Polls Bad News For Dems | Israel Alert

by Gary L. Bauer, Contributing Author: While much of the following addresses U.S issues it concludes with a special alert regarding Israel alert.

Poll Bad News For Dems; How Will The GOP Respond?
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll highlights the depth of America’s anxiety about the economy and political situation.

First off, this poll is of adults. Polls of adults tend to overstate Democratic strength, electorally speaking, while polls of registered voters or likely voters tend to favor Republicans. But even though it’s a liberal-friendly poll, it still spells bad news for President Obama and Democrats. Here are some highlights:

-- President Obama’s disapproval rating has dropped to 40 percent. And 60 percent disapprove of Obama's foreign policy, the lowest ever.

-- Sixty-four percent of respondents are dissatisfied with the state of the economy.

-- On immigration, 51 percent want illegal immigrant children deported. Seventy percent of Republicans, and a third of Democrats, want them sent back. Forty-three percent even say that illegal immigrant children should stay only if they can prove their lives are in danger.

But let’s put the political battles of today aside for a moment to look at how Americans view the bigger picture. In short, they’re very pessimistic. There seems to be a growing sense that the country is in deep trouble.

-- Seventy-one percent believe the country is on the wrong track. And 60 percent believe the U.S. is in decline. More than three in four American adults surveyed lack confidence that their children’s generation will have a better life than they have.

It’s clear that the left and Obama are increasingly being rejected. But Republicans don’t fare much better. The GOP needs to find the courage to articulate a conservative message that addresses values, economic growth and national security.

Newt’s Right
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said yesterday that the Republican Party’s “number one” issue in this year’s mid-term elections should be President Obama’s unconstitutional actions, particularly if he uses an executive order to give amnesty to thousands of illegal immigrants. Speaking with radio host Laura Ingraham, Gingrich said:

“The Republicans have an easy political answer, which is to say that ‘the election of 2014 is a referendum. [If you think] the president of the United States should allow millions and millions of people—as many [as] he wants, in the end—to come into the United States and to be legal residents by fiat of his pen, vote Democratic. If you want the rule of law and the American Constitution applied, vote Republican.’”

Obama’s lawlessness has become the defining feature of his presidency. Republicans should make it a defining feature of their argument against Democrats this November.

Protecting Our Army – From Bible-Reading Kids
Of all the rot that Obama and the left have spread, the worst may be the rot attacking the foundations of our military. It is bad enough that at a time of increasing threats to our national security, Obama is dismissing experienced senior officers, failing to upgrade important weapon systems and constantly sending signals of weakness to our enemies.

In addition, the left is attacking the values that are embedded in our military culture. Military chaplains have been under incredible pressure to avoid Bible-based messages on hot-button issues like homosexual conduct. Some say that they have been threatened with dismissal if they present the Gospel to inquiring soldiers. There have been repeated stories out of the Air Force Academy and West Point of hostility to students who express a Biblical world view.

Now comes a story out of “Bible Belt” Missouri that is sounding more alarms. The Bible Baptist Church in Carthage, Missouri, invited members of the Missouri National Guard to attend a kids’ summer camp for an hour to be honored for protecting Missouri’s families. The church camp had already honored the local fire department and sheriff’s department. The Guardsmen were not given permission to attend because Army regulations state the following:

"Army participation must not selectively benefit (or appear to benefit) any person, group, or corporation (whether profit or non-profit); religion, sect, religious or sectarian group, or quasi-religious or ideological movement."

In spite of this regulation, service members in uniform have marched in gay pride parades, including here in Washington, DC. Apparently the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on homosexuals has been replaced with a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on Christianity.

One Guardsman told the Christian Post, “I can tell you I'm ashamed and embarrassed right now. This isn't the military I signed up for." Sadly, countless other young Americans will be less inclined to sign-up if Obama and his radical leftist allies continue their efforts to separate our armed forces from Judeo-Christian values.

Carter’s Back
Once again as a Christian I find myself embarrassed by the moral blindness and anti-Semitism of former President Jimmy Carter. Yes you read that right – anti-Semitism. Carter is not merely a critic of Israel’s government and foreign policy. His critique of the Middle East conflict is so twisted that a rational person can only conclude that his heart is infected with Jew-hatred.

The latest evidence is Carter’s embrace this week of Hamas as a “legitimate political actor,” while lambasting Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Never mind the 3,000 or more missiles Hamas fired at civilian targets in Israel. Never mind the underground tunnel system built for the purpose of launching a surprise attack on Israeli neighborhoods that could have killed thousands of defenseless Israelis. Never mind the Hamas Charter of raw hate claiming not only the land of Israel but the whole world for Islam.

In the last three weeks even Israel critics have said Hamas cannot be a “partner” for peace. They are our era’s Nazis. But their murderous plans have now been exposed. Jimmy Carter runs toward them, embraces them and demands America reward them with recognition. Shame, Mr. Carter. Shame.

Israel’s Right To Exist
Israel is not fighting the equivalent of our wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. Other than on 9/11, the US population has not faced large-scale, daily attacks by jihadists on our homeland. Israel is facing that. Daily for weeks 70% of the Israeli people have run into bomb shelters because of Hamas rocket attacks. Imagine Al Qaeda firing rockets into the U.S. from Mexico and Canada requiring 70% of us, more than 200 million people, to run into shelters. Imagine if our military discovered miles of tunnels reaching deep into our country packed with weapons and explosives, and if jihadists were using those tunnels to launch surprise attacks on US border neighborhoods. While the US would try to avoid civilian casualties, we would not let anyone stop us from doing what had to be done to restore normal lives for our citizens. How dare we insist that Israel follow a set of rules that we would not adhere to if our very existence were in jeopardy.

Israel is facing an existential threat, meaning a threat to its very existence. Many at the UN who are pointing their fingers at Israel would not shed a single tear if its enemies overwhelmed it and carried out a second Holocaust.

The west must stand with Israel today or risk facing the growing Jihadists forces alone tomorrow.

The Ghost Soldiers Of Hamas
Last week I wrote about how every media report out of Gaza showed images of heavily-armed Israeli troops juxtaposed with scenes of civilians suffering in Gaza. Where was Hamas? Why did we never see the “holy warriors” who have declared that their goal is the complete destruction of Israel. Now in the 2nd day of the Gazan truce, the facts are slowly leaking out. Proof is growing that the reporters covering the conflict were subject to intimidation and threats on their lives if they did not follow the Hamas propaganda line.

Cliff May, Director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, has published an outstanding exposé column on this in the Washington Times. You can link to it here. This is a brief excerpt:

“Hamas restricts what journalists in Gaza may film, photograph and even write about. Hamas threatens and intimidates journalists who do not follow what might be called Hamas rules — rules designed to shape media coverage and influence perceptions around the world. …

“A few have acknowledged their predicament, mostly on social media. For example, Italian journalist Gabriele Barbati on July 29 tweeted: “Out of #Gaza far from #Hamas retaliation: misfired rocket killed children [today] in Shati.” In other words, having left Gaza, he can now say what he would not dare report while in the territory: It was a Hamas rocket, not an Israeli rocket, that killed 10 people, eight of them children, at the al Shati refugee camp along the northern Gaza seacoast.

“Israeli filmmaker Michael Grynszpan wrote on Facebook that he had met with a Spanish journalist who had just left Gaza and asked him why TV viewers are not seeing Hamas fighters in action. Mr. Grynszpan said he was told: ‘It’s very simple. We did see Hamas people there, launching rockets. They were close to our hotel, but if ever we dared pointing our camera on them, they would simply shoot at us and kill us.’”Covering a war zone is incredibly dangerous. Nonetheless, members of the media have an obligation to inform the public of the threats they were dealing with. If they feared for their lives they should have exited Gaza rather than allow themselves to be turned into propagandists for Hamas.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families

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