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So, Mubarak has fled Egypt and a military council has been left in charge. Mubarak was a general, or so I’ve heard. The military has been in charge of the country all along. With Mubarak gone, it’s a little like rearranging deck chairs, isn’t it?

It’s very interesting how Obama got in front of the protesters and demanded Mubarak cede power “yesterday” (according to Obama’s mouthpiece, Gibbs), yet did nothing to help the protesters in Iran some months ago. Obama is very selective about the protests he supports.

One thing is certain – Obama does not care for the TEA Party. Not one bit. But something about the protests in Egypt compelled Obama to do something. What was it?

It certainly wasn’t a love of liberty. Egypt has no history of Jeffersonian democracy, Constitutional republicanism, or any form of government TEA Partiers would identify with.

Egypt has always been a repressive regime. It wasn’t a socialist utopia before Mubarak. The fact that Mubarak had his boot on the throats of the Muslim Brotherhood and their supporters should have been a clue to the media that perhaps Mubarak was simply trying to keep a lid on what could become an explosive situation.

Get this:

In July of last year, the University of Maryland commissioned Zogby to poll the people of Egypt. Here are a few of their findings:

85% of Egyptians hold an unfavorable attitude toward the U.S.

87% of Egyptians have no confidence in the U.S.

92% of Egyptians believe the U.S. is one of two nations that is the greatest threat to them (the other nation the Egyptian people hate is Israel)

52% of Egyptians hold an unfavorable opinion of American people

65% of Egyptians believe that Islamic clergy must play a greater role in the Egyptian political system

79% percent of Egyptians believe that it would be positive if Iran is able to acquire nuclear weapons

The Zogby poll results back up a similar project conducted by Pew in April and May of last year.  Among Egyptian Muslims polled, 85% felt that Islam’s role in politics was a positive one.  In a struggle between modernizers and Islamist fundamentalists, 59% of Egyptians who foresaw such a conflict stated they would side with the Islamists, while only 27% stated that they would side with the modernizers.

Another Pew poll last June revealed that only 17% of Egyptians hold a favorable view of the United States, while 20% hold a favorable view of suicide bombing.  Yes dear readers, Egyptians like suicide bombing more than they like you.

Pew also revealed that 82% of Egyptian Muslims support stoning human beings to death for having sex outside of marriage and that  77% of Egyptian Muslims support public whippings and cutting people’s hands off for theft.  In addition, a terrifying 84% of Egyptian Muslims support the death penalty for anyone who has the good sense to leave the religion of Islam.

As much as we may not like Hosni Mubarak, there are many worse people who could be in power in Egypt — and they are very likely to be in power before the end of the year.   We would all like to believe that the protesters in the streets of Egypt are all fighting for freedom — but that is not what they say about themselves.  By their own admission, they prefer Islamic fundamentalism to modern civilization by more than 2 to 1.  They don’t want a modern democracy; they do want to murder people for having sex outside of marriage.  They don’t want freedom of religion — in fact 84% of them want to establish the death penalty for it.

What does this sound like?  It sounds a whole lot like Iran in 1979.  Westerners with common sense should be leaving Egypt as quickly as possible, with no plans to ever return. We would like to hope for the best, but we must plan for the worst.

(Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2672357/posts)

So I ask myself, Why does Obama hate TEA Party protesters and love Egyptian protesters? He knows everything that needs to be known about TEA Partiers, yet knows next to nothing about the Egyptian protesters other than their desire for “change.” Obama is either a fool, or a radical.

Perhaps he is a foolish radical. Or a radical fool.

Investor’s Business Daily

•  Editorial: Terror In Waiting  - Mideast: As the radical Muslim Brotherhood schemes to oust a pro-American despot in Egypt, U.S. pundits have cheered the move as a boon for freedom. This is dangerous pablum.
•  Egypt’s Kerensky - Succession: As talk of deposing Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak grows, one name keeps popping up: Mohamed ElBaradei. If he takes over, it’ll be a disaster not just for Egypt, but also for the U.S. and the West.
•  The Newest Nation - Africa: Far from the rage in the streets of Cairo, there’s joy in the air in the tiny cities of South Sudan. A referendum’s results there should lead to creation of a new nation. It holds some lessons.
•  Egyptian Plagues, American Policies - Diplomatic Ineptitude: Western diplomats were long ago planting poisonous seeds in Egyptian soil. All it took to make them grow was for the U.S. to send some well-intentioned but misguided signals at the wrong time.
•  ObamaCare Can’t Be Reconciled - Health Care Reform: Another federal judge has declared the Democrats’ overhaul to be unconstitutional. A law that should have never been passed is that much closer to being dismantled.
•  Kill The Internet ‘Kill Switch’ - Censorship: Virtually the first thing an authoritative Egyptian government did to quell dissent was to shut down its Internet. So why are we debating a bill to give our government the same power?
•  America’s Next Financial Crisis Is Already Here - In spite of talking about freezing government spending, President Obama reminded everyone during the State of the Union just how out of touch he is about the defining issue of our time — the fiscal dysfunction that threatens to rob future generations of today’s living standards and jeopardizes the global financial system.
•  Middle East Is On The Verge Of Convulsing - Things are about to go from bad to worse in the Middle East.  An Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement is nowhere in sight. Lebanon just became a Hezbollah state, which is to say that Iran has become an even more important regional power, and Egypt, once stable if tenuously so, has been pitched into chaos.

Laura Ingraham

• Gov. Mitch Daniels on China’s rise and a social issues ‘truce’ – January 31, 2011 (mp3)

Mark Levin

01/31 The Mark Levin Show

American Thinker

• Obama’s Ongoing War on Inspectors General - One after another, inspectors general have been reporting that Obama’s stewardship of taxpayer money has failed.
• Overachievers with Low Self-Esteem - America is up to its eyeballs in people concerned with saving us from their demons.
• Obama’s Rathole Moment - President Obama got matters exactly backward when he addressed education last week before a joint session of Congress.
• Obama’s Standing Army of Regulators among Us - The victims of today’s excessive government regulatory zeal face the same enemy confronted by the nation’s Founders: unconstrained centralized power.
• Stop the Fraud — Freeze the Debt Ceiling - The debt ceiling is a key to stopping the political insanity.
• What Reagan Meant to America - Seven years ago, when Reagan died, millions of Americans waited for hours to share a brief moment with this greatest of contemporary Americans.
• China’s Insight into Human Nature - And why President Obama misunderstands China’s rise.
• America and the Middle East Food Riots - Obama policies have driven up food prices, triggering riots.

Frontpage Mag

• Middle Eastern Moment of Truth - Israel soberly prepares to stand alone in a sea of hate.
• 1979, 1989 or 2009? - Gauging the nature of Egypt’s Revolution — and the urgency for America’s response.
• Why Coptic Christians Fear a Revolution - If the Muslim Brotherhood takes power in Egypt…
• Inside Egypt - The growing cancer I witnessed during my recent visit…
• To Destroy Israel - A member of the Army of Islam escapes from an Egyptian jail amidst the chaos — and shares his top priority…
• ObamaCare Inches Closer to the Fall - Florida judge rules that the president’s signature legislation is unconstitutional — what’s next?
• Free Speech Victory: Lars Hedegaard Acquitted - The battle for freedom is far from lost…
• The Middle East’s Intifada - The Muslim Brotherhood shrewdly maneuvers its way to power in Egypt.
• The American Left and the Crisis in Egypt - The Unholy Alliance rears its head once again.
• Dictatorships and Revolutions - As an Egyptian Muslim raised during the generation of the 1952 Egyptian revolution, I see history repeating itself.
• Egypt’s False Prophet - Mohamed ElBaradei’s disturbing affinity for the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Islamic Republic.
• Why They Hate Mubarak - “He is supporting Israel. Israel is our enemy…”
• The Criminal Truth in Denmark - In defense of Lars Hedegaard. . . .and our civilization

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Stumbled upon this video in my Twitter feed.  I’ve seen blog posts and tweets that have made the same claims, but a picture really is worth a thousand words . . .

NOTE:  The high school kid in the video has cajones of steel.  Watch it.  I wish I had that kind of courage.

-chris

(From Israel National News.com)
by Hillel Fendel

A loud and angry mob of pro-Arab demonstrators outside the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles on Tuesday became even more enraged when one, lone Jewish high school student with a yarmulke and a large Israeli flag marched fearlessly alongside them. 

The young man seemed to be unmoved by the angry curses hurled at him by the American-Arab crowd. Though protected by a line of policemen, it appeared he could be attacked at any moment.

Read the rest of the article at Israel National News.com

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NOTE: Peretz provides a comprehensive and balanced analysis of the “Freedom Flotilla” controversy in which Israeli commandos boarded a ship in international waters that was bound for Gaza.  The ship was supposedly on a humanitarian mission, but the Israeli commandos wound up killing 9 of the passengers.  Was it just a propoganda ploy to provoke the Israelis into doing exactly what they did?  Or were the Israelis unnecessarily heavy-handed in their response?

Personally, I knew from the moment I heard about the incident that it was a propoaganda ploy by Hamas and their confederates.  Anyone who believes otherwise hasn’t been paying attention over the past 50 years.

-chris

(From The New Republic)
by Marty Peretz

Look, I wish the Israeli raid on the so-called “Freedom Flotilla” had ended differently. Why, I ask, didn’t Israel’s navy disable the engine of the Mavi Marmara and drag the ship into port? Who knows? The engines of the other boats were apparently disabled—or so reliable sources say.

But, frankly, when some 800 men and women, distributed over six boats after weeks and weeks of preparation, are headed towards Gaza on the wings of slogan and hysteria, you don’t take that many chances. Somebody has trouble in mind.

The first five vessels were steered quietly to the Israeli port city of Ashdod, which means that neither their passengers nor the Israeli commandos were especially provocative. The sixth ship, which had 600 activist Turkish voyeurs on board, is an entirely different story. Sponsored by an organization labeled the Humanitarian Relief Fund (I.H.H.), it is said to have ties to Al Qaeda. Which would be logical since Al Qaeda is an ally of Hamas. An intriguing tripartite liaison.

Read the rest of the article at The New Republic

(From National Review Online)

By Charles Krauthammer

“President Obama, I support the Americans’ outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing.” — French president Nicolas Sarkozy, September 24

When France chides you for appeasement, you know you’re scraping bottom. Just how low we’ve sunk was demonstrated by the Obama administration’s satisfaction when Russia’s president said of Iran, after meeting President Obama at the U.N., that “sanctions are seldom productive, but they are sometimes inevitable.”

You see? The Obama magic. Engagement works. Russia is on board. Except that, as the Washington Post inconveniently pointed out, Pres. Dmitry Medvedev said the same thing a week earlier, and the real power in Russia, Vladimir Putin, had changed not at all in his opposition to additional sanctions. And just to make things clear, when Iran then brazenly test-fired offensive missiles, Russia reacted by declaring that this newest provocation did not warrant the imposition of tougher sanctions.

Do the tally. In return for selling out Poland and the Czech Republic by unilaterally abrogating a missile-defense security arrangement that Russia had demanded be abrogated, we get from Russia . . . what? An oblique hint, of possible support, for unspecified sanctions, grudgingly offered and of dubious authority — and, in any case, leading nowhere because the Chinese have remained resolute against any Security Council sanctions.

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