January 21, 2013, 6:44 AM
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Israel has many passionate supporters on Capitol Hill, particularly on the Republican side of the aisle. These are men and women who are deeply committed to Israel and understand that Israel is the US's only reliable ally in the Middle East and America's most vital ally in the world today in light of the rise of radical Islamic regimes, movements and leaders.
Today as Obama officially enters his second term in office, Israel enters a period unlike any it has experienced before. It will face a hostile US president who does not fear the voters. Moreover, it faces a US president who is so hostile to Israel that his first serious act after his reelection was to appoint Chuck Hagel Defense Secretary, (and John Brennan CIA Director).
As I wrote last week, I believe that Israel will not be the hardest hit by Obama's "transformative" foreign policy over the next four years. As an independent state, Israel has the ability to diversify its network of strategic allies and so mitigate somewhat the hit it will take from the Obama administration. The US, and first and foremost the US military will not be so fortunate.
Not surprisingly, Israel's biggest defenders in the US Capitol are also the most outspoken allies of the US military and the most concerned about maintaining America's ability to remain the most powerful nation on earth both economically and militarily. They are as well, Obama's most outspoken critics on the Hill.
For their outspoken criticism, and their competence, these men and women have been targeted for political destruction by Obama and his allies. Last November we saw this leftist machine outgun and so defeat Cong. Allen West in Florida and Joe Walsh in Illinois. Both men were targeted by Obama's smear machine that included, among other things, J-Street endorsements of their opponents, and rancid attacks against them.
One of the voices that Obama's machine has spent millions of dollars trying to silence is that of Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.
As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, and as a contender in the Republican presidential primaries, Bachmann has been one of Israel's most passionate and articulate defenders and one of Obama's most effective critics on everything from federal spending to Obama's abandonment of the US-Israel alliance to his opening of the US federal government and intelligence apparatuses to members of the Muslim Brotherhood - that is to members of a movement dedicated to the destruction of the American way of life.
For her efforts, Rep. Bachmann has been the target of repeated media smear campaigns, often joined by skittish Republicans like John McCain who failed to recognize the danger of the Muslim Brotherhood's rise in Libya and Egypt, and failed to understand the danger that the penetration of the US federal government by Muslim Brotherhood members constitutes to US national security.
I have had the privilege and pleasure of meeting with Rep. Bachmann on several occasions over the years. She is one of the most intelligent women I know. And her grasp of the nature and importance of the US-Israel alliance is extraordinary. So too, her understanding of the challenges to US national security is clear, educated and sophisticated.
Watch for instance these speeches that she has delivered in recent months.
The day she announced her candidacy for President:
And at the Values Voters Summit shortly before the Presidential election.
In the past, every time that I have written about Cong. Bachmann, I have been bombarded with comments from readers who say that they cannot believe I can support her, since they claim, she is such an extremist. But Cong. Bachmann is not an extremist at all.
What she is is a victim of a very successful smear campaign undertaken by people who recognize her talent, conviction, intelligence and effectiveness. They set out to destroy and marginalize her, just as they set out to destroy and marginalize Mitt Romney and West and Walsh and many others, because they perceive these leaders as a threat to their agendas.
Today Cong. Bachmann is the target of a new leftist smear campaign, organized by the far Left People for the American Way. The campaign involves a petition that has reportedly been signed already by 178,000 people demanding that House Speaker John Boehner expel Rep. Bachmann from the House Select Committee on Intelligence.
The proximate cause for the petition is a series of letters Bachmann and five other (wonderful and similarly courageous) Congressional colleagues penned to the Inspectors General of the Departments of Homeland Security, the Defense Department, the State Department, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice asking for the IGs to conduct an investigation of the ties senior officials in these departments have with the Muslim Brotherhood.
For her efforts, Bachmann was condemned not only by the Left, but by Senator John McCain as a bigot and a McCarthyite.
But she is none of these things. And last month, her concerns were borne out when the Egyptian magazine Rose al Youssef published an article about Muslim Brotherhood operatives in senior positions in the Obama administration. According to the article, these operatives have transformed the US "from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world, to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood." (Here is the Investigative Project on Terrorism's translation of the article.)
Among those mentioned in the articles are some of the officials that Bachmann named in her letters last July. Far from waging a McCarthyite, bigoted witch hunt against guileless American citizens, as the Egyptian article makes clear, her concerns were founded in fact and totally reasonable.
Before Obama was reelected, I heard repeatedly that supporters of Israel like Alan Dershowitz, Ed Koch, and Haim Saban who had properly criticized Obama's hostility towards Israel but then supported his reelection bid, did so because they believed that by supporting him, they would be in a position to pressure him to support Israel in his second term. According to this line of reasoning, these men and others like them believed that Obama would listen to them in his second term if - but only if - they supported his reelection against a candidate who was clearly more supportive of Israel than Obama.
By appointing Hagel as Defense Secretary, Obama made clear even before he was sworn in for his second term that this assumption was completely wrong. By supporting his reelection they supported giving Obama four years to lead American foreign policy unconstrained by the need to feign support for Israel. When you empower your enemies, your enemies are empowered.
By the same token, when you support your friends, your friends are empowered. Rep. Bachmann is a friend of Israel's. And she is an American patriot committed to doing everything in her power to protecting the US and defending and maintaining America as the indispensable nation.
In response to the PFAW's petition, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, with which I am proud to be formally associated as the Director of its Israel Security Project, launched a counter-petition to Speaker Boehner voicing support for Bachmann. If you are a US citizen, please take a few moments to sign the petition.
For further reading on the campaign against Bachmann see Andy McCarthy in National Review here, and Robert Spencer in Frontpage Magazine here and here.
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What is most upsetting is that the American people are blinder than ever to the dangers facing all of us. This was once the Golden Land, Barack Obama and his henchmen have manage to tarnish the beauty of this country and erode the values that have made us the greatest nation in the world. Thank G-d for people like Michele Bachmann who have the courage to care not only for America, but also for America's best friend, Israel. Thank you Caroline for your unstinting devotion to the truth and your courage in sparing no details. Petition signed and donation given. G-d bless.
glick does it again!
thank you for the clarity and confirmation citing the egyptian article. question is: how to assemble enough congress members to impeach hussein?
Thanks to you and the David Horowitz Freedom Center for your support of this courageous woman.
May G-d grant us all courage to stand for truth in the days ahead.
Wish I could say what you 've written about the people of my country is fals- but I can't, it IS treue. Most Americans dwell on issues and desires in their own lives, never wanting to look at problems in the country. IMHO- they seem to go through life thinking, the more they focus on their little part of life, the more everything will not effect their lives. They are truly blinded by the main stream media who decides what is news worthy and diverts the attention from critical problems we face as a Nation to the mundane. I have taken a personal pledge to GOD and my country to inform other citizens on topics which their attention. Daily, I am met with little response from the folks I most want to reach- the uninformed and mis-informed. My support group is growing, so that my be a sign of positive impact. Certainly, I will sign this petition and share it over FB. Thank you for your writing and reporting efforts.
If you want to know from where the racism, sexism, hate and intolerance comes from, just watch the venom and vitriol spewed at any female/minority Republican trying to emerge onto the national stage.
As for caring for the environment, compare the aftermath of Tea Party rallys where everyone picks up after themselves with the trash strewn mall in the aftermath of both Obama inaugurations, occupy protests, or DNC convention
As for violence, if any of the recent shootings involved registered Republicans, or children of registered Republicans, the media would be trumpeting it 24/7.
I think the best way to defend herself against these accusations is to run for Senate.
Her and Al Franken in a debate would be one for the ages.
Please Representative Bachmann, run for Senate. You have by far the best name recognition in the entire state.
I am totally with you in the need for a strong support of Israel, and I know how devastating it is that the number of reliable supporters seems to be on the decrease. Nevertheless, I just can't understand how you can praise the "intelligence" of someone who endorses creationism, or, more generally speaking, how you can come to regard the Evangelical fundamentalists of all people as trustworthy allies.
Why did the following congressmen/senators call Michelle Bachman "a stain on the Republican party?"
What seems to be apparent is that McCain, Boehner, Lindsey
Graham, Mike Simpson all seem to be in the pocket of
radical Islamists. We can also include Chris Christie in this
group.
Although the Democratic party is teeming with pro muslims, the Repubs have their share as well....allowing these
anti Americans to hedge their bets with our parties.
Lots of people don't like Michelle Bachmann because she is a person with strong moral values who believes in God and the Bible.
Some people can't understand how Caroline Glick can praise the intelligence of "someone who endorses creationism."
It's easy: the reason is because the proof that God exists is scientific as well as theological and historical.
Atheists only hope is that they must try to find the "right" politician for an office to make this a better world.
All their vain hopes will be dashed in World War III when there is massive death and destruction on the earth.
What does God call a doubter, a skeptic, an agnostic, an atheist?
King David of Israel was inspired to give us the answer to that question.
Someday in the future - at the time of the second resurrection from the dead - all the atheists will be forced to admit King David of Israel was correct when he made the statement that only "the fool said in his heart 'there is no God'"(Psalm 14:1).
When The Great Tribulation strikes in World War III - atheists will have no divine protection.
But the Bible indicates people such as Michelle Bachmann and Caroline Glick will have divine protection because they are some of those who "sigh and cry over all the abominations" that are done in this world (Ezekiel 9:3,4).
My personal belief is that God will reward Michelle Bachmann and Caroline Glick for all the good work they did.
When the time arrives in the future for Michelle Bachmann and Caroline Glick to learn God's plan, purpose and program for them - as well as for all humanity - they will easily accept the truth when it is presented to them.
After all, they are some of the precious few gems and jewels who are speaking the truth about the way things are in the world today.
The Wonderful World Tomorrow will soon be here when the Kingdom of God is set up and people all over the earth will learn the way to peace and everyone will learn to care for one another and love one another in the proper way because they will live by God's law of the ten commandments.
May God bless and protect Michelle Bachmannn and Caroline Glick in the days and years ahead.
the national socialist workers party hate any one who is a person of character and moral courage.
Michelle Bachmann and Caroline Glick are two, rare modern day heroines, fighting for the survival of Israel, and Jews around the world. May G-d bless you both.