I lied; I just counted-up the number of unprocessed e-mails [88] and many relate to the middle east, the

focus of most of the hyperlinks provided previously; more are in the offing before drawing upon those
with domestic-import. I try to aggregate themes, but there are so many that sensory-overload is again
emerging, even when stuff that is already recognized is skipped unless it carries a unique-twist. In any
case, essays are again provided that cant be hyperlinked to the Internet or that merit line-by-line
memorization. *Regarding BHOs speech, a friend wrote: OBs speech reminds me of Joe Frasier going
into a ring and saying to his opponent, First Im going to give you an upper-cut, then a stomach shot,
but I wont knock you off your feet, OK? (I dont call him BO but OB meaning odd brain.)+ It is hoped
that nothing will have been missed by the time this disgorgement process has been completed.

DOWNLOAD The Truth About Hamass War Against Israel, c/o The ZOAs Campus Activism Network!
WATCH: Fox News Reporting: 13 Hours in Benghazi *in anticipation of this weeks Hearings]

First, note that additional aggregated news-sources that are useful include well-referenced and erudite
pieces sponsored *and authored+ by Jerry Gordons new english review; debka file [which includes
reference to whether Hizbollah plans an attack *related to a concern Ive raised previously, namely, as to
whether it has also dug tunnels from Lebanon into northern Israel, also to be used on Rosh Hashanah to
attack Israel-proper]; letters from Arlene Kushner *who focused recently on Egypts el-Sisi]; and imra
[which just reported that] and has also noted:

1. Iranian Basij Commander: ISIL Taking Orders from White House
2. Egypt security forces killed Seven members of the 'most dangerous' militant group, Ansar
Beit Al-Maqdas
3. PA MP: Abbas halted ICC bid on Israeli war crimes

Saturday, September 13, 2014
1. Azerbaijan is no base for anti-Iran moves: Azeri defense min.
2. Jordan reiterated firm stance against terrorism
3. Egypt refused to send troops to fight IS in Iraq and Syria (requires legal and constitutional
measures)
4. Hezbollah rejected Lebanon signing of Jeddah Communique (military cooperation against ISIS)
5. 7 Egyptian Brotherhood members, allies asked to leave Qatar
6. Excerpts: Iran says US violating sovereignty in ISIS fight. Hamas: no direct talks with
Israel.Kerry says Egypt on frontline fighting terrorism.Enforced blackmail yields repeated funding
by victims September 13, 2014
7. [Though Obama snubbed him] Egypt trying to reposition itself as bastion of stability

Friday, September 12, 2014
1. Dahlan calls for Palestinian govt. center to be moved to Gaza
2. IS militants are criminals. Australia elevates IS terror threat. Britain re air strikes in Syria
September 12, 2014

Thursday, September 11, 2014
1. FM Liberman announced the opening of an Israeli embassy in Lithuania
2. "UAVs are an Inseparable Part of the Fighting
3. Hamas denied readiness to start 'direct talks' with Israel
4. Turkey said 'no' to U.S. re combat missions against IS. Syria Islamist Ahrar al Sham anti Assad
and Islamic State.10 Arab states commit to 'share 'U.S. led fight.10 Arab states commit to 'share
'U.S. led fight September 11, 2014
5. Amos Yadlin: Dealing with Hamas Military Force Reconstruction
6. (With video) MUST READ ITEM!!! PM Netanyahu's Address at the International Institute for
Counter-Terrorism's 14th International Conference on Counter-Terrorism [Herzliya]
7. Statement by President Obama on ISIL: ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of
innocents

Wednesday, September 10, 2014
1. Weekly Commentary: The Behind The Scenes Alliance
2. Iran, Russia sign 70-billion projects to boost trade, economic ties
3. Sisi denied claims over providing Palestinians with Sinai lands
4. Confusion reigns over former Hamas employee paychecks
5. Israel Bolstered Strategic Ties With Azerbaijan
6. MEMRI: Saudi Journalist: The Oppressive Saudi Rigidity Causes Young People To Seek
Happiness With The Virgins Of Paradise
7. FOLLOWING THE SLOWDOWN IN ECONOMIC GROWTH, ISRAELI MINISTRY OF ECONOMY
PRESENTS NEW NIS 50 MILLION AID PROGRAM TO BOOST GROWTH
8. Israel hailed U.S. efforts to fight ISIS but weary of Iran. Saudi Arabia evacuates students from
restive Yemen. Brad and Angelina take up Israeli combat style. Terrorism on Jeddah talks agenda
tomorrow.
9. IDF Spokesperson Announcement - Additional Information Regarding Examination and
Investigation of Exceptional Incidents from Operation Protective Edge
10. IDF Spokesperson Announcement - IDF Conducting Examination and Investigation of
Exceptional Incidents from Operation Protective Edge
11. MEMRI-TV: Palestinian Islamic Jihad Digs New Tunnels in Gaza

Tuesday, September 9, 2014
1. Between Gaza & Baghdad - The Radical Islam Threat
2. Iran admitted that Sudan closed down Iranian cultural center in Khartoum
3. Second causeway connecting Saudi and Bahrain.U.S., Israel successful missile interceptor test.
Hariri urged Lebanese to 'calm down'. Children as suicide bombers September 09, 2014
4. [With videos] US-Israel Arrow 2 Missile Defense Test Conducted
5. IDF Radio: Kerry misled Israel - claimed Hamas agreed not to attack forces in Gaza during
cease-fire

Monday, September 8, 2014
1. El-Sisi denied claims he'll give Sinai land to Palestinians
2. PA President's office denied reports of Sinai land offer
3. Female British citizens join ISIS.
4. Al-Sisi proposes: Extend Gaza Strip into Sinai and establish Palestinian state there

Poll: Most appropriate to be PM: Netanyahu 41% Liberman 14% Bennett 8% Livni 8%
Herzog 5% Yaalon 2% Yichimovitch 2% Saar 2% {9/5/2014}. This is drawn from a
Telephone poll of a representative sample of 606 adult Israelis (including Israeli Arabs)
carried out by Maagar Mohot Survey Institute (headed by Professor Yitzchak Katz)
September 2-3, 2014 for Makor Rishon.

If elections held today (expressed in Knesset seats) Current Knesset seats in [brackets].
Please note: There are 120 seats in the Knesset. Parties must receive a minimum of 4
seats in the elections to be included in the Knesset. After elections are held the
coalition forming a government must receive 61 votes in a vote of confidence in the
Knesset.
--- [31] Likud Beiteinu (Likud & Yisrael Beiteinu)
28 [---] Likud
15 [---] Yisrael Beiteinu
11 [19] Lapid "Yesh Atid" Party
14 [15] Labor
16 [12] Bayit Yehudi
09 [11] Shas
05 [07] Yahadut Hatorah
06 [06] Livni party "Hatnua" Party
05 [06] Meretz
09 [11] Arab parties
02 [02] Kadima [THIS IS NOT ENOUGH TO ENTER KNESSET]

If have party leader by Kachlon?

08 [---] Kachlon Party
--- [31] Likud Beiteinu (Likud & Yisrael Beiteinu)
27 [---] Likud
15 [---] Yisrael Beiteinu
08 [19] Lapid "Yesh Atid" Party
12 [15] Labor
15 [12] Bayit Yehudi
10 [11] Shas
06 [07] Yahadut Hatorah
04 [06] Livni party "Hatnua" Party
05 [06] Meretz
09 [11] Arab parties
01 [02] Kadima [THIS IS NOT ENOUGH TO ENTER KNESSET]

Liberman: Demilitarization of Gaza now unrealistic
IDF is able to Strike Rockets Before Theyre Launched
Hamas Rejected Deployment of Int'l Forces in Gaza Strip
Senior Israeli State Source: Hamas preparing for the next conflict with Israel by renewing the
production of missiles and restoring offensive tunnels
El-Sisi proposed Extending Gaza Strip into Sinai and establish Palestinian state there
Abbas rejected Egyptian offer to settle refugees in Sinai
Egypt is re-assessing anti-militant tactics as Sinai militants change strategies and Israel moves
away from confronting the Palestinian resistance
Kissinger said Iran is bigger problem than ISIS

Second, note that todays SUNDAY SHOWS cited Carneys admission that, "If theres a national wave
in14, the Dems are in trouble in 16; otherwise, they were dominated by Islamism:

McDonough feels it is 'important' for Congress to authorize arming moderate rebels
because "Everybody believes there has to be someone on the ground."
Kerry is 'extremely encouraged' by US allies, although its inappropriate to start
announcing each countrys plan to fight ISIS.
Graham: BHO's approach is "delusional" because no US boots in Syria is a 'fantasy.'
McCaul: US should accept foreign military assistance to fight ISIS.
Hayden: Ex-CIA director predicts 5000 US personnel on ground by December; special
operations forces could wind up on the ground in Syria.
Gen. James Cartwright: Former Joint Chiefs chairman said Airstrikes alone are not
enough; strikes in Syria would probably target the Islamic State's training areas.
Retired generals: Air strikes are insufficient to confront ISIS, for they have to be
conducted in conjunction with three other campaigns.
Retired general: US enemies are likely have anti-aircraft missiles "But our Air Force
understands risk management."

Third, this is excerpted from Jonah Goldbergs weekly newsletter *with a few hyperlinks edited+:

They're Not Islamic, They're Not Even I-Curious
My column today is on the president's contention that the Islamic State is not Islamic.
The assertion fits perfectly with the extended philosophical throat-clearing you just
waded through. I mean talk about letting names and things wander off from each other!
Imagine, just for the sake of argument that, say, the State Department's Jen Psaki sat
down to interview an Islamic State fighter over coffee.
Psaki: "Hi. What's your name?"
Mohammad: "Mohammed."
Psaki: "Were you named after your father?"
Mohammed: "No. I am named after the One True Prophet
Mohammed."
Psaki: "Interesting. So what's the name of your organization?"
Mohammed: "The Islamic State."
Psaki: "Oh, that's exotic. What does that do?"
Mohammed: "We have sworn to Allah that we will bring about a global
caliphate as he commands us through Mohammed and the Koran.
Inshallah, we will kill the pagans, Jews, and infidels and convert the
Christians to the one true faith.
Psaki: "Oh my, that sounds like quite a project. So, let me ask you, what
religion should I put down here, Mohammed."
Mohammed: "I am Muslim. I will give my life for Islam. It's right there in
the name: Islamic State."
Psaki: "Well, I can see that this will just remain one of those mysteries.
I'll just put down agnostic."
Large-Scale Counterterrorism Operations Are Hell
Sadly, only after I wrote my column did I learn that not only does the administration
insist that the Islamic State isn't even a smidgen Islamic as the president might say
but we aren't at war with it either. "If somebody wants to think about it as being a war
with [the Islamic State], they can do so, but the fact is that it's a major counterterrorism
operation that will have many different moving parts," Secretary of State John Kerry
explained yesterday.
"We're engaged in a major counterterrorism operation," he told CBS, "and it's going to
be a long-term counterterrorism operation. I think war is the wrong terminology and
analogy but the fact is that we are engaged in a very significant global effort to curb
terrorist activity."
Okay, wait a second. I can understand no matter how ridiculous I think the claim may
be the argument that we are not at war with the Islamic State. I can certainly
understand the argument again, even though I reject it that we don't want to pay
the terrorist group the "compliment" of saying we're at war with it.
But hold the phone. John Kerry is saying that "war" is the wrong analogy? Really? It is
okay to analogize the fights against poverty, cancer, climate change etc., to war, but we
can't analogize sustained bombing campaigns with coordinated ground offensives to it?
Oh my stars and garters. It's like the effort to get rid of the Islamic State is the Moral
Equivalent of Pension Reform.
It gets worse. Olivier Knox of Yahoo News asked White House press secretary Josh
Earnest, "What does victory [in the fight against the Islamic State] look like here?"
Earnest earnestly replied, "I didn't bring my Webster's dictionary with me up here."
Meanwhile, the disconnect between names and things has gotten to the point where a
senior administration official thinks Saudi Arabia is "galvanized" against the Islamic State
because it has an extensive border with Syria. Except for the fact that it doesn't, this is
a very powerful point. So much for Mark Twain's observation that "God created war so
that Americans would learn geography."
Of course, the administration is simply following the president's lead. Given how rabid
Kerry, Hagel, and others were just a few weeks ago, it's pretty obvious that Obama has
told his team "opstay ayingsay arway." In his heart the president just doesn't like words
like "war" or "win." That's why he "ended" the Iraq War. That's why when asked to
explain what "destroy" means he said it meant to reduce to a manageable problem.
That's why the administration keeps talking about mitigation. That's why they long ago
replaced the "War on Terror" with "overseas contingency operations" and rogue states
with "states of concern." Hey, maybe we should just start calling it "the Islamic State of
Concern"?
This of course reminds me of Winston Churchill's famous line, "We shall defend our
Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall mitigate on the beaches, we shall degrade
them on the landing grounds, we shall reduce them to manageable problems in the
fields and in the streets. . ."
Really, anyone can play. Release the dogs of overseas contingency operations! Haven't
you read Sun Tzu's "The Art of Mitigation"?
Look, as I suggest in my column, there's room in a war for bending the truth if it helps
win the war. The problem here is that when you're bending the truth that you're even at
war, what truths are worth telling? As I wrote last week , I still think Obama's greatest
concern isn't how to conquer or even "manage" the Islamic State or terrorism in
general but how to find the right words that will rescue him from political hassles,
responsibility, and blame. Rather than say he misjudged the Islamic State, he told Chuck
Todd he never even called them the "Jayvee" team, which was a lie.
If Obama's theory of the world is right, this may all work out for him. If jihadism is a
minor nuisance that we can manage without much distraction or effort, then his word
games might even make sense. But if we are really facing a more substantial and long-
term threat, then his word games are not just stupid, they are dangerous because they
put further distance between names and reality, between problems and solutions.
I am not a fan of the philosopher Carl Schmitt, but I always liked his line, "Tell me who
your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are." I don't think it captures anything like the
whole truth, but it does capture an important truth: To stand for something requires
standing against something. If you stand for democracy, you must stand against tyranny.
If you stand for truth, you must stand against lies. It is a tactical and strategic question
whether we need to go to literal war against the Islamic State. But if we are not
figuratively or spiritually at war with what the Islamic State stands for, then, my God,
what do we stand for?
Various & Sundry
Oh, and on that point, here's my column on the importance of national honor.
More diapers are sold to adults than to babies.
My 350 ancestors (on Dad's side).
I know it's 9/12, but here's my column from 9/11/01.
Kevin Williamson hates moose.
England will say anything to stay married to Scotland.
55 Halloween costume ideas. And a few more for horses.
If you hear about an enraged woman driving to Vermont to rip the beating heart out of
some bureaucrat's chest, it's probably my wife after she reads this story.
Stuff you eat named after real people.
China has problems.
Bowling balls, man.
Badass lines from soldiers.
Senior citizens react to the 50 shades of grey trailer. (Note: I'm not sure what to think
of this whole conceit. Is it supposed to be "Aging babyboomers say the funniest
things?")
Now they tell me, after I lost 50 pounds. Men with big bellies make better lovers.
Everything that will kill you from A to Z, which left out the venomous puss caterpillar,
which though not explicitly fatal, could kill you while driving or cleaning the outside of a
skyscraper window.
Meet Peekabo the smiling bat.
Meet Jamon the micro pig.
And Cerbero the jet-setting cat.
Surf-dog-a-thon competition.
And Debby's Links!

Fourth, note this essay and the succinct summary thereof, with the latter preceding the former:

To the editor:

Peggy Noonan writes, Jihadists are de-Christianizing the Mideast (The genocide of
Mideastern Christians). With the exception of Israel, where the Christian population
continues to grow under the protection of the IDF, defender of the religious rights of
Jews, Christians, Muslims and others, Christians, like Jews, have been fleeing Middle
East violence for years. Violence against Christians in Arab lands should not be
surprising. Millions of Muslims have died in Muslim on Muslim violence, including the
Iran-Iraq war and over 200,000 in the current conflict in Syria.

What is inexplicable is the hostility of large parts of the Christian world towards Israels
efforts to defend itself from further acts of genocide. Like the Jihadists war against
Christians, the Arab war against Israel is not about what they did, or the tiny slice of land
Israel contains. No, if that conflict were just a border dispute, it would have been
resolved decades ago. It is about who the Jews, like the Christians, are.

John R. Cohn
1015 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-923-7685

First the Saturday People Then the Sunday People: The Exodus of Jews and Christians
from the Middle East
Death Tolls of the Iran-Iraq War
Memoir of a Christian from southern California who was drawn to Israel




Declarations: The Genocide of Mideastern Christians
Americans haven't suddenly turned interventionist.
They're moved by the Islamic State's particular evil.

By Peggy Noonan
Updated Sept. 12, 2014 6:36 p.m. ET

President Obama would have been rocked the past few months by five things. One is
the building criticism from left and right about his high need for relaxationplaying golf
while the world burns. Another is that he misread the significance and public power of
the beheadings of American journalists. Third, he has been way out of sync with
American public opinion on Islamic State, which must be all the more galling because he
thought he knew where Americans stood on the use of military force. Fourth, with his
poll numbers declining (32% approval for his handling of foreign policy, according to The
Wall Street Journal and NBC), it has probably occurred to him that he is damaging not
only his own but his party's brand in foreign affairs. (Yes, George W. Bush did the same
to his party, but Mr. Obama was supposed to reverse, not follow, that trend.) Fifth, he
surely expects he is about to take a pounding from the antiwar left.
Most immediately interesting to me is the apparent change of mind by Americans
toward military action in the Mideast. The president's long-reigning assumption is that a
war-weary public has grown more isolationist. But, again according to the WSJ/NBC poll,
more than 6 in 10 back moving militarily against Islamic State. Politicians and pundits
believe that this is due to the gruesome, public and taunting murders of the U.S.
journaliststhat Americans saw the pictures and freaked out, that their backing of force
is merely emotional.
I think they're missing a big aspect of this story.
A year ago the American people spontaneously rose up and told Washington they would
not back a bombing foray in Syria that would help the insurgents opposed to Bashar
Assad. That public backlash was a surprise not only to the White House but to
Republicans in Congress, who wereand I saw themashen-faced after the calls
flooded their offices. It was such a shock to Washington that officials there still don't
talk about it and make believe it didn't happen.
Why was there such a wave of opposition? In part because Americans had no
confidence their leaders understood the complications, history and realities of Syria or
the Mideast. The previous 12 years had left them distrusting the American foreign-
policy establishment. Americans felt the U.S. itself needed more care and attention. By
2013 there was a new depth of disbelief in Mr. Obama's leadership.
But there was another, powerful aspect to the opposition.
Evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics who would normally back strong
military action were relatively silent in 2013. Why? I think because they were becoming
broadly aware, for the first time, of what was happening to Christians in the Middle
East. They were being murdered, tortured, abused for their faith and run out of the
region. And for all his crimes and failings, Syria's justly maligned Assad was not
attempting to crush his country's Christians. His enemies werethe jihadists, including
those who became the Islamic State.
In the year since, the brutality against Middle Eastern Christians, and Islamic State's
ferocious anti-Christian agenda, has left many Christians deeply alarmed. Jihadists are
de-Christianizing the Mideast, where Christianity began.
An estimated two-thirds of the Christians of Iraq have fled that country since the 2003
U.S. invasion. They are being driven from their villages in northern Iraq. They are
terrorized, brutalized, executed. This week an eyewitness in Mosul, which fell to Islamic
State in June, told NBC News the jihadists were committing atrocities. In Syria, too, they
have executed Christians for refusing to convert.
In roughly the past 18 months, all this has broken through in Christian communities,
largely by way of Christian media, including Catholic news services and the Baptist press.
The story has been all over social media. Pope Francis has denounced what is
happening; the Vatican is talking about just-war theory.
Rep. Chris Smith, the New Jersey Republican who chairs the House Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Global Human Rights, this week called what is happening "a
genocide."
"It is a global phenomenon, but dramatically in the Mideast," he said.
I told him I thought the journalists' beheadings had put a public picture on a crisis of
which Christians in America have now become aware.
"An emphatic yes, with exclamation points put after it," he replied.
No oneat least not the United Nations or other international bodies, and not the
administrationseems to be keeping official records. Mr. Smith suggested that when
people don't really want you to know the scale of a problem, they don't gather the
numbers. He has pressed both the U.S. government and the U.N. for statistics and
specificshow many Christians have been killed, abused, sent fleeing and from where.
"It's all, 'I'll get back to you.' When they do, it's threadbare answers that don't say a
whole lot."
The anguish and indignation of American Christians at what is being done, by Islamic
State, to their brothers and sisters in faith is surely part of the reason Americans are
backing U.S. action against the terror group.
It would surely also be a misreading of the polls to announce the American public is
suddenly "interventionist." There is no reason to believe they have any appetite for
romantic or aggressive forays into invasions, occupations or nation-building efforts.
What they want to doand they wanted to do it last monthis respond to a group that
is unusually evil, even by Middle Eastern standards.
There is also no reason to infer from the polls that Americans hold to the illusion that
moving on Islamic State would create new order and peace in the Mideast. Those
illusions tend to live more in Washington than on-the-ground America. If Islamic State is
hit hard enough, it may be killed, but nothing else will be fixed. The Mideast will
continue in brutal chaos, but Islamic State, as Islamic State, will be done or at least
damaged, and surely that is worth something. At the very least a message will be sent.
If the president were a more instinctive man, or rather if his natural instincts were more
in line with those of your average American clinger, he would have moved quickly,
sharply and without undue drama. He would have bombed Islamic State when it was a
showy army in the field, its fighters driving stolen armored vehicles down highways in
the sand, in their black outfits, with their black flags. They are not terrorists hiding in
holes and safe houses. They are not doing Internet showbiz from caves, they are seizing
and holding territory. They say they are the caliphate, and they intend to expand. They
are killing and abusing many, not only Christians. They are something new and deadly.
My guess is two things are not acceptable to the American people. One is the full-scale
commitment of scores of thousands of troops to invade and occupy a country. The other
is a diffident, confused, unfocused, unserious campaign.
The American people are not suddenly recommitted to a decades long drama. They do
want to see bad guys taken out. Their timetable, I suspect, would be "Let's start last
month."
Fifth, a friend wrote I am holding my breath waiting for the other shoe to drop. Islamists may hit either
Election Day or Black Friday. I would stay out of big malls like KofP locally and other major gift-shopping
destinations because it is plausible to conjure multiple attacks at once during the holiday season (e.g.
Mall of the Americas outside of Minneapolis, where radicalized Muslims await opportunity).


The aforementioned individual
[and my Friday luncheon-companion]
reported that, this past week, they purchased guns.