Did Obama call on Israel to vacate Temple Mount? Israeli politicians accuse president of 'misrepresenting history' in U.N. speech

By Aaron Klein
 

President Obama addressing the U.N. General Assembly yesterday

JERUSALEM – Did President Obama yesterday adopt U.N. and Palestinian phraseology while calling on Israel to give up the biblical West Bank and eastern sections of Jerusalem, including the Temple

Mount?
Some members of the Israeli government here reacted angrily to Obama's strongly worded demand – expressed during his speech to the U.N. General Assembly – for the creation of a "viable, independent Palestinian state with contiguous territory that ends the occupation that began in 1967."

The term "occupation" routinely is used by the Palestinians as well as some countries hostile to the Jewish state in reference to Israel's presence in the West Bank and Jerusalem. It is unusual for U.S. presidents to use the term, although Jimmy Carter once famously called Israel's presence in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem "illegal."

"Occupation that began in 1967" is a specific reference to the lands Israel retained after the Six Day War of that year, particularly the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount.

The Palestinians never maintained any official capacity in either territory, lands in which Jews have been present for thousands of years. The territories came under Jordanian rule from 1948 until Israel captured them in 1967 after Jordan's King Hussein ignored Israeli pleas for his country to stay out of the Six Day War. Most countries rejected Jordan's initial claim on the area, which it formally renounced in 1988.

Commenting on Obama's speech during a WND interview today, Tzipi Hotovely, a Knesset member for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, accused the U.S. president of "misrepresenting history."

"Obama is misrepresenting Mideast history," she said. "The Jewish people's right to live in Judea and Samaria is firstly rooted in the Bible and God's promise 2,000 years before 1967."

"I really believe the whole 16-year process since the Oslo Accords (in which Israel gave up land in exchange for promises of peace) has proven the settlements are not the obstacle for peace. The main obstacle is the Palestinians' continued rejection of Israel as a Jewish state even within the borders of 1967."

Danny Danon, another Likud Knesset member, told WND today, "Obama cannot force this on Israel. We do not have a partner in Israel which is a viable partner." ....

Iran to Test-Fire More Missiles That Could Hit Israel, U.S. Bases

After claiming to successfully test-fire two short-range missiles during drills Sunday by the elite Revolutionary Guard, Iran will test-fire a missile on Monday that could have the capability to hit Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf region, Reuters reported.

Obama knew of Iran plant before U.N. assembly President silent about revelation during major address, security council

By Jerome R. Corsi

President Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy make remarks about Iran prior to the morning plenary of the G-20 Pittsburgh Summit today (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

The Obama administration

reportedly knew about the second secret Iranian uranium enrichment program prior to the United Nations meeting, yet the president chose to say nothing about the revelation, either during his address to the General Assembly or yesterday, when he chaired a Security Council session.

Since the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama has maintained his determination to engage in direct negotiations with Iran over the Iranian nuclear

program. A meeting between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council – the U.S., Britain, France, China and Russia – plus Germany is scheduled for Oct. 1 in Geneva.


The success of that meeting is now called into question by the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency's announcement today confirming the existence of Iran's new enrichment plant after receiving a letter from Iran Monday that confirmed the facility's existence.

U.S. officials in Washington said Western governments have been aware of Iran's second enrichment plant for some time and decided to reveal their intelligence assessments when the Iranians realized the plant's secrecy was compromised, BBC News reported.

Obama first learned of the plant as president-elect, before his inauguration Jan. 20, the officials said.That Obama said nothing about the second Iranian enrichment plant gave the impression the administration was surprised by the disclosure, as suggested by a top headline on the Drudge Report that proclaimed under a photo of Obama, "Caught by surprise: Iran has second nuke plant."

Iran's second nuclear facility is reportedly built underground on a military base near Qom and is capable of handling up to 3,000 centrifuges. .... Obama's comments were restrained compared with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who accused Iran of "serial deception" said the disclosure builds the case for imposing "further and more stringent" U.N. sanctions. ....

ACORN exec lived high life while embezzling from group

(New York Post) Former ACORN bigwig Dale Rathke racked up a $157,000 American Express bill that he couldn't repay around the time he was caught embezzling from the group founded by his brother Wade ...

Obama under congressional fire for 'rewarding' Gadhafi with $400K

(The Hill) A bipartisan group of House members is blasting the Obama administration for its plan to send $400,000 to foundations connected to the children of Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi ...

AUDIO - Iran playing West like 'bunch of chumps' Retired Navy captain: Does U.S. have the will to stop Tehran's nukes?

(Analyst's note:  Global jihad marches on and we are in the "bottom of the 9th."  Very revealing, absolutely must see - hear interview.)

Dozens of pastors challenge IRS rules 'We need the government to get out of the pulpit'

Toilet Paper Alert

(Analyst's note:  Now we see the source of the concern in the U.S. with our "soft" toilet paper.)


By Mike Pechar  
 
Last month, the Cuban state-run toilet paper company, Cimex, announced that it is unable to supply adequate toilet paper to the nation until at least December 2009. Budget cuts slashed imports and Cuba has a shortage of raw materials to manufacture enough toilet paper to meet demand. Therefore:

"Until more supplies are produced, citizens are encouraged to conserve toilet paper by tearing off fewer squares, switching from two-ply to one-ply or using cigar wrappers."

It's assumed that the guidance referring to cigar wrappers applies to specifically-grown, broad tobacco leaves as opposed to the actual people who wrap cigars.
Notably, the Cuban broadleaf tobacco is considered by many to be the world's finest so individuals using it as a toilet paper substitute can bask in the knowledge that they are wiping with the very best.

Meanwhile, people who arguably do wipe with the very best, Americans, are being criticized for using plush three-ply toilet paper. Americans prefer and seek softness in toilet tissue and environmentalists contend that old-growth forests are being destroyed because of the preference.

"The reason, they say, is that plush U.S. toilet paper is usually made by chopping down and grinding up trees that were decades or even a century old. They want Americans, like Europeans, to wipe with tissue made from recycled paper goods."

Consequently, the challenge for environmentalists is to convince the American public to adopt a cult-like, save-the-planet mentality and welcome scratchiness in toilet tissue -- or -- get a law passed. Nevertheless, the toilet paper situations in Cuba and in the U.S. have at least one thing in common -- an underlying utopian philosophy. In Cuba, it's Marxist utopianism where everyone shares in the sacrifice, except for those who do the divvying, of course. In the U.S., it's environmentalist utopianism where everyone shares in the sacrifice, also except for those who do the divvying.

In conclusion, one result of utopianism in Cuba is the people being told to wipe their behinds with leaves, just like the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon did, and it could be argued that the environmentalists would be happy if the same thing happened in the U.S. (More ....)

Ex-Jordanian prisoner, now illegal alien, charged with WMD attempt in U.S.

(CNSNews) Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, an illegal alien (and jihadist) who was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in Dallas was imprisoned in Jordan 3 years before he left for the U.S. ...

Internal Bomb – Suicide Bomber Hid Explosives Inside His Body

(Analyst's note:  Very troubling.  More reason to ID the jihadist and stop treating this as a crime.)

Security and intelligence experts are deeply worried by a new development in suicide bombing, the BBC has learned.

It has emerged that an al-Qaeda bomber who died last month while trying to blow up a Saudi prince in Jeddah had hidden the explosives inside his body.

Only the attacker died, but it is feared that the new development could be copied by others.
Experts say it could have implications for airport security, rendering traditional metal detectors "useless".

Last month's bombing left people wondering how one of the most wanted al-Qaeda operatives in Saudi Arabia could get so close to the prince in charge of counter-terrorism that he was able to blow himself up in the same room.

Western forensic investigators think they have the answer, and it is worrying them profoundly.
The explosives, they believe, were detonated by mobile phone.

Prince Mohammed bin Nayef (r) was slightly injured in the attack

Peter Neuman of Kings College London says the case will be studied intensively, and that there are "tremendous implications for airport security with the potential of making it even more complicated to get on to your plane".

"If it really is true that the metal detectors couldn't detect this person's hidden explosive device, that would mean that the metal detectors as they currently exist in airports are pretty much useless," he said.

The bomber was a Saudi al-Qaeda fugitive who said he wanted to give himself up to the prince in person.

The prince took him at his word and gave him safe passage to his palace.
But there, once he got next to his target, the bomb inside him was detonated.

Miraculously the prince survived with minor injuries, but footage emerging this week shows a sizeable crater in the concrete floor and the bomber's body blown in half.

It is believed the force of the blast went downwards which is why only the bomber died.

F.B.I. Investigates Suspicious White Powder Incidents – Florida

(Analyst's note:  More possible evidence of jihad activity?)

from National Terror Alert

The FBI and The Orange County Sheriffs Department are investigating two cases involving a suspicious white powder. In one of the incidents, two women were hospitalized with breathing problems after coming in contact with the substance. The women apparently came in contact with the powder when they found it inside a car.

More from MyFox Orlando
Orange County Sheriff’s deputies say suspicious powdery substances were found at two locations Saturday. The substance was so bad, investigators say it sent two women to the hospital.
In fact, investigators seized a number of items from an Apopka home located on Maple Street. Neighbors say a woman and her daughter spotted some white powder behind their bathroom toilet, they believe that white powder made them sick.

According to friends, the people inside the house moved out a couple of weeks ago because they were so ill. Then Saturday, deputies say two women became ill from a white powdery substance found in their car off Hondo way.

Deputies wouldn’t say if it was the same mother and daughter, but they would say the cases were related. Hondo Way was shut down for about five hours.
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Self-Storage Association Issues Terrorism Alert to Facilities

from National Terror Alert

The Self Storage Association (SSA), in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week formally alerted its 6,000 member companies, its affiliated state associations and their thousands of member companies and thousands of individual facility managers of the potential for illegal use of self storage units in connection with terrorism.

These alerts were disseminated nationally and posted on the SSA member-only web site in the wake of recent arrests in Colorado and New York.

Investigators believe that alleged (jihadist) terrorists could store illegal materials or assemble them in self storage rental units as part of a domestic terrorism plot. Authorities have requested that anyone suspecting terrorist, suspicious or illegal activity contact the Joint Terrorism Task Force in their area, the FBI, and/or local law enforcement authorities immediately.

The SSA has participated on the DHS Commercial Facilities Subsector Coordinating Council of the Infrastructure Protection Task Force, along with leaders from other real estate and commercial facility industries that may also be potential terrorism targets or otherwise be in a position to recognize and thwart suspicious activity.

Homegrown Terrorists – America Faces The Enemies Within

from National Terror Alert

For too long we as Americans have been complacent to believe that the threat of homegrown jihad terrorism is gravest elsewhere, but looking at recent events, one can easily see that the threat here is growing and it’s time to take it seriously.

The NY Daily news reports on the growth and danger of homegrown terrorism
Case history documents how terrorists can fade into the fabric of the country’s pluralistic population and how easily they can fashion explosives out of readily available products.

Brooklyn-born Betim Kaziu was charged Thursday with attempting to join a Pakistani-based Al Qaeda affiliate in hopes of killing U.S. troops.

Jordanian Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested Thursday in Dallas for putting what he believed was a car bomb in an office-tower garage.

Michael Finton, a 29-year-old Illinois man who idolized American Taliban John Walker Lindh, was arrested Wednesday on charges of plotting to bomb a federal courthouse.

Long Islander Bryant Neal Vinas was busted in July for allegedly training with Al Qaeda in Pakistan, joining rocket attacks on U.S. forces and giving “expert advice” on the subways and Long Island Rail Road.

Three U.S. citizens and a Haitian immigrant were charged in May with conspiring to plant 37 pounds of explosive at two Bronx synagogues.

Three illegal-immigrant brothers from Macedonia were sentenced in April to life for plotting in 2007 to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J.

Zazi, who was born in Afghanistan, ran a Manhattan doughnut cart. That’s how law-abiding, hardworking and, yes, normal, he seemed even as, probers believe, his heart beat as an engine of mass destruction.

After three jihad terror plots uncovered in the U.S., Obama frees three more Gitmo detainees

by Robert Spencer

New York/Denver. Dallas. Springfield, Illinois. Three plots, three released detainees. No, I am not saying there is some connection, some jihad terror plot-for-detainees exchange program. I am saying that the plots show that there is a manifest jihad threat, and that Obama continues to act as if there isn't. Release more Gitmo detainees -- what could possibly go wrong? Another Which-Side-Is-Obama-On Alert: "Obama Administration Frees Three More Gitmo Detainees," by Jake Tapper for ABC News, September 26 (thanks to Pamela):

The Department of Justice Saturday evening announced that two detainees had been transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Ireland, and one had been transferred to Yemen.

There are more than 220 detainees remaining at the prison. In the last couple months, the White House has made it increasingly clear that the President will not make his self-stated January 22, 2010 deadline to close to prison.

Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, a native of Yemen, was captured in Pakistan in 2002 and returned to Yemen today.

Known at Gitmo as Captive 692, the government labeled Ali Ahmed an "enemy combatant," saying he "was associated with Al-Qaeda. He was present on the front lines in Bagram, Afghanistan. He was identified by a senior Al-Qaeda facilitator as having been a resident at a safehouse in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2000 (his individual also saw the detainee at a safehouse located in Faisalabad, Pakistan in February 2002 with a group of Yemenis who had fled Afghanistan). Finally, the Detainee was identified by another individual, a senior Al-Qaeda operational planner, as having resided at a safehouse located in Kandahar in 2001."...