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We Are Witnessing the Collapse of the Middle East
American Thinker ^ | February 3, 2011 | James Simpson

Posted on 02/03/2011 5:48:40 PM PST by NCjim

If Egypt should fall, it will mark the beginning of the end for what little remaining stability there is in the Middle East. Jordan is facing similar unrest, as are Algeria and Yemen. Lebanon and Tunisia fell in January. It is highly unlikely that these events are unrelated. A combination of leftist and Islamist forces provoked the protests, and we are likely looking at a ring of radical Islamic states rising up to surround Israel. Once their power is solidified, perhaps in a year or two, they will combine forces to attack Israel. If Israel falls, the United States will stand alone in a sea of virulent enemies and impotent allies.

So whom does Obama support, Mubarak or his enemies?

Obama wasted no time in telling us. He supports Mubarak's opponents, and he probably has been all along. The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that the Obama administration favors a role for the Muslim Brotherhood in a new Egyptian government.

The Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest extremist Muslim organization, is behind practically every Muslim terrorist organization ever formed. And while they may have publicly renounced violence as the LA Times article claims, internal documents tell a completely different story.

And if that weren't bad enough, Obama's latest comment to Egypt's leader is that "an orderly transition ... must begin now."

Must begin. Now.

Simply stunning.

Juxtapose Obama's statements toward our allies with his reaction to the genuine uprising that occurred last year in Iran. Tunisia: "Reform or be overthrown." Egypt: "an orderly transition ... must begin now." Iran: "It is not productive ... to be seen as meddling." Meanwhile, candidate Obama claimed that the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezb'allah have "legitimate claims," and we all remember his mindless counterterrorism czar, John Brennan, reaching out to "moderate" Hezb'allah members last spring. Hezb'allah moderates?

The seeming inconsistency is astonishing. Unfortunately, there is a consistency. Obama uniformly sides with our enemies but rarely, if ever, with our friends and allies. His administration is packed with far-left radicals and vicious anti-Semites. And therein lies the rub, because what we are witnessing in reality is this president's un-American, anti-American, treasonous ideology in full play.

Perhaps this is the real reason for Bill Ayers's, Bernardine Dohrn's, Code Pink's Medea Benjamin's and Jody Evans's trips to Egypt in 2009. Following those trips, these same people made multiple visits to the White House.

Obama's breathlessly arrogant answer? Not the same Ayers, Dohrn, Benjamin, and Evans. Sure.

A few years back, I cited a quote by Lynn Stewart, the National Lawyers Guild attorney jailed for helping blind sheikh Omar Adel Raman foment terror from his New York jail cell. One might think that atheistic radical leftists would be foursquare against a political movement that tramples women's rights, murders homosexuals, and enforces strict theocratic mandates. No such luck, Stewart said:

They [radical Islamic movements] are basically forces of national liberation. And I think that we, as persons who are committed to the liberation of oppressed people, should fasten on the need for self-determination. ... My own sense is that, were the Islamists to be empowered, there would be movements within their own countries ... to liberate.

" ... movements within their own countries ... to liberate." Given recent developments, Stewart's statement was prescient. But I think it had a special meaning. Because when movement leftists like Stewart talk about "liberation," they are really talking about communism.

It has been my longstanding assertion that Muslim terrorism is simply a false flag operation, managed in the background by our main enemies, Russia and Red China. Almost since the beginning, Muslim terrorist organizations have been supported and nurtured by the Soviet Union or its Middle Eastern surrogates.

Yasser Arafat's PLO is a prime example. Created by the KGB, the PLO was always about providing a Soviet counterweight to Israel in the Middle East. They were uninterested in the Palestinian cause, and they said so! Alexander Litvinenko, the KGB defector poisoned by Polonium 210 in what was assumed to be a KGB hit, claimed in his book, Allegations, that al-Qaeda's number two man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was a Soviet agent. And while today Hezb'allah is the de facto ruler of Lebanon, the real power is Ba'athist Syria.

David Horowitz wrote of the alliance between leftists and Muslim terrorists in his seminal book: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left. He describes in detail how the left and Muslim radicals work together to achieve their mutual ends: the destruction of America.

It is incomprehensible that President Obama does not recognize the strategic significance of what is happening, and if he does, then his support of Egypt's sham "democracy movement" is a naked betrayal of our Middle Eastern allies and, by extension, our own country.

Unfortunately, his view is shared by some Republicans who are so in love with the idea of "democracy" that it doesn't matter to them that the "democrats" in this case include fanatic mass murderers. At best, it can be seen only as incredibly myopic and ignorant to support Mubarak's enemies. People make the same mistake Carter did with Iran and Nicaragua: they commit the logical error of assuming that just because a country's current leadership is flawed and "undemocratic," that automatically means that someone else would do better. Newsflash: they can do worse, and almost without exception, they do, because people who take power by street riot have no interest in "democracy."

If their street revolutions are successful, these Middle Eastern countries will rapidly degenerate into radical Muslim thugocracies allied with our communist enemies. Israel will be the first target, and with Obama's radically anti-Israel orientation, the Israelis will stand alone. We will be next. One wonders if Obama will then stand to defend the country he swore to, or if he will be out in the streets with his fellow radical leftists burning American flags.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: egypt; egyptcrisis; february2011; foreignpolicy; me; mecollapse; mubarak; muslimbrotherhood
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To: skeeter

Front row seat to the end of the world!!!

Grab your nearest lady, lock and load the AR, grab a beer, and pull up a chair.


61 posted on 02/03/2011 6:50:07 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Stepan12

One wonders if Obama will then stand to defend the country he swore to, or if he will be out in the streets with his fellow radical leftists burning American flags.-—————

The American flag he said is a ‘symbol of oppression’, the American flag he refused and protested during wartime as a candidate? The upside down American Flag he used as his DNC card, image??


62 posted on 02/03/2011 6:53:17 PM PST by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: Niuhuru
The problem with their demented designs is that Israel cannot be wiped out, it’s impossible.

I didn't say Iran would succeed, just that they may have changed their tactics in order to meet their timetable for a Caliphate after Stuxnet crippled their nuclear ambitions. I agree, Israel will survive in the end.

63 posted on 02/03/2011 6:53:53 PM PST by abbyg55
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To: 4Speed
Bush’s Iraqui Freedom....with one hell of an Army, trained by the USA.

Make no mistake, this army will be happy to fight in behalf of the caliphate.

64 posted on 02/03/2011 6:54:12 PM PST by Prokopton
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To: 17th Miss Regt
Isn't there some way to save the Jews? Sell them South Florida - let them move everything they can move - have them get out of that place.

Once Arabs don't have Israel to blame for their problems, they'll have to reconsider some of their weirder creepier ways... or not.

65 posted on 02/03/2011 6:59:33 PM PST by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - World Disaster Map)
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To: Niuhuru

China is already knee deep. I agree with the rest of your post.


66 posted on 02/03/2011 7:00:04 PM PST by Peter from Rutland
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To: NCjim

This “collapse” is no more an unexpected, naturally occurring social upheaval than was the USA financial “collapse” just before the 2008 presidential election.

Both sets of events have been engineered and orchestrated by wealthy and powerful people who stand to gain from the upheaval and resultant changes.


67 posted on 02/03/2011 7:00:41 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
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To: Rapscallion
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face — forever.”

-George Orwell

We were blessed Orwell lived in our time...

68 posted on 02/03/2011 7:01:58 PM PST by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - World Disaster Map)
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To: GOPJ
Isn't there some way to save the Jews? Sell them South Florida - let them move everything they can move - have them get out of that place.

Israel belongs to them. They're not leaving.

69 posted on 02/03/2011 7:02:04 PM PST by Chunga (Go, Sarah, GO!! - Jim Robinson)
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To: NCjim

America has fallen and it can’t get up.

NOBAMA in 2012


70 posted on 02/03/2011 7:03:03 PM PST by Carley (ARAB STREET NO DIFFERENT THAN AMERICA'S LEFT)
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To: Niuhuru

*The Russians strike me as the type that will be on our side when Obama is out of office and they are dealing with someone who will be a reliable ally and also someone who won’t be weak.*

Yeah, because the Russkies were *so* cooperative when Bush was in office.

Get real.


71 posted on 02/03/2011 7:05:08 PM PST by j-damn
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To: GOPJ
let them move everything they can move - have them get out of that place.

That place was given to them by God.

72 posted on 02/03/2011 7:05:14 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: GOPJ

Is it true that when Obama was asked about those visits that he said these were not the same people? not the same Dohrn and Ayers? Etc?


73 posted on 02/03/2011 7:06:34 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: screaminsunshine
...we are witnessing the formation of the Middle East region of the New World Order

That statement got me to thinking... that I'd seen that somewhere before, so I went back through a ton of unerased links until I found this:
The US could sent troops to Azerbaijan under the guise of protecting its citizens

(SNIP)...“Given recent events in the Middle East, and the fact that Azerbaijan is part of the Greater Middle East plan, it is not impossible that there can be some surprises in store.”

http://www.regnum.ru/news/polit/1370229.html

74 posted on 02/03/2011 7:11:33 PM PST by struwwelpeter
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To: NCjim
these Middle Eastern countries will rapidly degenerate into radical Muslim thugocracies allied with our communist enemies. Israel will be the first target, and with Obama's radically anti-Israel orientation, the Israelis will stand alone. We will be next.

I subscribe to the concept of November 6, 2012 rather than December 21, 2012. Regardless of what damage Mr Obama causes, his days as leader of the free world are being numbered.

While the muslims may outnumber non-muslims in this world, their attempt to spread sharia law, by commanding from caves, riding camels to a battle, and throwing rocks to make their points will not be difficult to suppress.

Never underestimate the force and power of Israel, even if it stands alone.

And never underestimate the common American citizen when he is finally fed up with all of the bullshit that is going on in this world.

75 posted on 02/03/2011 7:13:54 PM PST by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: Carley; All

I laid down a hundred dollar bet with a friend tonight that we will see a Egyptian street scene in DETROIT before next Christmas!
I hope I lose but..............


76 posted on 02/03/2011 7:18:44 PM PST by GOYAKLA (Flush Congress in 2010 & 2012)
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To: KoRn
I’m not religious, . . . .

If I were you, I'd get religious. Jesus is coming. The time is drawing near.

77 posted on 02/03/2011 7:20:25 PM PST by stars & stripes forever ( Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness)
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To: doc11355
It is amazing to me that the majority of the American Jewish voters vote Democrat. How many are looking at the chessboard now and realizing and understanding that just maybe their votes for Obama (and Carter) were not well-thought out?

Many urban American Jews care more about being part of the IN crowd than what happens to Israel. One of their main concerns is that their liberal friends don't get the idea they might be conservative or right leaning.

Yes, I know many of them, and I have known many more. We might think of them as JINOs. "Progressive" social politics is their true religion. Think of Mayor Bloomberg and George Soros.

Many "progressive" American Jews would rather see Israel disappear than get caught voting for anyone other than the most liberal democrats. The older generation are still voting for FDR at every election - different thought process but same results.

On the other hand, there are many fine Jewish people in the USA who are staunch patriots, supporters of the constitution and backers of Israel.
Sadly, they are in the minority.


78 posted on 02/03/2011 7:21:27 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." -- Ron Paul)
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To: GlockThe Vote

I agree. Many of the fools who voted for him are still defending him. The rest of them will change the subject.


79 posted on 02/03/2011 7:21:56 PM PST by Ditter
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To: RummyChick
That was a very good article on the Torah codes. I only defer on two matters:

1)Yedeykhem means "your (pl) hands," not "our hands."

2)As I understand it, the codes exist only in the Torah and no where else in the Bible. So I don't know how seriously to take a claim that there is an encoded reference to Obama in the Book of Daniel. I am quite certain that his entire life (like that of each of us) is elucidated in code in the Torah, however.

80 posted on 02/03/2011 7:22:21 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Venatata 'el-ha'aron 'et ha`edut 'asher 'etten 'eleykha.)
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