Joel C. Rosenberg's Blog - American liberals fear climate change more than ISIS

New post on Joel C. Rosenberg's Blog American liberals fear climate change more than ISIS with weapons of mass destruction, finds new poll. [Rush Limbaugh discusses the poll and my book on his program.] by joelcrosenberg (New York City) -- A stunning finding in the new poll we released today: almost two-out-of-three liberals believe climate change poses a greater threat to the American people than Iran and the Islamic State obtaining nuclear, chemical and/or biological weapons. This is just one of several intriguing if sobering findings in a national survey we recently commissioned from McLaughlin & Associates, a leading U.S. polling firm. Today, Rush Limbaugh -- the leading radio talk show host in the country with more than 20 million listeners -- discussed the poll on his program. Here's the transcript from his website: RUSH LIMBAUGH: You know, our old buddy Joel Rosenberg — who is now an acclaimed novelist about fictional events in the Middle East and the United States that are very closely attached to potential reality — has a new book out, and it centers on an ISIS plan to attack the U.S., Israel, and Jordan. Joel partnered with the McLaughlin group [McLaughlin & Associates] not long ago to do a massive nationwide poll of the American people and their thoughts on ISIS. How big a threat do you think ISIS is? Are we beating ISIS? Are we even engaging ISIS? Is ISIS okay? Is ISIS bad? Are we winning? Are we losing? He called me and said, “Would you like to add a question to the survey?” And I said, “Really?” He said, “Yeah.” I said, “Okay. Ask the respondents if they fear climate change or ISIS the most.” It was a joke question! He said, “It’s a great question; I’ll put it in there,” and he did. And you know what? A majority of [liberal] Americans fear climate change more than they do ISIS, according to Joel’s poll. Ha! I think everybody that was… I mean, Joel thought I was cracking a joke when I wanted the question in there. And I said, “Joel, you’ll be surprised here. I mean, the left has been pushing this issue far more than they’ve been pushing ISIS. Climate change is considered a greater threat by a majority of Americans than is ISIS.” So Joel’s got the poll. He’s got a piece at Fox News today analyzing and reporting on the poll results. It is designed to coincide with his new book, which was released on Tuesday. And, again, all of this is being done on the basis that there really isn’t a heightened awareness or concern or — not fear, but — an alertness to the threat that we face from Islamic jihadists, be it ISIS or Al-Qaeda or whoever. And clearly the Democrat Party and their judicial branch, they’re willing to roll the dice. They’ll do anything to stop Trump, mount the resistance, and they’ll deal with the fallout (if there is any) later. Here’s some of the key takeaways from Joel Rosenberg’s poll: “How do Americans view the war with the Islamic State?”  You ready for this? It found 63% of liberal Americans believe “the threat of climate change is greater than the threat of Iran and ISIS obtaining weapons of mass destruction.”  Of liberal Americans, Democrats think climate change is a greater threat than Islamic terrorism. Less than 10% of the American people believe we are engaged in a war against Islam.  That’s big, that less than 10% believe that we’re engaged in a war on Islam, because the judge claims the exact opposite. Trump’s trying to wipe Islam out, keep ’em from coming into the country and so forth.  Forty-one percent of Americans believe we’re losing the war against the Islamic State.  Twenty-five percent say they’re not sure. This morning, FoxNews.com published a column of mine — “Are We Winning Or Losing The War Against ISIS?” — in which I examine the latest intelligence, and reveal some of the polling data. You can read the full column by clicking here. We have published a detailed polling memo so you can see all the questions we asked, the results, the methodology, and many of the cross-tabs. You can read the polling memo by clicking here. We have also issued a press released explaining the poll. You can read the full press release by clicking here. ——————— Without Warning is now available in hardcover, e-book and audio formats from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, CBD, Lifeway, and your favorite general market and Christian bookstores. To order online, please click here. joelcrosenberg | March 16, 2017 at 7:59 pm | Categories: Epicenter | URL: http://wp.me/piWZ7-7dB

Did Netanyahu Order IDF to Strike Iran?

Thursday, June 11, 2015 |  Israel Today Staff

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A heated debate at the recent Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York highlighted that back in 2010, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apparently ordered Israel’s defense establishment to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, or to prepare to do so.

During the discussion, Post columnist Caroline Glick accused fellow panelists former Mossad chief Meir Dagan and former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi of refusing Netanyahu’s orders during their respective tenures.

“In 2010, according to a report from 2012 on the Israeli news program Uvda, we learned that two of the gentlemen on this panel were given an order to prepare the military for an imminent strike against Iran’s military installations and they refused,” charged Glick.

The popular columnist was adamant that had Dagan and Ashkenazi gone along with Netanyahu’s policies, the region and the world would not today be facing the specter of a nuclear Iran.

Dagan responded that he had rebuffed Netanyahu “because it was an illegal order.” Earlier in the debate, he had suggested that a firm order was never given: “We were always willing to obey any legal order by the prime minister. We never refused an order.”

In a subsequent interview with Israel’s Channel 10, Dagan explained that Netanyahu had indeed told himself and Ashkenazi to prepare the IDF to strike, but had backed down after realizing that doing so would put Israel on a slippery slope toward regional war.

Also speaking at the Jerusalem Post event was former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who lamented that with the Obama Administration now racing toward an ill-advised agreement with Tehran, a nuclear-armed Iran seems inevitable.

“We went through these negotiations with Iran in the earlier part of this decade, and they cheated for three years and were caught three times cheating,” Giuliani noted. “There is no reason for Iran to have peaceful use of nuclear power, they have plenty of energy. You have to be naive to think they want nuclear power for peaceful uses.”

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Israel Basks in French Embrace

Monday, November 18, 2013 |  Ryan Jones, Israel Today  

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A week after reportedly helping to scuttle a deal that would have left Iran able to build nuclear weapons, French President Francois Hollande visited Israel this week as local analysts hailed a return to the days when France was the Jewish state's closest ally.

One of Hollande's first public remarks after landing at Ben Gurion Airport was that he would "do everything possible to prevent Iran from attaining a nuclear weapon."

"France will not make concessions on nuclear proliferation," Hollande said just minutes after disembarking his plane. "France will maintain all its measures and sanctions until we are certain that Iran has renounced nuclear weapons."

Contrasting US Secretary of State John Kerry's recent instruction to Congress to ignore Israel's concerns over Iran's nuclear program, Hollande stated that his government takes very seriously Jerusalem's reservations over a nuclear deal that would leave the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities intact.

Switching to Hebrew, the French leader declared, "I will always remains a friend of Israel."

In meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres on Sunday, Hollande also pressed Israel to further facilitate the Middle East peace process, but he also insisted that in order for negotiations to advance, the Palestinians, too, must make gestures of goodwill.

Israel's daily newspapers welcomed what they called the "French Embrace." Many Israelis remember well the 1960s, when, beset on all sides by enemies determined to annihilate her, Israel found only one world power ready to sell her the weapons she desperately needed: France.

While comparisons with those heady days of warm Israeli-French relations are a nice distraction, some, like Yediot Ahronot columnist Shimon Sheifer caution that "what many see as a renewed 'honey moon' could end up bringing disappointment."

Fellow columnist Alex Fishman seemed to agree that the display of affinity between Israel and France "could be compared to an innocent attempt to arouse the jealousy of [Israel's] legal husband in Washington."

However, Fishman noted that there is also more to it than than. "This is about cold [mutual] interests," he explained, noting that both Israel and France have an opportunity to get what they want and need by "exploiting the continuing weakness of the US in the Middle East."

While Hollande's flowery rhetoric might in the end be little more than a political tactic, with their traditional best friends in Washington being so standoff-ish of late, Israelis are happy for a friendly smile and a supportive tone regardless.

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Threatened with Destruction, Israelis Reveal Faith

Friday, July 12, 2013 |  Jonathan David  Israel Today

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Israel Today’s Jonathan David talked to Israelis on the streets of Jerusalem, and recently discovered their faith in light of Iran’s threat to soon destroy them and Israel with nuclear weapons.

Tsuriel Bitcover: “It’s not really bothering me. For the religious people, it makes the religious people stronger.”

Erez Asher: “I believe God will help us. (Iran) won’t succeed to destroy us. Everyone who has tried to destroy the Jewish people, and Israel, became destroyed. God protects us.”

Elliot Ge: “These things only strengthen my faith. In these trying times when we have security problems and issues, I personally and many people I know turn to (the Lord) even more, because we know He’s the only one who can save us.”

Asher Trujeman: “God promised the Jews that they are chosen and He did not release us. He did not abandon us.”

David B’tesh: “My faith in Elohim and my faith in HaShem is not affected at all. I fully believe that He is behind us.”

Hajay Koiza: “I’m atheist, I’m not religious. I’m atheist because Iran wants to destroy Israel because they’re religious. If everybody will be atheist and there is no religion, then everybody will live in peace, one day.

Bill Ashendorf: “The Lord gives us choices and we have to make our own choices. Sometimes we make good and sometimes we make bad, but we have to be responsible for our choices.”