President Obama’s core, his center, his essence, is not as simple as viewing him as a classic leftist/progressive in the FDR model.   To really understand, and subsequently be able to predict his future activity you have to understand his Global Leftism.

In part driven by his upbringing, and in part driven by his associations, and in part driven by his own self-created values and beliefs.   When you listen to his words, watch his behaviors, understand his purposes and intents, watch his jealousies (Clinton Global Initiative), and understand the well written psychologies behind his endeavors, you recognize his approach is more mentally academic than I believe people give him credit for.

President Obama believes the stuff he has developed an affection for.  He truly does.   That’s not to say the policies that flow from it are appropriate, reasonable or even well constructed, indeed most are not.   But what they “are” is predictable. (more…)

The group who took victory laps around the Blood Slaughtered American Bodies in Benghazi have organized their visible self in, wait for it,…… Egypt.   Go Figure.

EGYPT – Ansar al Sharia Egypt has published its founding statement online. The group says that “preaching and jihad are two wings that are indispensable to the spread of Islam,” according to a translation prepared by the SITE Intelligence Group. And the group outlines sixteen goals with that two-pronged approach in mind.

In addition to calling for the implementation of sharia law, and the resurrection of the Caliphate, the organization says it will work towards “the liberation of the Muslim lands from foreign invasion” and resist “modern colonialism, especially the Zionist-Crusader colonialism that is led by America and the West.” (more…)

Hillary arrived in Israel and held a presser in advance of close door meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu.   Bibi says no to ceasefire, Secretary Clinton affirms Israels’ position, then her and Bibi head into a private conversation so she can hear first hand what the details are of Netanyahu’s terms.    With those Israeli terms in hand she will approach Egypt’s President Morsi to leverage Hamas for ceasefire.

Egyptian President Morsi is, in essence, the figurehead leadership of Hamas.  Think about that?   My, how things have changed……   Meanwhile…..  These are the savages who represent Hamas – Hamas terrorists shot a van-load of suspected Israeli “spies” in Gaza.  Then they dragged the body of one of the men through the streets.

IBTimes reported:

Six Palestinian men have been executed after being accused of spying for Israel. After a brief trial, the six alleged informers were executed and dumped in a Gaza street, reports said.

“Their bodies are still there now. Ambulances have been arriving to presumably take them away,” Sky News correspondent Stuart Ramsay said.

The six “were caught red-handed” with high-tech filming equipment to take videos of military positions, according to a security source quoted by the Hamas Aqsa radio. The men were shot. (more…)

Perhaps this Hamas approach will backfire and western journalists will pause before they sell their  insufferable propaganda from Hamas as victim news….. just perhaps.   (Via GWP) Hamas terrorist Muhammed Shamalah disguised himself as a journalist in a car marked TV.  Shamalah’s car was targeted today in a strike in southern Gaza. Muhammed Shamalah didn’t make it. The IDF Blog reported:

When terrorists disguised themselves as civilians, it can only end badly for civilians. Today, a senior Hamas operative was targeted while driving a press vehicle, effectively disguising himself as a reporter. By doing so, he risked the lives of all journalists in the Gaza Strip. (more…)

People will ask:  “does President Obama actually believe this ?“…. the answer is a resounding YES.  More thoughts after article:

(CNSNews.com) – President Obama on Sunday played down the notion that the conflict between Israel and Hamas has been complicated by “Arab spring” transitions in the Middle East.

Despite warnings from various Arab leaders and Turkey that Israel faces a new environment in the changing Middle East, Obama pointed out that conflict between Israelis and Palestinians had been going on long before what he described as “democratization in the region.” […]

Asked in Bangkok whether the Arab spring “has made matters worse,” Obama demurred.

“Let’s just remember that the exact same situation arose just a couple of years ago, before the Arab spring,” he replied, alluding to the 22-day Israeli military operation against Hamas in Dec. 2008-Jan. 2009, also prompted by escalated rocket attacks. (more…)

It began with Four Targets –   The Entire Back Story

[left to right]  Ben Ali (Tunisia),  Ali Abdullah Sulah (Yemen),  Maummar Gaddafi (Libya), and Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)

Their removal was specific, strategic, neccessary and profoundly intentional

Four Specific Targets of the Feb 17th Brigade and aligned contingents which include: al-Qaeda Arabian Peninsular (AQAP), Ayman Al Zawahiri, al-Qaeda Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Muhammed Al Zawahiri , Salafists, The Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt’s Morsi) and President Barack Obama. (more…)

Yesterday Turkey’s Prime Minister Called Israel a Terrorist State.  ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan described Israel on Monday as a “terrorist state” in carrying out its bombardment of Gaza, underlining hostility for Ankara’s former ally since relations between them collapsed in 2010.

His comments came after nearly a week of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel and Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip. An Israeli missile killed at least 11 Palestinian civilians including four children in Gaza on Sunday.

“Those who associate Islam with terrorism close their eyes in the face of mass killing of Muslims, turn their heads from the massacre of children in Gaza,” Erdogan told a conference of the Eurasian Islamic Council in Istanbul. (more…)

More than twice as many Hamas rockets have hit ‘Palestinians’as have hit urban areas in Israel according to the Prime Minister’s office.

Sixty out of the 703 rockets Hamas fired during the four days of Operation Pillar of Defense fell inside the Gaza Strip on Palestinian civilians, PMO Spokesman said on Twitter on Saturday.

Only 27 of the rockets fell on urban areas in Israel. (article)

ISRAEL – A rocket fired from Gaza has hit a school in Ashkelon. This is the second time on Monday that a school in the city was hit by a Hamas missile. No injuries were reported, though the school building was damaged. […]

On the sixth day of Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel upped the frequency of its airstrikes at the Gaza Strip, targeting smuggling tunnels, rocket launching squads, weapons and ammunition caches (including one located under Gaza City’s main soccer stadium), and terror groups’ field commanders. The death toll in Gaza stands at 84, roughly two thirds of which are combatants. (more…)

Do you need a better example of how the Media-Left view Israel.  I mean, c’mon it’s only a few hundred rockets falling upon you….  you don’t have to get all defensive about it.  Sheeesh.

Mara Schiavocampo: “Living under the threat of rocket attack is certainly a psychological trauma. But what would you say to those who argue that the rockets are essentially very ineffective, they rarely do damage and that the response from Israelis is disproportional to the threat they’re under.”

Michael Oren: “Imagine if one rocket had fallen in the United States and not now since the year 2009, our last operation, we’ve had something in the vicinity of 8,000 rockets fall on the State of Israel. That’s more than twice all of the German rockets that fell on London during World War II. And you saw how the British and Americans reacted to that.”