According to author Bob Woodward, former British Prime Minister David Cameron thought former President Barack Obama wasn&#8217;t tough enough to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom Woodward accurately described as thugs.
<a href="http://www.hughhewitt.com/bob-woodward-on-his-new-book-fear/">Speaking</a> with radio host Hugh Hewitt on Friday about Woodward&#8217;s new book about Trump, &#8220;Fear,&#8221; Woodward said, &#8220;Trump has made it clear he&#8217;s going to be tough. If you look back on the Obama presidency, he just wasn&#8217;t tough enough. David Cameron, when he was British Prime Minister, I talked to him about Obama, and while Obama was president. And he said, &#8216;I like him, he&#8217;s so smart, but no one&#8217;s afraid of him.&#8217; And you cannot operate in the world of Assad&#8217;s and Putin&#8217;s and you name the thugs around the world &#8230;&#8221;
Hewitt interjected, &#8220;Khamenei, Assad, Putin. Those are the big three.&#8221;
Woodward concluded, &#8220;Yeah, and you&#8217;ve got to be tough with these people.&#8221;
Hewitt also noted an underreported bombshell in Woodward&#8217;s book, quoting, &#8220;Russia had privately warned Mattis, the Secretary of Defense, that if there was a war in the Baltics, Russia would not hesitate to use tactical nuclear weapons against NATO.&#8221; He asked, &#8220;All right, Bob Woodward, that&#8217;s a headline. Has anyone picked up on that?&#8221;
Woodward responded, &#8220;They have not, very, very significant. And it&#8217;s part of the argument that President Trump and Dowd make, namely that this investigation, the Mueller investigation, is tying the president&#8217;s hands in being president. And he cites some examples, and that&#8217;s one of them. And of course, that&#8217;s pretty frightening.&#8221;

Woodward: British Prime Minister Thought Obama Wasn’t Tough Enough To Stand Up To Putin

Barack Obama

David Cameron

Vladimir Putin

A new book claims that in August 2013, when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reportedly released sarin gas near Damascus, killing more than 1,000 adults and children, British Prime Minister David Cameron, on holiday in Cornwall, called former President Barack Obama to initiate an immediate response to the attack.
It allegedly took <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6052413/David-Cameron-wait-THREE-days-speak-Barack-Obama-Assads-chemical-attack.html">three days to get an answer</a>.
Matters got worse from there, the book reports.
The series of events started with the sarin attack, which occurred on August 21. But it wasn&#8217;t until August 24 that contact was made, according to the new book &#8220;Ten Days in August,&#8221; authored by Anthony Seldon. Seldon posits that although Obama had already declared a &#8220;red line&#8221; for the U.S. would be crossed if Assad used chemical weapons, Obama proposed to Cameron a cruise missile attack, said it would have to be executed by August 26, but would not commit to such an action yet.
The next day, August 25, Cameron left Cornwall and gathered his advisors in Chequers. On August 26, Cameron called Russian President Vladimir Putin for support. Still no answer from Obama.
August 27: Cameron, in London, tried to obtain support from Parliament for an attack. He spoke to Obama. Still no decision.
By August 29: Cameron&#8217;s call for an attack against Assad was rejected by Parliament.
Finally, August 30: Obama called Cameron to offer support, but the next day, Obama agreed the U.S. should authorize a strike but he would have to ask Congress because the British Parliament had defied Cameron. He said the United States &#8220;should take action against Syrian regime targets&#8221; but because America&#8217;s &#8220;closest ally&#8221; had nixed the idea, he would have to consult Congress on the matter.
One problem: Congress was now out of session.

Report: After Assad Reportedly Gassed 1,000, Obama Didn’t Answer British Request For Response For THREE DAYS

Syria

On Thursday, former London mayor Boris Johnson announced that he&#8217;s taking his name out of the running for Prime Minister of the UK. &#8220;Having consulted colleagues and in view of the circumstances in Parliament, I have concluded that that person cannot be me,&#8221; said Johnson during protracted speech in London.
As a high-profile Tory party member Johnson was the official face of the &#8216;Leave&#8217; campaign to exit from the European Union. He spent the last few months campaigning vigorously throughout the UK for the Brexit referendum.
Many party member expected him to assume the mantle of leadership after David Cameron unexpectedly announced his resignation in the aftermath of last Thursday&#8217;s game-changing vote.
As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Aaron Bandler reported, Johnson is an eccentric figure in British politics. Before the fiery Brexit campaign fractured the Conservative party, Johnson and Cameron were close allies in parliament. However, Johnson&#8217;s bizarre antics and controversial policy positions have landed him in hot water with members of his own party in the past. Despite Johnson&#8217;s prominent national profile, he was never very well-liked in Westminster. Caricatured as a curious sideshow rather than stoic statesman, Johnson&#8217;s claim to 10 Downing Street may have been tenuous from the start.
But Johnson&#8217;s withdrawal was never pre-destined. In fact, his decision may be a consequence of a Machiavellian scheme contrived by his trusted comrade, Michael Gove. 
Here&#8217;s where it gets interesting. 
In a recent interview with BBC shortly before Johnson&#8217;s announcement, justice secretary and fellow Leave campaigner Michael Gove suggested that Johnson simply wasn&#8217;t up to the job. &#8220;I came in the last few days reluctantly and firmly to the conclusion that while Boris has great attributes he was not capable of uniting that team and leading the party and the country in the way that I would have hoped.&#8221;
Gove concluded that he, himself, should occupy the leadership void left by Cameron. &#8220;I should stand and Boris should stand aside,&#8221; he stated audaciously, adding:
<blockquote>
It had to fall to someone else. As someone who had argued consistently that we should leave the European Union, and as someone who&#8217;s experienced at the highest levels in the Cabinet, I felt it had to fall to me.
</blockquote>
Gove was Johnson&#8217;s number two during the Brexit campaign. He was the former London mayor&#8217;s campaign manager: never the prom queen, always the ugly friend. Gove was the man in the shadows, operating behind the scenes to ensure Johnson reaps the rewards of campaign Leave. From what it looks right now, Gove may have always been more of a Brutus than a Renfield. In fact, Johnson may have referenced William Shakespeare&#8217;s tragedy in his de facto concession speech. As The Daily Beast&#8217;s Nico Hines <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/30/brexit-leader-boris-johnson-decapitated-in-brutal-fight-to-be-britain-s-next-prime-minister.html">notes</a>, Johnson employed distinctly literary language to announced his withdrawal. &#8220;A time not to fight against the tide of history but to take that tide at the flood and sail on to fortune,&#8221; stated Johnson. Or put another way: Et tu, Brute!
Hines explains Johnson&#8217;s subtle allusion: 
<blockquote>
At this point only the most well-tuned literary ears would have noticed that Johnson was paraphrasing the words of Brutus from Shakespeare&#8217;s Julius Caesar, who says: &#8220;There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.&#8221;
</blockquote>
So, the plot thickens. Johnson appears to have succumbed to Gove&#8217;s betrayal, reluctantly accepting his fate and dropping out of the running for Britain&#8217;s highest non-monarchial office. Some Conservative Party members now feel as though Johnson acted like a coward, fleeing the battlefield after the slightest hint of action.
&#8220;He&#8217;s like a general who marches his army to the sound of the guns and the moment he sees the battleground he abandons it,&#8221; Lord Heseltine, former Conservative deputy prime minister told The Daily Beast. &#8220;I have never seen so contemptible and irresponsible a situation. He must live with the shame of what he has done.&#8221;
Lord Heseltine could have gone with Shakespeare here too: &#8220;Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.&#8221;
The political chaos in the UK is unfolding, well, like a Shakespearean tragedy. We may have to look to the British bard&#8217;s prescient plays to find out what happens next.
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Boris Johnson: I’m Not Running For British PM (Also, Somebody Stabbed Me In the Back)

United Kingdom

After Thursday&#8217;s historic Brexit victory, United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron, who spearheaded the Remain vote, has announced his resignation. That means that Cameron&#8217;s successor is the bombastic former London Mayor Boris Johnson, who led the Leave movement. Here are seven things you need to know about him.
1. He got into hot water for a comment he made about President Barack Obama.
When Obama waded into the Brexit issue and expressed his support for the remain, Johnson went after him in a column in The Sun and pointed out that Obama had returned a bust of Winston Churchill.
&#8220;Some said it was a snub to Britain,&#8221; <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-suggests-part-kenyan-obama-may-have-an-ancestral-dislike-of-britain-a6995826.html">wrote</a> Johnson. &#8220;Some said it was a symbol of the part-Kenyan President&#8217;s ancestral dislike of the British empire &#8211; of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender.&#8221;
A number of people accused Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;part-Kenyan&#8221; comment of being a racist smear. The Labour shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, called it &#8220;dog whistle racism&#8221; and said that Johnson should renounce it.
Obama has claimed that the Churchill bust has remained in a private office in the White House, but a British embassy spokesman has <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html">said</a> that Obama returned the bust to them in 2009.
2. Johnson and Cameron used to be close friends.
According to The Daily Beast, Johnson and Cameron, who Johnson affectionately refers to as &#8220;Dave,&#8221; were close at Oxford University. But Johnson, &#8220;the brighter and more brilliant boy,&#8221; held a grudge that Cameron beat him to the prime minister position. Johnson may soon get his revenge.
3. Johnson claims to be fan of both Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher.
Churchill is a hero to Johnson and he has called Thatcher the &#8220;greatest Prime Minister since Winston Churchill&#8221;:
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He has also given an interesting lecture on Thatcher that can be read <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/london-mayor-election/mayor-of-london/10480321/Boris-Johnsons-speech-at-the-Margaret-Thatcher-lecture-in-full.html">here</a>.
4. Johnson has an interesting record as mayor.
According to the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/london-mayoral-elections-2016-an-analysis-of-boris-johnson-s-record-after-eight-years-in-office-a7013971.html">UK Independent</a>, some of Johnson&#8217;s initiatives included:
<ul>
<li>Cutting the mayoral portion of the council tax.</li>
<li>Raising congestion fees.</li>
<li>Introducing &#8220;Boris bikes&#8221; for taxpayers to ride on, although the result was an overall loss for taxpayers and the new bike lanes have been &#8220;frustrating&#8221; those who use the roads.</li>
<li>Increased transportation fares.</li>
<li>Brought in better, safer buses for public transportation.</li>
<li>Didn&#8217;t attempt to fulfill his campaign promise to hammer a &#8220;no strike&#8221; deal with Tube unions.</li>
<li>Crime overall has declined in London, but Johnson did not follow through on his promise to hire more cops and knife crime is still a serious epidemic in the city.</li>
</ul>
Overall, Johnson had an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/06/24/donald-trump-is-no-boris-johnson/">approval rating</a> of 54 percent as mayor of London.
5. Many within his own party don&#8217;t like him.
There were a number of people within the Conservative Party who backed Cameron and the Remain movement, and now they&#8217;re working on a possible <a href="http://time.com/4381370/boris-johnson-david-cameron-prime-minister/">&#8220;Stop Boris&#8221;</a> candidate, which could include chief party whip Mark Harper or Home Secretary Theresa May.
6. He&#8217;s weak on Islamism.
Johnson suggested that there needed to be an <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/boris-johnson-calls-for-new-word-to-be-used-when-describing-islamic-extremists-10186330.html">&#8220;alternative&#8221;</a> word for Islamic terrorism:
<blockquote>
The Mayor insisted the police could deal with Islamophobia and intimidation, adding: &#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult to distinguish Islam and Isis, Daesh, whatever &#8211; we have a problem in the language.
&#8220;When anybody says Islamism, Muslim fundamentalist or terrorist or something like that, the wider public hear the word Muslim &#8211; you see what I&#8217;m saying?
&#8220;So you need to find an alternative word.
</blockquote>
Except that Islamism and Muslim fundamentalist are the correct terms, and Johnson sounds like a social justice warrior with these comments.
7. Johnson has been known to change his positions based on political winds.
Columnist Nick Cohen <a href="http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/02/boris-johnson-everything-phoney/">writes</a>:
<blockquote>
To Johnson watchers, his shiftiness is no surprise. At Oxford he ran for the presidency of the Oxford Union as a Tory. He lost to a state school boy called Neil Sherlock, a liberal, who secured victory by mocking the old Etonian&#8217;s sense of entitlement.
In 1985, Johnson tried again and won, but now and all of sudden Johnson was a liberal too, who was opposed to Margaret Thatcher and in favour of proportional representation. Johnson has &#8216;no core beliefs&#8217; an understandably flabbergasted Sherlock concluded. He would do anything.
</blockquote>
Cohen also points out that when Johnson came out in favor of the Leave movement, his statement left wiggle room:
<blockquote>
There is only one way to get the change we need and that is to vote to go, because all EU history says that they only really listen to a population when it says no.
</blockquote>
&#8220;We will vote to leave, in other words, but we will not actually go, because the EU will give us more,&#8221; writes Cohen.
Many in the Conservative Party share Cohen&#8217;s view.

7 Things You Need To Know About Likely New UK PM Boris Johnson

Europe

European Union

Following the <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/6906/brexit-eu-hello-goodbye-daily-wire">historic referendum vote</a> that defeated his Remain campaign, Prime Minister David Cameron announced he will step down, opening the door for several &#8220;Eurosceptic&#8221; replacements. The question is, just how anti-European Union will the UK go once Cameron is out?
&#8220;I will do everything I can as Prime Minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months, but I don&#8217;t think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination,&#8221; Cameron said Friday, after seeing his all-out push to keep the country in the EU fail by a four-point margin. 
The most likely and potentially game-changing replacement for Cameron is former London Mayor <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/06/24/boris-johnson-uks-next-prime-minister/86327962/">Boris Johnson</a>, the vocal Eurosceptic who helped successfully lead the Brexit campaign. 
&#8220;This does not mean the United Kingdom will be any way less united (or) any less European,&#8221; Johnson <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/06/24/boris-johnson-uks-next-prime-minister/86327962/">said</a> in a conciliatory press conference Friday. &#8220;We cannot turn our backs on Europe, we are part of Europe.&#8221;
Though he deliberately took on a subdued tone after the seismic victory, Johnson is one of the most passionate advocates for cutting the EU cord, to the point that he was willing to stake his political career on the Leave campaign.
According to the <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/683002/Brexit-who-next-prime-minister-Boris-Johnson-Michael-Gove-Theresa-May-Conservative-leader">Express UK</a>, Coral give Johnson 8/11 odds to be the next Prime Minster and 8/13 to be the next Conservative leader. 
Home Secretary <a href="http://www.tmay.co.uk/">Theresa May</a> is another possible replacement for Cameron. While she has officially included herself among the Remain party, she has done so in a subtle enough manner to keep herself <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/theresa-may-might-finally-be-about-make-her-leadership-bid---bor/">widely</a><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/theresa-may-might-finally-be-about-make-her-leadership-bid---bor/"> popular</a>. Coral lists her as the second most likely after Johnson, with 7/2 odds to be PM and 5/2 odds to be the Conservative leader. 
Another candidate is Justice Secretary <a href="http://www.michaelgove.com/">Michael Gove</a>, who, like Johnson, is strongly anti-EU, calling the Brexit the chance for the UK to finally &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3655377/Today-D-Day-says-Gove-issues-passionate-plea-not-let-future-generations.html">break free</a>&#8221; of the EU and regularly casting the &#8220;European elites&#8221; as the enemy of the British people. According to analysts, has seen his chances rise dramatically since the beginning of the Leave campaign (analysts give him 13/2 odds to become PM, and 9/2 to be the next party leader). 
As for potential Conservative leaders, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/so-long-george-osborne-the-so-called-master-strategist/">George Osborne</a>, who has been angling to replace Cameron for years, is likely out after Remain&#8217;s defeat, analyst William Hill giving him only 20/1 odds to be the next Tory leader. He might also end up losing his chancellorship after the defeat. 
A few other possible party leaders Express lists are adamantly Pro-Brexit <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/682097/andrea-leadsom-eu-brexit-referendum-bbc">Andrea Leadsom</a>, <a href="http://www.itv.com/news/update/2016-06-24/stephen-crabb-urged-to-stand-for-pm/">Stephen Crabb</a>, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/21/priti-patel-warns-of-eu-migration-threat-to-uk-class-sizes">Priti Patel</a>, <a href="http://www.itv.com/news/2016-06-24/amber-rudd-eu-referendum-results-will-go-to-the-edge/">Amber Rudd</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-36613544">Ruth Davidson</a>, <a href="http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/betting-who-next-pm-probably-11519629">Sajid Javid </a>and <a href="http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14578091.David_Cameron_will_stay_on_as_Prime_Minister_after_Brexit_vote__says_Philip_Hammond/">Philip Hammond</a>.

Just How Anti-Europe Will The UK Go After Brexit?

Harangued by obnoxious black female left-wingers casting themselves as racial victims during an ITV-hosted town hall style event on Tuesday, UKIP leader Nigel Farage was denigrated as a racist who harbored animosity towards non-white persons. Farage advocated for the <a href="https://leave.eu/">Leave campaign</a>, arguing that the UK should depart from the EU superstate.

Tola Jaiyeola, an ITV-approved audience member selected to ask a question, sought to frame Farage as xenophobic, hateful of Muslims, and racist. Next to her was seated a young Muslim woman wearing a hijab.

&#8220;Nigel Farage, what I would like to know is how can you have the audacity to use such blatant scaremongering tactics for [the campaign to leave the EU]?&#8221; asked Jaiyeola. &#8220;In light of the recent horrific sexual assaults in Germany, you have basically suggested that a vote to remain is a vote for British women to be subdued to the same horrific assaults.&#8221; 

Describing German Chancellor Angela Merkel as having made a &#8220;big mistake&#8221; by admitting millions of migrants with undesirable cultural attitudes, Farage called for the UK to prioritize immigration from commonwealth countries.

&#8220;A very large number of young single males have settled in Germany and in Sweden who&#8217;ve come from cultures where attitudes towards women are different,&#8221; said Farage.

&#8220;Are you demonizing migrants?&#8221; asked Jaiyeola. &#8220;Are you not embarrassed that [Archbishop of Canterbury] Justin Welby today said that you&#8217;re legitimizing racism?&#8221;

Farage was interrupted as he was stating that media-driven misrepresentations of his comments on immigration were the foundation of Welby&#8217;s statement.

&#8220;But you&#8217;re targeting a certain group of people and using them as bait to prey upon British people&#8217;s irrational fears about mass migration,&#8221; protested Jaiyeola.

Next up was Imriel Morgan, another ITV-approved questioner from the audience, who described Farage as &#8220;anti-immigration&#8221; and fomenting &#8220;discrimination&#8221; against blacks.

&#8220;I know a lot of people &#8211; I have access to a predominantly black British audience &#8211; and a lot of the concerns that they have raised alongside concerns that I have myself, is that you are going to increase the fear and discrimination of black British people through your anti-immigration rhetoric,&#8221; said Morgan. &#8220;Are you encouraging racism?&#8221;

Farage repeated his earlier call for immigration policies that were preferential towards candidates from commonwealth countries.

&#8220;I take a very strongly pro-commonwealth view,&#8221; replied Farage, adding that it was wrong of the UK to align itself more with the EU than the commonwealth. Morgan childishly rolled her eyes and made exaggerated facial expressions during his responses.

&#8220;You&#8217;re still anti-immigration,&#8221; interrupted a disinterested Morgan. &#8220;So I don&#8217;t see, you&#8217;re anti-immigration. You use scaremongering and inflammatory comments in your campaign that have gone against people that look non-white. How are non-white people going to stop facing discrimination about their identity and nationality in this country. That is what I really want to know.&#8221;

Morgan received applause from presumably like-minded leftists in the audience.

&#8220;The majority of people that look black-British, or non-white have those concerns,&#8221; continued Morgan with her monologue. &#8220;They are very real concerns and you&#8217;re dismissing them.&#8221;

Watch the entire event below.

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EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Imriel Morgan has been identified as a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/imriel-morgan/">blogger</a> with socialist news giant The Huffington Post, and apparently <a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/imriel-morgan-2113a427">self-describe</a><a href="http://uk.linkedin.com/in/imriel-morgan-2113a427">s</a> as a &#8220;diversity advocate.&#8221;

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Black Female Leftists Harangue Nigel Farage: You’re Racist!

Nigel Farage

Aside from his <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/5468/you-wont-believe-trumps-answer-when-asked-if-hes-joshua-yasmeh">bromance</a> with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is finding it difficult to get along with foreign dignitaries and even US allies. The self-proclaimed <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/donald-trump-2016-announcement-10-best-lines-119066">best negotiator in the world</a> is already clashing with British officials before even being elected to office.
Indeed, Trump&#8217;s controversial carte blanche Muslim ban has sparked invariable outrage in the UK. The tension reached a fever pitch when London&#8217;s Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, was elected to office in early May. Many speculated about whether Khan would be included in Trump&#8217;s absurd Muslim ban. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it), Trump suggested he would consider &#8220;exempting&#8221; Khan from the travel ban. The so-called &#8220;exemption&#8221; was tactless and patronizing to say the least. Oddly enough, Trump appeared to even semi-congratulate Khan on his electoral victory, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36256087">claiming</a> he was &#8220;happy&#8221; that the Muslim mayor would be governing London. &#8220;If he does a good job and frankly if he does a great job, that would be a terrific thing,&#8221; he added.
Almost immediately, Khan rebuffed Trump&#8217;s Orientalist olive branch, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36256087">stating</a>: &#8220;This isn&#8217;t just about me. It&#8217;s about my friends, my family and everyone who comes from a background similar to mine, anywhere in the world.&#8221; Adding insult to injury, London&#8217;s new mayor then endorsed Trump&#8217;s rival Hillary Clinton. &#8220;I hope she trounces him,&#8221; he <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/10/sadiq-khan-i-dont-want-ignorant-donald-trump-to-make-me-an-exception">told</a> the BBC.
Like clockwork, Trump fired back, issuing a veiled threat to Khan. &#8220;I think they were very rude statements and, frankly, tell him I will remember those statements,&#8221; Trump <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/16/trump_responds_to_muslim_london_mayor_khan_i_will_remember_those_statements.html">told</a> Good Morning Britain&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHIQtxLCgrM">Piers Morgan</a> on Monday. &#8220;They are very nasty statements. I just think it&#8217;s very rude of him. In fact it&#8217;s the opposite. I wished him well when I heard he won, he&#8217;s a Muslim,&#8221; adding &#8220;I think it&#8217;s ignorant of him to say that.&#8221;
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The mud-slinging didn&#8217;t end there, however. After asking Khan to take an IQ test, Trump then foreshadowed strained relations between his administration and British Prime Minister David Cameron, a key US ally. &#8220;It looks like we&#8217;re not going to have a very good relationship, who knows,&#8221; <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36300005">stated</a> Trump. The billionaire businessman appeared to be responding to Cameron&#8217;s recent remarks suggesting that the UK does not welcome Trumpian bombast or bigotry. &#8220;I think his remarks are divisive, stupid and wrong and I think if he came to visit our country I think it&#8217;d unite us all against him,&#8221; <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36300005">asserted</a> the prime minister.
While Trump has feigned oblivion after his absurd Muslim ban policy, making vacuous statements such as , &#8220;I hope to have a good relationship with him, but it sounds like he&#8217;s not willing to address the problem either,&#8221; the damage had already been done. 
From 10 Downing Street to the halls of parliament, the crass real estate mogul is seen as the personification of every negative American stereotype and caricature &#8212; all wrapped up into one loud-mouthed orange man with small hands. 
Strongman proclamations are only respected by other strongmen with tyrannical dispositions, namely men like Vladimir Putin. Level-headed Western leaders know better and will likely pull away from the dystopian incarnation of a Trump administration. That&#8217;s bad news for a United States that is increasingly dependent on strategic allies to combat the global and metastatic threat of radical Islam.

Trump Alienates More US Allies, Threatens London’s Mayor: ‘I Will Remember Those Statements.’

Donald Trump

The UK Labour Party is in utter disarray after a series of anti-Semitic statements by MPs surfaced and received public attention. The left-wing British party has had a &#8220;Jew&#8221; problem for some time now, but only recently has it been forced to come terms with the metastatic anti-Semitism festering in its underbelly. After Labour party officials suspended Muslim MP Naz Shah for her brazen comments (several years ago, mind you) suggesting that Jews in Israel should be physically transported to the United States, another Jew-hating MP has come out of the woodworks. Ironically, this MP spewed Jew-hatred during a futile attempt to defend Shah.
In an interview with BBC Radio London on Thursday morning, former London mayor and Labour MP Ken Livingstone suggested that Nazism embraced Zionism, in some perverse attempt to bifurcate Judaism and Zionism and imply that Shah&#8217;s grotesque comments about Jews residing the Jewish State were within the bounds of legitimate political discourse. 
&#8220;Let&#8217;s remember, when Hitler won his election in 1932, his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel,&#8221; <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ken-livingstone-suspended-labour-party-hitler-supported-zionism-antisemitism-comments-a7005121.html">said</a> Livingstone. &#8220;He was supporting Zionism &#8211; this before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews.&#8221;
This isn&#8217;t the first time Livingstone has fiddled with anti-Semitic tropes. The MP&#8217;s Judeophobia has been evident for some time now.
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Remember the whole Jews-vote-Tory-because-they&#8217;re-all-rich incident, for example? <a href="https://t.co/79zaw9wd9V">https://t.co/79zaw9wd9V</a>
&#8212; Mark Wallace (@wallaceme) <a href="https://twitter.com/wallaceme/status/725634370577555456">April 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
His most recent comments, however, forced his close ally, Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, an Israel-bashing Hamas-friendly politician in his own right, to suspend Livingstone. &#8220;Ken Livingstone has been suspended by the Labour Party, pending an investigation, for bringing the party into disrepute,&#8221; <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ken-livingstone-suspended-labour-party-hitler-supported-zionism-antisemitism-comments-a7005121.html">stated</a> a party spokesman.
For the first time in years, a handful of Labour party members assumed a formidable stance against the latest expression of anti-Semitic paroxysm.
Livingstone&#8217;s statements were &#8220;appalling and inexcusable,&#8221; claimed Labour MP and 2016 London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan. &#8220;He&#8217;s got to be kicked out. These are so serious, these comments, so deeply offensive.&#8221;
However, the most forceful rebuke came from MP John Mann. Hours after Livingstone&#8217;s disconcerting interview with the BBC, Mann confronted the disgraced MP in person. He didn&#8217;t hold back any punches, blasting Livingstone point-blank for his contemptible statements. &#8220;You&#8217;re a Nazi apologist, rewriting history, rewriting history, rewriting history,&#8221; Mann <a href="http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/watch-john-mann-takes-on-ken-livingstone-over-anti-semitism-you-are-a-nazi-apologist/">shouted</a> passionately. &#8220;Go back and check what Hitler did, go back and check. There&#8217;s a book called Mein Kampf; you&#8217;ve obviously never heard of it.&#8221;
Here is a clip of the face-to-face confrontation:
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In an <a href="http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/watch-john-mann-takes-on-ken-livingstone-over-anti-semitism-you-are-a-nazi-apologist/">interview</a> with Daily Politics (UK), Mann doubled-down on his unrelenting criticism of his fellow Labour MP:
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He&#8217;s a worse historian than he is a politician. He ought to read Mein Kampf, Hitler&#8217;s book. He ought to study what the Nazis did, including when the Nazis came to power in January 1933. He ought to look at the events in that year. He ought to see what the first, second, third thing that Nazi regime did &#8212; who it targeted and why. He ought to look what he and his political leaders said about Zionism and then consider why he&#8217;s said these hugely offensive grotesque remarks. He should not be sat on Labour&#8217;s NEC, he should be suspended today.
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Shockingly, for his ardent defense of Holocaust victims, Mann may be the one chastised by Labour party leadership. &#8220;The Chief Whip has summoned John Mann MP to discuss his conduct,&#8221; stated the party spokesman.
&#8220;Livingstone has now been suspended,&#8221; <a href="http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/watch-john-mann-takes-on-ken-livingstone-over-anti-semitism-you-are-a-nazi-apologist/">reports</a> The Spectator (UK). &#8220;Meanwhile John Mann has been summoned to the Leader&#8217;s Office. Will he be given a medal &#8212; or a dressing down?&#8221;
As The Jewish Chronicle&#8217;s Stephen notes, the problem isn&#8217;t one or two unruly MPs. Labour&#8217;s &#8220;Jewish&#8221; problem extends far beyond just Livingstone and Shah.
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In a way, Naz Shah is irrelevant. The real issue is the Labour leadership&#8217;s attitude to antisemitism.
&#8212; Stephen Pollard (@stephenpollard) <a href="https://twitter.com/stephenpollard/status/725344428659974144">April 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
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How bad has the Labour party&#8217;s handling of anti-Semitism been? It made its MP who apologized for anti-Semitism look like the reasonable one.
&#8212; Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/725351014791024640">April 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
The New Labour party of centrist-minded Tony Blair has become the Regressive Leftist party of Jeremy Corbyn. After Ed Miliband&#8217;s crushing loss to Tory Prime Minister David Cameron, the Labour Party, albeit begrudgingly, allowed fringe Leftist Jeremy Corbyn to move up the ranks and establish a position as the party&#8217;s official leader.
Corbyn has been a known terrorist-sympathizer for nearly his entire career. As The Telegraph (UK) <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11821264/Jeremy-Corbyn-will-be-cheered-by-racists-and-terrorists.html">notes</a>, &#8220;He associates with anti-semites and other extremists. He provides a platform for anti-semites and other extremists.&#8221;
From Hamas to Hezbollah, Corbyn has a soft spot from radical Islamists. &#8220;These are facts. Not smears. Nor inventions of the Tory media. Or some malign concoction of the Blarites,&#8221; adds The Telegraph. &#8220;As the Labour Party is about to learn to its cost, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/14/eu-referendum-jeremy-corbyn-to-say-uk-should-vote-to-remain-in-t/">Jeremy Corbyn</a>&#8217;s opponents have no need to manufacture anything. All they have to do is faithfully reproduce what he says and what he thinks.&#8221;
To his credit, Corbyn has been a truly transformational figure in British politics. He&#8217;s sinking one of the country&#8217;s two major political parties over the edge and into a pit of hatred, irreparably damaging the party&#8217;s already-precarious brand for a generation. 
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Tackling anti-semitism has been Corbyn&#8217;s greatest failure &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/FT">@FT</a> leader on Naz Shah affair <a href="https://t.co/2YinNvjmxV">https://t.co/2YinNvjmxV</a> <a href="https://t.co/pdur4zJoiy">pic.twitter.com/pdur4zJoiy</a>
&#8212; Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) <a href="https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/725381086142935041">April 27, 2016</a></blockquote>
If Labour wants any shot at taking back 10 Downing Street, they need to get their house in order and get rid of the anti-Semitic plague infecting its party, namely Corbyn and Co.

UK Labour MP Suspended For Declaring Hitler Was A Zionist

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New video evidence has emerged linking British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. 
According to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/12035511/Jeremy-Corbyn-praised-magnificent-pro-Hamas-rally.html">The Telegraph</a>, Corbyn is seen speaking at &#8220;a rally against the Gaza war in 2009, at which his close associates were cheered on stage as they praised Hamas. Mr. Corbyn was recorded hailing the protest as a &#8216;massive and magnificent demonstration.&#8217;&#8221;
Corbyn has been at the center of anti-Semitic hate speech for years. The man&#8217;s recent appointment as the leftist opposition leader against Prime Minister David Cameron&#8217;s conservative Tory party is a disgrace to British politics. Cameron has recently labeled Corbyn as a &#8220;<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/12035511/Jeremy-Corbyn-praised-magnificent-pro-Hamas-rally.html">terrorist sympathiser</a>.&#8221;
The prime minister&#8217;s harsh indictment cannot be explained away by hyperbole or partisanship. Corbyn&#8217;s own flanks are riddled with anti-Semites, pro-Islamist fascists, and morons. &#8220;Most controversially, the Labour leader&#8217;s new director of communications and strategy, Seamus Milne, defended the Palestinian people&#8217;s &#8220;right to resist&#8221; and declared that Hamas &#8216;will not be broken,&#8217;&#8221; <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/12035511/Jeremy-Corbyn-praised-magnificent-pro-Hamas-rally.html">notes</a> The Telegraph.
The leftist Hamas sympathizer has unsurprisingly worried Britain&#8217;s Jewish community. &#8220;Even before Mr Corbyn&#8217;s victory was confirmed, <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/142677/poll-reveals-7-10-jews-fear-jeremy-corbyn-leadership-victory">a poll of British Jews</a> found 67 per cent were concerned about his election as Labour leader,&#8221; <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/11879662/Why-Jeremy-Corbyns-rise-makes-British-Jews-afraid.html">writes</a> The Telegraph&#8217;s Angela Epstein. &#8220;After all, here stands a man who has been <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11812730/Jeremy-Corbyn-denies-knowing-Muslim-firebrand-who-condones-killing-British-soldiers.html">connected to Holocaust denier Paul Eisen</a>, and who exhorts us to be <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11749043/Andrew-Gilligan-Jeremy-Corbyn-friend-to-Hamas-Iran-and-extremists.html">&#8220;friends&#8221; with terror organisations Hezbollah and Hamas</a>.&#8221;
Corbyn&#8217;s anti-Semitic sentiments are inherently intertwined with his leftist obsession with identity politics. He disguises his Jew-hatred by parading around as a pro-jihadi charlatan pathologically averse to the Israeli flag, the Star of David, and the autonomy of a Jewish state. 
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&#8220;Most controversially, the Labour leader&#8217;s new director of communications and strategy, Seamus Milne, defended the Palestinian people&#8217;s &#8220;right to resist&#8221; and declared that Hamas &#8216;will not be broken.&#8217;&#8221; 
The Telegraph
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&#8220;And what of Mr Corbyn&#8217;s support for boycotting and delegitimsing the state of Israel? A view which &#8211; even if the Labour leader cannot see it &#8211; helps fuel anti-Semitism, since unreconstructed protest groups seamlessly conflate anti-Zionism with antipathy towards world Jewry,&#8221; <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/11879662/Why-Jeremy-Corbyns-rise-makes-British-Jews-afraid.html">adds</a> Epstein.

A Major Party Leader In Great Britain Just Said Something Super-Anti-Semitic

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On Sunday evening, President Obama broke into the big football game to announce that he had finally discovered that Islam can be perverted. He finally admitted that &#8220;an extremist ideology has spread within some Muslim communities&#8221; and called on Muslim leaders to &#8220;speak out against not just acts of violence, but also against those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.&#8221;
Then his newfound revelation faded, and he told Americans to stop worrying about Islam. &#8220;It is our responsibility to reject religious tests on who we admit into this country,&#8221; Obama explained. &#8220;It&#8217;s our responsibility to reject proposals that Muslim Americans should somehow be treated differently. Because when we travel down that road, we lose.&#8221;
Meanwhile, in London, a man with a machete <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/12/06/london_tube_stabbing_an_act_of_terrorism_reports_bbc_--_witness_shouts_you_aint_no_muslim.html">stabbed three people at a London subway station</a>. As the police wrestled the man to the ground, a bystander shouted, &#8220;You ain&#8217;t no Muslim, bruv, you ain&#8217;t no Muslim.&#8221;
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Any religion is capable of perversion. But that isn&#8217;t the question. The question is how deep the perversion runs.

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That phrase was soon trending across Twitter. The Prime Minister of Britain came out and praised the passerby, as though he&#8217;d done anything other than yell a politically correct slogan: &#8220;Let me also pay credit to the person &#8211; you can&#8217;t quite see who it is from that film &#8211; who made that brilliant statement about, er, &#8216;you ain&#8217;t no Muslim.&#8217; Some of us have dedicated speeches and media appearances and soundbites and everything to this subject. But &#8216;you ain&#8217;t no Muslim bruv&#8217; said it all much better than I ever could. Thank you because that will be applauded around the country.&#8221;
Herein lies the problem.
Obama is exactly right that a perverse interpretation of Islam &#8211; whether a perversion of Islam or not, the interpretation itself is morally perverse &#8211; now runs through parts of the Muslim world. But by &#8220;othering&#8221; that interpretation, by pretending that it exists only for a tiny share of the world&#8217;s Muslims, by suggesting that Americans ought not worry about unvetted people of Islamic background entering the country, Obama undercuts his own call for change in the Muslim world. The same is true of the Twitterers and David Cameron, who latched onto the words of the London bystander: it&#8217;s not their job to change Islam. In fact, they&#8217;re incapable of doing it. It&#8217;s the job of Muslims to change Islam, or at least to moderate other Muslims.
The fact is that the Muslim terrorist on the ground in London is Muslim, just as Jewish terrorists who kill Palestinians are Jewish and Christian terrorists who kill abortion doctors are Christian. Any religion is capable of perversion. But that isn&#8217;t the question. The question is how deep the perversion runs. The reason people around the world don&#8217;t have stereotypical views of violent Christianity is because that stereotype would be founded in falsity &#8211; only a minute percentage of Christians engage in terroristic violence. The same is true for Judaism.
But with Islam, it isn&#8217;t. The stereotype can be exaggerated, utilized in negative ways. But the stereotype exists because a wildly disproportionate share of the world&#8217;s Muslims believe extreme things, and a wildly disproportionate share engage in horrific acts of violence based on those beliefs. It&#8217;s not the job of the West to downplay that, although we shouldn&#8217;t exaggerate the threat. It&#8217;s the job of Muslims to fight that tendency.
Pretending that the tendency doesn&#8217;t exist, or that it&#8217;s at best a fringe issue, provides cover for the true radicals. We can encourage other Muslims to speak up against radical Islam, but it is the purest form of paternalism to pretend that non-Muslims can convince Muslims as to what form of their religion they practice. Yes, brother, that man on the ground is a Muslim, by any measure; yes, President Obama, the San Bernardino terrorists were Muslim. Denying those facts takes the burden from where it belongs &#8211; on those who can actually achieve change, namely other Muslims &#8211; and shifts it to those who can&#8217;t do anything about the radicalization of those within Islam. In the end, radical Islam won&#8217;t be defeated by Westerners fighting Islamophobia any more than violent Christianity of the Middle Ages was defeated by kindness from Jews. Radical Islam will be defeated only when other Muslims quash it.

You Are A Muslim, Bruv

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Radical Islamic Terror

When President Obama isn&#8217;t golfing or vacationing in Hawaii, he&#8217;s usually giving an important <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/youtube-star-drinks-cereal-bathtub-interview-obama-today/story?id=28398889">interview to a YouTube personality famous for drinking cereal from a bathtub</a>. Like an absent-minded professor late for his own midterm, Obama arrived later than nearly every other world leader at a ceremony on Sunday mourning the victims of the Paris attacks.
According to <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/15/obama-arrives-late-for-moment-of-silence-for-paris/">The Washington Times</a>, &#8220;Reporters traveling with the president said Mr. Obama had not yet arrived when other world leaders at the G-20 conference in Turkey began their silent observance around a large conference table.&#8221;
Unfortunately, this is nothing new. After retreating from the Middle East, abandoning American allies, and <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/17/obama-red-line-erased-as-assad-chemical-weapons-us/?page=all">issuing empty threats</a> against Assad and other genocidal dictators, Obama has single-handedly compromised the integrity of the United of the States in the eyes of the international community. The world no longer respects America, despite decades of leadership and moral strength. Obama has reversed the efforts of prior presidents in cultivating a foreign presence that demands deference.
Obama leads the cavalry charge against traditional American superpower status, opting for a more demure and reserved global presence. According to this regressive logic, the United States no longer needs to uphold its international commitments and may take sick days when the going gets tough. 
In fact, as leaders from all around the world marched shoulder to shoulder with the French president after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Obama refused to join. Instead, he sent lower-tier diplomatic officials in a showing of performative solidarity. Victims of terror have a long memory and will surely remember the insult of absence. This president was so careful not to even tangentially offend the religion of Islam that he avoided even physically stepping foot in a place where Islamic terror was reified. 
While Obama appears to have more than enough time to meet, or at least pretend to meet, with the Clock-Boy, Ahmed, <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/557/bye-bye-clock-boy-ahmed-and-family-move-qatar-aaron-bandler">now a proud resident of despotic, Islamist Qatar</a>, he couldn&#8217;t get himself to appropriately honor the victims of Islamic jihadism.
The president&#8217;s cherry-picking of victims worthy of his grace and empathy is truly unprecedented. The same president that refused to meet with fallen police officers dispatched an entire legal envoy to to meet with cop-killed Michael Brown&#8217;s family. 
Obama is the quintessential social justice warrior, ranking victims by race and color, regardless of case-specific circumstances. 

Image (via AP): &#8220;U.S. President Barack Obama, centre, walks with British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, at the G-20 summit in Antalya, Turkey, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015.&#8221;

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