In normal times, the tragic events in Paris,
France would cause American leaders and thinkers, including the
president, to take immediate steps to strengthen US defenses against
Islamic extremism and terrorism.
Unfortunately, America is
presently burdened with a president who is connected, as least
sympathetically, to Islam, and who is unyielding in his outrageous
assertion that our nation is not at war with Muslim extremists.
Over the years, President Obama has
persistently resisted efforts to properly identify and combat Islamic
extremists. Indeed, shielding Muslims from hurt feelings seems a
greater priority for Obama than assuring the well- being and safety of
innocent Americans.
Obama’s latest folly is his fool-hearty plan to admit tens of thousands of Syrian refugees into America.
Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
stated that bringing in “tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees to
America is nothing less than lunacy” and “I recognize that Barack Obama
does not wish to defend this country” while advocating the US provide
“safe haven” for Christians in the Middle East who are persecuted on
Saturday’s “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel.
Cruz said, “Well, first of all, I want to say, we stand in solidarity
with the people of France, with President Hollande, with the families
of all of the victims of these acts of horrific terrorism, and the
American people are standing as one. We’re grieving with the nation of
France today, and we are standing as your friend and ally. But secondly,
these attacks underscore that we are facing an enemy who is fierce, who
is relentless, who is at war with us, even if our own president doesn’t
understand that it is at war with with us, and who will not stop until
it is defeated. That enemy is radical Islamic terrorism. As long as we
have a commander-in-chief unwilling to even to utter the words, ‘radical
Islamic terrorism,’ we will not have a concerted effort to defeat these
radicals before they continue to murder more and more innocents,
whether Europeans, or Israelis, or Americans.”
Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” President Barack Obama seemingly
downplayed the threat of ISIS in an interview with ABC’s George
Stephanopoulos that aired on Friday’s broadcast of “Good Morning
America.”
Stephanopoulos asked Obama if ISIS was gaining in strength, to which Obama denied they were.
“I don’t think they’re gaining strength,” Obama responded. “What is
true is that from the start, our goal has been first to contain and we
have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq, and in Syria
they’ll come in, they’ll leave, but you don’t see this systemic march by
ISIL across the terrain.”
“What we have not yet been able to do is to completely decapitate
their command and control structures,” he admitted. “We’ve made some
progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters and part our
goal has to be to recruit more effective Sunni partners in Iraq to
really go on offense rather than simply engage in defense.”
Russian politicians on Saturday said the
Paris attack underscored the need for the West and the Kremlin to bury
their differences and join forces to take on Islamic State militants in
Syria, a strategy Moscow has pushed for in vain for months.
Mired
in economic problems and reeling from low oil prices, a weak rouble,
dwindling reserve funds and Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis,
the Kremlin wants the West to stop trying to isolate Russia and unite
with it instead against what it says is a common enemy: Islamist
extremism.
On Saturday, it said it hoped the Paris
attacks, which Russia condemned unreservedly from President Vladimir
Putin downwards, could be the trigger for the sea change it wants.
“It
is clear, that to effectively fight this evil we need real joint
efforts by the entire international community,” Putin said in a
statement, a sentiment echoed by his prime minister and defense
minister.
Sergei Sobyanin, a close
Putin ally and the mayor of Moscow, said the killings were “another
reason to consolidate in the battle against Islamic State,” while Alexey
Pushkov, a senior lawmaker and the chairman of the foreign affairs
committee in the lower house of parliament, said he hoped the incident
would bring the West to its senses.
“Russia
is fighting in Syria against those who blew up Paris and declared war
on Europe,” he wrote on his official Twitter account. “It is time for
the West to stop criticizing Moscow and to form a joint coalition.”
In the wake of the brutal Paris attacks, Russian President Vladimir
Putin was quick to offer his condolences and readiness to assist the
people of France.
“This tragedy is further evidence of the barbaric nature
of terrorism, which poses a challenge to human civilization,” said
Putin.
Putin was torn over the tragedy and sent his condolences to the
people of France in an official message to French President Francois
Hollande.
“In this hour of trial for France I would like you to convey our
sincere sympathy and support to the families and friends of the victims
and our wishes of a speedy recovery to all those who suffered at the
hands of the extremists,” Putin said, in the message as reported by
the Kremlin.
“I would like to confirm [our] readiness for close cooperation
with French partners on investigating the crime committed in Paris,”
Putin continued.
“I hope the masterminds and perpetrators will be brought to justice,” Putin wrote to Hollande.
CBS News reportedly reworked the format of its Saturday night
Democratic debate agenda to focus more on terrorism, national security
and foreign policy, in the hours following the deadly terror attacks in Paris.
Network executive Steve Capus told The
New York Times late Friday that the adjustments were made during debate
rehearsals in Des Moines, Iowa, after news broke about the deadly
attacks.
"There is no question that the emphasis changes dramatically," said
Capus, the network's executive editor and the executive producer of "CBS
Evening News.'
The Islamic State jihadist group has claimed responsibility for the
series of coordinated attacks in and around the French capital in which
127 people were killed. Another 200 people were critically injured,
including some Americans, as a result of the attacks -- suicide bombings
near France's national stadium and shooting at Paris cafes and a
concert hall.
The debate is scheduled for 8 p.m. local time in the
first-in-the-nation balloting state. It will feature front running
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state;
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.
British Prime Minister David Cameron says he stands ready with France
and allies around the world to wipe out ISIL (ISIS) in the wake of the
terrorist attacks in France late Friday.
The terrorists claimed responsibility for the attacks on Saturday with a statement saying France "will remain at the top of the list of targets of the Islamic State."
Cameron said Britain is also under threat from the same forces and must not back down from this fight.
"The terrorists' aim is clear: it is to divide us and to
destroy our way of life. So more than ever we should come together and
stand united and carry on with the way of life that we love," Cameron
said.
Cameron called those who attacked Paris killing concert goers and others out for a Friday night as "brutal, callous murderers,"
"We will redouble our efforts to wipe out this poisonous extremist ideology," Cameron said.
The statement from ISIS warned that Friday's attacks on Paris will not be the last.
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A
senior-level Israeli official claims that Israel has transferred
intelligence information to France regarding the terrorists who
committed the deadly attacks in Paris. Ya’alon: “We are determined to
battle the jihadist terror together.”
A senior-level Israeli official claimed today (Saturday) that in recent
hours, Israel has transferred intelligence information to France
regarding the terrorists who committed the deadly attacks in Paris.
Earlier today, the French newspaper Libération reported that the
terrorists who committed the attacks, in which 128 people were killed
and more than 200 injured, held Syrian, French, Egyptian and Lebanese
passports.
As Islamic State militants massacred Paris with explosives and
Kalashnikovs, the United States had a top ISIS leader in its crosshairs.
According to The Washington Post, Libyan ISIS senior leader Abu Nabil, aka Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi, was killed in an airstrike Friday night.
The Guardian quotes Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook about the implications of killing the terror leader:
“Nabil’s death will degrade ISIL’s ability to meet the
group’s objectives in Libya, including recruiting new ISIL members,
establishing bases in Libya, and planning external attacks on the United
States.”
Cook added a disturbing connection:
“Reporting suggests [Nabil] may also have been the spokesman in the February 2015 Coptic Christian execution video.”
In February, ISIS released a video in which ISIS beheaded 21 Coptic Christians on the beaches of Libya.
According to NBC,
the strike was planned and in-process before the attack in Paris. U.S.
officials told Reuters that Nabil was killed by two F-15 aircraft.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making it known that Islam is the cause behind the terrorism in France.
Other world leaders, including America’s President Barack Obama, have shied away from saying ‘Islamic terrorism’.
The prime minister of Israel made it clear and condemned Islamic terrorism in an official statement.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu stated:
“On behalf of the people and Government of Israel, I extend our
deepest sympathies to the people of France and to the families of those
who were brutally murdered in Paris last night. We also extend our
wishes for a speedy recovery to the wounded.
Israel stands shoulder-to-shoulder with France in this common battle against militant Islamic terrorism.
I’ve instructed Israel’s security and intelligence forces to assist
their French counterparts and their counterparts from other European
countries in any way possible.
Terrorism is the deliberate and systematic targeting of civilians. It
can never be justified. Terrorism must always be condemned. It must
always be fought.
Innocent people in Paris, like those in London, Madrid, Mumbai,
Buenos Aires and Jerusalem, are the victims of militant Islamic
terrorism, not its cause.
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Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum on Saturday blasted President Barack Obama, saying one of the reasons the latest deadly Paris terror attacks occurred is because Obama “has no intention of winning” the fight against the Islamic State.
“This president doesn’t plan. … This president has completely abandoned ship,” Santorum said at the Sunshine Summit in Florida, CNN reported.
Reuters, Warsaw
Saturday, 14 November 2015
Poland cannot accept migrants under European Union (EU) quotas
after the attacks in Paris, Poland’s European affairs minister designate
Konrad Szymanski said on Saturday, in a sign that Friday’s assault may
seriously undermine EU refugee policy.
In a
commentary published in the right-leaning news portal wPolityce.pl,
Szymanski said his incoming government did not agree with Poland’s
commitment to accept its share of an EU-wide relocation of immigrants,
and now, “in the face of the tragic acts in Paris, we do not see the
political possibilities to implement (this).”
“The
(EU Council) decision is valid for all EU countries, but its
implementation is very hard to imagine today,” Szymanski said in a
separate interview for RMF FM radio. “We have to wait for the EU Court
of Justice, for Brussel’s reaction.”
Szymanski
will take up his position on Monday as part of a government formed by
last month’s election winner, the conservative and eurosceptic Law and
Justice (PiS) party.
In September, Poland
broke ranks with its ex-communist partners from the ‘Visegrad group’ -
Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - by backing a European Union
plan to share out 120,000 refugees across the 28-nation bloc.
Some Canadian political leaders were calling for vigorous action against
terrorism including continued involvement in military action against Islamic
State militants in the wake of Friday’s attacks in Paris that killed at least
129 people.
The terrorist attacks should prompt Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to rethink
his government’s plan to withdraw from taking part in coalition air strikes
against ISIL, Opposition leader Rona Ambrose said Saturday.
Some Canadian political leaders were calling for vigorous action against
terrorism including continued involvement in military action against Islamic
State militants in the wake of Friday’s attacks in Paris that killed at least
129 people.
The terrorist attacks should prompt Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to rethink
his government’s plan to withdraw from taking part in coalition air strikes
against ISIL, Opposition leader Rona Ambrose said Saturday.
The Friends of the Israel Defense Forces charity event held last
Thursday at the Beverly Hilton was a screaming success, no thanks to
Obama.
The gathering, which drew 1,200 supporters, raised a
staggering $31 million dollars for the men and women who put their lives
on the line to protect our nation’s closest ally.
Part of the
event’s success can be attributed to the A-list celebrities who came out
in defiance of Obama to support Israel. The star-studded guest list
included Mark Wahlberg, Liev Schreiber, Antonio Banderas, Jason Segel,
Jason Alexander and Israeli-born KISS frontman Gene Simmons.
Israeli-American media mogul Haim Saban, the gala’s chairman, commented:
Check here for more details on
Alinsky. Note also that Obama straddles the camps of both Alinsky and
Muslims ... at war with America (think Paris in November 13, 2015)
Al Qaeda Terror Chief Captured Among Muslim Migrants Storming Europe -
See more at:
http://pamelageller.com/2015/11/al-qaeda-terror-chief-captured-among-muslim-migrants.html/#sthash.dreaNudD.dpuf
Properly informed or schooled Americans would not
entertain the fool-hearty concept that one is xenophobic because they
simply want people to obey our laws and immigrate into the United States
legally. Also, perhaps American voters would not have
twice elected an individual who literally wants to bring tens of
thousands of American hating muslims into our country to try and change
our American culture into a bastion of rights inhibiting sharia law.......
We also see that the Al Qaeda Terror Chief Captured Among Muslim Migrants Storming Europe. A
New ISIS manual shows US in crosshairs; FBI has 900 ongoing ISIS-related investigations.
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Agent Provocateurs like George Soros do the bidding of masters by surreptitiously hiring professional protestors to start an anti-Trump movement. It would not have mattered to Soros if Clinton did get in, the demonstrations and finance strategy was already in place....Soros is an enemy of the people.
Since Congress has blocked Obama's ability to issue executable executive orders and the President Elect Trump team are in mutual control of the Nuclear Codes, Obama has very little opportunity to further scuttle the mighty ship of state.
