July 12, the Egyptian military spokesman announced the uncovering of a “terrorist cell” whose instructions were given by the Muslim Brotherhood headquartered in Turkey and whose mission was to destabilize Egypt.

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July 14, 2015 | 2:00 pm | Comments »

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ALLEGED AGREEMENT IS A CON JOB  

By David M. Weinberg, ISRAEL HAYOM

Ahead of the accord reached between the P5+1 and Iran Tuesday, The New York Times reported that it was expected to be a “political agreement,” not a “legally binding treaty.” 

Furthermore, Israeli sources said the two sides would “announce understandings” and ?present a 100-page document, but not “sign” anything. It will take months of additional negotiations to develop the relevant implementation documents.

All of which is meant to obfuscate the details, Israeli officials fear, and cloud the matter enough to confuse or bamboozle Congress. It will also allow the Iranians to (correctly) claim that they never truly “signed away” their nuclear capacities. In the meantime, U.N. and other international mechanisms to lift sanctions on Iran will go into high gear.?
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July 14, 2015 | 1:53 pm | 2 Comments »

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Congressman Gohmert Reads “Slaver Flags of Islam” in Congress  

By Daniel Greenfield, SULTAN KNISH

Congressman Louie Gohmert read a portion of my article “Pull Down the Slaver Flags of Islam” on the floor of Congress which addresses the hypocrisy of censoring the Dukes of Hazzard while opening the doors to Islamic racism and other forms of supremacist bigotry and nostalgia for slave-owning cultures.

When Obama condemned Christianity for the Crusades, only a thousand years too late, in attendance was the Foreign Minister of Sudan; a country that practices slavery and genocide. Obama could have taken time out from his rigorous denunciation of the Middle Ages to speak truth to the emissary of a Muslim Brotherhood regime whose leader is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. But our moral liberals spend too much time romanticizing actual slaver cultures.
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July 14, 2015 | 1:14 pm | Comments »

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Done Deal, hopefully to be undone by Congress  

By Omri Ceren, TIP

Journalists are still waiting for the press conference to begin at the Austria Center Vienna, where the main details of the deal will presumably be confirmed. It’s not clear when the announcement will actually happen – the parties are still heading here from the plenary at the UN – but you certainly don’t have to be in the room to get all the information from whatever is about to happen.

First, the event is going to be livestreamed (http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/ebs/schedule.cfm?page=2&date=07/14/2015&institution=0#s303708).

Second, the Russian Foreign Ministry seems to have posted the full text of the JCPOA online (http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeednews/iran-nuclear-talks#.niQJEMmpxd).

Third, just about all of the relevant questions have already been well-leaked. The following has all been confirmed:
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July 14, 2015 | 1:06 pm | 3 Comments »

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Get Ready for Pro-Israel NRA  

T. Belman. I have been receiving Gary Bauer’s daily email for years.  He is the President of American Values which is a Christian organization. I have great respect for him and his organization.  It is an important part of the pro-Israel community. This new project should help a lot.

By Gary Bauer, AMERICAN VALUES\

“Get Ready For Pro-Israel NRA”

Christians United for Israel, the largest pro-Israel organization in America with more than two million members, is holding its 10th annual Washington Summit right now in our nation’s capital. Six thousand pro-Israel activists are in Washington, D.C., for this jam-packed event.

They are hearing from the leading presidential contenders, receiving briefings on the Middle East and will be meeting with their congressional representatives. Tonight will feature a special celebration entitled a “Night To Honor Israel,” featuring speeches by Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer, Pastor Charles Stanley and Pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel.

Once again, the timing of this CUFI Summit proved to be prophetic as news broke over the weekend that a nuclear deal with Iran is imminent. (More on that below.)
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July 14, 2015 | 9:06 am | 1 Comment »

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MK: Cancel Oslo Accords, Make PA a Regional Council  

Likud MK Mickey Zohar outlines an action plan to Arutz Sheva that involves annexing Judea-Samaria – and Israel looking out for itself.

By Shimon Cohen, INN

Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shake hands at the signing of the Oslo Accords

Israel must nullify the 1993 Oslo Accords, MK Mickey Zohar (Likud) stated to Arutz Sheva on Tuesday morning, just one day after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu admitted he has no plans to expand Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.

“When an Arab petitioner pleads to the High Court, right before my eyes, the rights of Jews disappear – the right to property, the right to freedom, and the right to live in their own country […] all because of bureaucratic matters,” Zohar fumed.

“All of these issues are related to the Oslo Accords, which have set the precedent for us to say the things that we ‘should’ say,” he continued. “The Accords are contrary to what is happening on the ground and what we believe should be.”
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July 14, 2015 | 8:42 am | 19 Comments »

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Hillary could kill the Iran deal or her prospects for the presidency  

DEBKA

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But once the final accord is in the bag – expected in the coming hours – Clinton will have to come out in the open, because she holds the key to a Senate majority for blocking it. The 54 Republican senators are committed to voting against it: Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell told Fox News Sunday: “I think it’s going to be a very hard sell, if it’s completed, in Congress. We already know it’s going to leave Iran as a threshold nuclear state. It appears as if the administration’s approach to this was to reach whatever agreement the Iranians are willing to enter into,” he said.

But the 44 Democratic senators are wobbling between being loyal to the president and their profound misgivings about the deal with Iran. It would take 13 Democrats to cross the floor and join the Republicans to achieve the necessary majority for annulling the promised presidential veto of a negative vote.
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July 14, 2015 | 8:06 am | 3 Comments »

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Can States Fund BDS?  

Abe Foxman says that banning the use of public money to support companies that boycott Israel is unconstitutional and illegal. Is he right?

By Eugene Kontorovich, TABLET

In the latest act of a decades-long fight against discriminatory boycotts of Israel, two states have passed, and several are considering, legislation that protects their taxpayers from inadvertently underwriting such boycotts. Legislation recently passed by Congress denounced “politically motivated” boycotts of Israel.

In recent months, South Carolina has passed a law restricting state contracting with those who boycott on a nationality basis (the law is not limited to Israel; I advised on the drafting), and Illinois will prevent its pension fund from holding stock in boycotting companies. Legislators in these and other states have concluded that the movement to undermine the world’s only Jewish country through boycotts—while professing noble motives—is a thinly veiled form of anti-Semitism.

These laws have bipartisan support, and they passed unanimously. They enjoy the broad support of mainstream Jewish organizations. Yet some, including Anti-Defamation League head Abraham Foxman, have expressed concerns that legislation that “bars BDS activity by private groups” would raise First Amendment concerns.
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July 13, 2015 | 6:01 pm | 4 Comments »

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Israel is ready to defend itself, by itself, defense minister says  

Announcement of final nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers expected to be announced Monday • Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon calls deal “a historic mistake,” saying Iran is a “merciless, bloody regime that disseminates global terror.”

Israel Hayom Staff and Associated Press

Meanwhile, in Israel, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned on Monday against what he called a “bad deal” with Iran.

Speaking to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee hours before the deal was anticipated to be finalized, Ya’alon said that “at the bottom line, we are headed toward a bad deal, after which we will continue to be ready to defend ourselves, by ourselves.”

“The deal that is taking shape in Vienna will affect our diplomatic-security status more than anything else, and as we understand it, it will be signed very soon,” Ya’alon said.
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July 13, 2015 | 5:54 pm | 2 Comments »

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Ashkenazi Jews rank smartest in world  

Studies show descendants of Jews from Medieval Germany, throughout Europe have IQ 20% higher than global average

By Nelly Lalany, YNET

Is it possible for your ancestry, religious affiliation, or nationality to determine your intellect?

According to a study performed by Cambridge University called, “From Chance to Choice: Genetic and Justice,” Ashkenazi Jews have a median IQ of 117.

That’s 10 points higher than the “accepted” IQ of their biggest competition, Northeast Asia, and 20% higher than the global average.

The Ashkenazim make up approximately 80% of all Jews with descendants from Medieval Germany and throughout Europe. The other 20% is made up of Sephardic Jews. I bet you’re frantically searching ancestry.com right now.
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July 13, 2015 | 2:47 pm | 7 Comments »

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Awaiting historic sellout of Israel by Obama-Kerry  

By David Gertsman, LEGAL INSURRECTION

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President Barack Obama has, at least since 2012, claimed that he has Israel’s back regarding his engagement with Iran.

But as the Iran nuke negotiations move closer to an agreement, with reports it could happen by tomorrow, it is clear that Obama’s words are empty rhetoric.

In May ahead of his talk at a Washington D.C. synagogue, Obama said it once again, telling Jeffrey Goldberg, “It’s because I think they recognize, having looked at my history and having seen the actions of my administration, that I’ve got Israel’s back…”
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July 13, 2015 | 10:48 am | 8 Comments »

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Obama’s policy is as unrealistic as Bush’s, but more dangerous  

By Vic Rosenthal

“You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.” – Winston S. Churchill

American policy toward the Middle East in the past two administrations has been disastrous. Maybe I’m missing something, indulging my historical hindsight or being dense myself, but it looks to me that nonpartisan ignorance and poor planning are the rule in Washington.

The Bush Administration kicked off the debacle by ending the “dual containment” policy of sanctions and restraints on both Iran and Iraq by overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Saddam was a murderous thug who well deserved hanging, but the vacuum created by his removal and the breakup of his Sunni-dominated army could not be filled, as Bush apparently believed, with a democratic regime.
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July 12, 2015 | 6:44 pm | 2 Comments »

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Imminent, Dreadful Iran Nuclear Deal Must Be Stopped  

By Steve Forbes

THE NEGOTIATIONS over Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear weapons are about to be completed. This will trigger one of the most important congressional debates in American history. From all that we now know the agreement will set off a chain reaction of nuclear proliferation in the most unstable region of the world; enable Iran both to become a major nuclear power—with ballistic missiles capable of hitting any part of the U.S.—and to dominate the Middle East’s oil fields; and give Iran more than $50 billion that could be used to finance its global terrorist activities. Under current law the Senate can reject the lifting of sanctions against Iran. The Senate will do so. This rejection will then be vetoed by President Obama. Can his veto be overridden?
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July 12, 2015 | 6:24 pm | 2 Comments »

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Obama’s Updated Islamic State Strategy: A Grandiose Role For Kurds – Analysis  

By Mehmet Yegin, JTW

obamapentagon President Barack Obama addresses reporters at the Pentagon, July 6, 2015, after meeting with Defense Secretary Ash Carter, left. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the joint Chiefs of Staff, stands at right.

The Obama administration has updated its strategy towards the Islamic State. The updates were announced by President Obama on July 6 at the Pentagon and were delineated by U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter one day later during the Senate Armed Services Committee’s hearing on the counter-ISIS strategy. The update introduces additional precautions and proposes new solutions to the problems faced in the implementation of the already existing four-pillar approach. Supplementing the items already outlined in the original strategy, Secretary Carter identified “nine synchronized lines of efforts” that are hoped to further realize the aim of degrading and destroying ISIS.
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July 12, 2015 | 1:19 pm | 1 Comment »

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Very Good News Israel  

Israel’s Good News Newsletter to 12th July 2015

  • An Israeli-US project will ensure that you never forget to take your meds.
  • Israeli pensioners are the workforce of a new environment public awareness program.
  • Israeli technology is providing free Wi-Fi on buses in South Africa.
  • An Israeli sensor advises farmers on how to improve the health of their crops.
  • Parents will love the portability of a new tiny Israeli car booster seat.
  • Read about the Israeli connections to the world’s 50 smartest companies.
  • An ancient Jewish necropolis is Israel’s 9th UNESCO World Heritage site.
  • Book for an outstanding tour of Eastern Jerusalem.
  • My Mum’s 90th birthday today.

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July 12, 2015 | 11:28 am | 1 Comment »

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Treaty with Iran Spells Disaster for the Middle East  

By Paul Vallely (MG, US Army Ret)

I have had the opportunity over the past 12 years to be a member of the Iran Policy Planning Group and have engaged in a positive manner the members of the Iran Opposition who defected from Iran after the Shah fell. My heart and soul yearned for them when the tyrannical government under the ayatollahs would be replaced by a democratic government. But that has never happened. All we have seen is an evil and radical Islamic regime gain in strength over the years and support international terrorism, torture and murder of its own people and others throughout the world. Can you only imagine what chaos and turmoil they will create with an expanded and stronger Armed Forces and with a nuclear capability that can reach any target by air, land and sea launched weapons?

Aiding and abetting an enemy (and Iran is) of the United States is a treasonous offense under the Constitution.
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Chaos in the Middle East means it’s time for an alliance with Iran. So argues a former British Ambassador to the US.  

T. Belman. The only reason given is to defeat ISIL. The former British Amb to the US  argues that ISIL is a bigger danger to the UK than Iran is.  But the consequences of such a policy means that we are giving Lebanon, Syria and Iraq to Iran. Can Yemen and Jordan be far behind. Israel will be forced to defend itself against a nuclear Iran. Where will the US stand.

Instead of aligning with Iran, Europe and America should be going all in to support the Kurds and to recognize their independence. They should also back the Sunni states led by Saudi Arabia in cooperation with Israel to replace ISIL. Though they support ISIL now, they would prefer this than having Iran do the job.

Do not think that this thinking is limited to him. It is probably shared by the Obama administration. And to cinch the deal, if they have to give Iran the bomb, so be it.

By Christopher Meyer, Telegraph

Iranian demonstrators hold a portrait of Iranian commander Major General Qassem Suleimani

Bombing Syria is back. Almost two years ago MPs gave David Cameron a bloody nose when they voted against his plan to launch air strikes with the US and France against President Assad of Syria. This gave President Obama cover for declining also to take military action. President Hollande was left swinging in the wind, much to his irritation.

But that was then and this is now. The civil war in Syria continues apace. Huge tides of humanity have fled the violence and are now washing up in places like the sordid migrants’ camps of Calais. You might think that this was a compelling reason to revisit the decision of 2013 and take decisive military action against Assad. You would be wrong. The facts have changed; and they have changed in Assad’s favour.

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July 12, 2015 | 4:59 am | 1 Comment »

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Russia’s Middle East gamble  

By Vitaly Naumkin, Al Monitor

The dynamic changes in the Middle East have been a source of new challenges and threats to Russia, but they are also offering new opportunities. The challenges and threats include the ongoing buildup of jihadist groups; the greatly increased erosion of an established system of nation-states — especially, but not exclusively, in the Mashreq countries; and growing tensions between the Sunni and Shiite regimes and movements, as well as among various Sunni factions, against the backdrop of intensified competition for leadership among the key Sunni states.

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July 11, 2015 | 6:28 pm | 3 Comments »

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