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“The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem”
Joel 3:16

The Obama Administration Has Issued
An Open Rebuke To The Nation Of Egypt
For Their Attack On ISIS

NTEB News Desk — This week in Washington, DC, Barack Obama in convening his Summit on Countering Violent Extremism at the White House. It will discuss the worldwide threat posed by violent extremists, but what it will not do is to connect “violent extremism” with Islam in any way, shape or form.

President Barack Obama and his staff have gone to lengths to avoid characterizing the ideology driving Islamic State and other terrorist groups as religious extremism. The semantic exercise is intended to avoid legitimizing acts of terror as expressions of religious belief. It’s also part of a strategy to draw in the domestic Muslim leaders who Obama is leaning on to identify and isolate potentially violent extremists.

“For us, terminology is very, very important,” said Riham Osman, spokeswoman for the Muslim Public Affairs Council, one of the groups participating in the three-day conference. “Using words like ‘radical Islam,’ we believe is actually hurting the cause.”

“The words ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ do not come out of the president’s mouth,” Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, said at the Center for Security Policy last week. “That is dangerous.”

Obama Slams Egypt For Attacking ISIS

The Obama administration issued an open rebuke to the nation of Egypt for their attack on ISIS just hours after the gruesome beheading deaths of 21 Christians.

The United States does not support Egyptian and Emirati airstrikes against Islamist militias in Libya because the U.S. believes the crisis in Libya must be resolved politically and without outside interference, a Department of Defense spokesman said Tuesday.

Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) carrying out airstrikes in Libya was different from U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant forces in Iraq, Pentagon spokesman Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby told a briefing, because the U.S. was acting in Iraq, in a “very targeted” manner, at the request of its government.

The Religion Of Peace website reports that since 9/11, Islamic terrorists have carried out more than 25,139 deadly terror attacks in the name of Allah and Islam. More than any other single group of terrorists anywhere at any time.

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CHARIOTS IN RED SEA: ‘IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE’

“Horse And Human Remains
Strewn Like Battlefield Wreckage”

Joe Kovacs, WND — A news report that stunned the world nine years ago about the discovery of possible ancient chariot wheels at the bottom of the Red Sea is suddenly gaining fresh attention with new video claiming “irrefutable evidence” that corroborates the find.

In June 2003, WND interviewed Bible enthusiasts who dove the waters of the Red Sea, alleging they found and photographed parts of chariots that may be the actual remains of the catastrophe brought upon the Egyptian army which pursued the Israelites, according to the Book of Exodus in the Bible.

“I am 99.9 percent sure I picked up a chariot wheel,” said Peter Elmer, a forklift mechanic from Keynsham, England, who made two diving trips to the Gulf of Aqaba branch of the sea. “It was covered in coral.”

“I believe I actually sat in an ancient chariot cab,” he told WND at the time, referring to his time exploring a submerged item in the underwater junkyard. “Without question, it is most definitely the remains of the Egyptian army.”

Now, Michael Rood, a Hebrew-roots teacher, has produced a video proffering evidence Elmer is absolutely correct.

His DVD, titled “The Red Sea Crossing,” documents the work of numerous researchers from the U.S. and overseas who have probed an underwater land bridge between a beachhead at Nuweiba, Egypt, and what is today Saudi Arabia.

“What they found strewn across the bottom of the reed sea has shaken the religious and scientific community,” says Rood. “Cameras mounted on remote-controlled submarines revealed coral-encrusted chariot parts, horse and human remains strewn like battlefield wreckage on the bottom of the reed sea.”

He uses the term “reed sea” instead of Red Sea, as that’s the literal translation of the words “yam suph” in Holy Scripture, referring to the body of water God miraculously opened for the ancient Israelites to cross on dry land, before drowning the Egyptians in hot pursuit.

“Even a novice can readily see that these are not natural coral formations,” Rood said, showing a variety of circular shapes he insists are chariot wheels, some with axles still intact.

He gave special attention to a single gold-veneered, four-spoked chariot wheel that was photographed and buried in place with a marker buoy nearby.

“Because coral does not attach to gold or silver, this priceless specimen remains untarnished by time,” he said, calling it “strong evidence that this is actually one of the two chariot wheels that the pharaoh rode to his death.”

Rood also explained giant pillars have been found on both sides of the crossing to mark the event. One was discovered eroded on the Egyptian shore by the late American archaeologist Ron Wyatt. Later, another was located on the Arabian side with “the legible remains of ancient paleo-Hebrew inscriptions.”

He says the words for pharaoh, death, Egypt, King Solomon and the sacred name of God, YHWH, are all present on the second pillar.



“King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, knew exactly where the children of Israel made their escape just 500 years before, and so he established pillars to memorialize the yam suph crossing,” said Rood.

He points out the depth of water would make it impossible for a crossing to have taken place anywhere with the exception of the shallow land bridge at Nuweiba.

“If the water were to be removed, it would still be impossible to cross this chasm which is as deep and wide as the Grand Canyon in Arizona,” Rood said.

“But,” he added, “at the beach where Israel camped, an underwater land bridge gently slopes at a 6-degree angle, levels out at about 900 feet, and then gradually rises to meet the western shore of Midian.”

For hundreds of years, many have been under the impression that Mount Sinai, the place at which Moses received the Ten Commandments from God, was located on the Sinai peninsula of Egypt. It was Helena, the mother of 4th century Roman emperor Constantine, who made the declaration of its position when she established two churches there.

But if Rood and the other researchers are correct, the real Mount Sinai is actually in Arabia on the eastern side of the Gulf of Aqaba. The New Testament apostle Paul even refers to “Mount Sinai in Arabia” in Galatians 4:25.

“What is so difficult about determining the body of water that Moshe (Moses) crossed?” asks Rood.

“The Bible gives us just one choice, and this is it! I know that Constantine would have you dismembered for implying that his mother picked out the wrong site for Mount Sinai. But Constantine is dead! And so are the traditions that have enslaved our minds to such idiocy that we cannot even read the plain text of the Bible and think for ourselves.”

A well-known Swedish scientist who is among the Red Sea researchers believes the waters of Aqaba were indeed split supernaturally.

Lennart Moller of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm told WND there are no natural, scientific explanations for the parting miracle described in Scripture.

“The wind did not separate the water,” he said. “No person could be in that wind and survive. … If God has created all the Earth, it’s no problem for Him to separate the water for a while.”

Rood says for many people, finding the genuine crossing site is bad news because, “Blissful ignorance has died, and you recognize that the Creator has revealed himself through His people and His prophets. But this is good news to those who truly believe in the God of Israel and obey His commandments.

“Here on the bottom of the [reed sea] rests the evidence that the Creator has acted on behalf of His people in the past, proof that you can count on His promise that in the last days, He will perform a miracle that will make the parting of the reed sea pale by comparison.”

A theatrical trailer of “The Red Sea Crossing” DVD can be seen here:



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‘KICK THIS BI**H OUT OF EGYPT’: A LOOK AT SOME OF THE ANTI-AMERICAN SIGNS EGYPTIAN PROTESTERS USED THIS WEEKEND

“Wake Up America,
Obama Backs Up a Fascist Regime in Egypt”

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“Ann [sic] Patterson,
You and Your Country Go to Hell, Liars, Sh**!!”

Sharona Schwartz, TheBlaze — Among the throngs of Egyptians who poured into the streets to protest the rule of President Mohammed Morsi Sunday, signs of frustration with the Obama administration and U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson were clearly visible. Some of the demonstrators are angry at what they perceive to be President Barack Obama’s failure to articulate clear criticism of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Here are examples of some of the strident images and slogans from the demonstrations being widely shared on social media, accusing the administration of siding with the Muslim Brotherhood:

This man holds a sign saying: “Ann [sic] Patterson, You and Your Country Go to Hell, Liars, Sh**!!”

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This sign with photos of President Barack Obama and Patterson with the slogan: “Obama & Paterson [sic], Support Terrorism in Egypt.”

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Another banner shows a photo of Ambassador Patterson with a red X crossed over her face. This slogan is printed above her photo: “Kick This Bi**h Out of Egypt.” Still, on the bottom of the banner, they misspell the curse word and insert “pitch,” but the message was understood nonetheless.

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Yet another sign shows a photo of Patterson at a meeting with Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Leader Mohammed Badie with these words printed in bold letters: “We know what you did last summer,” in reference to the famous horror flick. Those protesters are unhappy Patterson met Badie in January 2012 (not exactly “summer,” we know.)

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“Egypt will remain a civil state,” the same sign read, reflecting the secular outlook of those who printed the poster.

As TheBlaze previously reported, Badie, the Brotherhood’s highest ranking official, has in the past called on the Muslim world to carry out “jihad” and conquer Jerusalem from Israel.

Bret Baier of Fox posted a photo a friend sent him of this banner at the anti-Morsi protests reading, “Wake Up America, Obama Backs Up a Fascist Regime in Egypt.”

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Eric Trager, Next Generation Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, tells TheBlaze, “The Obama administration was hesitant to criticize Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood which was interpreted by many Egyptians as pro-Brotherhood partisanship.”

“The reason why the administration was hesitant to criticize Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood is because they believe that by not commenting on Egyptian domestic politics they would win the Brotherhood’s cooperation on foreign policy,” Trager explains.

“This was always an illusion because the Brotherhood is deeply hostile toward the west and has no intention to cooperate with the west and maintain the treaty with Israel indefinitely,” he adds.

“The administration did a very poor job in managing perceptions and it needs to fix that as soon as it can, because the anti-American hostility which is a constant among Islamists is now sharply rising among non-Islamists including Christians,” Trager says.

Trager, an Egypt expert who speaks Arabic, says that Egypt’s Christians have been “livid with the administration” since former President Hosni Mubarak was deposed and “feel the administration completely abandoned them” while their churches were being attacked by Brotherhood activists and sympathizers.

The Associated Press reports that Egypt’s ONTV aired footage purporting to show Patterson’s convoy of black SUVs visiting Khairat el-Shater, “a powerful figure in the Muslim Brotherhood who is widely suspected to exercise vast influence over Morsi.”

Though the U.S. Embassy would not confirm the visit, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party spokesman told the AP that the meeting did occur.

Despite the fact that she was the target of some of the anti-American posters during Sunday’s rally, Patterson has tried to correct some of the administration’s mistakes, according to Trager who tells TheBlaze that Christian leaders in Alexandria told him that Patterson has been visiting their churches to demonstrate U.S. support for their plight.

But over the weekend it was clear President Obama still won’t take sides. On a visit to Johannesburg, Obama said, “We do not take sides in terms of who should be elected by the Egyptian people.”

“We do take sides in terms of observing a process for democracy and the rule of law,” he added.

The Associated Press wrote a week and a half ago that activists were angry at statements by Ambassador Patterson criticizing plans for this weekend’s anti-Morsi demonstrations and defending U.S. relations with Egypt’s president and the Muslim Brotherhood.

“Some say that street action will produce better results than elections. To be honest, my government and I are deeply skeptical,” AP quoted her as saying earlier this month. “Egypt needs stability to get its economic house in order, and more violence on the streets will do little more than add new names to the lists of martyrs.”

AP wrote, “Her unusually frank comments have been widely interpreted as referring to June 30 opposition-led protests,” marking Morsi’s first year in office.

Leading opposition activist Shady el-Ghazali Harb told the AP that Patterson showed “blatant bias” for Morsi and the Brotherhood. He said her statements earned the Obama administrations “the enmity of the Egyptian people.”

“The Muslim Brotherhood is ready to offer Egypt on a golden platter to the United States in exchange for Washington’s support. It is no surprise that she would say that,” he said. The AP reports:

Another prominent opposition activist, George Ishaq, counseled Patterson in a television interview to “shut up and mind your own business.” Christian business tycoon Naguib Sawiris posted a message on his Twitter account addressed to the ambassador saying “Bless us with your silence.”

“Throughout Egypt’s post-revolution series of elections, the United States took the position that we would work with whoever won elections that met international standards, and this is what we have done,” Ambassador Patterson said earlier this month, according to the AP.
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Sharona Schwartz is a Middle East correspondent for TheBlaze. Prior to joining the site, she was coverage manager at CNN’s Washington bureau. She also served at the network as scriptwriter for Wolf Blitzer, State Department producer and Middle East producer. She and CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta received the Clarion award for their report, "Sabrina's Law."

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