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The Global March to Jerusalem…A New Version of March Madness for the Enemies of Israel

Written by Marty Roberts on March 28, 2012 – 1:34 pm -

The Hamas-Jihadist-Muslim Brotherhood-Iranian version of the “Million Man March”, this time to Jerusalem instead of Washington, D.C.–Will it be a tragic PR nightmare for Israel or a colossal failure?

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Global March to Jerusalem

Israel’s security forces are hoping for the best…but preparing for the worst…

On Today’s show:

The Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ)…


The Global March to Jerusalem

Who is behind it?


The Global March to Jerusalem

What are the objectives of the GMJ?


The Global March to Jerusalem

What are the likely outcomes?

How is Israel preparing?…Are they prepared?


The Global March to Jerusalem

What has Iran got to do with the GMJ, and what about the Iranian Jewish community?


Israeli Arab Land Day Riots

Plus…The event is scheduled for “Land Day”, this Friday, March 30th…What is THAT all about?…And what about the Arab-Israeli citizens?…A dangerous internal threat?


Also…The end of arch-chameleon, Tzipi Livni’s reign over Ariel Sharon’s Kadima Party…Only to be replaced Shaul Mofaz, ex-General, turned suit-your-position-to-the-polls chameleon…


Youtube videos promoting the Global March to Jerusalem…

All this and more on The Marty Roberts Show

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Bomb Shelter Shabbos…Hundreds of Palestinian Rockets and Missiles are Raining on Israel

Written by Marty Roberts on March 13, 2012 – 1:46 pm -

What it’s like for me and about 1,000,000 others living in Southern Israel after 4+ days of continuous rocket and missile barrage from Gaza…

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Israel eliminates 2 top Popular Resistance Committee terrorist leaders on Friday, thus foiling another massive terror attack on Southern Israel…The palestinians in Gaza reply with more than four days of almost continuous rocket and missile bombardment of Israeli cities and towns…


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On today’s show:

What it’s like living through this surreal adventure…


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Israel’s fantastic Iron Dome missile defense system stops 90% of the missiles in mid-air…


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What is really happening on the ground, here, in Southern Israel…


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Also…Israel continues to pay the price in blood for the Gilad Shalit prisoner release swap deal…

Plus…In spite of it all…Record numbers of tourists flock to Israel in February…

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Marty Roberts: Staying Real in Israel Purim Special…The Purim Story, Then and Now

Written by Marty Roberts on March 7, 2012 – 11:23 am -

Is Ahmadinejad Amalek?…Haman?

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On today’s show, a look at the parallels between the Purim Story in ancient Persia and what is going on today in modern-day Iran and Israel…What is the same, and what is different…


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VERY different, including highlights of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to AIPAC in America this week…Purim revisited?…Never again!!!


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Plus…The beauty of Purim in Israel…The Purim Holiday like you’ve never, ever experienced it in the diaspora…This should make you yearn to return home to Israel from exile…

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Also…Wealth in Israel…Multiple surprising reports about the meteoric growth of wealth in the tiny Jewish State…

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Beware!..You May Face the Death Sentence If You Tweet or Cartoon About Islam…But, Please…Feel Free to Denounce the Bible of Christians and Jews as a Lie, Even Before International Forums

Written by Marty Roberts on February 28, 2012 – 1:34 pm -

Where’s the outrage???…For Christians and Jews alike to allow this to go on unchallenged is unbelievably destructive and self-hating…

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On today’s show:

An Egyptian Coptic-christian on trial for a cartoon depicting a bearded Mickey Mouse and a veiled Minnie Mouse…The charges?…Defaming religion and intentionally deriding Islamic icons and Islamic dress…

Also…The case of Saudi journalist Hamaz Kashgari, arrested and facing a court-ordered death by beheading before a Saudi Arabian Sharia court…His crime?…Tweets on Twitter considered blasphemous to Islam.


Iran’s solution to the problem?…Block all means of internet communication and social networking…

One American Father’s solution?…Riddle your daughter’s laptop computer with bullets…Watch this video if you think we’re kidding…



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Plus…The International conference for the Defense of Jerusalem is staged in Doha…What comes out of the conference?…A denial of the Jewish biblical connection to Jerusalem, a denial of the history of Israel and Jerusalem, a denial of the truth about freedom of religion in Jerusalem under Israel versus Moslem control…and…further proof, if any is necessary, that Mahmoud Abbas has not desire for or intention of peace with Israel…

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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Addresses a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress..To Resounding American Support From Both Sides of the Aisle

Written by Marty Roberts on May 25, 2011 – 11:21 am -

Israel’s position for talks with the palestinians are clear and reasonable…

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Netanyahu Speech to Congres

NO return to the 1967 Auschwitz borders…
NO division of Israel’s capital, Jerusalem…
NO return of so-called palestinian refugees inside of Israel’s borders…
NO negotiations with the palestinian Al-Queda, Hamas…


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And, of course, the palestinians must recognize and accept the existence of Israel as a Jewish State…

All of which the palestinians have already refused to do…but we knew that, anyway, didn’t we?


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Also…palestinian leader Abbas openly denies history by repudiating any Jewish historical connection with the land of Israel, while claiming a “palestinian” legacy…none of which is supported by history, OR archeology…


Plus…American AND Israeli leaders have come and gone, but the Jews continue to be fruitful, multiply and settle the Land of Israel…specifically, Judea and Sameria…Why we will never leave, no matter WHO is in “power”…

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Barak Obama’s Middle East Policy Speech…Has The American President Completely Lost Touch With Reality?

Written by Marty Roberts on May 20, 2011 – 11:25 am -

He has to be either ignorant and uninformed, totally naive…or totally hostile to America’s best allies in the Middle East …

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That’s the only possible explanation for the content of his policy speech at the US State Department yesterday.


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How can he possibly call for the establishment of a hostile, terrorist state on Israeli land, while returning Israel to the in-defensible pre-1967 “Auschwitz” borders?

How can he expect Israel to make peace with the Hamas/Fatah/Iran terrorist entity now unified in their leadership of the Palestinian Authority…a united administration sworn to Israel’s destruction in both word and deed?


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How can America pour massive sums of US taxpayer-dollars into countries like Egypt and Tunis, after causing the ouster of US-friendly leaders, soon to be replaced by Islamist, Jihadist Moslem Brotherhood governments?

How can Obama call for the downfall of Arab leader after Arab leader, but not do so for Syria’s Assad, who is murdering hundreds of his own citizens on a daily basis?


Plus…U.S Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle call for an immediate halt to American aid to the Palestinian Authority…


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And…Former Muslim radical Tawfik Hamid writes:
“The Arab-Israeli conflict is NOT about borders, but about the EXISTENCE OF ISRAEL.”

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Israel Celebrates Independence Day…63 Years Young

Written by Marty Roberts on May 13, 2011 – 11:02 am -

The demographics of the Jewish State are definitely looking up…

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Israel Independence Day

And her citizens are, for the most part, happy with the Middle East’s only real democracy…The modern Jewish State of Israel…


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Also…Nefesh B’Nefesh celebrates the year’s new immigrant babies…


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“The Terminator”, Arnold Shwarzenegger speaks out on Israel…


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And…Iran just went nuclear last week…Anybody notice?…Anybody care?…


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Plus…Israeli super-model, Bar Rafaeli…#6 hottest woman in the world, according to Maxim, while Israel hosts fashion shoot after fashion shoot under the beautiful Israeli sun…At the same time, Israel hosts the Asian Physics Olympiad…and takes home the gold (and bronze and silver)

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Iranian Warship in the Mediterranean for the First Time Since 1979

Written by Marty Roberts on February 20, 2011 – 6:30 pm -

Iranian Warships

Thanks to the new “democracy” in Egypt, there is now an Iranian warship in the Mediterranean Sea. It just passed through the Suez Canal with the blessings of the new military government. Egypt has not allowed an Iranian ship through since 1979. The warship is escorting a cargo ship deemed to be carrying long-range missiles for Hizbullah, to be unloaded at a seaport in Syria. The missiles are intended to be used against Israel.

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Loaded With Missiles

It is against international law and UN resolutions to transport arms to Hizbullah in Syria…any United Nations member-state has the right to board and inspect the suspect ship.

Israel? America?

We’re waiting…


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“Democratic” Revolutions in the Arab Middle East May Well Be the End of the Road for Christianity in the Region

Written by Marty Roberts on February 16, 2011 – 1:12 pm -

(except in Israel, of course…)

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Iran, Iraq, the Palestinian Authority…All have experienced and continue to perpetuate ethnic cleansing of their Christian populations once the “democratic” revolutions have taken place…Why expect anything different in Egypt, Yemen, Jordan or Tunisia?…

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And…Although only 1500 Jews remain in Tunisia, they fear for their safety as synagogues beef up protection in light of anti-Jewish demonstrations in the streets following the ouster of THEIR autocratic leader, Ben Ali…


Also…Rabbi Shmuley Boteach urges the Pope to promote “Shabbat Dinners” amongst his Catholic followers…This, as Rabbi Boteach promotes his new book about pop icon Michael Jackson, who, in Boteach’s words, “was a family man with strong values and love for his children”…Huh???

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Plus…The Israeli public votes “National Religious” as the group that contributes most to the Israeli Army…


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Tel Aviv Pedicure

How about topless female barber(ettes) in Tel Aviv…


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Michelle Obama's Cousin...Rabbi Funnye

And President Barak Obama receives another letter calling for clemency for Jonathan Pollard…This time from a Jewish Rabbi…who happens to be First Lady Michelle Obama’s FIRST COUSIN!!!

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U.S. Secretary of State Clinton Pledges Support for Protestors in Iran…Where Were You in 2009?

Written by Marty Roberts on February 15, 2011 – 7:09 pm -

Where was US when protestors for democracy took to the streets in Iran in 2009 after Ahmadinejad’s rigged “democratic” elections?

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Hillary’s words of support for the “people in the streets” in Iran ring very empty, indeed…

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Iranian protestors, police clash; US backs ‘people in the streets’







Security forces fire teargas to disperse thousands of opposition supporters chanting ‘Death to the dictator’ while marching toward Tehran square; dozens arrested during clashes with police in central Iran. Clinton slams ‘hypocrisy’ of Iranian government. News agency says one killed by protestors


Reprinted from YNetnews.com

Dozens of Iranian opposition supporters were arrested on Monday while taking part in a banned rally in Tehran to support popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, an Iranian opposition website said.

“Witnesses say in some parts of Tehran security forces arrested dozens of protesters,” opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi’s Kaleme website reported.

Security forces fired teargas to scatter thousands of opposition supporters marching toward a Tehran square, a witness said. There were also clashes between police and demonstrators, resulting in dozens of arrests, in Isfahan in central Iran, the country’s third largest city, another witness told Reuters.

The semi-official Fars news agency said one bystander was shot dead and several other people were wounded by protesters.

The rallies amounted to a test of strength for the reformist opposition, which had not taken to the streets since Dec. 2009, when eight people were killed.

Large numbers of police wearing riot gear and security forces were stationed around the main squares of the capital and pairs of state militiamen roamed the streets on motorbikes.

There were minor clashes at some points across the sprawling capital city of some 12 million people, witnesses said. Mobile telephone connections were down in the area of the protests.

“There are thousands of people marching … Security forces fired tear gas to disperse them near Imam Hossein square,” one witness said earlier in the day.

“Death to the dictator,” some of the protesters chanted, though in other places, demonstrators marched in silence.

The demonstrators marched towards Azadi (Freedom) Square, a traditional rallying point for protests in central Tehran dominated by a huge white marble arch. Hundreds of marchers also gathered in Isfahan and Shiraz, witnesses said.

But security forces surrounded the Tehran houses of opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi preventing them and Mousavi’s wife, Zahra Rahnavard from joining the march, their websites said.

“Mirhossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard are still trying to leave their house and join the protests… but security forces are preventing them. Security forces have even threatened Mousavi’s guards to not allow them to leave the house by any means,” the Mousavi’s Kalame website said.

Mousavi and Karroubi took advantage of official Iranian backing for the huge street protests in Egypt and Tunisia to call their own demonstrations in solidarity, but authorities refused their request.

The opposition nevertheless renewed the call for the rally. Iranian authorities have warned the opposition to avoid creating a “security crisis” by reviving protests that erupted after the vote, the biggest unrest in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia an “Islamic awakening”, akin to the 1979 revolution that overthrew the US-backed shah.

But the opposition see the unrest as being more similar to their own protests following the June 2009 election which they say was rigged in favor of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The Revolutionary Guards, fiercely loyal to Khamenei, put down the 2009 protests. Two people were hanged and scores of opposition supporters jailed.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul, on a visit to Tehran, called on Middle Eastern governments to listen to the demands of their people, although he did not refer to Iran.

“We see that sometimes when the leaders and heads of countries do not pay attention to the nations’ demands, the people themselves take action to achieve their demands,” Gul told a news conference alongside Ahmadinejad.

Any use of heavy force to stop the marches in Iran during Gul’s visit could be an embarrassment for Turkey.

However, Ankara, officially an ally of the West, was one of the first governments to congratulate Ahmadinejad on his 2009 re-election and is seeking to triple the volume of trade with its neighbour despite UN, US and EU sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic over its disputed nuclear activity.

Iranian authorities deny doctoring the 2009 election results and accuse opposition leaders of being part of a Western plot to overthrow the Islamic system.

“They are incapable of doing a damn thing,” the hardline Kayhan newspaper quoted Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi as saying, echoing words used by the late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to refer to the United States. The opposition is “guided by Iran’s enemies abroad”, Moslehi said.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed support for the tens of thousands of protesters in Iran’s capital, saying they “deserve to have the same rights that they saw being played out in Egypt and are part of their own birthright.”

Speaking to reporters after meeting House Speaker John Boehner on Monday, Clinton said she and others in Barack Obama’s administration “very clearly and directly support the aspirations of the people who are in the streets” of Tehran.

She spoke of the “hypocrisy” of the Iranian government that hailed the protests in Egypt but has tried to suppress opposition at home.

Clinto added that there “needs to be a commitment to open up the political system, to hear the voices of the opposition and civil society.”


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Britain’s Foreign Minister Has Apparently Lost His Mind

Written by Marty Roberts on February 9, 2011 – 10:22 am -

Is this guy kidding????…He has GOT to be on drugs….or maybe just severely brain damaged (in which case I pity him and the people of Great Britain…but I doubt it)…Perhaps he is blind and deaf…or is it early senility?

William Hague

The largest, strongest Arab nation in the Middle East is about to fall into the hands of terrorist-islamo-fascist ayatollahs, who will control the mega-military built and paid for by the United States of America. This country, Egypt, is sitting on Israel’s southern border. The likely new rulers have openly declared that they will void Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. That’s Israel’s southern border. On the north, Israel has Lebanon, which has just had its government hijacked by Iranian proxy Hizbullah. They have more than 40,000 missiles pointing at Tel-Aviv and environs. The damage to Israel from Hizbullah missiles in the last war has still not been completely repaired. The people of Israel might just be a bit nervous…wouldn’t you????

Israel’s Prime Minister, Netanyahu is attempting to respond to the citizens of Israel’s concerns by stating Israel “will be ready for any outcome” and promised to “reinforce the might of Israel”.

Britain’s genius of a foreign secretary calls this “belligerent rhetoric”???!!! He wants Israel to focus on preventing Jews from building homes in Israel rather than the growing existential threats to the Jewish State? Ignore the jihadist sandwich that is enveloping Israel?

Must be nice over there in La-La Land…Can I have a taste of some of that primo stuff you are smoking?

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Hague warns Israel over ‘belligerent’ rhetoric



Foreign Secretary William Hague warned “belligerent” Israel to tame its rhetoric and said unrest in Arab countries may hinder the peace process, in comments published on Wednesday.


Reprinted from AFP

LONDON — Foreign Secretary William Hague warned “belligerent” Israel to tame its rhetoric and said unrest in Arab countries may hinder the peace process, in comments published on Wednesday.

Hague told the London Times that recent popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan could undermine the search for a permanent solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and urged the United States to take action.

“Amidst the opportunity for countries like Tunisia and Egypt, there is a legitimate fear that the Middle East peace process will lose further momentum and be put to one side, and will be a casualty of uncertainty in the region,” Hague said.

“Part of the fear is that uncertainty and change will complicate the process still further,” the foreign secretary, who is on a three-day trip to north Africa and the Middle East, told the newspaper.

“That means there is a real urgency for the Israelis and the US. Recent events mean this is an even more urgent priority and that?s a case we are putting to the Israeli government and in Washington.”

The former Conservative party leader reacted strongly to Israel leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s call to his nation to be ready for “any outcome” and his promise to “reinforce the might of the state of Israel.”

“This should not be a time for belligerent language,” Hague argued. “It is a time to inject greater urgency into the Middle East peace process.”

Israel’s stance on settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories is “disappointing” and peace may become “impossible” within a few years, Hague said.

He also voiced concern over possible conflict between the Jewish state and Shiite Muslim militant group Hezbollah following last month’s collapse of the Lebanese government.

“The scale of any military conflict that may happen between Israel and Hezbollah is growing, because of the growth of armaments in the area,” Hague warned.

Hague spoke while traveling to Jordan from Tunisia, where he met members of the country’s interim government, including Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi.


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Lebanon has Already Fallen into the Hands of Iranian Proxy Hizbollah

Written by Marty Roberts on February 8, 2011 – 4:34 pm -

This may turn out to be even more significant than Egypt’s imminent fall…

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While all eyes are focused on the fall of Egypt to islamo-fascism, not very many are paying attention to the fall of Lebanon. Lebanon is now in the hands of Iranian proxy Hizbollah. They have more than 40,000 missiles aimed at the heart of Israel. Just a couple of years ago, Hizbollah proved to the world that were ready, willing and able to use their missiles to threaten the length and breadth of her neighbor to the south, Israel.

Iranian-backed Hizbollah began their takeover of Lebanon by assassinating Prime Minister Hariri in 2005. As the UN tribunal stands ready to point the finger of accusation at them, they have finished off the job by forcing Hariri’s son Saad to resign as prime inister and placing their puppet in control of a Hizbollah-dominated coalition.

Jimmy Carter lost Iran from the pro-Western bloc to the islamo-fascists. He is starting to look pretty good in comparison to Barak Obama, who is about to become the American president that lost Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Egypt and who knows how many more formerly friendly Arab nations to the ayatollahs…

Hope and change…

I just hope that things stop changing for the bad pretty soon….







Lebanon, not Egypt, may determine the fate of democracy in the Middle East



Despite the media’s recent focus on Egypt, events in Lebanon may well tell us more about the troubled prospects for Middle Eastern democracy. The fall of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s government, replaced by a Hezbollah-dominated coalition, dramatically imperils Beirut’s democratic Cedar Revolution.


Reprinted from JSOnline by John R. Bolton

Financed and dominated by Iran, terrorist Hezbollah has consistently refused to disarm and become a legitimate political party. Instead, it enjoys the best of both worlds, contesting elections while retaining the military ability to enforce its will against uncongenial results. History will rightly blame the West for the tragedy of the takeover in Beirut, because of its unwillingness to stand against Hezbollah and its Iranian puppet masters. Washington must withhold recognition from any Lebanese government that relies on Hezbollah support.

In mid-January at The Hague, the prosecutor for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon submitted long-awaited indictments regarding the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Although the indictments are not yet public, they are widely expected to finger top leaders in Hezbollah, Syria and potentially Iran, and they are doubtless behind Hezbollah’s decision to assert itself by collapsing the government of Hariri’s son.

Rescuing Lebanon from radicals and terrorists will require strong action, noticeably absent in recent U.S. policy. We can no longer pretend that the special tribunal’s existence is an adequate response to the real problem in Lebanon: Tehran’s long-standing drive for regional hegemony. It was always a mistake to confuse the effectiveness of an international criminal court with courts of real constitutional governments, and harmfully naive to think that the special tribunal could operate in a vacuum, as the events in Lebanon make painfully clear.

Of course, Hezbollah’s toppling of the Lebanese government is just the latest of its cancerous efforts in its home base. And it remains a continuing threat to innocent civilians in Israel, to other Arab governments in the Middle East and increasingly to other nations around the globe.

For years before Hariri’s February 2005 murder, the West explained away or ignored Hezbollah’s clear role as an active agent of Syrian and Iranian influence. Western dupes and sympathizers noted Hezbollah’s support for schools and hospitals among Lebanon’s Shiite Muslims as if it were a different Hezbollah from the one terrorizing Israel and subverting and intimidating Lebanon’s faltering efforts at representative government. Hezbollah’s diaphanous justification for its military capability – expelling Israel from Lebanon – in effect ended in 2000 when Israel complied with U.N. Security Council resolutions by withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon. Of course, protecting Lebanon is legitimately the responsibility only of the Lebanese armed forces, which in fact Syria and Hezbollah have also been working to bring under their control.

Western support for Lebanese democracy has been for the most part limited to a series of Security Council resolutions, particularly Resolution 1559, calling for Syria to withdraw its forces from Lebanon, and Resolution 1595, creating an international investigation commission to assist Lebanon in prosecuting the Hariri assassination. But Hezbollah foiled these efforts in 2006 by provoking war with Israel. The Security Council ultimately imposed a cease-fire and called for “the disarming of all armed groups in Lebanon,” for an embargo against rearming Hezbollah and for Lebanon’s government to take control of its entire territory, in order to eliminate Hezbollah’s state within a state.

But, as so often before, the West did not follow through. Instead, Iran and Syria rearmed and restored Hezbollah to greater strength (unequivocally demonstrating that Hezbollah was their proxy).

The West must insist on enforcing the Security Council resolutions in support of Lebanese sovereignty and peaceful, representative government, or stop engaging in meaningless gestures. This is our last opportunity before Hezbollah’s armed capabilities swallow democracy in Lebanon, perhaps permanently, and dramatically increase the risk of renewed hostilities throughout the region.

President Obama’s reaction is crucial. Unlike Washington’s repeated prior failures, we must refuse to recognize any Hezbollah-dominated government as legitimate, at least until Hezbollah fully disarms and becomes a real political party. This may well mean committing to more than an impotent U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon. Hezbollah’s 1983 bombings of U.S. and French forces in Beirut caused their withdrawal, a rare failure of will by then-President Reagan, leading to today’s crisis. We stand aside again at our peril.

The White House has been obsessed for two years with pressuring Israel to make concessions to Palestinians instead of focusing on the manifestations of Iran’s menace. Perhaps the humiliation of Hezbollah’s collapsing of Saad Hariri’s government as Hariri was meeting in the Oval Office will help spur Obama into meaningful action. If not, the lights will be going out in Lebanon for a long time to come, with devastating consequences in the broader Middle East.

John R. Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of “Surrender Is Not an Option.” He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.t routed forces loyal to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007.


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Is The Western World Really Not Worried About It’s Future Oil Supply?

Written by Marty Roberts on February 8, 2011 – 4:12 pm -

Maybe Obama still thinks he can run the Western Hemisphere on corn energy…

No More Oil

Almost all of the free world’s supply of oil arrives via the Suez Canal.

Egypt controls the Suez Canal.

Obama and the Western World are about to let the Jihadists of Hamas, Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood take control of Egypt.

Connect the dots…..

Where is your oil going to come from after Mubarak falls and the Egyptian people “democratically” elect another Islamo-fascist ayatollah government?

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Power to the People…The Surge Towards Democracy in the Arab Middle East

Written by Marty Roberts on February 2, 2011 – 4:25 pm -

A tidal wave of populist uprisings are sweeping the Arab Middle East, starting with Tunisia and spreading into Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and beyond…

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The Arab people are screaming for democracy, demanding a change of the old order, removal of benign and not-so-benign despots and their military regimes…This has to be a good thing, right?

Maybe not…It all depends upon who gets the power and what they do with it (Think: Iran, circa 1979…The Shah vs. the ayatollahs)…


Egypt riots

A look at the current state of the widespread rioting and revolts throughout the Arab Middle East…Who is revolting against whom, and who are the likely winners?

A look at the Muslim Brotherhood…Where do they come from?…What do they stand for?…What are their goals and how do they intend to achieve them?


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Plus…What has been the historic results of the people taking democratic control of their countries in the Arab world?…What are the likely outcomes today, and what are the implications for the Western World, the U.S. and Israel?


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Also…U.S. President Obama’s Middle East track record…What has he achieved and where does he and his administration stand in light of the current unrest in the Arab world?

And…Some parting advice for the policy-makers in Washington…Take it, or leave it…


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The Worm That Got The Early Bird (The Iranian Nuclear One)…The Strange Story of the Stuxnet Virus

Written by Marty Roberts on January 18, 2011 – 4:19 pm -

Has this cyber-monster effectively crippled Iran’s nuclear program?…

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The Stuxnet Virus

The Stuxnet Virus

Or, maybe not???


P1 Centrifuge in Iran

P1 Centrifuge in Iran

Taking the military option for destroying Iran’s nuclear ambitions off the table just might NOT be the wisest step right now…

Here’s some food for thought as to why this is true…


Nuclear Iran

Nuclear Iran


We must prevent a nuclear-armed Iran at all costs…and RIGHT NOW!!!

Also…Israeli hi-tech helps out Ohio during rough economic times…

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