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My Little Phony
This past weekend, as President Obama was busy illegally depriving mental health patients of their right to privacy and Social Security recipients of their right to bear arms, Saudi Arabia and Iran officially stopped speaking.
Last week, Saudi Arabia executed a dissident Shiite cleric and 46 co-conspirators for treason.
The Iranian government responded by cutting diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia.
Shiites across the region called for angry protests and Iranians stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
Saudi Arabia said, “Fine then!” and gave the Iranian envoy 48 hours to leave the country.
An official in the Obama administration put in Barack’s foreign policy two cents by repeating the Obama’s “talking can solve all problems” Doctrine.
From the BBC: The divide between Sunni and Shiite is the largest and oldest in the history of Islam. Although Sunnis and Shiites share many fundamental beliefs and practices, they differ in doctrine, ritual, law, theology and religious organization. The great majority (85% to 90%) of Muslims world-wide are Sunnis.
Afghanistan, India, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Qatar, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have Sunni majorities, but large Shiite communities exist in them. Iran, Iraq, Bahrain, Azerbaijan and, according to some estimates, Yemen have Shiite majorities.
Following the radical Iranian revolution of 1979, Tehran has actively supported Shiite militias and parties beyond its borders. Naturally, Sunni-ruled Gulf states have reacted by increasing their support for Sunni nations and movements.
But never mind all that! OBVIOUSLY, the only thing standing between revolutionary Shiite Iran becoming bffs with conservative Sunni Saudi Arabia is a nice pot of tea and some sweet little cakes served on My Little Pony plates.
Just ask Barack the Great Negotiator … who personally limits his own open-minded “dialogue” with ideological enemies to snarky remarks, sweeping accusations, and finger wagging from behind his President’s “no interruptions will be tolerated” Podium.
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Thinking is hard
July 3, 2013 (NYPost) Clueless John Kerry < Just as true today!
Is John Kerry stupid? This is not a rhetorical question. …
Our brand-spanking-new secretary of state has spent a considerable amount of time in the Middle East over the past month. That makes sense, since the Middle East is the epicenter of the world’s troubles.
But Kerry has chosen not to concentrate on the immediate crises at hand there — the killing grounds in Syria, the roiling streets of Egypt, even (a little bit to the North) the troubles in Turkey. Instead, he’s dedicated himself to a lingering policy problem that is a) not in crisis, b) uniquely unready for any kind of forward movement at present and c) utterly beside the point at the moment.
That matter is, of course, the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians.
Read the rest @ http://nypost.com/2013/07/03/clueless-john-kerry/
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Putin Asserts Middle East Dominance at UN; Snubs Weaker Obama
Telegraph/UK – Vladimir Putin snubbed Barack Obama and revived Russia’s historic role in the Middle East on Monday by calling for a new “broad coalition” to fight Isil based on co-operation with the Assad regime, report Richard Spencer, Harriet Alexander in New York and Roland Oliphant in Moscow.
In his long-awaited speech at the United Nations, the Russian president fiercely attacked American policy in Syria and around the world and criticised the West for “exporting social experiments” in the form of democratic revolutions, which he blamed for the Middle East crisis. Read the rest at the Telegraph.
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Clinton Corruption: Arms Deals
During Obama’s first term, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved HUGE arms deals to multiple countries, some of which the State Department had formally criticized for their atrocious human rights records.
These deals represented increases of 143 percent to almost 200 percent over what the Bush State Department had awarded the same countries during Bush’s second term.
Before getting these sweetheart deals, these same foreign nations and the American defense contractors selling the weapons had all made HUGE donations to the Clinton Foundation and/or personally paid Bill Clinton exorbitant amounts to make a speech.
Keep in mind that under Obama, our government has been spending $1 Trillion per year more than it takes in. At SecState Clinton’s direction, millions of this money we borrowed at interest from foreign nations went to purchase weapons from companies that had greased the Clinton’s Palms then were given to corrupt dictators who had greased the Clinton’s Palms.
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The screwed up values of the American Left
While Leftists in this country obsess about Confederate flags and Christian bakers, they have nothing whatsoever to say about the genocide of Christians in the Middle East or the billions of dollars that foreign extremists have poured into advancing the Islamization of America.
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Barack Obama has a lot of blood on his hands
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Filed under Barack Obama, Benghazi, Iraq, ISIS, Media Bias, Middle East, Syria
Troops massing against Israel’s borders
Filed under ISIS, Islam, Israel, Middle East
Beirut Bombshell: Greatest Threat Facing Mankind Is NOT Global Warming
Nope. Apparently, it’s Israel.
Wow, look at all these green countries. Sunni or Shia, it doesn’t seem to matter. The biggest threat they face and the reason that they are all struggling with crushing economic, cultural, technological and environmental failure is just one word: Israel. Such a relief! At least we know that Bill Nye and Al Sharpton are wrong about that whole “climate control” thing.
Breitbart(Washington DC) – Muslim clerics gathered in Beirut on Wednesday to kick off the Khomeinist International Union of Resistance conference, where “scholars” discussed how to stand up against the “cancerous tumor of Israel,” according to reports from Lebanese and Iranian media outlets.
Radical Iranian cleric Mohsen Araki said that destroying Israel and “countering the arrogant world” should be the two main priorities for “resistance clerics,” reports Iran’s state-run Taghrib News.
Araki, who once served as Iranian dictator Ali Khamenei’s representative in London, continued with his speech. “Standing against the arrogant world and its representative in the region, the cancerous tumor of Israel, is a must which should be shouldered by resistance clerics and leaders,” he said, according to the state-media report. Read more at Breitbart.
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Sister Hatune reports on ISIS war on women
While Leftist Americans like Nancy Pelosi have been “defending” women against the alleged and non-existent GOP “war on women”, Sister Hatune Dogan has been on the ground in the Middle East, providing food, clothing, medicine and shelter to the poor and persecuted.
She told CBN about the stories survivors have shared with her about how ISIS sells Christians and Yazidi women into sex slavery. “They choose the most beautiful one, even if they have a small child, and they sell these women, these ladies to each other. They don’t sell to another religion — only Sunni Muslim,” Dogan said.
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