Showing posts with label John Kerry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Kerry. Show all posts

Thursday, November 19, 2015

THE US PRESIDENT'S MIGRANT DARLINGS - NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Incoming migrants mean incoming anti-Semites, but Obama’s migrant darlings imperil all Americans.


The man on CNN (or maybe Fox?) says that we should welcome Obama’s 10,000 Syrian migrants. They’re harmless.

After all, there’ve been no signs of terrorism from the thousands, Syrians and otherwise, who have already encamped within the United States over the years, meaning that aside from the Fort Hood slaughter, the Boston Marathon massacre and other such displays of affection – heck, what’s the problem?

The problem is -- what do we mean by terrorism?

Islamic terrorism (just about the only flavor we’ve got nowadays) does not always go boom, as it did in Paris and as it does so often in Israel.

Every time a Jewish kid or speaker gets bullied on campus by Islamic delinquents who’ve infiltrated our schools – that’s terrorism.

I hate to be so blunt about this, but 10,000 new Islamic Syrian migrants automatically means 10,000 new anti-Semites. You read it here first. Nobody else says this because saying something so brutally obvious is politically incorrect and impolite. But that’s the math.

Every time a Jewish kid or speaker gets bullied on campus by Islamic delinquents who’ve infiltrated our schools – that’s terrorism.


On what day did the plight of the hordes come before the safety of dutiful tax-paying citizens? Hollande is still inviting them in, 30,000 over the next two years, and when it happens again he’ll wonder again why…and why French Jews are packing fast for Israel.

Ditto Merkel, who started it all – and we shall see what her politeness soon brings to Germany and throughout rape-capital Europe.

There is no accounting for the suicidal stupidity that afflicts our leaders whose enlightenment is bringing us all down together in one heap. Obama did nothing for Christians who were being beheaded by ISIS but he is all in for Muslims. People are starting to ask whose side is he on? Does he care about us, or does he care mostly about them?

He has it that we must be true to our values. That’s who we are, he says. We are also dead ducks.
His lame response to Paris -- you expected Churchill? You were expecting “we shall fight on the beaches?”

Instead, a confederacy of nomad towel-heads has the entire Western World in fear and trembling.
Our politicians. Our leaders. Their choices are failing us. Their stupid mistakes are killing us.
On stupidity, can anyone beat John Kerry? This fool, just yesterday he explained that the Paris bloodbath was inexcusable.

But of the Charlie Hebdo butchery – well, of that, he, John Kerry can find justification, “rationale.”
That was real blood, John. Not ketchup. Married into the Heinz fortune, he can’t be that stupid.
Defeat ISIS with this leadership?

As if once we bomb them to smithereens we can go back to worrying about the Kardashians again.

Sorry, not so simple. The pestilence we face may live next door without an ISIS shingle or dashboard ID. We don’t know what they’re thinking. Sometimes we do. Last week here in Manhattan a Pakistani cabbie beat up a passenger for being Jewish. That too is ISIS and that too is terrorism.

As I’ve said before, people who don’t know Sinatra are taking over the town…town by town…and as a majority of governors say no to the migrants, de Blasio has already raised his hand to bring in more. He wants the 10,000, or as many as Obama is willing to ship and import of these “widows and orphans,” to quote the president.

The facts and the pictures show otherwise. Most are big strong able-bodied men who ran from the fight – deserters.

I’ve been saying this clearly in my columns and in this book, and finally even uber-leftist Chris Matthews agrees that Obama has it wrong.

Our Liberal Leftists, leaders and followers, are not merely an inconvenient irritation. They are imperiling our kids and our grandkids.

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

CHUCK SCHUMER AGAINST THE WORLD - AUGUST 11, 2015

Of Abraham it’s said that in smashing idols and embracing the absolute sovereignty of a single G-d, he became one man standing against the rest of the world. Well maybe it’s not quite that lonely and heroic for Chuck Schumer, but pretty close. To a Democrat like Schumer,Barack Obama is “the rest of the world.”

That took guts doing what he did. Last week Schumer put to rest all doubt. He will vote to defeat Obama’s Iran Nuke Deal.

So doing he risks the displeasure of the President and the Party. He also risks losing his bid to become Party leader in the Senate.

Toughest of all, perhaps, Schumer risks being called out for voting Jewish.

Yes, Schumer is known for his warmth for the Jewish State. But Schumer is a United States Senator. 

He declared himself against the deal because the deal is harmful to the United States. He spoke up for his New York constituents and he is acting in accord with his American conscience.

This is a rotten deal. It is against the best interests of the United States and it must go down. That is Schumer’s thinking and that is Schumer at his best.

Last week, Obama spent an hour trying to put lipstick on this pig. The President resorted to a crafty age-old trick, blaming Israel – you know, the Jews, wink, wink...

Last week, Obama spent an hour trying to put lipstick on this pig. The President resorted to a crafty age-old trick, blaming Israel – you know, the Jews, wink, wink – in case the deal fell, and he singled out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for being so stubborn.

Bibi is guilty of “unprecedented interference” in US politics, according to Obama with Fareed Zakaria on CNN. As if an Israeli leader speaking his mind is somehow out of turn. This is the same Obama who dispatched an army of political fixers to interfere Bibi from getting reelected.

Obama was sending a message. 

The message was meant for Bibi and the warning was meant for Schumer. Behave or else.

Hours later, Schumer went public. He refused to be intimidated. The timing itself – that really took guts.

Schumer became an instant hero to those who disdain the Iraq deal, and rightly so, but some people wanted more. Why did Chuck say that he was only acting on his own behalf? Why did he say that he would not, repeat not rally his fellow Democrats to his side?

Well, what more can we possibly want? Schumer still has to live in the real world. He still has to caucus with members of his own Party.

He still has to do lunch with the President – the leader of his Party, the leader of his country. Too much lobbying would be rubbing it in.

Schumer has done plenty as it is. He should not be made to answer for what he is not doing.
We know where the Liberals stand. Running on TV at the moment is a J Street commercial frantically supporting the deal.

Swallow it, they say. It’s good for you. Take the medicine.

Why is it so good? Because Obama says so, that’s why.

Plus, John Kerry and his team put it together and is there a smarter man on the face of the earth than 
John Kerry?

To this observer, there is no need to talk centrifuges or “snap-back”clauses or secret agreements to know that Kerry was taken to the cleaners.

The proof of it is that Kerry left Tehran leaving four hostages behind. If he could not get that much business done, surely he was swindled on everything else.

But the Left insists that we won. They tell the rest of us that we have no right to object because we do not have all the facts.

This is true. We do not know all the details. Precisely why we are suspicious and why we find it impossible to talk to a Liberal.

They truly say this… They argue that nobody knows what’s in the deal… but it’s a good deal.

Stop scratching your head. Go, make sense of that logic…plus this logic from Obama himself, saying that they “don’t really mean it” when they chant “Death to the United States” and “Death to Israel.” Six million Jews had to die in order to prove that Hitler really did mean it.

How many chances are we supposed to give the ayatollahs to likewise prove that they mean what they keep saying?

New York-based author and bestselling novelist Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

Sunday, August 2, 2015

IRAB NUKE DEAL – OBAMA PITCHES HOLLYWOOD BOX OFFICE POISON - JULY 30, 2015

Not so long ago when I was there in Hollywood to discuss another movie, I asked a producer when the town would finally open its eyes to Islamic terrorism. Where’s that movie? The man was quick with his answer: “When a bomb hits Paramount studios, that’s when.”

At this rate, that real-life drama could be coming soon enough to Hollywood and to a theater near you.
How do you sell a lousy script that’s been passed around from producer to producer with no buyer in sight?

The wording is unintelligible. The scenario is unfathomable. The characters are disreputable.
Where’s the box office for this clunker that’s being peddled as the Iran Nuke Deal?

But even the most despicable screenplay can be justified when the biggest tycoon sits in Washington and is named Barack Obama. He gets what he wants. He wants this baby sold. It did not take much arm-twisting to get Morgan Freeman and Jack Black to start a Yes campaign for this flop.

We can expect long lines hailing and heiling this upcoming disaster flick because the Boss says do as I say.

Some in Hollywood see the Iran Deal for what it is, a danger to the business, the town, the nation and the entire world. They want it stopped. It’s doubtful they will get as many signatures as Morgan 
Freeman’s Vote Yes petition. Maybe a handful of Hollywood’s elite will vote No, Thanks. We have enough Special Effects. We do not need actual bombs.
Jon Voight, Clint Eastwood and we should expect Kirk Douglas and Michael Douglas to declare No, not in my name.

Where’s the box office for this clunker that’s being peddled as the Iran Nuke Deal?
Anybody else? Streisand? Spielberg? Not likely. Neither them nor the thousands who do lunch at Spago.

But hear this: When Hollywood flew off to Canada for the Toronto Film Festival, something else happened. The Festival honored the Israeli art of film making and sooner than you can say Danny Glover, amovement got started to boycott Israeli films and since that was so easy – why not boycott Israel altogether?

Moguls, producers, directors, actors – within an hour more than a thousand were in line behind Jane Fonda to sign the petition denouncing the Jewish State.
So this is not your father’s Hollywood. There was a time when the “Rat Pack” were kings and Frank Sinatra was Boss and Israel was in style.

Yesterday’s “Exodus” in the steady hands of Otto Preminger became today’s “Munich” in the fearful hands of Steven Spielberg.

Preminger boldly produced a movie with a strong pro-Israel theme – taken from Leon Uris.

Spielberg gave us lame and despicable moral equivalency – taken from Tony Kushner’s anti-Israel screenplay, for which, back then, I wrote this: “In Hollywood today, where David is Goliath and Goliath is David, you never want to be labeled a conservative or a fan of Israel.

“Hollywood is all about being trendy and Israel is not the trend.

“You won't get invited to the right parties and you won't win any Oscars if your heart bleeds for a nation that is always on the verge of being wiped off the map.”

Plus this: “Jews pioneered Hollywood. If, as our enemies say, we own Hollywood, well, here's the plot twist - we have lost Hollywood.”

To make sure that his Iran Deal gets a green light, John Kerry has already warned the Jewish people that they will be blamed if the deal goes down.

That is an ancient blood libel and if he is seeking frightened people to back his ungodly cause, he knows Hollywood is the place.

New York-based novelist Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

Sunday, July 26, 2015

OBAMA'S IRAN DEAL: WHO'S BUYING THIS WRECK? - JULY 26, 2015

Credit King Solomon once again for his wisdom: “A twisted thing cannot be made straight.”
This takes us directly to John Kerry and his pitch before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where he tried to explain away his perfectly awful Iran Deal.

The Senators, mainly Republicans Bob Corker, Marco Rubio, Ron Johnson and Democrat Bob Menendez, saw the lemon for what it is. They were not buying Kerry’s central argument that if Iran’s mullahs fail to behave properly, well, we’ll just go back in and teach them a lesson they’ll never forget.

We’ll take it all back. We’ll re-impose sanctions. We’ll have them reimburse all the money and force them to unhook all their missiles.

Why – in a snap we’ll simply undo everything.

You betcha.

Dream on, we said, those of us who watched the proceedings via C-Span. The cable news networks, including Fox, did not carry the hearing, except for a voice-cut here and there, and this was a mistake. They had a chance to provide a crucial public service. Instead, they chose regular programming and the usual commercials.

Then again, for Kerry, this was a commercial, selling this crooked deal – which cannot be made straight.

As Kerry shared his dreams with the Committee, we thought back to another dreamer, Shimon Peres.
We recalled his high hopes when, as Yitzhak Rabin’s foreign minister, he gladly and enthusiastically signed the Oslo Accords, of which he was partly its architect. The Left had its Big Win. Never mind that Israel had fully legitimized a terror group, the PLO, as its equal. Equal footing for a gang of misfits.

Peres dreamed of a “New Middle East,” which is “new” all right, but in all the wrong places.

Overnight, through a handshake, Rabin to Arafat, a new government was created, a government of scoundrels that now has a seat at the UN.
Promises were made. Israel agrees to numerous concessions, principally a judenrein Gaza and partly the 'West Bank'. Plus, more concessions to come.

But, people said – if the PLO misbehaves, all bets are off. We’re taking it all back, in a snap.

Two intifadas later and Hamas terrorists ensconced in Gaza, nothing’s been taken back – a twisted thing cannot be made straight.

The Senators asked Kerry if he expected Iran to become a regional power. Kerry said no. But, they said, Obama said yes. So yes it is!

So yes is the answer for Obama’s “New Middle East,” just as Peres dreamed of a “New Middle East,” which is “new” all right, but in all the wrong places. Practically every country that surrounds Israel is in hellish, murderous turmoil. Not quite the sweet dreams that Peres had in mind. Or Obama. Or Kerry.

This was difficult television. Kerry squirmed throughout his testimony. Would Israel be able to react against Iran when necessary?

So Kerry danced around that and he waltzed around the question as to why the Administration went straight to the UN before going to Congress.

The Senators had him trapped.

But in the end, they will do nothing, which is what they usually do – nothing. Lois Lerner is still on the loose.

Hillary is still not in jail for Benghazi and her email scandal. Our borders are still wide open.

Much huffing and puffing from the Congress, but nothing much happens.

That is why Trump is still up in the polls. We the People, the little people, we agree with him that our politicians are 90-pound weaklings.

Trump will not win the nomination, but he can dream can’t he? So far his dreams have done no harm.
Can’t say the same for the rest of the dreamers who keep sticking us with nightmares.

Chuck Schumer – where are you?

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. New from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a newsroom thriller ripped from the headlines. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

Thursday, July 23, 2015

THE JOHN KERRY COMEDY HOUR - JULY 23, 2015

Given John Kerry’s flawless performance in Tehran – he never won a single hand – this must be said in his favor: he is no hustler.

Casinos don’t lock their doors when they see him coming. In fact they open their doors wider for such suckers. At the Poker Table he is not known as Slick Willie. In fact the boys all smile when they see him coming and have a chair ready or him. “Please,” they say. “Join us.”

If he counts cards at Blackjack he counts them in favor of the House.

The man can’t win at anything. They love him.

In Pool Rooms he is not known as Minnesota Fats. “Grab a stick,” say the Sharps. “We’ve been waiting for you.”

Despite his poker face, they know him as a sap, a loser who arrives by limo but needs to toss pennies for a Greyhound ride backhome.

The man can’t win at anything. They love him.

They love him in Iran and they love him in Europe. He can be counted on to lose all his chips.

From Monte Carlo through Las Vegas to Atlantic City they keep inviting him to join their tournaments and to please arrive flushed with American cash. Rooms, meals, entertainment – everything comped so long as he joins them at their tables where they know he will always bet wrong.

That’s especially the case after his performance against Iran’s ayatollahs where they hung him out to dry.

He did not win a single wager. So we must imagine the Nuke negotiations as follows:

John: I insist that inspectors be allowed in at any time, without advance warning.

The Ayatollahs: No.

John: Okay. Okay. Sorry I brought it up.

The Ayatollahs: Are we done?

John: Well, if you don’t mind my mentioning – can you please stop subsidizing terrorists throughout the world?”

The Ayatollahs: Are you nuts? This is what we do. Understand?

John: Understood.

The Ayatollahs: Are we done? Because we’re rushed to join the Death to Israel and Death to America rally. It’s Monday.

John: Glad you brought that up. Can you possibly let up on that since we’re lifting economic sanctions? That’s $150 billion to you.

The Ayatollahs: Are you kidding? Those Death chants, that is our baseball. That is our Mom and Apple Pie. Are we done?

John: Not quite. As part of this deal, at which I’m lifting not only the Nuke embargo…

The Ayatollahs: Very generous of you. We pray for Americans like you. You must come more often. 
Bring friends. We have more bargains.

John: But we also lifted the conventional weapons embargo…

The Ayatollahs: You can be sure we will repay your magnanimity. Just watch us pay you back, and sooner than you think, my friend.

John: So with all that, would it be too much to ask…

The Ayatollahs: Now don’t get pushy on us, John. What do you want and be quick?

John: The four hostages. Can we please have them back? I can’t go homeempty-handed. People will say I’m a fool.

The Ayatollahs: No and yes.

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. New from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a newsroom thriller ripped from the headlines. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller IndecentProposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore.Website: www.jackengelhard.com

Sunday, July 19, 2015

NOW FOR THE BRIGHT SIDE OF OBAMA'S IRAN DEAL - JULY 16, 2015

That Obama (like Frankenstein) created a monster, of this there is no doubt. The Iran Deal is folly from A to Z.

Even many on the Left agree that Kerry pandered like a Quisling in Tehran, which leads me to consider if there may be an upside to the fiasco.

By the numbers, let’s have a look at the positives that may have come about unintentionally:

1. The Left and the Right in Israel stand together against this dirty deal. Netanyahu and Herzog exchanged handshakes. That’s something.

2. The Palestinian Arabs have lost the front page. This is remarkable. For the first time in years I find no mention of them anywhere in The New York Times. Their whining, their complaints now fall on deaf ears – now that Iran, looming deadly across the globe, has taken the spotlight.

Their grievances are “a sideshow of a sideshow” compared to the menace posed by a nuclear-empowered Iran. The Palestinians will have to get back in line to win back the world’s attention -- a serious consequence to people who crave nothing but attention.

3. For years the Arab-Israeli conflict was all about them, the Palestinians and their cries for “more…more.” Well, no more.

“Two-state-solution” and “land-for-peace” – no sir, not in this climate where Israel faces an enemy that is sworn to destroy her through ballistic missiles. No “painful concessions” while the ayatollahs rouse a million Iranians to chant “Death to Israel” and will soon acquire the means to literally give it their best shot.

4. In cahoots with the Palestinians, the EU and the UN will have to find somebody else to drag into the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Israel will be too busy to show up. The Jewish State has bigger business to attend. Her survival.

5. UN diplomats will continue to harass the Jewish State, but with a missile-bloated Iran hovering overheard, their denunciations will sound laughable.

6. Now can the usual scoundrels say that tiny Israel is a threat to the region – and say it with a straight face?

7. BDS has been marginalized. Now it’s Israel against Iran. Now it’s about Israel facing a nuclear nightmare. Now it’s real. Time to wipe the smirk off their faces.

Now that Obama and Kerry have created a New Goliath, Israel is back to being perceived as what she was all along. Israel is David.

8. Israel finally has clarity. The suspense is over. The deed’s been done. Israel knows the enemy and it is Iran – Iran and whoever makes common cause with its bloodthirsty tyrants. Israel knows that it’s time to prepare. The signal has been sent. The message has been delivered.

The world’s number one terror regime has been rebooted economically and reloaded militarily and thus reinvigorated seeks (for whatever reason) to murder every Jewish person in Israel and throughout the world. Clear enough? Yes. Positively. Absolutely.

9. Now that Obama and Kerry have created a New Goliath, Israel is back to being perceived as what she was all along. Israel is David.

Read this for the rounded view from the eyes of a warrior journalist.
We are back to David against Goliath, and even the Sunni Arabs have clarity about this.

10. The Sunni World, beginning with Saudi Arabia and onto the rest of the Gulf States, now view Israel as a partner. At least they know we are all in the same boat. It is too late to keep old grudges. The day will come when Israel will have to rush to their rescue, and they know this.

11. To overturn the deal, which places America in equal jeopardy with Israel, Democrats in both Houses of Congress will have to help Republicans form an overwhelming veto-proof majority. If the Democrats fail, we will know they meant it when they jeered Israel at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

There will still be time to trash this thing if enough people come to their senses.

12. We know where Hillary stands. She stands with Obama on this deal. America has been warned.
American Jewish voters -- Hello?

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. New from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a newsroom thriller ripped from the headlines. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller IndecentProposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Website: www.jackengelhard.com