Category: Iran
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu speaks before the AIPAC dinner on May 23, 2011 about relations between Israel and the United States, as well as the Mideast Peace Process.
I don’t know about you all, but Prime Minister Netanyahu knows how to deliver a between-the-lines message, laying down the gauntlet and painting Obama in a corner especially in this speech. I. Absolutely. Love. This. Man.
Well, folks, it’s happened. The protesters in Egypt have worn their Dictator President down. Hosni Mubarak has now stepped down, and the military is stepping in temporarily. From The Blaze:
Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak resigned as president and handed control to the military on Friday, bowing down after a historic 18-day wave of pro-democracy demonstrations by hundreds of thousands.
A massive crowd in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square exploded into joy, waving Egyptian flags, and car horns and celebratory shots in the air were heard around the city of 18 million in joy after Vice President Omar Suleiman made the announcement on national TV just after nightfall.
“In these grave circumstances that the country is passing through, President Hosni Mubarak has decided to leave his position as president of the republic,” a grim-looking Suleiman said. “He has mandated the Armed Forces Supreme Council to run the state. God is our protector and succor.”
Nobel Peace laureate Mohammed ElBaradei, whose young suporters were among the organizers of the protest movement, told The Associated Press, “This is the greatest day of my life.”
“The country has been liberated after decades of repression,“ he said adding that he expects a ”beautiful” transition of power.
The report comes a day after an American intelligence official told Congress there was a “strong likelihood” Mubarak would step down yesterday. That report was discredited when Mubarak appeared on TV and said he would not be stepping down.
I feel something very very evil about to happen. I’m not saying Mubarak was a prince, but this is the Catch-22 in which we found ourselves. Now there’s a power vacuum, and with the dolts in the current Administration who think the Muslim Brotherhood is a “secular” organizatioin which “eschews violence,” there’s no telling what’s going to happen. This is really just a wait-and-see….but pray for the best. But most of all, pray for Israel.
Last week, Sean Hannity sat down with the director, Cyrus Nowrasteh, of the break-out movie “The Stoning of Soraya M” out now in limited release. It was only available here at one theater in the Atlanta metro, but has since disappeared. I can only hope it comes back in wider release, and I will encourage all my friends to go see this painfully true depiction of the horrors that women in Iran go through on a disturbingly routine basis.
Please encourage your local theaters to bring this movie to your city. I think the fact that a lot of areas are denying its showing is very telling of exactly how impactful this true story is. Some folks don’t want to see it because they say it is too gruesome, but I say that is EXACTLY why they SHOULD view it. Some on the con-side say that it’s only gratitutious brutality to further a negative “stereotype” of Iranian culture, but those few are slowly being drowned out by people who know the truth about this reality.
Do you think that for one second if the movie “The Stoning of Soraya M.” involved US Servicemen perpetrating the brutality, there would be ANYTHING in its way trying to stop it? That would not happen. In fact, the hue and cry would be TO show it on as many theater screens as possible, as it fits the Hollywood liberal agenda that America is bad but everyone else is good and just.
This is just one more reason why I want all Americans and westerners abroad, even, to have access to and be able to see this very important film.
And last question: Where is N.O.W., Human Rights Watch, the ACLU, the UN, etc., etc., to decry this brutality? Oh, yes… this doesn’t fit their “template” as to what is really cruel. Shame on ALL of them, and shame on you if you don’t seek to have this film brought to your area. If you can’t do that on your own, buy the book and share it with friends. Meet with friends and have a book-study group to read it aloud to your organized members. However you do it, please make sure Soraya’s life was not snuffed out in vain. Honor her legacy, and the journalist who dared to tell her story.
We can be silent no longer. Stand up for what you believe in, and for justice for Soraya M. and others like her.
This weekend on Fox News, UCLA Professor and Iranian Scholar, Ali Salehi, was on to discuss how Iranian protesters are desperate for Obama to speak out on their behalf. Salehi, who has former students and family in Iran, says that the protesters even have a name for Obama: “Ubama,” (sp?)and that it means “he’s with us.” They think of Obama as their president. *ahem* (can we give him to them?)
I wonder if Obama will decide not to meddle any more? Kind of strange, considering he was oh-so-ready to meddle in the Honduras elections today. Hypocrisy indeed.
Last night on RedEye, Michigan Congressman, Thaddeus McCotter was on, and unlike his usual jovial and dry-wit demeanor, he was visibly pissed about “The One’s” extremely weak position on standing behind and supporting Iranian protesters.
I love McCotter… and last night he did not disappoint. A future politician to watch!
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