Report: Even Obama knows that 'Abbas' doesn't want peace
A senior Israeli diplomatic official has told Israel Hayom that even President Obama recognizes that 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud AbbasAbu Mazen has no interest in peace.
Since Obama visited Israel in
March, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has been trying to find a way
to renew peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Kerry's
efforts have led nowhere because neither side believes talks would
continue after an opening summit.
At this point, the peace process is stalled
because of Palestinian demands for a complete settlement freeze. In
public statements that he made in Jerusalem and Ramallah, Obama rejected
preconditions for the renewal of peace talks. Yet the Palestinians
continue to insist on a number of preconditions, including, among
others, the release of more than 100 terrorists imprisoned in Israel for
attacks they committed before the signing of the Oslo Accords in the
early 1990s.
Abbas is also demanding that Netanyahu present
a map of the final borders of a Palestinian state. The Prime Minister's
Office strongly rejects this demand, saying borders should be the last
core issue discussed. Israeli officials believe Abbas is demanding a
border map to spark internal controversy in Israel over settlements that
would not remain inside the country.
The senior diplomatic official said that the
relationship between Netanyahu and Obama was "very good." The official
said Obama "opened a new page and during his recent trip to Israel
proved that he came as a friend."
Some Israeli officials point to the upcoming
2014 U.S. Congressional elections as a reason for Obama's embrace of
Israel. According to this line of thought, Obama wants to soften
Congress so that it will not thwart his plans.
But the more dominant assessment among Israeli
officials is that the Obama administration changed its tune toward
Israel due to the consequences of the Arab Spring.
2014 is a much more likely explanation than the Arab spring. The Arab spring was in 2011 and Obama kept pressuring Israel for as long as he thought he could get away with it without ruining his reelection chances. Obama is hoping to regain a House majority, and that won't happen if he has to answer everywhere for pressuring Israel.
But the senior Israeli diplomatic official has Abu Mazen right.
The official said he believed that Abbas' policy was to "stay in place."
"Abbas saw that after the disengagement
[Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip in 2005], despite the relative
strength he had there with 35,000 fighters against the 4,000 of Hamas,
Hamas expelled him," the official said. "In light of the events taking
place in Arab countries in the Middle East, he does not want the same
thing to happen in Judea and Samaria."
Abu Mazen is about keeping himself alive and staying in power. Always has been and always will be.
How many more incidents like this one are out there, and were there enough to affect the results of the Presidential election in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida?
She admitted voting twice in the presidential election last November,
and now, Obama supporter Melowese Richardson has been indicted for
allegedly voting at least six times. She also is charged with illegal
voting in 2008 and 2011.
The 58-year-old veteran Cincinnati poll worker, indicted Monday,
faces eight counts of voter fraud. Two others, one of whom is a nun,
have been charged separately.
Richardson had admitted on camera to a local TV station, "Yes, I
voted twice," claiming she was concerned that her vote would not count.
She also said there "was no intent on my part to commit any voter
fraud."
"I'll fight it for Mr. Obama and Mr. Obama's right to sit as president of the United States," she proclaimed in the interview.
Officials charged that she voted in her own name by absentee ballot
and also in person at the polls, but Hamilton County Prosecuting
Attorney Joseph Deters said she also is charged with voting in the name
of five other people in various elections.
"This is not North Korea," Deters said in a statement announcing the
indictments. "Elections are a serious business and the foundation of our
democracy. In the scheme of things, individual votes may not seem
important, but this could not be further from the truth. Every vote is
important and every voter and candidate needs to have faith in our
system. The charges today should let people know that we take this
seriously."
He doesn't have a right to sit as President if he's not elected, and you certainly don't have a right to vote more than once to elect him.
If I were a Republican in Congress, I'd be all over this to show why the US needs a voter ID law for elections. This is unbelievable.
Coincidence? Obama lost in every state with a photo ID law
And you thought the Democrats opposedvoter identification laws because they prevent people who are entitled to vote from voting. Err.... Not exactly.
Curiously,
Obama lost in every state that requires a photo ID to be produced
before voting. A list of closely contested state elections with no voter
ID, which narrowly went to Obama include: Minnesota (10), Iowa (6),
Wisconsin (10), Nevada (6), Colorado (9), New Mexico (5) and
Pennsylvania (20).
And yes, that's enough electoral votes to change the result.
The picture at the top is an Israeli teudat zehut (identification card) and yes, you must have one to vote in our elections.
Clinton Eugene Curtis testified under oath, before the Ohio State
legislature, that he wrote a program to rig elections. This program
would flip the total vote from the real winner to the candidate who had
been pre-selected to win by the electronic vote counting machines. For
more information, visit;
Vote Fraud: How it is done http://targetfreedom.com/cfr/vote-fraud-how-it-is-done/
This is rich: UN election observers amazed US allows voting without ID
Foreign Policy reports that those United Nations observers of the US elections - agreed to by the Obama administration and disdained by many Red States - are amazed that the US allows voting without identification cards.
"It's an incredible system," said [Libyan election commission chief] Nuri K. Elabbar, who traveled to the United States along with
election officials from more than 60 countries to observe today's presidential
elections as part of a program run by the International
Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES). Your humble Cable guy visited polling places with some of the international officials
this morning. Most of them agreed that in their countries, such an open voting
system simply would not work.
"It's very difficult to transfer this system as it is to any
other country. This system is built according to trust and this trust needs a
lot of procedures and a lot of education for other countries to adopt it,"
Elabbar said.
The most often noted difference between American elections
among the visitors was that in most U.S. states, voters need no identification.
Voters can also vote by mail, sometimes
online, and there's often no way to know if one person has voted several
times under different names, unlike in some Arab countries, where voters ink
their fingers when casting their ballots.
The international visitors also noted that there's no police
at U.S. polling stations. In foreign countries, police at polling places are viewed
as signs of security; in the United States they are sometimes seen as
intimidating.
Here in Israel, you need your identification card, you can only vote in person, and you vote by putting a slip of paper with your chosen party's symbol on it into an envelope, and you put the envelope in the ballot box. If you include more than one slip - even from the same party - your vote is disqualified.
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