Jews S-L-O-W-L-Y Moving Away From Democratic Party After Realizing Obama Doesn't Get It

[ScottL]

NY Post
By Michael Goodwin

August 17, 2014 | 4:47am

Why Obama is driving Jews from the Democratic party

A friend who is conservative and Jewish asks a question: “Given Obama’s hostile treatment of Israel, isn’t it time for Jews to have their Ronald Reagan moment?”

By that, he means when the Gipper said, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.”

Without doubt, the party under Barack Obama has left those Jews who view Israel’s security as threatened.

Obama recently told a New York Times interviewer, “Because Israel is so capable militarily, I don’t worry about Israel’s survival.”

That’s shocking, considering Iran’s threat to wipe Israel off the map once it gets nukes. And even as Obama spoke, the Jewish state was in a mini-war with Hamas, which vows to eliminate Israel and is supported by Iran.

Obama apparently doesn’t take those aims seriously, perhaps believing they are only boob bait for the Muslim masses. But if “kill the Jews” is what the masses want to hear, why assume that isn’t official policy? After all, many thought Hitler wasn’t serious, either.

Israel can’t afford to assume its enemies will only talk the talk, so it must act as if those who say they want genocide really do. That’s why it doesn’t play tit-for-tat when it is attacked, and why it is so nervous about Iran.

But Obama’s lack of worry about Israel isn’t limited to his rhetoric, as The Wall Street Journal revealed. The president’s pique at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached a new high during the Hamas conflict, and Obama is now putting a squeeze on military shipments to Israel.

The State Department insists this is routine, nothing to see here, blah, blah, blah. Nonsense.

Even a “review” of American policy is a warning to Netanyahu and an invitation to his political opponents at home that their nation is at odds with its essential ally.

Some American supporters of *Israel, including Democrats, are furious at Obama. And Israeli media report opposition pols there are blaming Netanyahu for “losing” America.

It is obvious Obama wants a liberal lapdog in Israel, a point underscored by his complaint to the Times’ Tom Friedman that Netanyahu’s poll numbers are very high. “Bibi is too strong,” Obama insisted, saying it insulated him from having to make the decisions Obama wants him to make.

In other words, the Israeli public is also wrong for supporting Netanyahu, and Obama knows what’s best for them. He said that to “preserve a Jewish state that is also reflective of the best values” of its founders, *Israelis must “find a way to live side by side in peace with Palestinians . . . You have to recognize that they have legitimate claims and this is their land and neighborhood, as well.”

As a platitude, that could be harmless. But remember the context. In that statement, made during a war that Hamas started, Obama made Hamas a synonym for all *Palestinians.

It’s not, unless he believes all *Palestinians, including the relative moderates who govern the West Bank, share the Hamas goal of eliminating Israel.

He’s also undermining the long-standing policy of supporting moderate, peaceful Palestinians with the goal of freezing out the terrorists.

To say, as Obama does, that Israel must recognize that Hamas has “legitimate claims” is to reward it for starting the war. It transfers legitimacy and power from Palestinian moderates to the terrorists.

As one Israeli paper put it, “US livid with Israel? Hamas can’t *believe its luck.”

So, is this the moment when American Jews realize the Democratic Party has left them?

Gallup surveyed 88,000 Americans through June and found that 55 percent of Jews approved of the president, while 41 percent disapproved. Among all religious groups, Muslims gave him the highest approval, at 72 percent.

The 55 percent Jewish approval marks a big decline from the 69 percent of the Jewish vote Obama got in 2012, and the 78 percent he got in 2008.

Despite what anti-Semites believe, not all Jews care equally about Israel, and certainly don’t agree on what is best for Israel. Other issues affect their vote as well.

Still, the well-being of the lone Jewish state is a significant factor for many, and they want a president who shares their concern. Given Obama’s recent hostile conduct and comments, a new poll likely would find his support falling even more.

It’s not a “Reagan moment,” but it’s getting closer.

 

[ScottL]

This one is for Obama, Kerry, and all the Fidiots in the US State Dept who think that part of the pathway to calm involves bringing Fatah into Gaza:
Hundreds of Fatah Members under Hamas House Arrest in Gaza - Elhanan Miller

On July 28, Fatah activist Sami Abu Lashin opened the door of his Gaza home to discover some 20 masked men armed with rifles. One gunman fired a shot at Lashin's right thigh, and then two more at his left thigh, shattering the bone. "They claimed he had broken the house arrest imposed on him," wrote Sami Fouda on the Fatah Voice website on Saturday. On Sunday, a photo of Lashin at Shifa hospital was posted on Fatah's official Facebook page.

While Palestinian negotiators in Cairo strained to present a unified front in cease-fire talks, Fatah continues to showcase stories of intimidation and physical assault against its members in Gaza. One Fatah official said Sunday that as many as 250 Fatah members have been told by Hamas to stay home, and as many as 125 were shot at by Hamas operatives when they refused to comply. Ten victims of gunshots to the legs have been transferred to hospitals in the West Bank.

In June 2007, when Hamas violently took control of Gaza, at least 118 Fatah members were killed and 550 wounded. (Times of Israel)


[h=2]Abbas's Fatah Declares a Return to Terror Against Israel[/h]Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, often touted internationally as a "moderate" alternative to Hamas, has declared its intentions to further increase its terror attacks against Israeli citizens.
A new video released to YouTube by Fatah's "military wing," the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, declares the unity of Fatah's various military branches, and announces a recent decision to strengthen Fatah's military activities.
Filming in what they term a "joint operations room" in Gaza, the Fatah terrorists are seen in the video proudly displaying three-barrel rocket launchers, anti-tank rocket launchers, assault rifles and portable communications devices.


One of the terrorists is filmed telling the camera that "the rifle" was and remains the only option to "free the occupied lands," and that Fatah has never abandoned the path of violent terrorism.
As demonstrated by the armed presence in Gaza, Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades has reportedly taken an active part in the terror war being fought against Israel from Gaza, joining Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terror organizations against Israel during Operation Protective Edge.


In Judea and Samaria, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades have likewise declared "open war" on the Jewish state.
The declaration has been followed by numerous Fatah terror attacks, including a shooting attack south of Bethlehem last Sunday, after another shooting attack the Sunday before in Neve Tzuf. On Monday, a wanted Fatah terrorist was killed by IDF forces near Shechem after he refused to turn himself in and opened fire on the soldiers.
While there has been a common perception globally that Abbas's Fatah is somehow more "moderate" and accessible as a peace partner than Hamas or other alternative groups, Fatah has been open about its goals to destroy Israel.
The group just last Sunday falsely claimed to have murdered 11,000 Israelis, and has likely called for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel.



Fatah's position is in line with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) charter of 1968, which calls for "armed struggle" and "armed revolution," declaring "armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine," and calling on local Arabs to "be prepared for the armed struggle."
Following the charter, the PLO and Fatah were defined internationally as terror organizations, a status which was removed during the 1993 Oslo Accords process.

 

[ScottL]

[h=1]Subtle voices of dissent surface in war-torn Gaza[/h] By HAMZA HENDAWI


— Aug. 14, 2014 2:40 PM EDT

BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (AP) — The group of neighbors surveyed the destruction wreaked on their residential complex by Israeli bombardment, with building after building flattened or punctured by shells. The men then began to voice something almost never heard out loud in Gaza: criticism of its Hamas rulers.


Exhausted by a month of pounding by Israel's military — on top of seven years of stifling closure of the tiny Mediterranean coastal strip — they questioned Hamas' handling of the crisis and the wisdom of repeatedly going to war with Israel.


"We do not want to be bombarded every two or three years. We want to lead a good life: Sleep well, drink well and eat well," said Ziad Rizk, a 37-year-old father of two, a cigarette dangling from his mouth. He stared at the damaged apartment building where he lived. His sofa and a blue baby carriage were perched precariously on a tilting concrete slab that was his floor.


It is impossible to say how widespread such discontent is among Gaza's 1.8 million residents. Under Hamas rule, it's rare and dangerous to share even as much as a hint of criticism of the government with outsiders.


Still, the men's boldness in voicing their opinions could be a telling sign that some Gazans see Hamas as weakened. It points to how desperate many Gazans have become after the most ruinous of three bouts of major Hamas-Israel violence since the militant group overran the territory in 2007. More than 1,900 Palestinians have been killed, mostly civilians, nearly 10,000 wounded and some 250,000 displaced since fighting started July 8.


Significantly, a Hamas rally last week attracted 2,000-3,000 people, a low number compared to its routinely massive rallies, particularly considering it was held at a time when the group is at war with Israel.


Hamas has ruled with an iron fist since it took over Gaza, expelling the Western-backed Palestinian Authority. It does not tolerate dissent, detains critics and carries out extrajudicial executions of alleged spies for Israel. It has filled government departments with loyalists and is particularly intolerant of any criticism of its handling of the conflict with Israel. It seeks to block unauthorized media coverage of its military wing.


In almost every square and major intersection in Gaza City, giant billboards extoll the battlefield valor of Hamas fighters, their quest for martyrdom and their locally manufactured rockets. Al-Aqsa television, the organization's 24-hour news channel, tirelessly airs Hamas propaganda and reports news with a Hamas-friendly slant.


The men who spoke with the AP were all friends and neighbors who live in the Abraj al-Nada, or Al-Nada Towers, a collection of apartment buildings that was hit hard by Israeli airstrikes and tank shelling on July 17 in the northern Gaza district of Beit Lahiya.


Visiting their wrecked homes with their families during the current truce, they sat outside a tent or in an impromptu shelter they set up — cushions and a rug under a blanket hoisted on four poles, with a small red, white and green Palestinian flag. An Israeli drone menacingly hovered overhead as the men spoke.


Their grumbling is in part born from Gaza's increasing economic hardship. Unemployment runs at around 50 percent. The Hamas government owes workers several months' back pay. The 7-year blockade by Israel and Egypt has choked businesses and jobs.


Even as they shared their views with the AP, they hedged their opinions. They never, for example, expressed a desire to see Hamas removed from power or abandon armed struggle against Israel. They have no love for Israel, though older members of the community fondly remembered the days when they commuted to Israel for day jobs that put food on the table.


"I respect the resistance. The fighters may be spending the night out there in open space facing the enemy while I have the comfort and satisfaction of being with my family," said Loay Kafarnah, a taxi driver who lost his apartment in the shelling.


"But we also want to live. How can we have a war every two or three years? Is that a life?" he said, sitting on rickety plastic garden chairs with a group of close friends and neighbors.


Visible not far away were green fields and trees across the border in Israel. An Israeli train sped by. They could easily see across the border because, they said, Israel several years ago tore down a nearby orchard on the Gaza side that was impeding its soldiers' view in.
"Look at what they have," the 27-year-old Kafarnah said. "Why can't we live like that too?"


His friend, a school teacher who also lost his home, delivered a more pointed criticism of Hamas.


"We have put up with a great deal. They take us to war, fire rockets on Israel from outside our homes and invite destruction to our homes. Fine, but now what?" said the green-eyed teacher in his late 20s, who did not want to be named for fear of retaliation.


"Does anyone in the government know what happened to us? Shouldn't they come offer us help? Or a few comforting words?"


Rizk said he had hoped government officials would be there to take details from residents to offer assistance or future compensation. "But I have been wasting my time," he said.


Ramadan Naufal said his family has moved from the house of one relative to another since the strikes on his home.


"They are fed up with us and I know it," said the portly 46-year-old. So he buys groceries every day for his hosts "to cushion our intrusion."


"This war was something else. No rock, tree or man has been spared," he said, then adding the refrain said by many: "How can we cope with a war every couple of years?"


In the latest truce, dozens of residents of the al-Nada Towers visited their homes to salvage what they can. All seemed stunned and heavy with bereavement, even as they traded greetings with former neighbors, now partners in yet another journey to piece together their lives. Many traded advice on how to seek compensation.


Around a third of the 25 buildings in the complex were crushed in airstrikes and heavy tank fire. Most of the rest are too damaged to live in. Residents collected metal and wood from the debris and loaded them onto donkey carts to sell as scrap. Others looked for pillows, blankets and any usable food items like sugar, tea or flour. Some looked inside water tanks for anything left to bathe with.


Salah Abu Shabab, one of a group of Bedouin who live nearby, said he lost 27 head of sheep, a donkey and a 1984 Mercedes-Benz he used as a taxi. "This is where I buried the donkey," he said, pointing at a mound of dirt.


The 54-year-old and his family of 12 now live in a U.N. school, like thousands of others. He vows he won't leave it until the government assures him of accommodation. "I know the school year begins next month, but that is their problem."


Rizk, the father of two, tried to salvage a rug from his third-story apartment. As he pulled it, the concrete slabs started falling and he gave up, fearing he'd be crushed.
"I have lost everything, so I should at least try and stay alive."

 

[ScottL]

Don't Set a Double Standard for Israel on Norms of War - Natan Sharansky (Washington Post)

One would be hard-pressed to find an Israeli who does not sympathize with the suffering of Gaza's victims. Yet there are also few Israelis who feel we are responsible for this suffering.

For us, the tragedy of Gaza is inseparable from the tragedy of the entire Middle East. Over the past three years, in countries around our tiny state, more than a quarter of a million people have been killed in the most horrific ways. The only border at which the savagery stops is Israel's.

Hamas and Hizbullah are doing their best to change this. So what protects us? The UN or human rights groups? No. Only the military power of the Israel Defense Forces. In response to our enemies' relentless campaigns, the army is constantly developing new ways to defend us. One new weapon, Iron Dome, has in the past few weeks protected civilians from almost 3,000 missiles.

The sad irony, then, is that while the world can do so little to stop the terror in Syria or Sudan, it can do a lot to press Israel to stop defending itself. We ask ourselves, is this hypocrisy? Is this a betrayal by the free world whose values we are defending?

12 years ago, during the Second Intifada, I was a member of the Israeli security cabinet when the army first decided to use aviation to target terrorist leaders. In nearly every cabinet meeting, Israel's attorney general insisted that our targets must be chosen not on the basis of crimes already committed, but solely in light of proof that they were planning new terrorist acts. In other words, no matter how much death and destruction someone had caused, a targeted killing could be justified only by documented intentions to carry out another attack.

Now that targeted killings are practically the norm - when the U.S. uses drones for this purpose all over the world - I would hope others are as scrupulous as Israel has been. Before the IDF bombs an area in Gaza, residents are alerted by radio, e-mail, phone and text message telling them to leave. The Israeli army also uses small warning missiles to let civilians know that a real missile will soon be fired. Do other free countries go to similar lengths?

 

[ScottL]

Israel Arrested 93 Hamas Men in West Bank over Terror Network Targeting PA, Israel
The Israel Security Agency has interrogated 46 Hamas operatives in the West Bank over the past three months on suspicion of setting up a network of cells to commit attacks against Israel and to carry out a coup against the Palestinian Authority. Altogether, 93 Hamas members have been arrested since May for involvement in this network.

As a result of the arrests and interrogations, the security services have seized NIS 600,000 shekels ($171,000); 24 rifles, mostly M-16s; six pistols; seven rocket launchers; and a large quantity of ammunition. The head of the network was Riad Nasser, 38, of Deir Kadis near Ramallah, who did jail time in Israel in the past for his Hamas activities. Nasser was recruited by Saleh Arori, who did 16 years in an IDF prison and was subsequently deported and now lives in Turkey. (Ha'aretz)

Abbas: Hamas Plot Against PA Threatens Unity Government
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he was following reports of a Hamas plot to topple the PA government with great concern, and that the information posed a serious threat to the future of the Palestinian unity government. (Ynet News)

Israel: Coup Attempt in West Bank Planned by Hamas Official in Turkey(Zaman-Turkey)

 

[superbeets]

Bottom line: NATO member Turkey is a very welcoming place for Hamas. Their operatives openly say so.

 

[Willie99]

The Jewish demographic is much more important than raw numbers suggest

Their money and influence in both the media and especially Hollywood is disproportionate to the number of actual votes they represent

 

[akphidelt]

The Jewish demographic is typically well educated. It's no shock they vote Democrat. And I highly doubt they will change with the band of lunatic Republicans out there. Smart people don't vote for stupid.

 

[mplastered]

Just did a job for an elderly Jewish couple. This topic came up. She is very anti Obama. Claimed most of her friends feel the same way. She was totally baffled that Obama was able to win a 2nd term.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Just did a job for an elderly Jewish couple. This topic came up. She is very anti Obama. Claimed most of her friends feel the same way. She was totally baffled that Obama was able to win a 2nd term.

She is not alone.

 

[SheriffJoe]

She is not alone.

His ineligibility aside, Obama's legacy will be economic misery at home and a new wave of terror coming to America from abroad. Not to mention racial tensions we haven't seen since the race riots.

A Pepsi can would have a done a better job than the Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure.

I wish I were confident that he's destroyed the Democrat brand for a generation but sadly I am not.

 

[superbeets]

[h=1]So why did the BBC give airtime to this Islamic State fanatic? Corporation accused of playing into terrorists' hands after carrying interview on Newsnight[/h]

• British Pakistani 'Awlaki' said atrocities were 'permissible' under Islam law
  
• Interview shown on Wednesday, following beheading of journalist John Foley
• He told BBC: 'The only reason I would return to the UK is to plant a bomb'
  
• Former security minister said interview should not have been aired
  
• BBC said it 'refutes suggestions' that it 'offered platform for extremist views'

The BBC played into the hands of terrorists when it carried an interview with an Islamic State fanatic, it was claimed last night.
Newsnight broadcast the rants of the Briton who claimed to have joined IS fighters in murdering prisoners in Iraq.
He defended attacks on British soldiers and was given airtime to declare his hatred for the UK and threaten a bombing campaign here.

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Armed: UK-born fanatic 'Awlaki', who claims to have joined IS fighters, told Newsnight that atrocities were allowed under Islam. He said he would only return to the UK to 'plant a bomb'


Former security minister Dame Pauline Neville-Jones said the interview should not have been aired.
‘We can perfectly well be informed about their views and attitudes without giving them access to mainstream media on a corporation that has a reputation to preserve,’ she added.
‘It gives them a degree of access and a status and an importance they should not be accorded.’
Tory MP Michael Ellis said: ‘This interview was unnecessary and gratuitous and gave free air time and the oxygen of publicity to vile views.’


Nigel Evans, a fellow Conservative, said: ‘Newsnight has done a great disservice by giving these insane terrorists the oxygen of publicity. Apart from brutal murders, it’s what they seek most.
‘They are playing into the hands of these terrorists by giving them the opportunity to speak directly to a small group of vulnerable people who may be seduced by their fundamentalist and extreme messages.’
The interview was broadcast on Wednesday night following news of the beheading of American journalist John Foley, apparently by a British national.
The report was introduced as an examination of the mindset that would lead a Briton to join Islamic State and kill in its name.

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Former security minister Pauline Neville-Jones said the interview should not have been aired

Reporter Secunder Kermani said he had been ‘in correspondence’ with the British IS recruit over several months. The fanatic, who said he was a 27-year-old British Pakistani, called himself Awlaki – after Anwar al-Awlaki, the dead Al Qaeda preacher.
The BBC published pictures of him posing with his weapon.
Awlaki laughed when asked if reports of Islamic State fighters beheading their enemies was true. ‘Yeah we kind of beheaded some guys as well,’ he said.
‘I believe there was about maybe four, three or four guys that we beheaded.’
Awlaki claimed to have travelled to Syria to fight the Assad regime but then joined IS because it was ‘the only group fighting for the return of the caliphate’.
He said he had been shot and injured while fighting near Aleppo in northern Syria.
At one point Kermani asked what his response would be to US air strikes and Awlaki was allowed to rant in what even the interviewer admitted sounded like ‘pure propaganda’.
Awlaki said: ‘Bring your soldiers, your American soldiers, your British soldiers, bring them all to ISIS. We’ll send them back one by one in (sic) corpses. Also America doesn’t need to attack ISIS in Iraq for us to attack them back.’
He insisted atrocities committed against captured soldiers were ‘permissible’ under Islam ‘just as it is permissible for our brothers in the UK to execute British soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan’.
This was an apparent reference to the horrific murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich.
He said: ‘I hate the UK. The only reason why I would intend to return back to the UK is if I want to go plant a bomb somewhere.’
After playing one Awlaki rant, Kermani commented that despite his ‘angry and violent tone’ the fanatic was, in their exchanges, often ‘softly spoken’.
A BBC spokesman said: ‘We have given great consideration to our reporting of the murder of James Foley and made it clear that these views would be intolerable to the majority.
‘We utterly refute any suggestion that Newsnight offered a platform for extremist views. We have a responsibility to both report on the story and try to shed light on what is happening in Syria and Iraq, particularly with British citizens fighting there.
‘An interview with a British IS fighter offered insights into this crime. The interview was given context by our reporters and the subsequent discussion where contributors discussed the ‘barbaric behaviour’ of the group.’

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[superbeets]

[h=1]A burka and a rifle: The British girl, 22, vowing to be the first woman to kill Westerners[/h]

• Khadijah Dare, 22, was born a non-Muslim in Lewisham, south London
• She was radicalised online, moved to Syria in 2012,had arranged marriage
• Gloated online at ISIL's brutal murder of photojournalist James Foley
• Posted Twitter picture of her four-year-old son with an AK-47 rifle

.Married to an Islamic State extremist in Syria complete with handguns and his’ n’ hers Kalashnikov rifles, Khadijah Dare’s is no ordinary life.But it is a world away from her previous existence as the Lewisham teenager who wore jeans and platform heels and loved her mother’s home cooking.
And hours after the beheading of American journalist James Foley at the hands of a British jihadist, this 22-year-old gloated on social media at his execution and vowed that she would be the first British woman to kill a US soldier.

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Hatred: Khadijah Dare, 22, was born a non-Muslim in south London but has urged others to follow her in jihad

Dare was gleeful that the ‘UK must be shaking up’ after the execution and from her home in the Syrian scrub she tweeted: ‘Any links 4 da execution of da journalist plz. Allahu Akbar. UK must b shaking up haha. I wna b da 1st UK woman 2 kill a UK or US terorrist!’
Dare’s Twitter account is already notorious – not least because of the photograph of her then four-year-old son Isa, meaning “Jesus”, holding an AK-47 rifle.

Her Twitter feed is littered with images of dead bodies and Islamic State propaganda, but juxtaposed with these are pictures which belie the normal young girl she once was.
The irony of the images she has posted of ‘beautiful’ sunsets, baby seals and a kitten in a teacup alongside those of extremist horror are apparently lost on her.
Khadijah Dare – one of her many post-conversion pseudonyms – grew up in Lewisham, south London, as a non-Muslim, and an acquaintance of hers told the Evening Standard that she was ‘very endearing and sweet.

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Disturbing: A Twitter post showing Dare's four-year-old son grinning as he brandishes an AK-47 rifle

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Arranged marriage: She became radicalised online before marrying her Swedish husband Abu Bakr

'She was a bit of a tomboy but sometimes at weddings I’d see her wearing tight jeans and platforms. She also had braces and dimples and was very cute.’
Tomboy Dare liked to watch football on TV as a child, and loved Chinese food and her mother’s home cooking.
When she was older she went to a local college to study media studies, film studies, psychology and sociology, and was a popular young girl.
But it was at the age of 18, four years ago, that she converted to Islam and began worshipping at the Lewisham Islamic Centre – which has links to both the Woolwich killers of Lee Rigby and radical cleric Abu Hamza.
She admitted in a Channel 4 report last year that when she began wearing the full face veil in Lewisham people on the street told her to ‘go back to her country’, to which she replied: ‘I was born round the corner’.
In the same footage she urges other Muslims to ‘stop being so selfish...focusing on your families or studies’ and implores them to join her in Syria and join the holy war.

Dare allegedly became radicalised online and moved to Syria in 2012, before marrying her Swedish Muslim jihadist husband Abu Bakr, arranged by his mother.
Bakr is fighter with the Sunni jihadi militia known as Katiba al Muhajireen - the battalion of migrants – which joined forces with Islamic State and wants to create an Islamic caliphate.
The Londoner has admitted that her parents are unaware of her new life, and as well as the pseudonym Khadijah Dare she goes by ‘Umm Isa’ meaning ‘mother of Isa’ and Muhajirah fi Sham, meaning ‘Immigrant in Syria’.
As her toddler sons Isa and Abdur Rahman stumbled about her gun-littered living room floor last year, Dare was unrepentant of her decision to move to Syria and of her departure from the girl-next-door who traded her promising British life for one of violence and hatred.


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[superbeets]

[h=1]ISIS offered to swap Foley for 'Lady al Qaeda': Terrorists wanted return of MIT-educated neuroscientist who was caught with plans for 'mass casualty attack' with a dirty bomb, Ebola, and a chemical weapon 'that spared children'[/h]

• ISIS sent 'laundry list' of demands for release of James Foley
• Before ransom rose to $132m, ISIS wanted release of Afia Siddiqui among other prisoners
• Mother-of-three was jailed after she was caught with plans for 'mass casualty attack' and details of New York landmarks
• Author describes her as a 'poster girl for jihadists' and her release would have been PR disaster for Obama
• In her handbag was found details for a dirty bomb, Ebola, and a theoretical chemical weapon that did not kill children, her New York trial was told
• Government refused to enter into negotiation with his captors and launched failed rescue attempt instead - in contrast to the Bowe Bergdahl swap

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An MIT-educated neuroscientist terrorist known as 'Lady al Qaeda' was named on a 'laundry list' of demands from ISIS captors holding James Foley named, it was revealed today.
Petite mother-of-three Aafia Siddiqui is currently serving 86 years in a Texas jail after being arrested with plans for a 'mass casualty attack' in the US, including infecting people with Ebola and a dirty bomb.
But President Barack Obama's administration point blank refused to consider releasing Siddiqui, or handing over a $132 million ransom, according to the New York Times.


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Lady Al Qeada: Aafia Siddiqui is currently serving 86 years in a Texas jail after being arrested with plans for a 'mass casualty attack' in the US, including infecting people with Ebola and a dirty bomb. She was named by Foley's captors on a 'laundry list' as the person they wanted in a prisoner swap

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Hunted: Mother-of-three Siddiqui, who is 5 ft. 4 in. and weighs just 90 lb, was on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list after 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed mentioned her name during his 2003 interrogation

Karachi-born Siddiqui, 42, attended two New England universities. She gained a PhD from Brandeis and then trained as a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She founded the Institute of Islamic Research and Teaching while living in the U.S.
Mother-of-three Siddiqui, who is 5 ft. 4 in. and weighs just 90 lb, was on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list after 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed mentioned her name during his 2003 interrogation.
Siddiqui, who is divorced from her first husband is now married to Ammar al-Baluchi, one of the 9/11 masterminds, who is currently being held in Guantanamo. He is the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Burqa-clad Siddiqui was arrested in Ghanzi, Afghanistan in 2008 after a local saw her poring over a map. He became suspicious as most women in that country are illiterate.
When she was held she had detailed plans on how to kill by spreading Ebola, making a dirty bomb and even a theoretical chemical weapon that somehow spared children while killing adults.

.She also had two pounds of highly toxic sodium cyanide hidden in her bag and documents detailing potential New York targets for attack including Wall Street, the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty and the subway system.The documents also showed the Plum Island Animal Disease Center on Long Island Sound, New York - which was used for biological weapons testing during the Cold War - as another potential target.
During interrogation the day after her arrest she grabbed a rifle that had been left on a table and started shooting at her questioners. She failed to hit them but she was shot in the stomach as they returned fire.
Author Deborah Scroggins, who wrote a book about Siddiqui, calls her the 'poster child for jihadists around the world.'
'I doesn't surprise me that ISIS should call for her release, even though she is associated with al-Qaeda, because they want to take over al-Qaeda's mantle,' she told MailOnline.
'What better way to establish your bona fides than to exchange a prisoner for the jihadist's icon?'
Scroggins, whose book, Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror was published in 2012, points out that Siddiqui received an 86-year jail sentence despite never harming anyone, and it has never been fully explained whether her plans were realistic or just in her head.

Siddiqui was only charged with two counts of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and three counts of assault. She was brought to the U.S. for trial which lasted for 14 days in January and February 2010.
'She was only tried for firing a gun at U.S. personnel overseas and Congress had just passed a law, going back to the attacks on the embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam, that said anyone trying to kill U.S. personnel would get special strict sentencing,' said Scroggins.
During her trial she said she loved both the United States and Islam. Her lawyers pleaded for leniency due to mental issues, but she said: 'I am not paranoid. I do not agree with that.'
'I do not want any bloodshed. I do not want any misunderstanding. I really want to make peace and end the wars,' she said during her trial.
Siddiqui - prisoner number 90279-054 - is currently held in the Federal Medical Center in Carswell, Texas, which specializes in treating inmates with mental health issues. She is not due for release until August 8, 2083.
Scroggins added: 'She is definitely closely involved with the highest levels of al-Qaeda, but the fact is she has never been convicted of killing or injuring anyone, but she has become a cause celebre in the jihadist movement.'
Her 86-year sentence, imposed by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman, led to violent protests in her home country of Pakistan. Thousands of protestors burned tires in Lahore, and police had to fire teargas to quell riots in her hometown of Karachi.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani called Siddiqui 'the daughter of the nation' and begged U.S. authorities to release her.
While Obama did swap five Taliban prisoners in exchange for suspected deserter Bowe Bergdahl, who was freed on May 31 to huge controversy,Obama authorized a daring rescue mission over the July 4 weekend that failed in the Syrian desert.
At least five ISIS militants were killed and one American soldier was wounded as the raid failed because the terrorists had moved Foley and other hostages including Miami journalist Steven Sotloff away from the base in Syria's northern Raqqa province.
Scroggins said the question of whether Siddiqui's release would be a real threat is doubtful. 'But exchanging her would have been a PR disaster for the Obama administration.'
She pointed out that the prisoners released in exchange for Bergdahl had not been convicted and tried in a U.S. court as Siddiqui was.
Her release would certainly have been perceived as a tremendous victory for the jihadist forces,' said Scroggins.

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[h=1]Mashaal admits Hamas members kidnapped and murdered Naftali, Gilad and Eyal[/h][h=2]In interview in Cairo, leader says he did not know about plans to carry out attack ahead of time, but acknowledged that those responsible are Hamas members.[/h]

Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal

 

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Amid rocket barrages, Mashaal says they are aimed at military bases, not civilians
After death of four-year-old Israeli, Hamas leader, in interview with Yahoo News, says militants don't target civilians but don't have precise weapons; following quiet night, southern Israel awakens to sirens.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

His ineligibility aside, Obama's legacy will be economic misery at home and a new wave of terror coming to America from abroad. Not to mention racial tensions we haven't seen since the race riots.

A Pepsi can would have a done a better job than the Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure.

I wish I were confident that he's destroyed the Democrat brand for a generation but sadly I am not.

Actually he has enhanced the Democratic brand for generations to come with all the free goodies.

Brainwashing is hard to overcome.