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| September 12, 2012
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U.S. ambassador to Libya and 3 staffers murdered in Benghazi by rocket attack

Libyan leader Mohammed Magarief apologizes to U.S. in live TV broadcast; Obama Strongly condemned the “outrageous attacks”

By Reuters and DPA

The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staffers were killed Tuesday night in a rocket attack that targeted the envoy’s car in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.

Christopher Stevens.

Christopher Stevens, U.S. ambassador speaks to local media at the Tibesty Hotel where an African Union delegation was meeting with opposition leaders in Benghazi, Libya, April 11, 2011.- Photo: AP

A Libyan official told Reuters on Wednesday that “the American ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen fired rockets at them.” Continue Reading »

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| September 11, 2012
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Obama refuses to meet Netanyahu during his visit to U.S.

White House says scheduling and election campaign are reasons for not having a meeting. WH decision comes after Netanyahu’s declaration that those (the WH) who don’t place “red lines” on Iran, have no right to give Israel a “red light.”

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will not meet US President Barack Obama when he visits the United states later this month for the UN General Assembly in New York. Obama will not be in New York during the three-day period Netanyahu is visiting, and noted that the US president is in the middle of an election campaign.

Netanyahu and Obama. - Photo: Jim Young/ Reuters

Netanyahu and Obama.

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| September 11, 2012
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Intel Report of Updated Iranian Nuclear Progress Backs Up Israel’s Claims

A new intelligence report demonstrates how Iran is moving closer to nuclear capability and strengthens Israel’s position, which is bad timing for Obama.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

An Associated Press report that new intelligence reveals Iran is moving closer to nuclear capability strengthens Israel’s position and could not come at a worse time for United States President Barack Obama.

Qoms Nuclear Site

Qoms Nuclear Site
Israel news photo: NASA

The news agency said that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) concluded that Iran has made progress in calculating the destructive power of an atomic warhead, which presumably would be used as a threat to destroy Israel. Continue Reading »

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| August 29, 2012
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Apparently President Obama Can Stop Iran

President Obama must now use language that commits him, in the eyes of the Iranians, to keep his promise that he will, if necessary, use military force to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

by Alan M. Dershowitz

 

It is now become clear that neither diplomacy nor sanctions will halt the Iranian march toward nuclear weapons. Iran is today stronger diplomatically than it has been in years, as evidenced by the meeting of the nonaligned nations in Tehran. Iran is neither isolated nor alone in a world in which nonaligned nations form a majority at the United Nations.

Obama- Photo: AP

Obama – Photo: AP

The sanctions, while hurting the Iranian economy and making life more difficult for the average Iranian, are having zero impact on the Iranian nuclear program, which according to objective intelligence reports, is gathering steam and moving even more quickly toward its ultimate goal of a nuclear weapon that will be a game changer. Continue Reading »

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| August 17, 2012
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Ex-SEALS & CIA Operatives Launch Campaign Against Obama

Former intel officials have launched a campaign against Obama, accusing the president of security leaks & claiming direct credit for the Osama bin Laden operation.

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

A group of former military and intelligence officials launched a campaign against President Obama on Wednesday, accusing him of claiming undue credit for the Osama bin Laden raid and suggesting the administration leaked classified security information in an effort to prevent Israel from attacking Iran.

President Obama

President Obama – Reuters

The group, called Special Operations OPSEC education Fund Inc., released a 22 minute video (Below) on its website and plans to go on air with a television ad sometime in September, Fox News reported. Continue Reading »

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| August 16, 2012
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Jewish Rep. & Dem. launch Obama video campaigns

Because the RJC released a video of Jewish Democrats disappointed in Obama, the NJDC hits back with residents of Sderot singing Obama’s praises.

 

The video testimony genre is turning out to be popular this elections season in the United States. The Republican Jewish Coalition was the first to launch a campaign with recorded confessions of former Jewish Democrats disappointed in President Barack Obama for not being a friend of Israel.

U.S. President Barack Obama. Could reassess his country’s special relationship with Israel.

U.S. President Barack Obama. Could reassess his country’s special relationship with Israel. – Photo by Reuters

The National Jewish Democratic Council returned fire with testimonials of Israelis, including some residents of Sderot, the city that suffered the most of the rocket attacks from Gaza, thanking President Obama for his support. Continue Reading »

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| August 13, 2012
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Russia says the new U.S. sanctions on Iran are ‘overt blackmail,’

 

Russian Foreign Ministry says it supports sanctions by UN Security Council and called the U.S. measures a “crude contradiction of int’l law.”

By Reuters

 

Russia sharply criticized new U.S. sanctions against Iran on Monday, saying the measures to punish banks, insurance companies and shippers that help Iran sell its oil would harm Moscow’s ties with Washington if Russian firms are affected.

Iran’s Natanz reactor

Iran’s Natanz reactor – Photo by AP

Russia, which has long opposed sanctions beyond those approved by the UN Security Council to pressure Tehran over its nuclear program, called the measures “overt blackmail” and a “crude contradiction of international law.”

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| August 12, 2012
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Will Obama Dine with Ahmadinejad & Morsi at upcoming U.N. General Assembly?

General-Secretary Ban Ki-moon has invited Obama to join Ahmadinejad and Morsi at a ‘VIP lunch’ on the opening day of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City.

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi will meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at next month’s U.N. General Assembly in New York, diplomatic sources say.

In addition, U.N. General-Secretary Ban Ki-moon has invited President Obama to join the two leaders at a VIP lunch on Sept. 25, the opening day of the General Assembly, The Washington Times reported.

Iranian official Mohammad Reza Forqani dismissed the speculations saying, “Publishing such a report by the Washington Times daily is a media commotion,” the Fars News Agency reported. Continue Reading »

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| August 3, 2012
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Here’s How Obama’s Jewish margin in Florida could be decisive

According to Florida polls, Obama is losing support from Jewish voters; may even lose state to Romney in 2012 election. Romney campaign advisor says, ‘Jewish voters, like all voters, have been impacted by still-struggling economy,’

By Reuters

 

Selma and Kenneth Furst were among the hundreds of thousands of Florida’s Jewish voters who helped put Barack Obama in the White House four years ago.

This time out, the Fursts are still solidly behind the president, but they aren’t so sure about some of their Jewish neighbors and friends.

“It’s a hard decision, for people to make up their minds,” said Selma Furst, 91, who lives in a condo community in Tamarac, a city of 60,000 near Fort Lauderdale, with her husband, Kenneth, 94. Continue Reading »

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| August 1, 2012
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Prime Minister & Defense Minister tell Panetta: Israel has the right to defend itself

Panetta arrives in Israel for quick visit to discuss the Israeli-American disagreements over whether to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.

By Amos Hare

 

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta arrived in Israel last night for a brief visit that will focus on the American-Israeli dispute over whether to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak plan to stress that Israel reserves the right to defend itself, and to make its own decision on whether to attack.

Another major topic of discussion will be efforts to prevent Syria’s chemical weapons from reaching Lebanon.

Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak

Iran’s heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak – Photo by AP /ISNA,Hamid Foroutan

A senior government official told Haaretz that even if Jerusalem attacks Iran over Washington’s objections, he doesn’t think the United States will turn its back on Israel. Continue Reading »

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| July 31, 2012
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Is this a taste of things to come?

Obama is at a disadvantage when it comes to Israel. His famous Cairo address in 2009; calling on Israel to halt construction in east Jerusalem, and of course, the symbolic fact that he did not include Israel on his itinerary every time he visited the region.

By Danny Danon

 

The U.S. presidential elections are around the corner. We have now entered the final leg – the last 100 days – of the campaign and the candidates are working overtime to win over voters, including U.S. Jews. President Barack Obama, who time and again has turned a cold shoulder toward Israel and adopted a pro-Palestinian posture, is running against the Republicans’ Mitt Romney, who has repeatedly communicated his pro-Israel world view, including on Sunday night, when he vowed to back Israel’s policy on Iran and on other issues.

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| July 29, 2012
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News Site offers $50,000 for video clip of Obama honoring radical

US Breitbart News offers reward for video of 2003 speech honoring controversial ex-PLO academic, Rashid Khalidi.

By BEN SHAPIRO, SPECIAL TO THE JERUSALEM POST

 

 

LOS ANGELES – The US Internet news portal Breitbart News is offering a $50,000 reward to anyone who can provide a videotape of a 2003 dinner honoring a radical Palestinian American academic attended by then- Illinois state senator Barack Obama.
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses during a new

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses during a new – Photo: REUTERS/CHRISTIAN HARTMANN

During the 2008 presidential campaign, the Los Angeles Times reported that Obama attended a farewell dinner in Chicago for his longtime friend Rashid Khalidi. Continue Reading »

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| July 20, 2012
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President Obama calls for Olympic ‘Moment of Silence’

Obama joins the global campaign to commemorate the Israeli athletes killed in Munich Massacre at London Games’ opening ceremony

By Yitzhak Benhorin

 

 

WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama joined a long line of leaders, nations and organizations calling for a moment of silence in memory of the 11 Israeli athletes killed in the 1972 Munich Massacre at the London Games‘ opening ceremony.

Barack Obama Photo: AP

Barack Obama Photo: AP

This marks the height of a global campaign to break the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) objection to commemorate the Munich Massacre victims at the Olympic opening ceremony.

“We absolutely support the campaign for a minute of silence at the Olympics to honor the Israeli athletes killed in Munich,” National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said. Continue Reading »

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| July 16, 2012
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Here’s how Obama failed on forging peace in the Middle East

“If you want Israel to take risks, then its leaders must know that the United States is right next to them,” Malcolm Hoenlein,  told the president.

Obama politely but firmly disagreed.

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It was their first meeting with the new president, and the dozen or so Jewish leaders picked to attend had made an agreement among themselves: No arguing — either with each other or their host.

The pledge would be hard to keep.

Five weeks earlier, President Obama had traveled to Cairo to ask for a “new beginning” between his government and an Islamic world angry about the United States’ wars in two Muslim nations and its perceived favoritism toward Israel. Continue Reading »

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| July 5, 2012
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Obama Approves Anti-Israel ‘Briefing’ at UN

The Obama administration approved a move by the UN to invite Navi Pillay, the Human Rights Commissioner, to brief Security Council on Israel

By Rachel Hirshfeld

The Obama administration approved a move by the United Nations to invite Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to brief the Security Council on Israel.

“Though the U.S. is a veto-holding power, the extraordinary move has full American approval” and “was a trade-off for having the high commissioner brief the Council on the subject of Syria,” according to National Review.

Pillay, known for her anti-Israel sentiments, has compared “violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers” with “summary executions, rape and torture” in Cote d’Ivoire, “brutal violence” affecting “tens of thousands” in Syria, and “systematic torture” in Afghanistan.

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