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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

LET'S MAKE A MOVIE - MAY 1, 2015

Movie Concept and Treatment for a screenplay. The Mobs have taken over the World. The leaders of the World have caved in, surrendered.

We never know who The Mobs are, never see them, but hear them trampling across the globe, people of all shapes and colors expressing their grievances from country to country through acts of the most unspeakable violence.

There is no one around to stop them.

Cops have been told to “stand down,” to retreat before The Mobs. (As in real life in real Baltimore.)

TIGHT on President Tom Hanks. He is in LA, speaking at The Academy Awards, but also addressing the world.

Hanks: “The Mayor of Baltimore did not misspeak. She was correct. What happened is not her fault.”

The President finishes by reiterating the freshly minted slogan adopted unanimously by the UN:

EVERY GRIEVANCE IS LEGITIMATE [excepting Israel’s].

PULL BACK to Reveal that there is no audience. The place is empty in adherence to new regulations. Not a single movie star.

ZOOM to Baltimore’s Camden Yards and the Sound of Silence.

It’s the Orioles defeating the Chicago White Sox. But the stands are void of spectators.

By order of the City, the game was to be played without attendees for fear of triggering further riots. Fifty thousand chairs – empty.

It’s eerie and it really happened days ago…the first time ever for Baseball or any Sport.

SCAN the World to Reveal that every nation has taken the cue from Baltimore.

Every government has adopted the policy of ZERO ATTENDANCE at any event that can draw a crowd and entice The Mobs.

Looting and torching have been universally justified. As a result, the World is on lockdown.

Now, fear is everywhere. It started “innocently enough” with a simple statement from Baltimore’s Democrat

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake who tried to balance free speech in the heat of the riots by giving the following order: “We gave those who wished to destroy space to do that” – and destroy they did.

BRING UP the actual Clip of the Mayor saying those exact words – words that have been used as a signal to approve Mobism throughout the World.

COLLAGE of headlines, in all languages, print and broadcast, to Reveal law and order replaced by chaos country to country.

ZOOM across the Universe to Show a World plunged into silence to stay safe from The Mobs. Go here for eye-opening material.

BRING UP the Sounds of heavy footfalls and massive destruction.

CUT to Saturday Night Live where there is no one to laugh at the jokes. People must watch everything in private, from home…everything!

DISSOLVE to the Summer Olympics in Brazil and FAST CUT to the World Cup in Russia to find athletes performing before walls of silence.

The games are exciting, records are being broken, but there’s no one around to cheer.

Hanks: “I am in constant contact with my fellow world leaders. We agree that policing is not the answer. People must be allowed to express themselves.”

CUT to (former NY City) Mayor Rudy Giuliani: “This is absurd. Has the world gone crazy?”

DISSOLVE to the Super Bowl and to similar scenes of empty seats at the Kentucky Derby and the Mayweather/Pacquiao “Fight of the Century.”

CUT to The Masters, for championship golf, Wimbledon for championship tennis and to the Boston Marathon for venues empty of spectators.

The time for this scenario? Futuristic. Or it may be closer than we think. Is this fiction… only a movie? Maybe. Maybe not.

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. The new thriller from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a heroic editor’s singlehanded war on terror and against media bias. 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

TWO STATE SOLUTION? TRY BALTIMORE - April 29, 2015

Considering Baltimore, the Obama Administration ought to think twice before lecturing Israel about adopting a “two-state-solution.”

Baltimore is where an incident of alleged police brutality led to a fatality and to days of looting, burning and rioting. It’s still going on as we write.

Inner-city unrest is something we will have to fix for ourselves and we do not need outsiders telling us what to do or how to behave.

They call it Naqba over there and we call it “anger” over here when acrimony becomes a mob.

Thank you very much but we are good at fixing things. So are the Israelis.

Which is why word from US Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman is such an unwelcome intrusion. She insists that Israel must pledge itself to a two-state solution, otherwise the Jewish State can forget about counting on the United States at the UN and who knows where else.

Bad timing for the State Department to be sticking its nose into what is strictly another country’s business.

We’re trying, but still not doing so well ourselves “between the races.” Even after the awakened 1960s, down on the street we do not even speak the same language.

Is there a difference between America’s Inner-city Unrest and Israel’s Palestinian Arab Conflict? Sure, plenty, but here is where they meet.

In both cases inflexible grievances define a particular minority.

But only Israel finds itself associated with guilt. Why, asks the world, can’t Israel make peace with these people? Not so easy when you’re dealing with people nursing an irreconcilable grudge. Ask Baltimore. In Baltimore there are still signs of riots that took place in 1968, when practically all of Urban America went up in flames.

Like America, Israel keeps trying, but it’s tough going with generations who feel entitled to their resentments.

They call it Naqba over there and we call it “anger” over here when acrimony becomes a mob.

President Obama weighed in today about “troubling interactions between police and African Americans.”

Nonsense, according to oft-decorated Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, himself African American. Clarke won’t have any of it and spells it out it plainly when he refers to Inner-city criminals as “sub-humans” operating from within a “sub-culture” all made possible from a culture of (failed) Liberalism.

Now read this for everything the news media won’t tell you about our clash of cultures.

Clarke goes on: “Ninety percent of the homicide victims in the Baltimore area are Black as are 90 percent of the suspects.” This trends nationwide.

Obama says we need to change the “System” – and so where has he been all these six-plus years?

This time Obama almost got it right when he mentioned “broken homes”… no guidance, no fathers.

Too true. We expect the police to do the job that ought to be done by parents and teachers.

We demand that the police act as fathers where there are no fathers and teach discipline where there is no discipline.

Society can’t seem to get it done. So, need help? Call a cop. But we are watching every move.

Go in, we say, into where the streets and corners are bustling with knives, guns, drugs, robbery and murder; break up the street fights, settle the domestic disputes, curb the rioting, separate the gangs -- but do it gently. Be tender with the goons, or else.

If you use force of any kind, listen to our cameras clicking and watch our righteous indignation kick up. We will judge you!

That ought to sound familiar enough for Americans and Israelis who face the multitudes feeding on bitterness and self-fulfilling discontent.

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. The new thriller from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a heroic editor’s singlehanded war on terror and against media bias. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motionpicture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

BETTER PUTIN THAN HILLARY - APRIL 26, 2015

They keep telling us that, despite everything, Vladimir Putin is supported by 80 percent of the Russian population.

No doubt the 20 percent are in Siberia.

Putin’s big numbers are what you’d expect from a more or less totalitarian regime. But hold on.

The Jewish vote for Obama, the first time around, came to 86 percent. We are talking about the United States of America. We have no Siberia.

We do have useful idiots.

The second time, Jewish voters in America saw the writing on the wall and it was not Hebrew.

So they decided to teach Obama a lesson but the same number still went to the polls in favor of Obama, only this time, taking tips from the Wise Men of Chelm, they drove more slowly. American Jewish voters disprove the maxim that you cannot fool all the people all the time.

The Black vote for Obama, first time, was 98.9 percent. Those are Kim Jong-un numbers.

Four years later and this time, seeing that Obama was no miracle worker, the African American vote plunged to 98.8 percent.

All things considered, we are Americans but we vote like Russians. All in for one guy. We vote like cattle at round-up time.

Parenthetically, Putin, according to all the evidence, is no anti-Semite. He tolerates no Jew hatred in Russia, counts Lubavitch leaders as his friends, gets emotional when talk turns to his Jewish teacher Mina Berliner and his Jewish coach Anatoly Rakhlin, Putin’s “second father,” whose death moved Putin to tears.

His backtracking on the S-300 Surface-to-Air Missile System for Iran suggests (to me) that openly or secretly he admires the spunky Jewish State, which contains a large number of Russian Jews who still think fondly back to the old Motherland. The feelings may well be mutual so far as Putin is concerned.

Moving on -- I used to think the Israelis had a cockeyed system for choosing their leaders. They vote for parties rather than individuals and then it all gets sorted out. There could be dozens of different parties to choose from and it sounds chaotic, but at least there are multiple choices.

In America we have two parties and we are stuck with whatever they want to give us.

This time the Democrats have chosen Hillary Clinton to be our glorious leader. Out of a population of 320 million, apparently this is the best there is.

Hillary is running – without competition from within her own Party -- because no matter how unqualified and corrupt, it is time, they tell us, for a woman to be president, and the woman must be named Clinton. Yes, she is crushed by scandals galore, but shut up, they tell us, we know what’s good for you.

We gave you Obama, didn’t we?

The latest scandal is a whopper and it is all over the front pages, about her raking in multimillions from overseas donors even while she was Secretary of State.

Her loyalists are untroubled by this. Did she prostitute her office? Who cares?

But back in 1958, President Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff Sherman Adams was forced to resign in disgrace for accepting a vicuna coat as a gift

This is not your father’s America.

Now read this for everything the news media won’t tell you about Hillary and the whores and schnorrers who run our world and our lives.

On Israel, Hillary is Obama Part II. She has referred to the Jewish State as an “occupying force.” Jewish voters along with all other Democrats will vote for her no matter that from day one she runs as damaged goods. Pray for a Republican, any Republican, even Vladimir Putin, who is far more trustworthy for Israel and even for America.

Russian Interference Leaves Israel No Choice - April 17, 2015

The Obama Doctrine – scorn your friends, reward your enemies – has finally reaped the whirlwind, namely Russia and its pledge to provide Iran with an array of the most advanced “defensive” missiles on earth. This leaves Israel with no choice except to act BEFORE those missiles are deployed.

Israel must attack to remove those nukes before it’s too late.

If it was difficult to successfully strike Iran’s nuclear facilities today, tomorrow will be near impossible. So the scientific experts tell us.

The S-300 Surface-to-Air Missile System would provide Iran with an impenetrable shield.

It’s been explained that the S-300 Surface-to-Air Missile System would provide Iran with an impenetrable shield.

If anything, Russia’s move has clarified the situation. Israel’s duty to defend itself has never been more urgent and an attack scaled to wipe out Iran’s nuclear emplacements would likewise be a favor to any number of Sunni states that tremble from Iran’s Shiite encroachments throughout the Arab world.

Read this for one newsman’s heroic efforts to stop a worldwide caliphate, reminding readers that “The Koran Has Arrived And It Has Come To Devour The Bible.”

Jordan’s King Abdullah II told Fox News’ Bret Baier that somebody better do something, quick, seeing Iran on the prowl throughout the Middle East and beyond: “You’ve got to connect all these dots together. All these issues are areas of instability,” declared Abdullah in connection to Iran’s heavy footprints throughout the region.

He cited Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan and his own country as being at risk.

Abdullah did not directly call for help from the United States or Israel, but the hint was unmistakable.

On seeking a deal to stop or stall Iran’s nuclear program, America’s infantile negotiators, led by John Kerry were no match for the ayatollahs. These were children bargaining with grown men. The ayatollahs trifled with Obama’s “best and brightest” during the negotiations and scorned them as laughable losers after the negotiations.

The result was no deal at all. Iran gets to keep arming itself with no one to stop it from growing bolder.

Certainly the United States, under Obama, cannot be counted on to come to the rescue. Thus, a vacuum waiting to be filled.

Enter Vladimir Putin, who saw the perfect opening, an opening he’s been waiting for along the decades to replace America as the dominant world power in the Middle East. He can’t be blamed. Russia does what Russia does because it is Russia. But the United States has no excuse for being so lame.

Putin and the ayatollahs must be dancing at finding Obama and Kerry so easily duped,

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned Putin to voice his displeasure. Apparently Netanyahu was assured that these missiles for Iran are weapons meant only for defense – which is terrible enough since the system could destroy (Israeli) jets trying to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.

But as noted in a recent column here, during the Cuban Missile Crisis Putin’s ancestor Nikita Khrushchev gave similar assurances to John F. Kennedy. No worries. Those missiles are only defensive. Until it turned out differently and the United States was ready to go to war – world war! – to get those Soviet arms removed from Cuba, be they defensive or offensive or both.

Israel finds itself in the same perilous spot as regards Iran. There is no choice but to take action now.

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. The new thriller from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a heroic editor’s singlehanded war on terror and against media bias. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motionpicture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

NEW YORK TIMES CAUGHT RED-HANDED - APRIL 12, 2015

I can’t imagine what it’s like when the top editors at The New York Times get together to further glorify Obama at the expense of Israel, only to find themselves a laughingstock.

Or maybe I can:

Tom Friedman: “We made a mistake.”

“Mistake? We’re Liberals. We never make mistakes. Friedman, you’re fired.”

If only…

What happened? On Wednesday the wizards at the Times’ “editorial board” sought ways to put lipstick on a pig to sell it as kosher. The editorial, written under the spell of gobbledygook, declared that the Iran Nuke agreements were a win for the United States over the ayatollahs and that Israel ought to know better than to second-guess President Obama.

So shut up, the Times explained. We know what’s good. Iran has agreed to everything, even the gradual lifting of sanctions.

But oops, the next day it was a different story, literally. The Times had to retract, without saying so, of course.

Iran’s supreme leader rushed to twitter to say that NOTHING from Obama’s fact sheet is true and indeed, the sanctions are to be lifted immediately.

Quite a fix if you are The New York Times and got caught being stupid. So on Thursday, the Times admitted, “the truth depends on who’s talking.”

So we’re left with a terribly sad conclusion. If you seek the truth, listen to the ayatollahs.

The government of the United States “lies, deceives” and has “devilish intentions.” Who says so? Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Him you can believe.

One thing he’s not is a Liberal. Liberals have a bad habit of fabricating to fit a specific point of view. The Times does it every day. Rolling Stone magazine does it every other day, on going after Israel with falsehoods or reporting as fact a rape that never happened at the University of Virginia.

The Liberal agenda must be served no matter who gets hurt or whose reputation gets tarnished, like Harry Reid’s whopper about Mitt Romney.

But politicians are not expected to be truthful. That’s why we invented journalists. “Journalists are assigned to be the flies on the walls of civilization in order to alert us to the intrigues being whispered in dark corners,” a quote from the newsroom drama The Bathsheba Deadline.

There has never been a time in America when journalism has failed so miserably. Tom Friedman illustrates the point with his THREE Pulitzer prizes.

In general terms, never before has news been delivered so one-sided from print to broadcast.

Never before has journalism been so wedded to a specific ideology, so that we are fed a constant diet of mendacity and disinformation.

Go – ask the ayatollahs.

It’s a sad day when we have to turn to tyrannical regimes for news we can trust.

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Obama’s Doomsday Plan for Israel – A Terrifying Possibility

Israel and the United States need to get ready to thwart a terrible surprise.

At the moment there no such thing as an Obama Doctrine for foreign policy – but one may be coming and it could prove catastrophic.

I worry about bringing it up. It might give the President an idea he may have skipped, so it might be best to leave it unspoken.

What does Israel do when it is not Israel but Iran that has America’s back?

But we must approach the subject, like it or not, because the possibilities are staggering. In fact, I’d be surprised if it were not already the central part of the deal being manufactured between Obama and the ayatollahs toward an agreement that is entirely favorable to Iran regarding Iran’s nuclear program.

Favorable is one thing, but the cherry on the cake could be a feature, devastating to Israel, similar to the Doctrine imposed by President James Monroe in 1823, in which Europe was warned to keep hands off the Western Hemisphere. Otherwise, at any further encroachment, the United States would be bound to retaliate.

The Kennedy Doctrine was equally explicit as part of the agreement with the Kremlin that settled the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

It warned that an attack by Cuba against any Latin American country would be viewed as an attack upon the United States.

Could this be something in the works between Obama’s Administration and Tehran? The deal would read that an attack upon Iran, by any country, would be viewed as an attack upon the United States. Far fetched? Let us hope so. But nearly every part of Obama’s foreign policy is farfetched but happening.

Except for the clairvoyant (read this!) no one saw it getting this far – an American President abandoning Israel while embracing Iran, favoring a terrorist theocracy over an egalitarian democracy, and selling out Sunni partners for the Shiite monolith that is Iran.

So if that’s possible, anything is possible, including a mandate that forbids a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, and if such a measure failed to come from Obama’s negotiators, Iran’s ministers surely insisted, if I read the down cards correctly – cards to be out in the open any day now.

This Doctrine would be addressed against any country pondering deterrent action against Iran, but the message would be specific to Israel.

Israel is Mr. Obama’s pastime.

If you say an Obama Doctrine to exclusively protect Iran would need Congressional approval, trust Obama to find a way around Congress. He always does.

He has “a pen and a phone” and he has nearly two more years. He has all the tools and he has used these tools to putrefy the Jewish State.

The attempt to condition the general public has not worked. Americanssupport Israel. But for Obama, demonizing Israel is a work in progress. Nothing has stopped him yet, whether it’s getting even with America or settling scores with Israel. His remaining months in office are his for mopping up.

No doubt Israel has plans on the chalkboard to take out Iran’s nuclear encampments and has had these plans for years, ready to go at a moment’s notice.

But facing an imminent threat from Iranian missiles -- now what does Israel do when it is not Israel but Iran that has America’s back?

It is terrifying to consider such a doomsday scenario, and it is out of the question that we would ever face a head-on collision like this.

But Barack Obama is President of the United States and the unwelcome surprises keep coming one after another.

This one would be earth shattering. Israel’s finest minds need to think fast, just in case.

Or maybe it is simply this man’s nightmare. In that case forget everything I said and go back to sleep.