Soldiers
Must Know Who is the Enemy!
by David J. Rusin
Denying Islam’s role in terror is bad for army
morale.
To
win a war one must know the enemy!
As US service members
risk their lives to combat violent jihadists abroad, military leaders, both
uniformed and civilian, capitulate to stealth jihadists at home. By bending to
Islamists’ appeals for religious sensitivity, these leaders ignore the most
crucial lesson of the Fort Hood massacre: Political correctness can kill.
The US Army seems to
have succumbed to PC-Islamist sensitivities. It has issued a special handbook
for soldiers that appears to justify jihad as “communal military defense… when
(Muslims) are threatened or under attack.” In addition, U.S. servicewomen have
been urged to don head scarves when interacting with Afghan locals while all
soldiers are warned to “respect Islam” in order to prevent violence there.
The Pentagon’s verbal
tiptoeing is not limited to the Fort Hood rampage. The Defense
Department-produced “Quadrennial Defense Review” (QDR) provides a measure of
current trends. Whereas the 2006 QDR features more than a dozen instances of
“Islam,” “Muslim,” and their variants, the 2010 QDR has none, instead
describing challenges in vague terms such as “violent extremists.” Then there
was the testimony of Paul Stockton, an assistant secretary of defense, on
December 7, 2011. When Congressman Dan Lungren (Republican, Calif.) asked if
America is “at war with violent Islamist extremism,” Stockton replied, “No,
sir. We are at war with al-Qaeda, its affiliates.” Questioned whether al-Qaeda
is “an exponent of violent Islamist extremism,” Stockton could muster only that
these “murderers” are “dedicated to overthrowing the values that we intend to
advance.” He added, “I don’t believe it’s helpful to frame our adversary as
Islamic with any set of qualifiers.”
A full accounting of the
military’s myriad concessions to Islamists and its disturbing relationships
with them could fill several articles, but the following examples offer some
taste of their variety. In 2010, the Army rescinded an invitation to evangelist
Franklin Graham to participate in the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer
service, citing his comments critical of Islam. A year later, the Defense
Department gave in to CAIR’s demands that high school students in the Junior
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps be allowed to wear hijabs with their uniforms.
(A war without a clearly identified objective and
enemy is bad for an army’s morale and leads nowhere but defeat! These are the
main reasons why the US army personnel are having so many cases of PTSD, left
Iraq in disarray and are still stuck in Afghanistan after 12 years of useless
war!)
Plot Foiled to Shoot
up Jewish Worshippers at Western Wall
Five East Jerusalem Palestinians
were indicted on Thursday on charges of setting up a terrorist cell which
plotted to kidnap an Israeli and carry out a shooting attack against Jewish
worshippers and police guards in the Temple Mount and Western Wall area. The
cell commanded by Nour Hamdan of E. Jerusalem contacted the Hamas’s military
arm Ezza e-din al-Qassam and the Fatah’s Al Aqsa Martyrs wing on the West Bank
for training and weapons.
Food for Thought by Steven Shamrak
Since the
destruction of the
Israel Produces more Advanced Drones
Germany is in talks with Israel
to buy weaponized drones for its military that are seen as more technologically
advanced than US-made ones. The chief of Germany's air force, Lieutenant General
Karl Muellner, has recently gone to Israel to attend a presentation of Israel's
Heron TP drone.
bulldozed a part of the ancient Anthedon Harbor in northern Gaza along the
Mediterranean Sea last month The 3,000-year-old seaport
discovered in 1997 was named an international heritage site by UNESCO in 2012,
and is the oldest harbor in Gaza. It contains mosaic floors with historical
pillars from the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic ages. (Islamists
have no respect to any heritage. No international condemnation and UNESCO is
silent!)
Defense
Minister Moshe Yaalon wants America as a partner if at all possible for
attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities. But if Washington declines and Iran is on
the verge of acquiring an operational nuclear arsenal - most probably this year
- Israel must go it alone. He plans to do away with the classical divisions,
brigades and professional corps like artillery and tanks which characterize a
conventional army, and replace them with small, self-contained, armies capable
of operating independently under their own air and artillery cover.
Egypt's
foreign ministry summoned Canada's charge d'affaires in Cairo, over Foreign
Minister John Baird's visit to eastern Jerusalem. Egypt’s foreign ministry
expressed its "astonishment" at Baird's meeting with Israeli Justice
Minister Tzipi Livni and demanded "a clarification of the reasons for
convening the meeting in the occupied capital of Palestine," it said in a
statement.
President
Shimon Peres said that he does not regret the Oslo Accords, despite the fact
that their signing brought about hundreds of Israeli victims who were killed in
terror attacks. As part of the Oslo Accords, large numbers of weapons were
given to the PA. The agreements were signed with the PLO in 1993 and, according
to statistics, in the four years after the Oslo Accords, between 1993 and 1996,
256 Israelis were killed in terror attacks, compared to 97 during the four
years prior to the signing, between 1989 and 1992.
Obama Peacemaking in Tatters
PA Minister
Salam Fayyad has called it quits. With Fayyad gone, the Obama administration
has suffered a huge setback in its peace-making efforts - a quixotic
undertaking to begin with. Twenty-four hours before Fayyad and Abbas officially
parted ways, Secretary of State John Kerry telephoned Fayyad in a last-ditch
effort to get him to rescind his resignation. Now there definitely is no
serious or even halfway dependable Palestinian leader left with whom to
kick-start negotiations. (It is a well-known secret -
Israel has no peace partners in the Middle East!)
Boston
Blasts: Israelis Credited for Set Up Disaster Team
Hours
following a pair of blasts at the Boston Marathon that left 2 dead and up to
100 wounded according to reports, a chief doctor at the hospital where many of
the patients are being treated credited Israelis with teaching his team how to
respond to such disastrous attacks. “About two years ago in actual fact we
asked the Israelis to come across and they helped us set up our disaster team
so that we could respond in this kind of manner,” said Alastair Conn, Chief of
Emergency Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, responding to a question
about the preparedness of his staff to handle trauma on this scale.
Islamic Hate Trumps Regional Security
Turkey
has declined to agree to a meeting of NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue group,
which includes Israel and six Arab countries. They said Egypt also declined to
convene the group for the first time in five years. A NATO official in Brussels
declined to comment. The Mediterranean Dialogue, founded in 2004, is intended
to contribute to regional security. Along with Israel and Egypt, the other
participating countries are Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania, Algeria and Jordan.
Another Violation of Peace Agreement
At least
two Grad-style rockets were fired at
A
village near
Quote of the Week:
“It does not seem that the leadership of the
Palestinian Authority is really and truly aiming for the end of the conflict.
In any case, we will continue to turn over every stone to try to end the
conflict. But if we go into the diplomatic process, we must do so with open
eyes.” - Israel Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon - Ending the occupation of Jewish land by enemies and
reunification of Eretz-Israel is the only way to end the conflict.
by Elad Benari
The US Senate Foreign
Relations Committee adopted on Tuesday a resolution which stipulates that the
It states that the United
States has a vital national interest in and unbreakable commitment to, ensuring
the existence, survival, and security of the State of Israel; reaffirms the
United States support for Israel’s right to self-defense; and urges that if
Israel is compelled to take military action in self-defense, the United States
will stand with Israel and provide diplomatic, military, and economic support in
its defense of its territory, people, and existence.
It also states that U.S. policy is to halt Iranian nuclear ambitions.
Senate Resolution 65 gained the support of 70 of the 100 senators.
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said that “the regime in Tehran does not
see the western world as determined to stop the nuclear project, so it allows
itself to continue with its plans. Only putting the Iranian regime before the
dilemma of ‘bomb, or survival’ will lead to the end of the project.”
“The world must take the lead in the standoff with Iran, but Israel must
prepare for the possibility that it will need to protect itself alone,” he
added.
Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu also referred to the Iranian nuclear threat on Tuesday, comparing it
to the recent behavior of North Korea. He made the comments during a reception
for foreign diplomats. “We have recently seen the results of a wild regime that
possesses nuclear weapons,” he said. “We have also seen that heavy sanctions
are not always effective against a sufficiently determined regime.”