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Wisconsin-based “Islamic scholar” Kevin Barrett says on state-run Iranian TV that Jews killed JFK, RFK, and JFK Jr.

Sep 3, 2019 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Kevin Barrett is “an American scholar and political commentator,” according to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s house organ, PressTV. He is also, as this article shows, a paranoid conspiracy nut who sees Jews behind everything. And this is no surprise. Barrett is a convert to Islam, and so his hatred, contempt, and fear of Jews has a clear source: the Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); they claim that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they disobey Allah and never observe his commands (5:13). They are disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more. They are under Allah’s curse (9:30), and Muslims should wage war against them and subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29).

And as the Left sinks ever farther into antisemitism, the point of view of Kevin Barrett and his ilk plays better and better in Madison, Wisconsin.

“Sirhan Sirhan was ‘hypnotized’ by Jewish criminal organizations to kill RFK: Scholar,” PressTV, August 31, 2019:

Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian refugee found guilty of shooting US Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy to death in 1968, was “hypnotized” by Jewish criminal organizations to kill RFK, an American scholar and political commentator says.

Sirhan, 75, was hospitalized Friday after being stabbed by a fellow inmate at a prison in San Diego, California.

A statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said the stabbing occurred Friday afternoon at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego.

“Sirhan Sirhan was hypnotized to randomly fire many shots and indeed the number of shots fired in that incident greatly exceeded the number of bullets in Sirhan Sirhan’s gun,” said Kevin Barrett, an author, journalist and radio host in Madison, Wisconsin.

“These gangsters that we call Kosher Nostra, or ethnically Jewish organized crime with a fanatical loyalty to Israel, very likely has been behind the worst crimes in modern American history,” Barrett told Press TV during a phone interview Saturday.

The Kosher Nostra was responsible for “killing President [John F.] Kennedy to stop him from shutting down Israel’s nuclear weapons program, killing his brother to prevent justice from emerging from RFK and killing JFK Jr. of course in the late 1990s to prevent him from becoming president and reopening these cases,” Barrett added….

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  1. CRUSADER says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 5:02 pm

    Conspiracies aid insanity of the Left and Islamism which desire to upset applecarts of foundations in Western society.

  2. mortimer says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 5:09 pm

    A ‘scholar’ ? or more accurately a propagandist! Kevin Barrett is an anti-Semite like Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammed Amin al-Husseini … yeah, the fellow who advised Himmler and Adolf Eichmann about the holocaust. Muslims have little need for solid evidence when any unsubstantiated fantasy will suit Islam’s purpose. This is no different than Islam’s unsubstantiated legends about Mohammed that are similarly fabrications by ‘scholars’ like Barrett.

    • FYI says

      Sep 4, 2019 at 9:24 am

      I wonder how muslims,nazis,antisemites and islamic scholars feel about the fact that one day they will all be judged by …….a Jew.

      Of course they don’t know or get that.

      The day eichmann,himmler,hitler,the mufti,even the great “prophet” muhammed himself[a mass-murderer of Jews abu dawud 4390},the very day they died:it is a JEW -Jesus Christ- judges their perverse souls.

      “We Jews know whom we worship because it is from the Jews that salvation comes”
      John 4 v 22

      I always like to imagine that when the great “prophet” muhammed died after FAILING the Poison Test{thus exposing him to be a fraud as al LAH didn’t bother to save him}YHWH laughed out loud.

      muhammed:A mass murderer of JEWS killed by a JEWISH woman{Zaynab bint al harith,Ibn sa’ad p252,sahih bukhari 4428}and when he died he comes before a..JEW to be Judged.

      So he hates Jews..he murders Jews…he enslaves Jews…is killed by a Jewish woman..and when he dies is judged by a..JEW
      {Christians believe Jesus is the Judge,Jews believe it is YHWH:but either way the judgement is Jewish}

      How YHWH must have laughed at the demise of the great “prophet”{some prophet indeed who didn’t see it coming as he said women have a “deficiency of the mind”:poetic justice too.A mass murderer of Jews outsmarted and killed by a Jewish woman.A woman and a Jew!Oh poor mo……it seems his Arab god al LAH just didn’t care}

      • FYI says

        Sep 4, 2019 at 9:40 am

        And when you think about it,what is the WORST possible ending muhammed could have had?

        He didn’t even get to die in battle as he so desperately wanted.
        {Sahih Bukhari 2797}
        He was a chauvinistic misogynist who taught that women have a “deficiency of mind”{Sahih Bukhari # 2658} which is why the koran insists a woman’s testimony is HALF that of a man {k2:282}

        .
        He famously hated {sahih muslim 1082}and murdered{Abu dawud 4390} Jews

        The WORST possible ending for muhammed was to fail the POISON TEST exposing him as a FALSE prophet,administered by a JEWISH WOMAN who ingeniously outsmarted him.

        An antisemitic,male chauvinist,misogynistic,bigoted false prophet was defeated by….

        A WOMAN and even WORSE….A JEWISH WOMAN.

        The WORST possible ending imaginable…

      • Rahui Tepapa David says

        Sep 4, 2019 at 10:51 am

        This is very interesting story. So MOSLEMS so called Prophet Mohammedan was MURDERED by the Hands of a JEWISH Woman. Hope and pray that’s all MOSLEMS will read this TRUE facts how the MOHAMMADANS DIED a Cruel DEATH as Jesus said in his word
        The Theif Lucifer aka Allah aka Satan Cometh to STEALS KILLS and DESTROYS
        But I JESUS comes to GIVES and to GIVES it’s more ABUNDANTLY
        John 10;10

        Muhammad is now SCREAMING in HELL for HELP Until the Great Judgement Day
        BY a JEWS Jesus Christ Righteousness
        The KING of KINGS and LORD of LORD’S

        SHALOM

        • FYI says

          Sep 4, 2019 at 11:36 am

          see You Tube

          acts17apologetics who killed muhammed?

          Interesting thing[although muslims WILL deny this refers to Jesus Christ;They WILL deny this!}

          “The messenger of allah said ‘the most hated of men before allah on the day of resurrection and the most wretched and the man most hated to him will be a man called MALIK AL AMLAK,for there is no king but allah”

          Sahih Muslim vol 5 hadith #5611

          A man called MALIK AL AMLAK:the “King of kings”
          {Only ONE man has that title Revs 19:16:Jesus Christ}

          al LAH’s name is “the BEST of deceivers” k3:54
          And who is the adversary of Jesus Christ in the Gospel:the greatest of deceivers!

          Thus allah apes God….remember that the koran denies Christ{k4:157,k4:171}and CURSES christians for believing in Jesus Christ k9:30.

  3. mortimer says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 5:10 pm

    Leftists have no embraced Islamic terrorism and anti-Semitism without reservation.

  4. Wellington says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 5:17 pm

    Islam does terrible things to human reasoning. So does Leftism, another example in our time being AOC.

    • Keys says

      Sep 3, 2019 at 5:53 pm

      This man made himself a Cottage Cheesehead and now he’s Badgering the Jews.
      Wisconsin should deport him for damaging the state’s motto.

      • Tom W Harris says

        Sep 3, 2019 at 11:13 pm

        Very punny.;) But right on.

      • Wellington says

        Sep 4, 2019 at 3:01 pm

        Good one, Keys.

      • underbed cat says

        Sep 4, 2019 at 6:11 pm

        Yep, I saw this coming. Wisconsin helped elect President Trump, so what happened in Wisconsin after a failed Democratic election, a union democrat state, that gave our former Republican Governor Walker tons of grief, protests, and plenty of them and I suspect some workers to stay party true, and students of the left a rebellious nature. Suddenly I suspect democrats from NY, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mexico,Somalia, Ethritia, and who knows, started to move to our state…. to assist with voting, maybe the big organization that helped our ex-governor helped, turned gratitude to a opposing political power to help with our demise of reason.. So now Madison doing it’s thing….we now have a Democrat Governor….so I kept all the flyers, huge postcards about Trump, they were mostly fibs from the democratic party ….and would love to send him these so he can expose it as the sanctuary cities can begin operations, ….and the middle eastern,and socialist influence and sharia supporters can roll right in to buy property, build influence and hide it’s nature. Democratic leaders can fly to Venzuela to aid socialism, deny sharia secrets, and change America the last of the freedoms of speech will sneak out the back door. Sweden, Germany, France, UK., act like nothing is wrong…..the people are silent they can be arrested for speaking. Wisconsin Wake up. Hopefully this voting machine ,early voting won’t be fraud voting. Hurting working people? Trump? or the ones calling to stall and sabotage the economy with the influence to do so and the far left, who got the full force and cooperation of national security of the deep state against his administration to hurt a elected President “really trying” to help Americans. Does this article from a Wisconsinite seem silly to me, yes. but also no big surprise….he is an Islamic scholar….just wonder what he studied or didn’t. But he has a right to his opinion. and freedom of speech..in Wisconsin. It is quite a theory. Was Sirhan Sirhan a convert from Islam.? Nope.

    • Noah Talansky says

      Sep 3, 2019 at 6:26 pm

      I used to watch this guy on Press TV and read his articles on his website ‘Veterans Today’. He is a professional Islamic Taqiyya propagandist. Barrett is also a 9/11 truther who believes that Israel did 9/11.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 3, 2019 at 7:11 pm

        True, Noah. Barrett wrote a book titled “Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against the 9/11 Big Lie” (this is not a joke). That he was talking to the Iranians–who had a hand in that atrocity–must have been especially amusing for the Mullahs.

        This is from his blurb for the book at Amazon:

        “Truth Jihad is the first 9/11 Truth book that is not primarily tasked with proving 9/11 was an inside job to our fellow humanity.”

        In other words, he doesn’t prove a thing, and doesn’t believe he even has to try.

        • CRUSADER says

          Sep 4, 2019 at 1:28 am

          I witnessed those twin towers — the day prior — from a distance, early morning flight from Newark, noting how tall they were contrasted to the other myriad of skyscrapers in Manhattan on the eastern horizon.

          I was astonished about their destruction. Also lost a few acquaintances in those disasters.

          Heck, I even thought some strike would happen in 1986 at the SoL that July 4th celebration, out of some Islamic retaliation against the USA!

          I am just saying that there had been engineers from various parts of the nation and world who marveled at their collapse. They had said the jets obviously crashed in, but could’ve had help also with the actual destruction patterns.

          Remember how long the jihadists have planned for the WTC’s symbolic and actual destruction? Remember how infiltrated government agencies had become, and how culpable the Commission Report claimed many entities were, particularly in failure of imagination and connecting of dots. There still aren’t things we clearly know, or likely ever will….

        • Joe says

          Sep 4, 2019 at 6:35 am

          I’m with you Crusader. 911, JFK, and RFK are all fishy. The official stories don’t make sense as I have shown before. That doesn’t mean I know who is the blame. It does mean that it either “probably didn’t” or “couldn’t have” happened the way the official investigation said it did.

          When the investigations have so many impossibilities, it leaves a lot of room for questions which are quickly labeled “conspiracy theories”.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 4, 2019 at 7:26 pm

          So CRUSADER and Joe, you don’gt think that 9/11 had anything to do with Jihad? Do you think that all 35,000+ Jihad terror attacks since 9/11 were pulled off by the “filthy Infidels” in order to make Islam look bad as well? Good lord…

      • CRUSADER says

        Sep 3, 2019 at 7:24 pm

        How about those folks who heard extra popping sounds going on, with the WTC buildings falling pancaked like controlled demolition, as well as the engineers who claim that more heat was needed to melt the beams and structure of those buildings…

        • mgoldberg says

          Sep 3, 2019 at 8:17 pm

          I guess those jet planes crashing into the buildings were just a special effect.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 3, 2019 at 8:25 pm

          No, pancaking is not “controlled demolition”. CRUSADER, I would not have taken you for a 9/11 “Truther”. Surely you don’t think that all 35,000+ Jihad terror attacks were “false flag” operations done to make Islam look bad?

          Here’s Popular Mechanics debunking the technical conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11:

          “Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report – The World Trade Center”

          https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a6384/debunking-911-myths-world-trade-center/

        • Joe says

          Sep 4, 2019 at 6:51 am

          GI, this is just another one of those where they set up straw men and knock them down. There are three principal reasons the terrorists were conspiring with someone else. None of these reasons are addressed in the “Debunking”. I have listed them many times, but I’ll do it again.

          1. Speed of Fall: The pancaking takes more than 20 seconds. All the buildings fell in 11 which is free fall. The only way a building falls at is if the bottom is blown out. It is obvious that if the bottom is blown out, there is no possibility that the building can fall at free-fall speed.

          2. Fell into Footprint: A building that pancakes falls over. It has to fall over, because there is a big pile of junk that prevents it from falling down in its footprint. All three buildings fell into their footprint. The only way a building falls into its footprint is if the bottom is removed as the building falls down. This is one of the reasons that controlled demolition is so hard. There is a lot of material that prevents a vertical collapse. This was controlled demolition.

          3. Collapse of Superstructure: If a building pancakes, the superstructure still stands. It is flat impossible for pancaking to remove the superstructure. In all three buildings, the superstructure was demolished.

          The buildings didn’t pancake like the official investigation said. It is impossible.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 4, 2019 at 7:32 pm

          Popular Mechanics did not deal with the conspiracy theory of the terrorists “conspiring with someone else” because they only dealt with the mechanical and engineering aspects of the attack, as this is their area of expertise. The idea that this should be disregarded because they didn’t satisfy Joe’s idea that this was some sort of inside job is grotesque.

          As for his “objections” above has he even read this report? Likely not.

  5. somehistory says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 5:25 pm

    Some in the past tried to say that sirhan was Christian; so now this friend of moslims, enemy of Israel, claims he was “hypnotized by Israel” and didn’t have enough bullets for the shooting that took place.

    Just how would ****he***** know how many bullets sirhan had in his gun? and just recently, a moslim creep claimed Israel was “hypnotizing” people to vote Israel’s way, for Israel’s causes. Rats are stinking all over.

    If they truly believed Israel could hypnotize people, shouldn’t they be afraid?

    If someone not considered *elite* and unfriendly to islam suggested that sirhan was being controlled by another person or group to kill Robert Kennedy in that hotel kitchen, he would be called a conspiracy theorist. But some fools will listen to this fool and believe.

    • CRUSADER says

      Sep 3, 2019 at 7:28 pm

      Odd how bullets climbed vertically up RFK’s side toward his head, as if someone at his side had shot him. All I know is Rosie Greer spoke to us at a gathering long ago and lamented at not being able to divert harm.

      Stranger than fiction is how Frankenheimer had filmed “Manchuria Candidate” prior to RFK assassination, and thst RFK stayed at his home….and Sinatra was in that film….

      Weird coincidences….

    • underbed cat says

      Sep 4, 2019 at 7:08 pm

      To Joe who wrote above about the collapse of towers, how easy was it for any worker or repairman jihadist , of any background to enter this building as a worker, in any capacity of construction or operations and lay the foundation for a bottom collapse and never be suspicious or questioned before 9/11. They even had warnings of the flying fires, or planes, no exact dates, or locations but no doubt they tried before at this location. All the prior attacks…..such as barracks, ships, far and near were occurring….so they said blinking red. They were here in our country.. news occupied by scandals..plotting walking the streets, renting apartments, shopping for mattresses, taking flying lessons you name it. Now they own them. The people in place, had organizations here to appear peaceful and grow, once they change our laws it will be over.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 4, 2019 at 7:34 pm

        Yes–the idea that none of the many civilian construction or maintenance workers noticed that the buildings were (supposedly) all rigged up with thousands of pounds of explosives is just absurd.

  6. mateenelass says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 6:05 pm

    Mossad certainly didn’t have to hypnotize Kevin Barrett into appearing like a fool. He does that all on his own.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 3, 2019 at 7:21 pm

      +1

      • J D S says

        Sep 4, 2019 at 10:24 am

        Yeah Graven ….same here. Stupidity breeds stupidity and stupid people say and do stupid things …Saying Jews responsible for all this ….sure brings out the stupidos. Get real.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 4, 2019 at 7:36 pm

        Agreed, Mateen Elass and J D S.

  7. tgusa says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 6:15 pm

    Pretty sure they killed MLK, and Roger Rabbit too.

    • CRUSADER says

      Sep 3, 2019 at 7:31 pm

      I thought RR got framed, but he was killed too ?

      Never saw that movie 🍿— Thanks for the spoiler !

      Now I’ll probably never watch it…. it’s been ruined ! 🤣

      I might as well become a whiny libtard!

      Gee wiz !

      Waaaaahhhh….

      • tgusa says

        Sep 3, 2019 at 7:56 pm

        You’re right. Roger wasn’t killed, just framed. Hmmm.

        • elee says

          Sep 4, 2019 at 12:32 am

          Actually he did die but they’re conspiring to hide the truth. They’ve been using a body double ever since.

        • CRUSADER says

          Sep 4, 2019 at 1:30 am

          Just like Jesus/Isa ?

  8. Noah Talansky says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 6:30 pm

    I used to watch this guy on Press TV and read his articles on his website ‘Veterans Today’. He is a professional Islamic Taqiyya propagandist. Barrett is also a 9/11 truther who believes that Israel did 9/11.
    Every Islamic terrorist attack is a false flag by Israel to generate ‘Islamophobia’.

    • CRUSADER says

      Sep 3, 2019 at 7:33 pm

      Blame Trump.

      Blame Israel.

      Blame Jesus.

      Blame Moses.

      Blame ….

      • mgoldberg says

        Sep 3, 2019 at 8:22 pm

        And have no shame
        Ever…

  9. James Lincoln says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 6:51 pm

    Regarding Kevin Barrett, I can’t help but think of a quote from “The Enforcer” by big Ed Mustapha – that would most accurately describe him:

    “Stone waste of white”.

    A miserable human being…

    • CRUSADER says

      Sep 3, 2019 at 7:36 pm

      That actor was in a lot of Eastwood movies….

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 3, 2019 at 7:54 pm

      He’s a *nasty* piece of work, James.

      He uses the Twitter handle “Truth Jihad”.

      Here are some things from his Twitter feed:

      He threatens all those who take issue with the actions of the Mullahs.

      He claims that the Toronto Raptor’s holding an exhibition game in Israel exemplifies “the Obscenity of Jewish Power”–even though they hold such games all over the world.

      “9/11 Truth Teller Mohamed Morsi Martyred by Crypto-Jew al-Sisi”

      He sneers at the idea that Hitler, Charles Manson, and Osama bin Laden were evil, and absurdly chalks it up to “facial hair and mythic villainy”–never mind that the toothbrush mustache was a symbol of middle class striving before Hitler (see comedian Oliver Hardy), and that every other hippie had facial hair like Manson and wasn’t out mass murdering people. It is the evil that drew attention to the facial hair, of course, not vice versa.

      He also claims that Muslims are attacking Christians in Europe because of Jews. He doesn’t say how this works, but says, “Zionist terror pits Christians vs Muslims”.

      He calls Rudy Giuliani a “9/11 suspect”.

      He blames all of Jihad on Jews–including ISIS.

      There’s lots more, but you have to stop somewhere.

      https://twitter.com/truthjihad

      • J D S says

        Sep 4, 2019 at 10:29 am

        Again I say stupid people say and do stupid things and this nut has plenty of stupidity in his DNA.

  10. Jack Holan says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 6:53 pm

    ..and this crap passes for reality on the University Stage today. Shame! Who is running the Asylum and teaching Our kids fiction hate and gearing up the next pogrom?

  11. gravenimage says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 7:06 pm

    Wisconsin-based “Islamic scholar” Kevin Barrett says on state-run Iranian TV that Jews killed JFK, RFK, and JFK Jr.
    ……………….

    What lying scum–most of all in the case of RFK, who was murdered by a “Palestinian”.

  12. gary fouse says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 7:35 pm

    Richard J Donovan: That’s a Jewish name, isn’t it? Connecting the dots. (LOL)

    • CRUSADER says

      Sep 3, 2019 at 7:39 pm

      What’s the J stand for?

      Hmmmmm?

  13. elee says

    Sep 3, 2019 at 9:17 pm

    The Third Reich had specialists in Jewish affairs too.

    • CRUSADER says

      Sep 4, 2019 at 1:35 am

      Salient Point.

  14. Mr. Cohen says

    Sep 4, 2019 at 1:28 am

    There is an All-Mighty God in this world — He hears
    all words of all men, and He rewards those
    who speak the truth – the only question is when.

    All-Mighty God also punishes those who speak lies,
    and He is filled with anger against those who speak slander.

    Kevin Barrett and his Iranian allies will certainly
    be punished by All-Mighty God for speaking evil
    anti-Jewish falsehoods – the only question is when.

    ===================================
    Israel exposes Hezbollah precision-missile
    factory amid dramatic uptick in tensions
    :

    https://www.jns.org/israel-exposes-hezbollah-precision-missile-factory-amid-dramatic-uptick-in-tensions/

    ===================================
    Get ready for ISIS to make a comeback:

    https://www.jns.org/opinion/get-ready-for-isis-to-make-a-comeback/

    ===================================
    In this YouTube video, Mr. Patrick Condell tell us
    what he thinks of people who blame Jews for everything:

    Let’s Blame The Jews:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIesXORjBps

    Mr. Patrick Condell is an atheist, who was born in Ireland
    around 1950, and raised in England as a Roman Catholic,
    and educated in Church of England schools.
    He has no Jewish ancestors and no religious
    beliefs that might cause him to favor Jews.

  15. CRUSADER says

    Sep 4, 2019 at 1:33 am

    After the weekend’s clashes with Hezbollah, there is much suspicion in Israel that its tensions with the Lebanese militant group (and its master Iran) serve Benjamin Netanyahu’s interests ahead of the September 17 general elections.

    The antagonism between Hezbollah and Israel subsided on September 2 following the previous day’s violent confrontation on the Israeli-Lebanese border, a week after air strikes in Syria claimed by the Israeli government killed two members of the Shia militant group. Hezbollah also blamed the Jewish state for a drone attack on its south Beirut stronghold on August 25 and another strike in southern Lebanon the ensuing day.

    While the spectre of a potentially devastating war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group – like that of 2006 – has receded for now, an increasing number of voices in the Jewish state have accused Israeli prime minister Netanyahu (who also, notably, holds the portfolio of defence minister) of exploiting ongoing tensions with Iran and its regional proxies to seek advantage in the forthcoming elections.

    After the vote, the attorney-general will decide whether or not Netanyahu will be charged on three counts of corruption, fraud and breach of trust. In the meantime, one of the main thrusts of his campaign is the idea that he is a strong leader who guarantees Israelis’ security both inside the country and outside their borders – an image that plays very well with voters on the right of the political spectrum; a crucial constituency, whom Netanyahu is always keen to attract.

    Netanyahu ‘playing politics at the expense of security’

    “Many critics are saying that this security-led campaign by Netanyahu vis-à-vis Hezbollah is something that’s playing very positively for him in this election race,” said Sami Sockol, France 24’s Jerusalem correspondent. “He doesn’t want to highlight the corruption allegations that are looming over him.”

    According to Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz, there is a consensus within the Israeli intelligence and security establishment that Netanyahu is right to take the Iranian threat seriously, as Tehran bolsters its proxies across the Middle East. However, many people within these circles also doubt that Tel Aviv should publicise its responses to this menace – as Netanyahu did after the strike in Syria on the night of August 24 to 25.

    Normally, the Israeli government’s policy is to neither confirm nor deny that it has carried out air strikes on foreign territory, and Netanyahu’s unusual transparency and loquacity on this issue has provoked suspicion that he is acting in campaign mode.

    On Sunday, a big beast of Israeli politics, former Finance Minister Yair Lapid, directly accused Netanyahu of breaking with this long-established norm in an attempt to curry electoral favour.

    “The children of [Israel] find themselves in shelters because […] Bibi [Netanyahu] has violated the policy of ambiguity – which was successful – because of the elections,” the MP and deputy leader of Benny Gantz’s opposition party wrote on his Twitter account. “That’s what happens when you have a prime minister who plays politics at the expense of security.”

    Others argue that this view is unfair on Netanyahu. “If a war breaks out, the elections will be postponed and in the meantime many Israelis will blame the prime minister because he’ll have been the person in charge when it all kicked off,” Mordechai Kedar, a former Israeli military intelligence officer, now an expert on Islamic culture at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, told FRANCE 24.

    Nevertheless, many analysts contend that – as things stand – the situation is working out to Netanyahu’s advantage. “He is sending a message to the Israeli public: that he has everything under control, that he has control over the security situation,” said Sockol.

    “His main competition in these elections is a party of generals headed by Benny Gantz, a former chief of staff – and we have in the same list two other prominents ex-chiefs of staff,” Sockol continued. “So in this kind of election he really has to portray himself as the kind of person who can manage the security situation – and so far events have very much played out in the direction in which Netanyahu would like things to go.”

    Israel came away with ‘not even a scratch’ —-

    Experts say that – despite the fraught situation that saw military actions on both sides – neither Israel nor Hezbollah wants to engage in a large-scale conflagration. So far, there has been no major conflict between the Jewish state and the Shia militant group during Netanyahu’s 13 year reign (from 1996 to 1999, then from 2009 to the present).

    Indeed, Netanyahu has hailed the fact that Israel came out of these recent clashes with Hezbollah without any “Israeli injuries, not even a scratch”.

    Ironically, his antagonist Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Lebanese armed group and political movement, can also play to his base by pointing out that he kept his promise to retaliate on Israeli territory. Similarly, Netanyahu can justifiably claim to be responsible for a fierce response to Hezbollah, with the Israeli army firing around 100 shells and aerially bombarding the Shia group’s bastion of southern Lebanon.

    Thus, it appears that Netanyahu has gone some way in restoring his reputation as a tough protector of Israeli security, after the rocket fire and attempts to infiltrate the country from the Gaza strip combined with legal troubles to mar his image last August.

    (France 24)

    • Larry Larkin says

      Sep 4, 2019 at 7:48 am

      Ah, France 24. The TV channel caught running anti-Israeli Hamas propaganda videos as truthful news items, knowing full well they were fake.

      You’ve just produced a massive quote from a fake news source that is as anti-Semitic as al Jazeera.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 4, 2019 at 7:40 pm

      CRUSADER wrote:

      After the weekend’s clashes with Hezbollah, there is much suspicion in Israel that its tensions with the Lebanese militant group (and its master Iran) serve Benjamin Netanyahu’s interests ahead of the September 17 general elections.
      ……………..

      Good lord, Hezb’allah has been trying to destroy Israel for almost 35 years now. but now its Netanhyahu’s fault? Grotesque.

    • marc says

      Sep 4, 2019 at 10:02 pm

      @CRUSADER you share this filth from a known anti-semitic source with no comment, if your going to do that, I will assume you are supportive of this position, you have been recently been warned on other matters. please explain yourself?

  16. jayell says

    Sep 4, 2019 at 2:49 am

    ‘Islamic Scholar’ – an ‘learned academic’ (sic) whose main source text (the ‘holy’ Qu’ran) is a crudely plagiarised ragbag of pre-existing texts with a total vocabulary of less than 2,000 words, stolen from other contemporary religions for the sole purpose validating the spurious pretensions and criminal ambitions of an ignorant and illiterate, avaricious and perverted despot, and catering for an audience of disciples whose collective IQ is significantly below the global average. Some recommendation!

  17. Trick_or_Treat says

    Sep 4, 2019 at 4:42 am

    Oh God, yet another dickhead who wears a suit top with a T-shirt! What is it with this? Is this some kind of new fashion rave thats taking off on the up and up over there in the States or what?

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 4, 2019 at 7:44 pm

      This is sloppy dressing, but is also the least of it.

  18. Battle says

    Sep 4, 2019 at 5:24 am

    Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. Blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

  19. Eric Jones says

    Sep 4, 2019 at 8:15 am

    Kevin Barrett has been pretending to be an intellectual for decades. I tried to listen to him on a radio station back in the 1990’s and was shocked that he gave unquestioning support to Islamist. Some scholar? I thought he was going to give an intellectual analysis of Islam. But no. Barrett supported Jihad back then. I am so glad that Robert Spencer did not refer to Barrett as professor. Barrett is a fraud and no scholar.

    Eric

  20. Hugh Fitzgerald says

    Sep 4, 2019 at 8:31 am

    How does Kevin Barrett make a living? Does he have advertisers for his radio show? If so, can’t they be persuaded to drop their sponsorship?

  21. FYI says

    Sep 4, 2019 at 10:06 am

    “Barrett is a convert to islam” and a scholar of islamic studies.

    Ah! That explains it.

    The convert.

    With his Arab god LAH{“The BEST of deceivers” k3;54},his self-confessed FALSE AND FAILED “prophet” muhammed{al tabari 6:111}and his ERROR* riddled “perfect koran to misguide him.

    And some day Barrett will be judged by a JEW.
    His al LAH will be of no use:al Lah is a pagan Arab god.

    “Abraham was not a Jew” says allah defiantly in k3:67
    {Jesus Christ is Jewish and Abraham is in the Genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1:so it seems the koran must be WRONG.Jesus Christ CONFIRMS that ALL Biblical prophets had to have been JEWISH in john 4 v22 so Of course Abraham and Moses and Jesus were JEWISH,never muslims……the koran is WRONG like it is wrong about “the Jews say Ezra is the son of allah” k9;30,Mary is part of the Trinity{what?}…….etc}

    *Check out the “scientific mistakes in the koran”:how can the koran be “perfect” if it has ERRORS in it?
    Don’t you think these “islamic scholars” could see the problem:it seems not{or rather it is that they choose not to see them as then they would have to abandon islam}?

    Isn’t it funny how so many “scholars” lack the WISDOM to differentiate between al LAH the fake god of islam and the Actual Judeo-Christian God?

    Here’s for the “scholars” of islam to chew on..

    1.Nowhere in islam is there any concept of the 2nd Chief Commandment.Nowhere.
    In fact al LAH teaches the OPPOSITE in k5:51
    It is impossible to “Love thy neighbor” if your neighbor is an infidel to be murdered,enslaved or robbed via the jizya tax
    Thus islam and the koran violate both of GOD’S TWO CHIEF COMMANDMENTS.

    2.the koran CONTRADICTS iitself on intercession
    k4:85 allah ALLOWS intercession
    k74:48 muhammed PROHIBITS intercession
    So it all depends on what part of the koran you read and whether it is allah or muhammed.
    Cognitive Dissonance in allah’s mind

    3.Allah’s CRITERTION of k4:82
    If any errors are found in the koran that means allah’s word is imperfect
    But lo and behold!the koran is RIDDLED WITH ERRORS showing it to be IMPERFECT.
    If the koran has IMPEREFCTIONS in it then it cannot come from the Actual God{who must be PERFECT}
    as allah and his word cannot be IMPERFECT.

    But the koran IS IMPERFECT:so by allah’s own criterion it must come from an IMPERFECT source which means it cannot come from allah{who is PERFECT}

    islam and logic:separated at birth

  22. Dexter Wilson says

    Sep 4, 2019 at 11:47 am

    I am about to get Jonathan Cahn’s New book “The Oracle” the prophetic work that even would jolt a Arab if they had an earl. Get it as soon as it comes out.

  23. Ginger Snap says

    Sep 4, 2019 at 12:15 pm

    Sadly some people at deluded and get others to follow them. Don’t put this in the media!! If it is in the drive by news, stand up against it. I sometimes wonder if these people who hate Jews so much take advantage of all the medical advances made by Jewish scientists and doctors. To be fair, they should not use those Jewish found cures and methods. How many terrorists are saving their lives?

  24. Angemon says

    Sep 5, 2019 at 5:38 am

    He is also, as this article shows, a paranoid conspiracy nut who sees Jews behind everything.

    No wonder he’s featured in Iran’s official propaganda channels…

  25. Eric Jones says

    Sep 5, 2019 at 12:16 pm

    We know Bernie as the millionaire socialist. But now we can call him “cry baby Sanders” after telling a crying baby to keep the noise down. What a mean old man!

    Eric

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