American Betrayal of Israel

Betrayal of Israel

Genesis 12:3: To Israel “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse.”

After spending the past year reading books and documents on  American history, I’ve found some things that appeared more than coincidental about Israel and the terrorism we face today.

Israel is about the size of Rhode Island. They have weapons from every Muslim nation in the world aimed right at them. Since inception, those nations have declared time and again they want to “drive the Jews into the sea”.  But, they have been American “allies” since they became a nation, despite the fact that America refused most as refugees during the Holocaust, as illustrated by the voyage of the St. Louis.  Even so, after all the Pro-Israel talking points are said and done, this is how the United States has treated them just within the past 30 years.

While he was president, Bill Clinton, who was always touted as “a likable guy”, wanted his “legacy” to show he brought peace to the Middle East. But, what did he actually accomplish with this quest?

“In 1993, Osama bin Laden was a small-time funder of militant Muslim terrorist in Sudan, Yemen, and Afghanistan. By the end of 2000, Clinton’s last year in office, bin Laden’s network was operating in more than 55 countries and already responsible for the deaths of thousands.” (Miniter, Losing bin Laden, xvi,xix). (Coincidental that the same is now said about ISIS under Obama)

In his quest for peace treaty with his name on it, Bill Clinton was instrumental of changing the status of PLO terror leader, Yasser Arafat, from “terrorist” to “Freedom Fighter” and “Diplomat”, offering him unlimited and unfettered access to the White House as his special guest. At the same time Arafat and the PLO were lobbying missiles at Israel, with Arafat calling for “a million martyrs” of suicide bombers.  In 1997 Sara Ehrman, Clinton’s Senior Advisor, said to Clinton during a telephone conference call that in order for Arafat to get what he wants, “…Arafat has no choice but to use terror.” This was heard by others during the conversation and this ideology has been the secret within the government from the Clinton administration on through the Obama administration. They have no choice but to use terror. Terrorism is acceptable.

After several turnovers of leadership (one assassination) during the 1990’s, Bibi Netanyahu became Prime Minister of Israel from  June 18 1996 – July 6 1999.  According to an interview with Yoram Etinger on 10-25-2003, Netanyahu had seen through Clinton and Arafat’s double dealing with his predecessors and “refused to sell Israel’s security for repeatedly violated agreements with Arafat and the Palestinian Authority”. He refused to sign any peace agreements giving away Israeli territory knowing  promises were historically broken. Before the election, Rahm Emmanuel (who was Clinton’s senior advisor of Internal Affairs and went on to become Obama’s campaign head and Chief of Staff), went to Israel to negotiate with Netanyahu and was quoted as saying afterward, “We will kick him in the (blank) so hard, and he will be so miserable, that he won’t know what hit him.” Clinton defiantly sent his own Democratic campaign advisors to Israel to put a stop to the election of Netanyahu, even though America has a policy of non-involvement in the elections of other nations.

But Clinton failed. Netanyahu won that election anyway and later had a great reception as he spoke before Congress. He received a standing ovation which infuriated a jealous Bill Clinton. After that, “Clinton made every effort to undermine Netanyahu while he was in office.” Michael D. Evans, author and eye witness political correspondent.

Clinton was not done. Again in 1999, when Netanyahu was running for re-election, Clinton sent his “million dollar” election team, the team that had run his own re-election campaign, which included James Carver, Stanley Greenberg, and Bob Shrum, to Israel to disrupt the elections in order to stop Netanyahu from winning a second term.  Greenberg had kept close contact with Ehid Barak and Clinton put his full weight behind him knowing he could manipulate him as he wished. His team worked with Barak for a year to accomplish this, spending between $50-80 million violating “strict Israeli campaign laws”.  Barak won, Netanyahu was defeated, but they were fined for this breach of ethics. America still had a noninvolvement policy.

At Camp David in the year 2000, they convinced Barak to agree to return Israel to pre-1967 borders, which put Israel at greater risk of attack, but Arafat refused to sign a peace agreement. Bombings continued against Israel with Israeli retaliation, but Arafat was still welcomed at the White House. Not so for Israel. Then again in January, 2001, just before George W. Bush took office, Clinton, convinced he had to have his peace legacy, dragged Barak back to the negotiation table. He required Israel to give up 98% of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, all of East Jerusalem, give Palestinian sovereignty over the Temple Mount, plus $30 billion to make peace with Palestine. Barak agreed. Arafat again refused to sign the agreement. He wanted more. He wanted nothing more than to force all Israelites “into the sea” as Islam planned from the beginning, and unless that was accomplished, there would be no peace…ever.  In the meantime, Arafat was treated like a king in the Clinton white house, while our ally, Israel, was bombed and treated with disrespect and manipulation.

“This pattern of willingness to negotiate endlessly with enemies, even while they were already shooting, was one of the trademarks of Clinton’s presidency, and particularly characterized his relationship with Israel.” Michael D. Evans.

Under George W. Bush, U.S. backed loan guarantees of 289.5 million to Israel were rescinded, and even though Yasser Arafat was not invited to the White House, Bush refused to hold him and the PLO responsible for their crimes. At the same time billions in arms sales and dollars went to the PLO and Islamic nations. (see below)

Netanyahu ran for Prime Minister again during Obama’s presidency and assumed the office on March 31, 2009. Obama, appearing as a surrogate of Bill Clinton was not pleased. Coincidently, it appears as though the Clinton administration and policies were completely carried over into the Obama administration by Hillary as Secretary of State, with much of the same staff that Bill Clinton had previously used, including Rahm Emmanuel, who had already has his own altercations with Netanyahu.

After repeatedly admonishing the world that American policy precludes interference in foreign elections, Obama turned around and did the exact same thing that Bill Clinton did during Netanyahu re-election campaign in 2015.

“As Jerusalem Post columnist and putative Knesset candidate Caroline Glick (sarcastically) reported, ‘Obama won’t meet Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington when he addresses the Joint Houses of Congress in March because of Netanyahu’s visit’s proximity to the Israeli elections. And Obama, of course believes in protocol and propriety which is why he won’t get involved.’ And yet, Glick adds, ‘He’s just sending his 2012 field campaign manager {Jeremy Bird} to Israel to run a campaign to defeat Netanyahu.’

In a repeat of the Clinton years, in 2015 Netanyahu stood before Congress again, and yet again received a standing ovation. This time it was Obama who was furious, but this time they failed to oust Netanyahu. Israel had learned her lesson well, and that was not to trust America.

And also in a repeat of the Clinton years, a terrorist group that started as “JV” according to Obama, blossomed into ISIS, a terrorist organization that in record time has brutally and publicly killed many thousands, while destroying historical buildings and artifacts. But, Obama and Hillary still celebrate “we killed bin Laden.”

Now Hillary Clinton wants to claim the office, and as she was an eye witness (and policy consultant) as first lady under Bill Clinton, then senator in Congress, and then as Secretary of State under Obama, she has consistently been involved in all aspects of global terrorism. Pressure is now on America to end our complacency. In fact, proven in a currently revealed email from 2014 to John Podesta reads:

“We need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.”

But Saudi, another of our allies, had been doing that all along, from the very beginning, and they know it. It has been well known throughout the world, and condemned by other major nations, most vocal being Russia. Saudi has been instrumental in training, financing, and funneling money to terrorists all the way back to Jimmy Carter, financed the PLO against Israel at the time Arafat was celebrated at the White House and were indirectly (and/or directly) responsible for the 911 attack on American soil. America has been funding it this entire time through very lucrative arms sales.

One reason our government lets Saudi get away with it: “The Saudis hold hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. assets.”

”Saudi Arabia has threatened the United States with economic reprisals should the U.S. pass a law allowing for its citizens to hold the oil-rich kingdom responsible for its alleged role in the 9/11 terror attack.”

So, Obama vetoed a bill allowing victim families to sue, but Congress recently overrode that veto.

American investments in arms and money that finance terrorism:

Jimmy Carter:   Saudi Arabia:  $16.9 billion…Egypt:  3.6 billion…Jordan: 427 million

Ronald Reagan:   Saudi Arabia: 36.3 billion…Egypt: 4.1 billion…Jordan: 2.5 billion

George H.W. Bush:   Saudi: 19.6 billion…Egypt 3.5 billion…Jordan 60.2 million.

Bill Clinton:   Saudi: 23.5 billion…Egypt: 10.7 billion…Jordan: 650.7 million…Lebanon: 157.8 million

George W. Bush:   Allowed as part of a package Congress approved in 2000 under Clinton:   400 million in aid for the Palestinian Authority. 8.5 billion in weapons and for Kuwait, UAE and Oman, Egypt weapon upgrades worth 330 million, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi continues with the same previous investments, and in addition, 87 billion rebuilding package for Iraq, which eventually was destroyed by ISIS under Obama.

Since then, according to investment watchdog, “Obama and Hillary sold and shipped Muslim nations 549 BILLION dollars in Guns and Ammunition in the last 7 years.”

And…Per Ammo.com, the Obama administration has approved more lethal weapons sales to more foreign countries than any U.S. administration since World War II.  And some of these sales will likely result in unintended consequences i.e. ‘blowback’ – especially as more than 60 percent of them have gone to the Middle East and Persian Gulf.”

An angry article by the Islamic “electronic intifada” slams Obama after his recent Iran Deal, (that Israel decries will put nuclear weapons within range of their homeland) saying, “The Obama administration approved a $1.9 billion arms sale to Israel in recent days as “compensation” for the US nuclear deal with Iran, which the Israeli regime staunchly opposes.”

Does that help? I’m not sure America knows who her allies are, but in the long run a curse just might be headed our way if we don’t change our ways.

Robin Williams

Allow me to be contentious for a moment. From all news sources and social media, there is worldwide, and I’ll admit deserved, praise for the wonderful and privileged life that Robin Williams lived, while he shared fun and laughter with the rest of us. He was an amazing actor, comedian, and above all, kind. We all loved him and we are all heartbroken. But, I’m also hearing over and over that his depression and substance abuse was not his fault, his suicide was not his fault and how most of us just don’t understand, because we just don’t know what it’s like to be that depressed…to be that lost…to be in that much pain. That said, I wonder how many, then, are going to follow in his glorious footsteps and kill themselves too. Those who wonder question, “Is he really in a better place? Is the Genie finally free? Maybe that’s where I should be too…” It sounds like a dream come true for those who were pulling toward suicide. After all, no one is saying a thing about what a horrible, mean-spirited and hateful act it is to kill oneself. They also don’t speak a word about how suicide and substance abuse takes an unspeakable toll on the survivors of those who just won’t, or can’t help themselves.

I cannot count how many times in the past 6 months have I heard from old friends and acquaintances where a loved one shot himself or herself in the head at their own home KNOWING a family member will have to discover the remains. Wouldn’t that sight be forever branded into their minds as a horror to be lived over and over again? Robin knew someone who loved him dearly would find him hanging with belt around his swollen head and his wrist cut and bled on the floor. Why would he do such a thing knowing someone he professed to love would see that? Why would anyone? Being depressed is not a valid reason.

When I see my husband, mother and countless old friends and extended family members fighting so hard to beat a terminal illness; subjected to the pain of surgery, sickness and loss of dignity from the effects of chemo and radiation, and a body torn apart, I get angry, and very sad, when I see someone else just throw his life away. How depressed do I have to be, how much more must I take, to justify death?

I certainly understand what it feels like to be the victim, the one left behind, of someone whose only desire is to die. The survivors have their own desperate questions. Why didn’t he care enough for me…or us…to live, knowing how much he would be missed? How much more could I, or should I, have done to save him? Why did he subject us to the fear, the helplessness, the horror and the personal abuse? On the other hand, why did he hate us so much that he would do such a thing? What has he kept hidden so deeply that he had to die to escape? These are the thoughts that cross the minds of those left behind, and sometimes anger is the only emotion left to cope with it. My family and I are the survivors who have to endure in only a few short years, not only the pain of the one who refused to live, but the loss of the one who refused to give up and died anyway, and the one who is still fighting to live against all odds. So do I know what it’s like to be depressed? You betcha. Do I know what it’s like to endure the “dark night of the soul”? You better believe it. I have walked through the valley of the shadow of death many times. If we were to be perfectly honest and admit it, we all want to die at times. But, we don’t. We just don’t.

Christmas Store Decorations

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Remember back in the day when merchants enticed customers into their stores to look at their beautiful, exciting and lavish Christmas displays? All the stores competed with one another. They worked hard at it. They even hired decorators to come into the stores to create a magical world their patrons could get lost in. Even children knew something changed in the air and dragged their parents into any store that had twinkling lights. People walked with smiles on their faces and became polite even to strangers because of the sweet peaceful feeling it instilled. I remember this. I miss this.

It was spectacular the way the world was transformed from everyday mundane and boring to a wonderland of sights and sounds. Not only was the traditional Christmas music playing, but there were the sounds of trains whistling as they circled around elaborately decorated trees, bells were ringing, people were singing, children were laughing and people were taking their time checking out the merchandise. Housewares were displayed over wrapped packages to give you an idea of how it would look once it was hidden inside, garland was streaming across the ceilings, windows were frosted and even paper snowflakes hovered over the clothing departments. Merchandise was displayed in such a wondrous and magical way people bought it just because it looked cool sitting there.

Outside, the city street lights were covered in ribbons and windows sparkled with lights everywhere you looked. People were drawn out of their homes with the spectacle. They couldn’t help it. They had to go see, they had to go touch, and they had to experience the magic. And every last one of them laid down their money. Business was booming. Everyone needed to buy a gift for someone and all that was needed was to get them in the store. And in they came…because it was beautiful. As an extra incentive, they would advertise a lower price than the other guy and that price would be available today and tomorrow…all the way up until the Big Day.

Then something changed. Retail no longer makes an effort. They no longer care what their customer experience is going to be. It is business as usual, every boring-day-usual, during the holidays. They have decided not to decorate at all, or if they do anything at all it is minimal. Now they just “lower” a price on limited merchandise, open earlier and earlier, and expect to rack up sales with no effort on their part at all.  It is not fun anymore. The employees are overworked and haggard.  Customers are no longer smiling and laughing, they are pushing each other out of the way because the item they want will only be there for an instant, and then it is gone. They are charging through the doors to get a deal on the ONE day it is offered and if they can’t get it that day, they are out of luck. Be faster next time, buddy. Be pushier next time, because there is no time and no room for courtesy. There is no incentive at all to get bundled up, go outside and visit those stores.

And the Retailers wonder why they are losing their customers. They wonder why they are not out shopping and visiting their stores. They wonder why their previously loyal customers have decided to just stay home and shop elsewhere online. And more than likely, those low prices, which is the only thing they use to entice people to come in these days, can still be found through some online merchant. And at least at home the place is decorated. At home the music is playing. At home there is laughter and singing and bells ringing. The sights and smells of the Holiday are only in the home now. Maybe at home there is even the sound of a whistling train under a tree that is lavishly decorated and there is a peaceful and magical feeling in the air. That same feeling that is now missing in all those stores.

 

Open Letter to CEO’s of Corporate Retail For Creating “Black Thanksgiving”.

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Just a few reasons why it is wrong and evil of you to intrude upon Thanksgiving as your new “Black Friday.”

1st of all, it is not only unloyal, but disrespectful to your employees to require them to work on their contractual and corporate agreed upon holidays.  But worse, Thanksgiving is a federally mandated holiday and a religious observance that has been in effect since George Washington enacted the very first one. There are only three holidays per year, and you insist upon the theft of one of them. The intrusion of corporate retail that interferes with the religious and familial observances of an entire nation is uncalled for. Next you will probably expect everyone to give up their Christmas day off too. One day won’t make a difference. Understand this…there is already a nationwide protest against the greed of corporate America that will not end because of this. It only makes it worse.

2nd: You are not only forcing retail employees to work overtime, but because of you, police, fire, paramedics, hospitals and security personnel will also have to be increased to deal with unruly crowds and injuries caused by your ridiculous insistence that consumers must undergo a frantic search for sales of unessential goods on one day only, and that day must be extended. Because of you, they all have to work longer hours too. Taxpayer dollars are not used to hire “seasonal” police officers.

3rd: Other countries don’t have “Black Friday”, but they ALL have Christmas. Every country in the world has Christmas. And according to several business news sources, they also have profitable sales during the holiday season without the additional stress of corporations forcing them all out of their homes to shop on ONE day of the year. So what’s the point? The same number of gifts still need to be purchased by Christmas. Whether they are purchased on Thanksgiving, or Black Friday, or December 2nd or the 15th, or any other day, what difference does it make? The gift will still be purchased and if you give the consumer a good deal, it will be purchased in your very own store. Wouldn’t corporate retail be better served by offering decent prices throughout the season, instead of just on one tiring and stressful marathon day? I know your excuse is that your “stats” claim that consumers spend their entire Christmas wad of cash in the FIRST store they enter, so you think that whoever opens first wins the whole shabang.  Rediculous. The consumers know merchandise is limited and not everyone can fit into the one store earlybird. Mostly because of you, there is no longer a four day Thanksgiving weekend for most of America anymore anyway, as it has been chipped away year after year. So, maybe you can be pro-active, and have your big sale on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and leave the employees to their holiday.

4th: Consumers obviously don’t understand that on these “Black Fridays” retail employees have been working 18 to 24 hour shifts, or longer, just to handle the sheer volume of people that come in. Now toss earlier start times on Thanksgiving into the mix. Is it any wonder that with all those additional work hours thrown onto their shifts they are upset? They have already put in long after hours to get the stores ready, are required to attend the family celebrations of their ALREADY SCHEDULED DAY OFF, and they don’t even have time for a nap before going to work. After the stores finally close, who cleans up the mess left behind? Throw millions of tired retail staff into cars and put them on the road, and you have a disaster on your hands. Laws have been enacted to prevent doctors from doing that very thing.

5th: Not one of those forced to work will be shopping. They won’t have time. Have these corporations ever counted the cost of that? Those sales are going to go to Amazon, the very same company your extended hours are trying to prevent. Haven’t you said you are doing this to circumvent customers from shopping online? It won’t work, because now you have alienated thousands upon thousands of consumers and those forced to work with lose out on all your brick and mortar sales. They will shop the sales online wherever they can get them, because now we all know there are no deals after your Black day. At least by shopping online, they are not risking their lives being trampled by the crowds in their frenzy to crash through your doors.

6th: Thanksgiving is a well beloved holiday. It is a time for family and friends to spend time with one another. Some of them travel great distances just to be together. They spend hard earned money on the one feast they reserve for that day. Do you honestly believe that if an American Soldier was allowed to come home for the Holiday, he or she would prefer to spend their time shopping on Thanksgiving? Do you think that if they are to remain in a foxhole, they dream of shopping? Where do you think their priorities lie? They would choose to spend that day with their loved ones, catching up with their lives, eating and relaxing far away from the madness? But, now, you have taken that from them. Their loved ones are now working.

On My Soapbox Again

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaIt constantly amazes me how adults who, rightfully, condemn bullying against the youth in schools and social websites (to the point they want laws that will actually imprison youths who do it), will actually teach them HOW to bully as they insult one another over their own differences. Vulgar name calling, bashing, and accusations against one another, just because the other person doesn’t “think” the same way they do. I see it constantly. Is it ok because it is adults beating down adults? Is it ok because they are supposedly old enough to “handle” it? I can give example after example, but I won’t because I really DON’T want to give those people any more ideas on how to bash one another. The media does it constantly and then the people follow suit. Media talking heads, members of Congress, low-life reality celebrities, A list celebrities, rap artists, singers, certain so-called Christian “leaders of the people”…they all get their licks in too. And then they will condemn the kids for doing what they do.

Just a few minutes ago, I was reading a celebrity’s page (Mike Rowe) who went on a conservative show to raise money for his cause. He did not talk politics, he talked about his cause. Before that, he went on a liberal’s show to raise money for his cause. In both cases, he is “guilty by association”. The vulgar words being thrown around by both sides are disgusting. He once wrote a blog on it, saying how he doesn’t understand why people are being this way, but evidently it was to no avail. How is he supposed to raise money for his cause if he is not allowed to talk to ANYONE?

Kids need role models. If adults would just TRY to behave themselves, and stop bullying one another, then maybe the kids would too. Every bad thing a kid does, begins with an adult who did it first. The hate needs to stop immediately. Adults need to be more responsible before it causes the death of another child.

On My Soapbox

pillsI have noticed that authorities tend to blame either terrorism or “mental illness” as a cause for just about every horrible act committed by an individual.

Who really knows the truth since the media has a tendency to report rumors, misconceptions, theories, miscommunications, and/or outright lies as fact from their “trusted” sources? But, is a true “mental illness” the actual cause of many of the acts that have been committed, or was it something else?

How many people go to a doctor complaining of stress, or sleeplessness, and find themselves prescribed some anti-psychotic medication to either settle their nerves or help them sleep? Most people, especially the elderly, trust their doctors and will swallow whatever they give them. They don’t check the medications for side effects, and they don’t think to check if the medication might have adverse reactions if combined with other medications, alcohol or even certain foods. They just take that pill.

It is a fact that certain prescribed drugs are causing symptoms of mental illness, but that does not mean the person HAS a mental illness. From MULTIPLE times of experience, with MULTIPLE individuals, I’ve personally seen people act out of character, have seen presented deep-seated issues they didn’t even know they had, have seen them have conversations with invisible beings they swear are standing right there, have held conversations with them about the most ridiculous subjects, and each time that person was awake…or appeared to be. But, they weren’t. All because they couldn’t sleep and took an AMBIEN.

You cannot wake them, either. No matter what you do, the drug has to wear off before they are lucid again. People have been found wielding weapons as they wander down the street sleep-walking with their eyes wide open. Soldiers with PTSD out and about reliving extreme battle stress, swinging at hallucinations and/or real live people have been reported. NONE have memories of these actions. THEY WILL TALK TO YOU AND RESPOND, while under the influence, but only the people who know them well, will recognize there is something wrong. They are not awake. They are not mentally ill or crazy. They are under the influence of a drug that has no business being prescribed to anyone! The FDA refuses to acknowledge these problems and pill-pusher doctors are making a lot of money handing them out.

How many people are driving under the influence of Ambien? They look and act wide awake, but they are zombies wandering around with no idea of what they are doing, and I stress again, they will have no memory of any of it once they actually wake up. If you can realize they are NOT AWAKE and get them into bed and make them actually close their eyes, they should pass out immediately, but after a time will thrash about in the bed, reaching out, lifting their legs as though acting out a dream. They have been found wandering naked down freeways, going to work in pajamas, dropping kids off at school on a Saturday, cooking in the middle of the night, taking furniture apart, conversing with actors on TV, binge eating, digging holes in the yard, knocking down walls, standing on roof tops, grabbing their hunting rifles and shooting, or they simply wander off and disappear. Yes, most of the time the things they do are either dumb or mostly dangerous to themselves, but every once in a while, full blown Hell breaks loose and bullets are flying everywhere.

Tara Pollard

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