Shocking video: Jews barred from Boca Raton synagogue because they oppose Obama.

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Obama Administration Leaks More Israeli Defense Secrets

 The leaks continue from the Obama administration with regard to Israeli defense secrets. On Sunday, the New Yorker printed a report stating that US had worked with the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK). The US was apparently receiving intelligence from the group, including intercepted cell phone calls and text messages. But sources also confirmed that Mossad was helping to funnel resources and train members of the MEK. As Seymour Hersh writes:

[E]arly last month NBC News quoted two senior Obama Administration officials as confirming that the attacks were carried out by M.E.K. units that were financed and trained by Mossad, the Israeli secret service. NBC further quoted the Administration officials as denying any American involvement in the M.E.K. activities. The former senior intelligence official I spoke with seconded the NBC report that the Israelis were working with the M.E.K., adding that the operations benefitted from American intelligence. He said that the targets were not “Einsteins”; “The goal is to affect Iranian psychology and morale,” he said, and to “demoralize the whole system—nuclear delivery vehicles, nuclear enrichment facilities, power plants.” Attacks have also been carried out on pipelines. He added that the operations are “primarily being done by M.E.K. through liaison with the Israelis, but the United States is now providing the intelligence.”

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‘AMERICA ISRAEL RACING’ AT NASCAR

HT~ barenakedislam America Israel Racing was formed to raise awareness of the importance of America supporting Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East, as it stands against its enemies. AmericaIsraelRacing Website The North Carolina-based race team, founded in 2011, is in the process of fundraising to field a car in the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starting with the Daytona 500. Through strategic partnerships and joint ventures with other organizations, America Israel Racing hopes to spread the message throughout the world that the United States supports Israel. America Israel Racing is proud to be part of a top notch team which includes Robinson-Blakeney Racing, Driver J.J. Yeley, and Crew Chief Tony Furr. “We wanted to ensure our car design was not only eye-catching, but properly conveyed the mission and values of America Israel Racing,” said AIR co-founder Rich Shirey. “The eagle in particular contains a great deal of symbolism – it has a determined look on its face, because we are determined to voice the importance of America’s support of Israel. Scene Daily Rich Shirey and Mark MacCaull aren’t political activists. But they have a belief in a cause, and they’re willing to put some of their money behind it in one of the more unique places – the hood of a Sprint Cup car. Shirey and MacCaull started American Israel Racing to generate support for Israel. It will advertise its website on the hood of the Robinson-Blakeney Racing car of driver JJ Yeley for the first three Cup races this year with hopes of continuing it throughout the season through people donating to the cause. “I’m just a regular guy, a country guy and NASCAR has a lot of average people just like me,” Shirey said. “We need to show the world, show Israel, that regardless of the way it might look at times, the people in this country have the belief of appreciating them being an ally and a democracy similar to ours. “I’m not a movie star. I’m not a country music singer. I didn’t have the avenue. I went to Mark and said NASCAR would be a fantastic to try to build this [cause].” MacCaull was an engineer at Haas CNC Racing and Michael Waltrip Racing. “Rich and I were good friends and Rich had the idea of how America needs to support Israel,” MacCaull said. “We were just talking about it one day and decided the Daytona 500 would be a great place to promote this and my background was in NASCAR racing. “We started from there and put it together and realized it was a good stage and the more we talked, the more we realized we should do the entire season.” Both MacCaull and Shirey live in the Charlotte area and share a common belief. MacCaull had known the team’s crew chief, Tony Furr, and they were able to arrange the sponsorship with the team owned by Jay Robinson. “Being raised Southern Baptist and the belief that we should back Israel if we believe what the Bible says and the other side of it – it’s not a political thing that motivates me – we have a country that is our closest ally in a part of the world that is not very friendly, especially to the west,” Shirey said. American Israel Racing has teamed with Robinson-Blakeney Racing of Monroe, North Carolina, to place a car in the 2012 Daytona 500 field on February 26 at Daytona International Speedway in Florida. AIR hopes to continue its partnership with Robinson-Blakeney Racing beyond Daytona, and with the support of like-minded individuals AIR will spread its message of American Israeli support by placing a car in the NASCAR Sprint Cup field for the entire 2012 season. Anyone wishing to support America Israel Racing and its cause can make a donation online at AMERICA ISRAEL RACING AmericaIsraelRacing.com facebook.com/AmericaIsraelRacing twitter.com/AmIsraelRacing

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Krauthammer: Leak indicates Israeli attack on Iran ‘certain’

Last week in his Washington Post column, David Ignatius wrote that Israel was preparing to attack Iran to prevent it from being able to build a nuclear bomb.





According to his Post opinion page colleague Charles Krauthammer, based on the source behind Ignatius’ claim it is likely an attack will occur.


On this weekend’s broadcast of “Inside Washington,” Krauthammer explained his thought process.


“I think it’s fairly certain the Israelis are going to attack or you would not have had this leak, deliberately coming this week from secretary of Defense through David Ignatius of The [Washington] Post saying that he thinks there is a high likelihood Israel is going to attack, and then he went ahead and specified when. He said three months, April, May or June. And you don’t say that unless there is obviously indications from the Israelis that they are going to do this even if they get and they are getting a signal from the United States not to do it.”


Krauthammer doubted Israel was factoring what impact a strike against Iran might have on upcoming U.S. presidential election.


“No, I think the calculation is what Ignatius reported as Panetta said: The Israelis think that the problem is that Iran is about to enter the zone of immunity. And that means the trigger is not the assumption that Iran now has the know-how to make a bomb. That is later down the road. What comes earlier is when Iran has put enough uranium in completely untouchable, protected sites, like the mountain outside of Qom where you cannot touch it, meaning that at that point, Iran has the wherewithal, the facilities, the material that it can build a bomb unmolested, and then it can never be attacked again. If Israel thinks it is approaching the point of immunity, it will attack.”


Krauthammer reminded viewers that the real threat of escalation would be if the rogue state attempted to block the Strait of Hormuz.


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30,000 lb "MOP" Bomb Built For / Destined For Iran..??

U.S. enemies around the world have dug deep into the earth to hide weapons and harden military targets from attack. So to deal with rogue states who decide to go down under, the U.S. has some developed big, earth-thumping “super bombs,” but none more powerful than this:

Meet the MOP, or Massive Ordnance Penetrator.

Its goal of blasting through 60 feet of concrete with a bomb exploding at 200 feet underground is a tall order. To accomplish that, the school-bus-sized MOP is dropped from a high altitude, and uses a combination of technology and Newton’s laws of physics to punch deep into the earth and obliterate its target.

The MOP is 20 feet in length and weighs 30,000 pounds.  In 2007 the MOP was successfully tested, which led the Air Force to order eight of them at a cost of $28 million in April 2011.

Currently, the B-52 can carry and deploy the MOP, but Boeing and Lockheed Martin are both working on a next generation bomber than can replace the B-52 and carry MOP-sized munitions.

The new weapon recently received a special design accolade, as according to Business Insider, manufacturer Boeing has received the William J. Perry award from the Precision Strike Association to honor “one of the Secretary of Defense’s number one weapons programs.”

Interestingly enough, the MOP is part of the U.S.‘s military’s move towards a decreased reliance on tactical nuclear weapons. The thinking is if you can get enough explosive yield from a conventional bomb, there is no need to risk the fallout and contamination of a tactical nuclear strike.

While the MOP is an innovative new design, massive aerial bombs of different types have been in use for decades. Some have weighed even more than the MOP, and saw use as far back as World War II.

MOAB

The Massive Ordinance Aerial Bomb (MOAB), also called the GBU-43B or colloquially the “Mother Of All Bombs,” was used by the U.S. against the Taliban in Afghanistan. At the time of its initial production, it was the most powerful conventional (non-nuclear) munition in the U.S. arsenal.

At 30-feet-long and 18,000 pounds, the MOAB could only be delivered by a handful of aircraft such as the C-130 Hercules.

Below is a short clip showing a MOAB detonation:

BLU-82 "Daisycutter" (photo: USAF Museum)

The BLU-82 “Daisycutter” is a 15,000 lbs. explosive monster that saw use during the Vietnam war, initially to clear the dense undergrowth for a landing field, which is why is was also known as the “jungle buster.” Later in the war, it was also used for anti-personnel and psychological operations effects.

Unlike a penetrator, though, it did not bury itself on impact and in fact left little or no crater upon detonation. Its explosive force was mostly directed laterally, and it was able to clear out vegetation (or anything else) for a 130 foot radius.

And here is the Daisycutter showing what it can do out in the desert:

T-12 Cloudmaker

The T-12 “Cloudmaker” was the first “Super Bomb” developed by the U.S. for use in the mid-1940′s against hardened bunkers and other targets that were invulnerable to conventional bombs.

The Cloudmaker’s extremely thick nose section allowed it to punch deep into hardened concrete structures and then after a short time fuse detonate underground. This created what was called an “earthquake effect.”

At 42,000 pounds, the “Cloudmaker” was the aerial juggernaut of its time, and paved the way for later super bombs and deep penetrators, including today’s high-tech MOP design.

(h/t Business Insider)

‘Israel to Give Obama 12 Hours Notice on Attacking Iran’

Israeli officials told visiting USS Chief Joint of Staffs Martin Dempsey that it would give President Barack Obama no more than 12 hours notice if and when it attacks Iran, The London Times reported Sunday.

The Netanyahu government also will not coordinate with the United States an attack on the Islamic Republic, according to the report, the latest in a number of suposed scenarios concerning cooperation or lack of it between Jerusalem and Washington.

It is left to speculation whether the rumors are based on facts or are leaked by officials to mask the possibility of secret military coordination.

The London Times said its sources explained that that Israel fears that President Obama would try to torpedo an Israel attack if more notice were given because he is concerned that Iran will respond by blocking the Strait of Hormuz, sparking a rise in the price of oil that could cripple Western economies. If the attack were to occur in the next 10 months, it would put President Obama in a tight spot on the eve of his bid for re-election.

President Shimon Peres told Dempsey, "I am sure that in this fight [against Iran] we will emerge victorious. It is a fight that does not belong exclusively to the United States or Israel, but a global struggle to create a safe world for all peoples.”

Dempsey, on his first official visit to Israel, was wined and dined by Defense Minister Ehud Barak and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gants, who went so far as to arrange an IDF orchestra rendition of song made famous by Frank Sinatra, one of Dempsey’s favorite singers.

Dempsey tried to play down the postponement of what was billed as the largest-ever joint military drill between the Israeli and American armies, involving thousands of U.S. Army soldiers.

Published reasons for the delay have ranged from budgetary constraints, logistical problems to a signal from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he distrusts President Obama’s commitment to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Dempsey maintained that the delay, which was announced by Israel, will give both countries more time to prepare and “achieve a better outcome.”

The top American general left Israel on Friday, before the Sabbath began.

Newt Gingrich - I'll Help Israel Attack Iran !!!

POWERFUL !!! Newt gets it !!!

Obama Regime panic over Israeli strike on Iran, sends Army general to “calm down Israel”

HAH! "Calm down Israel?" Not. Obama is sending the head of the Joint Chiefs to strong arm Israel into not taking steps to preemptively defend itself from the regularly threatened nuclear attack by Iran.

INN The Obama regime is sending the head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey to Israel this Thursday to try to change what it sees as Israel’s increasing readiness to attack Iran.


Both Israel and the United States have stated they would not rule out a military strike on Tehran to prevent the Islamic Republic from reaching the capability of attacking Israel, or elsewhere, with a nuclear weapon. (Yeah, but only Israel would actually do it) However, American officials are worried that Israel is closer to concluding that the “point of no return” is at hand, after which it may be too late to stop Iran.

With 15,000 soldiers, diplomats and contractors in Iraq, Iran’s neighbor, Washington is worried that an Israeli strike would place them in danger, The Wall Street Journal reported. Israel is concerned that Iranian nuclear capability would give it leverage to achieve its dream of dominating the Muslim world and “wiping Israel off the map” in the words of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (I thought all the soldiers were out of Iraq now?)



Dempsey will meet his counterpart in Israel, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, as well as Defense Minister Ehud Barak and possibly Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. President Barack Obama telephoned the Prime Minister last Thursday and expressed his “unshakeable” commitment to Israel’s security, but the White House declined to describe the content of the conversation.(I guess Netanyahu finally told Obama to stick it where the sun don't shine)



The head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, on his first official visit to Israel, will try to convince Israel that new sanctions on Iran and the deployment of thousands of U.S. soldiers in Kuwait demonstrate its intention to deter Iran. (How many times have we heard THAT before?) The United States also has sent a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf and underscored its vow to prevent Iran from holding the Western world hostage by closing the passage of oil tankers.


The nervousness in Washington is aggravated by its officials not really knowing what are the intentions of Israel. "It's hard to know what's bluster and what's not with the Israelis," a former U.S. official to the Journal.(You can thank Obama's pissing on Israel for that)



The Obama administration now is in a position of slapping harsher sanctions on Iran as a response to Israeli threats. The war of words between Israel and Iran escalated last week following the assassination of a top nuclear scientist in Iran, which accused “the Zionist regime” of carrying out the operation with approval of the United States.


George Mitchell, whose efforts to advance the “peace process” between the Palestinian Authority and Israel were a total failure, has joined the American chorus of advising Israel that it would be unwise to attack Iran. (BLAH BLAH BLAH)

Meanwhile, Iran claimed last week that an underground nuclear facility now is producing 20 percent enriched uranium, a key ingredient for a nuclear weapon.



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Media Matters, Think Tank Under Fire for Israel Commentary

Two left-leaning Washington organizations are facing heated criticism for their Israel-related coverage and commentary after throwing around the disparaging term "Israel firster" and accusing the Simon Wiesenthal Center -- a group dedicated to tolerance -- of being a "far-right" outfit. 

The comments by writers for the Center for American Progress, a think tank, and Media Matters, a media advocacy group, have received increasing attention over the past week, in particular for their criticism of American supporters of Israel and for their repeated downplaying of the threat posed by a nuclear Iran. The CAP also was reproached for its criticism of the Simon Wiesenthal Center as a partisan outfit.

The Wiesenthal Center responded this week with a lengthy statement that condemned the remarks and suggested that the organizations are trying to make it difficult for others "to take a position sympathetic to the Jewish state." 

At issue is a litany of blogs, stories and tweets over the past year from the CAP and Media Matters, whose founder has committed to launching a "war" on Fox News. 

Of particular concern was the repeated use of the term "Israel firster" by MJ Rosenberg, senior foreign policy fellow for Media Matters, and by another blogger for ThinkProgress, a CAP website. 

The term is used to describe lawmakers and others who voice unwavering support for Israel, but it also implies that their loyalties are to Israel first, and to America after that. 

One Democratic congressional aide likened using the term to "questioning one's patriotism" and called it "outside the mainstream" of acceptable discourse. 

"What you're saying is that they put Israel's interests above all else ... over the national security of the United States and our troops abroad," the aide said, requesting anonymity so as not to imply the office in which the aide works was officially responding to bloggers. 

The Simon Wiesenthal Center had a similar assessment. 

"When it comes to the charges of being 'Israel Firsters' and having 'dual loyalty,' we not only plead innocent but also counter-charge that these sponsored bloggers are guilty of dangerous political libels resonating with historic and toxic anti-Jewish prejudices," the center said in a statement first distributed to The Washington Post. 

The center described the accusation as the kind of "odious charges" that have been around since before World War II. 

Other writings by the two groups have also come under scrutiny. 

Think Progress claimed in August that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobby, was banging the war drums on Iran. 

"It would appear that AIPAC is now using the same escalating measures against Iran that were used before the invasion of Iraq," the article read, citing an AIPAC letter in support of congressional calls to sanction Iran's Central Bank. 

A subsequent ThinkProgress post described as "factually inaccurate" assumptions in a Quinnipiac University poll about an Iranian nuclear weapons program, which Iran denies but the international community claims is at best on the backburner. 

A ThinkProgress writer in May also slammed the Simon Wiesenthal Center as a "far-right" organization that "basically called Obama a Nazi" when it criticized the president for backing a return to Israel's 1967 borders. 

The center at the time called those lines the "Auschwitz" borders, but in the statement this week described the "Nazi"-calling charge as a "low blow" 

"The Center for American Progress ought to stick to fair-minded discussion of serious issues about the U.S.' future. It ought to disown immediately 'Israel Laster' bloggers who take the low road and drag down policy debates into the gutter of individual and group defamation," the Wiesenthal Center said. 

Josh Block, a former spokesman for AIPAC, also raised concerns last week, telling Politico that "either the inmates are running the asylum or the Center for American Progress has made a decision to be anti-Israel." 

The CAP subsequently denounced the use of the term "Israel firsters." 

In a Dec. 9 blog, ThinkProgress National Security Editor Ben Armbruster said the organization does not "endorse the term." 

Zaid Jilani, the ThinkProgress reporter who used the term on Twitter, told Commentary magazine he was "unaware of all the connotations it carried." He apologized and deleted the tweets. 

The CAP has rejected any suggestion that it is anti-Semitic or anti-Israel, and it has fired back at Block and the Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin, who has written about the dispute. Armbruster called on the Post to retract Rubin's charge that some of the views espoused by CAP and Media Matters writers are anti-Semitic. 

The CAP also responded to the Simon Wiesenthal Center's statement, saying that, contrary to the center's suggestion, the "Iranian issue is a strong point of concern for us." 

"It is incorrect to assert that we do not take the threat of Iran's nuclear program seriously," the CAP wrote. 

At Media Matters, Rosenberg remained defiant. 

He published a lengthy piece Monday, arguing that he uses the term "Israel firsters" because "can anyone argue with the assertion that, for neocons, Obama is always wrong and Bibi (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) is always right?" 

Rosenberg, a former congressional aide and AIPAC editor, gave a "clarification," though. 

"By the term' Israel firster,' I do not mean right-wingers and necons who advance bellicose Middle East policies are putting the interests of Israel first," he wrote. "Far from it. They are putting the interest of Binyamin Netanyahu and his hardliners first. ... The people I call 'Israel firsters' are, in fact, Netanyahu firsters." 

He continued, "There is no evidence that these people care about Israel at all."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/16/media-matters-think-tank-under-fire-for-israel-commentary/?intcmp=trending#ixzz1gjQeq9Yb

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