Seminal Posts by Ted Belman
The conspiracy to shrink Israel (44020)
The Historical Jesus (50289)
The truth about UNRWA (25743)
Israel Should Declare Three Nos (25035)
Current Posts
- Jewish writers shut out by publishers are writing their own comeback
- KNOW YOUR MILITARY COLONISTS – Daniel Greenfield
- Echoes of 1979: America’s Constitutional Crossroads
- Bahrain Under Attack/Iran Rebuilding Military Arsenal | Israel Daily News – November 15, 2026
- NY congressman-elect’s new aide is a communist who denies Israel’s right to exist
- When Exposing Terrorism Becomes an Offence
- Israel’s Good News Newsletter to 15th Nov 26
- Israel faces pressure to ease entry of winter supplies into Gaza
- ‘The Collapse of the U.S. Is Accelerating’: Iran’s Regime Cheers the Result of the US Midterm Election
- SO, YOU WANT A TWO-STATE SOLUTION? I’LL TELL YOU WHAT!
- Netanyahu urges Eisenkot to negotiate unity government ‘without preconditions’
- Iran Just Hacked Into Western Countries & This Should TERRIFY You..
- Dismantle the United Nations
- INTO THE FRAY: The Arab parties as coalition partners -Past precedents and present perils
- What I Saw in Europe Shocked Me | Douglas Murray
- Amy Mek Sounds the Alarm on Organized Muslim Voting in Powerful Newsmax Interview (Watch)
November 5, 2012
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Turkey between Europe and the Levant
WJC ANALYSIS –
By Pinhas Inbari
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an declared last week in Berlin that Turkey has not given up its aspiration to join the EU. He went even further and called on Muslims in Europe to integrate into their European communities. It is unclear whether the Turkish leader has actually reconsidered the decision to abandon the European project or if his remarks were delivered as a courtesy to please his German host.
While Turkey’s motives are uncertain, it is clear that Erdo?an’s strategic decision to get involved in Middle Eastern politics has put Turkey in grave danger. The decision of a NATO member state to engage in Syria has exposed the international alliance to unwanted conflict as it is bound to stand by Turkey in its Eastern adventure.
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Israeli warplanes fly over Golan as Hizballah fighters pour into Syria
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 4, 2012,
Israeli warplanes flew over the divided Golan Sunday, Nov. 4, in a show of strength and as a deterrent against the Syrian civil war seeping across the border, DEBKAfile’s military and Western intelligence sources report. In Paris, President Francois Hollande vowed Sunday that “France would oppose with all its strength any bid to destabilize Lebanon. Lebanon must be protected.”
He spoke regardless of the 5,000 Lebanese Shiite Hizballah fighters who have poured into Syria from their Beqaa Valley stronghold of al-Harmel to fight Bashar Assad’s war. Our sources reveal that these Lebanese fighters have now advanced 50-60 kilometers deep into southwestern Syria, up to the outskirts of the embattled town of Homs.
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New US-Russian Syrian deal would leave Assad in power
[I have been recommending a Russian/US deal now for some time]
DEBKAfile November 3, 2012, 12:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
US and Turkish sources report that Admiral James Winnfeld, Vice-Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff informed Turkey of a peace plan negotiated with Moscow for keeping Assad in power and barring the creation of buffer zones. Instead, the UN was studying the deployment in Syria of a peacekeeping force.
During his visit to Ankara in the third week of October, the US admiral said that Washington’s plans for Syria would be fully revealed after the Nov. 6 presidential election.
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‘OBAMA GIFT-WRAPPED LIBYA TO AL-QAIDA’
Group claims documents will ‘bring down’ U.S. president’s administration
by DREW ZAHN, WND
Documents obtained by former Muslim Brotherhood member Walid Shoebat reportedly demonstrate the Obama administration is to blame for the deaths of Americans in the Benghazi consulate attack because it effectively empowered the Islamic terrorist organization al-Qaida to take over governance of Libya.
Shoebat reports a group of anti-al-Qaida Libyans in exile have come into possession of some highly classified documents that, in their view, “will bring the Obama Administration down.”
“Obama gift-wrapped Libya, handed it over to al-Qaida,” the group asserts, “and we can prove it.”
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November 4, 2012
WOMEN UNITED RELEASES AD CONDEMNING PRESIDENT OBAMA’S BENGHAZI FAILURES
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The Threat Doctrine that Cries ‘Blasphemy’
By Janet Levy, AMERICAN THINKER
For the past 25 years, the Muslim Brotherhood in North America has been pursuing a comprehensive strategy to control what non-Muslims know about Islam. This multi-pronged threat doctrine seeks to prohibit open discussion and to abridge free speech. It also seeks to curtail education and training given to the military, law enforcement, intelligence, and government about the true nature of Islam. Overall, the Brotherhood’s agenda seeks to block a fair and critical appraisal of Islamic doctrine, pursue a stealth civilizational jihad against the West, and, ultimately, render us impotent to defend ourselves.
A review of the Brotherhood’s progress in this effort over the past two decades presents a chilling picture of the extent to which our safety and way of life have been compromised. It serves as a wake-up call for action now.
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Israel’s very good news
The Jewish State in its true light.
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In the 4th Nov 2012 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
· An Israeli hospital is curing patients with advanced stage melanoma.
· The Israeli Government has allocated an extra $75m for Arab higher education.
· Israel has developed a smartphone for the blind.
· The Israeli company that makes cardboard bicycles is now making cardboard wheelchairs.
· Trade between Israel and the USA is at record levels.
· My video of a tiny percentage of the 500 million birds currently migrating through Israel.
· An Israeli company responds as a family, when an employee’s son is born prematurely.
· Last week’s JPost Israel Good News descriptive summary
Click here for “I Cannot Explain It”
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Obama has left Iran in charge of Iraq
This is a brilliant article. No one comes close to Kedar in explaining mid east politics. Because Obama had promised the American people that he would withdraw all troops from Iraq by the end of 2011, Iran simply waited him out. Iran has now bought off or killed Iraqi legislators. Thus Iran is able to dictate Iraq policy and has ordered Iraq to support Assad. In other words, Obama’s simplistic take on the ME has caused untold problems in Syria by virtue of his withdrawal from Iraq
Furthermore when the insurgency was going on in Iraq both under Bush and Obama, Saudi Arabia was funding the Sunnis who were killing US troops and Shites. At the same time Iran was financing the Shite militia called “The Mahdi Army”, headed by Muqtada al-Sadr, and they were killing Americans and Sunnis. America knew this but was unwilling to take on Saudi Arabia or Iran in addition to Iraq and Afghanistan.
In addition Kedar has told State that they should have respected tribal differences and divided Iraq into three countries;Kurds, Sunnis and Shites. State rejected his thinking out of hand. And now Obama has told Barzani in no uncertain terms that he won’t support an independent Kurdistan in Syria.Ted Belman
by Mordechai Kedar
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November 3, 2012
Why Romney and not Obama
POWERLINE
[Yesterday] in Wisconsin, Mitt Romney delivered what his campaign calls his closing argument in support of his candidacy. It focused on the economy and featured Romney’s themes of change and optimism. Here are some excerpts:
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Four years ago, candidate Obama promised to do so very much, but he has fallen so very short.
He promised to be a “post-partisan president” but he became the most partisan– blaming, attacking, dividing.
He was going to focus on creating jobs. Instead, he focused on Obamacare, which killed jobs.
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November 2, 2012
Into the Fray: Obama, Islam and Israel
Can anyone with Obama’s perception of Islam be expected to take the measures necessary to contend with the danger this theo-tyrannical political doctrine presents?
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There is much that binds the US and Israel together. Nonetheless, both political prudence and past experience suggest that the Israeli leadership should not disregard the prospect that the congruence of US-Israeli interests may not continue indefinitely.
A possible divergence of interests may of course arise because of substantive policy disagreements between the two countries on a wide range of issues – from the proliferation of technology and weapons to relations with the Islamic world.
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Romney’s Strategy not Obama’s doctrine will advance Freedom in the Middle East
By Walid Phares, New English Review
As Governor Romney and President Obama continue to debate foreign policy and national security, voters would be wise to evaluate the “Obama Doctrine” against the current combustible state of affairs that it has led to in the Greater Middle East. In less than four years, the Obama administration’s policies have transformed the region into a powder keg with a hairpin detonator that could be set off by the slightest diplomatic misstep, engulfing the region and the world in war. And, as if an economy on the brink wasn’t daunting enough, the current administration’s feckless diplomacy in the Arab world have begotten a near-impossible foreign policy conundrum that Mitt Romney will be forced to attend to from the moment he is sworn in as the forty-fifth President of the United States.
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Erekat warns of US, Israeli ‘retaliation’ after UN bid
PLO negotiator says Washington, J’lem may take punitive measures in response to Palestinian bid to upgrade to non-member state, says institutions need to prepare for reactions to “avoid a state of internal chaos.”
The Palestinians must be prepared for the possibility that the US and Israel may impose severe economic restrictions on the Palestinian Authority the day after the UN upgrades the status of a Palestinian entity to non-member state, chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat warned on Thursday.
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November 1, 2012
What to do about Islam
I was reminded of this post on reading Feith’s War and Decision. The problem for him was:
“Pres Bush … the United States was in no way at war with the religion of Islam. The extremist ideology we were fighting was that of an international network – in the nature of a political movement – that selectively uses Islamic ideas and vocabulary to put itself at war, not only with all non-Muslims but with virtually all Muslims too.”
What a distortion of the truth!
Even so he realized as did Rumsfield that “ideas – information, influence ideology – could contribute decisively to our ultimate success, even more than military, intelligence or police actions could.” He asks “what could we do to encourage Muslims to speak openly against the extremists’ views and to make extremist ideology less attractive?” “Who were (or might become) the most influential voices to oppose Jihadist violence?”
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Somethings rotten in the schools of Demark
JUST HOW BAD CAN IT GET? REAL BAD.
One day around the beginning of October, a sixth-grade class in Ejerlykkeskolen, a school in Odense, Denmark, was supposed to watch a film. But five or six students made some kind of a disturbance. The details are unclear; the point is that, in one way or another, they disrupted the class and made it impossible for their classmates to view the film. Their teacher tried to control them, but without success. Finally she gave up and sent them down to the principal, a woman named Birgitte Sonsby.
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60% of US Muslims reject freedom of expression
BY ANDREW G. BOSTOM, AMERICAN THINKER
After violent Muslim reactions to the amateurish “Innocence of Muslims” video, which simply depicted a few of the less salutary aspects of Muhammad’s biography, international and domestic Islamic agendas have openly converged with vehement calls for universal application of Islamic blasphemy law.
This demand to abrogate Western freedom of expression was reiterated in a parade of speeches by Muslim leaders at the UN General Assembly. The US Muslim community echoed such admonitions, for example during a large demonstration in Dearborn, Michigan, and in a press release by the Islamic Circle of North America. Read more…
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Benghazi Reveals Obama-Islamist Alliance
By James Lewis, AMERICAN THINKER
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We have therefore followed a single “community disorganizing” policy toward the Muslim world, consisting of betraying moderates to bring theocratic fascists to power. Obama “explained” that policy in a publicized argument with Hillary Clinton at the White House when Mubarak was overthrown. His explanation? Fascist revolutions are “organic,” and therefore more stable than moderate revolutions.
The nature of the Benghazi disaster is now clear. Ambassador Stevens was engaged in smuggling sizable quantities of Libyan arms from the destroyed Gaddafi regime to the Syrian rebels, to help overthrow the Assad regime in Syria. Smuggling arms to the so-called “Free Syrian Army” is itself a huge gamble, but Obama has been a gambler with human lives over the last four years, as shown by the tens of thousands of Arabs who have died in the so-called Arab Spring — which has brought nothing but disaster to the Arab world. Read more…
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Clinton Seeks New Syrian Opposition
This report is misleading in one important respect. No mention is made of the fact that the Obama administration turned its back on the minorities and the advocates of democracy in favour of the Muslim Brotherhood backed by Islamists, Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. If the administration is sincere, its long overdue but why hold the meeting in Qatar which totally backs the MB. Ted Belman
BEIRUT, Lebanon —The United States indicated on Wednesday that it was undertaking its most aggressive attempt yet to reshape the Syrian opposition, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton dismissing the current leadership as a bunch of out-of-touch exiles who should be replaced with a group more representative of the fighters on the ground.
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Democratic presidents have not strong-armed Israel? False!
“No Democratic president has ever strong-armed Israel”
by Martin Kramer, Sandbox
Whenever the United States has put serious, sustained pressure on Israel’s leaders—from the 1950s on—it has come from Republican presidents, not Democratic ones…. Despite the Republican Party’s shrill campaign rhetoric on Israel, no Democratic president has ever strong-armed Israel on any key national security issue.
Efraim Halevy, “Who Threw Israel Under the Bus?,” New York Times, October 24
Former Mossad head Efraim Halevy likes Barack Obama and dislikes Mitt Romney. He’s entitled to his opinion. What he isn’t entitled to do is make categorical statements that do violence to the historical record.
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October 31, 2012
Obama is definitely not eligible to be president
Verified with Snopes.
Denied by Obama. Contradicted by NYT.
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