Here's a speech by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Mn) in which she demolishes the Obama administration for its support of the Muslim Brotherhood against Israel and the United States.

Bachmann Takes Off Gloves on Obama at CUFI Summit Michele Bachmann, former Republican presidential contender challenged President Barack Obama's record on Israel.

Michele Bachmann, former Republican presidential contender and representative of Minnesota's 6th congressional district, challenged President Barack Obama's record on Israel during her keynote address at the 7th annual Christians United for Israel (CUFI) national summit inWashington, DC. Her address took place on Tuesday evening, July 17th at the organization's "Night to Honor Israel" program.

Speaking to an audience of over 5000 at the Washington Convention Center, Bachmann underscored that the threats to Israel's survival are radical Islam, the escalating nuclear agenda of Iran and the adversarial treatment of Israel by the current US administration.

"Israel lives in a very tough neighborhood and this is precisely why Christians must stand with Israel," she declared, castigating Obama for inviting Egypt's new president Mohammed Morsi to the White House and for his "embrace" of the Muslim Brotherhood parliament of Egypt and reminding him that "the goal of the Muslim Brotherhood is the demise of America."

Quoting Morsi on Jerusalem, she said to thunderous applause, "He wants Jerusalem to be the next capital of Egypt and we tell that the world, that never, ever will the eternal capital of the Jewish people become the capital of Egypt."

Taking President Obama to task for "demonstrating weakness on the Iranian nuclear issue", Bachmann said, "I would remind you that in 2008, when Iran was well on its way to building a nuclear arsenal, our president agreed to engage in face-to-face negotiations with them without any preconditions. In his speech in Cairo, the president said that Iran should have peaceful use of nuclear power. We must never countenance a nuclear Iran."

With regard to Ahmadenijad, Bachmann said, "If we've learned anything over the last 100 years, it is that when a madman threatens the annihilation of the Jewish people, we have to listen to him, to pay attention and to take action."

"This is the first administration since Israel's re-birth in 1948 that has not supported Israel unwaveringly," observed Bachmann. "Israel must be respected and America has willingly emboldened the Palestinians by pledging support to Hamas. Article 7 of the Hamas constitution calls for the murder of all Jews. The Palestinian Authority must renounce terrorism and until such time, we should stop sending them US taxpayermoney,".

Bachmann, quoted from the book of Genesis when she said, "G-d blesses those who bless Israel and curses those who curse Israel." Reminding her audience of Moses sending spies to the land of Israel while the Jewish nation was in the desert of Sinai, she said, "10 men scouted out the land and came back with reports of giants and ferocious conditions and attempted to dissuade Moses from leading the people into this land. They said they felt like grasshoppers next to the giants and they were utterly defeated. It took two men, Joshua and Caleb to say 'we can do it'; we must be strong and courageous just like them."

Michele Bachmann spoke at the Republican Jewish Coalition candidates forum. She criticized the Obama administration's policy toward Iran, saying a more confrontational approach would improve Israeli security.

Michele Bachmann Delivers Remarks At Republican Jewish Coalition Forum

“I’m honored to be here today in the company of so many friends. Thank you Dan for that kind introduction. Like this organization, I have been a long-time advocate for the Land of Israel and the Jewish people. My love for Israel and its people deepened while I worked on a kibbutz just after graduating from high school.

“Today, we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. On that fateful day a 19-year-old Minnesotan on board a submarine patrol in the waters outside of Pearl Harbor reported sighting a Japanese submarine, but the warning sign of the bigger calamity to come was all but ignored. The same is true today with Iran and other dangerous actors in the world. We are ignoring the warning signs, and I worry what other ‘Pearl Harbors’ might be in our future.

“It seems as if lately, our president has forgotten the importance of Israel to America and thinks of our relationship only in terms of what we do for Israel. The president is more concerned about Israel building homes on its own land than the threats that Israel and America face in the region.

“The president was right to promise to veto the Palestinians‘ bid for statehood in the U.N. Security Council. But in large part it is the president’s weakness in the Middle East that has emboldened the Palestinians to attempt to achieve statehood through the U.N. rather than at the legitimate negotiation table with Israel. Our policy has confused engagement with appeasement and has inspired Israel’s enemies.
“The Palestinians must recognize Israel’s right to exist and renounce violence against Israel in order to become a serious partner in peace with Israel.
“My administration’s policy will be that, the Palestinian Authority’s compliance with its prior agreements is the first step that must be taken to assure peace in the Middle East. The Palestinian Authority must meet its existing written obligations to collect illegal weapons; pursue terrorists; cooperate with Israeli security forces; change the Fatah Constitution which still calls for the complete eradication of the State of Israel; and to stop inciting terrorism.
“I stand with Israel. And aid to Israel now more than ever, is a necessity–they are our most trusted ally and the only real democracy in the Middle East. But if we are to continue to provide assistance to Israel, we must get our own fiscal house in order.
“A vocal minority, called Occupy Wall Street, otherwise known as the Obama re-election team, believes that the economic problems we face are capitalism or free markets. They’re not. The problem is government doing what both the constitution and decent morality prohibit, that is cronyism capitalism, or forcefully taking your money for the purpose of paying off a politician’s political friends. The problem is one set of standards for individual Americans and another set of standards for those who make political donations to candidates.
“The problem is an individual tax code with 3.8 million words that’s too complicated for the average American to understand and a corporate tax code that makes America hopelessly uncompetitive at almost 40 percent when you add the federal and state taxes. And a tax code that contains loopholes that are exploited by companies large enough to hire an army of lawyers. As Investor’s Business Daily wrote, in 1981 the entire developed world had high corporate tax rates, averaging 47 percent. Then capital became mobile and rates plummeted to 25 percent and haven’t stopped falling. The United States remains stuck since 1986 in an out of date high corporate tax rate that sent companies fleeing America for a more competitive tax climate. Just ask any number of companies why they left America and they’ll tell you that between the high tax and unreasonable regulatory burden in America, other nations are now a more profitable place to do business. For your sake and your future, America, and Occupy Wall Street in particular, needs to wake up and stop blaming job creators for the failures created by selfish politicians who wink at their political donors.
“Politicians assure their friends that with government’s financial backing, their businesses will never fail.
“It happens every day, and it has to stop. After all, we’re not a Banana Republic; we’re the United States of America and we need to act like it.
“We need a system that forces large, well connected corporations to play by the same rules as small businesses and individual Americans and that protects and provides fair competition in free markets.
“You see, there’s a reason our Founding Fathers decided to establish our political capital in a different city than our financial capital. It’s time for us to reaffirm the wisdom of that decision by getting Washington D.C. out of free markets. I’m running for president because I understand the difference between free markets and Bernie Madoff style government.
“My administration will stop the Obama administration’s dangerous policies and delegitimization of Israel. Obama has delegitimized Israel by wrongly describing Israel as a 60-years long occupation, which displaced and caused Palestinian suffering, and by wrongly blaming Israel and settlements for the lack of peace in the Middle East.
“Obama abandoned prior U.S. policy and U.N. Resolution 242’s insistence that Israel is entitled to defensible borders. The Obama administration also abrogated former President Bush’s commitments in Bush’s 2004 letter to Ariel Sharon. Bush’s letter and subsequent Congressional resolutions committed the U.S. to the policy that Israel will retain large West Bank settlement blocks, that there will be no right of return to Israel for ‘Palestinian’ refugees, and that the Palestinian Authority’s compliance with its obligations, including the Palestinian Authority’s obligation to stop inciting terror, is the first step that must be taken towards Middle East peace.
“Instead, Obama improperly calls for Israel to retreat to indefensible 1949 armistice lines with swaps, and to then still face further demands to divide Jerusalem and allow a Palestinian ‘right of return’ to overrun the entire State of Israel. The Obama administration has also unconditionally given the Palestinians unprecedented amounts of U.S. foreign aid, and opposed Congressional efforts to condition aid on the real steps that would bring about peace.
“The so-called Palestinian ‘right of return,’ would demographically destroy Israel by swamping it with millions of Arabs who never lived in Israel, thereby turning the world’s only Jewish state into the world’s 23rd Arab state.
“Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta recently once again publicly displayed this administrations disdain for Israel putting Israel on the same footing as the Palestinians and declaring that they ‘get to the damn table’ to resume peace talks. And the president derisively said Israel’s Prime Minister was someone ‘he had to deal with everyday.’ But the president’s ambassador to Belgium went even further and justified anti-Semitism because of Israel’s actions toward the Palestinians, and the president should fire him for those irresponsible remarks.
“Instead of defaming Israel, as the Obama administration has done, my administration will recognize that, in the words of Israel’s Declaration of Independence, Israel is a country that ‘is based on the precepts of liberty, justice and peace taught by the Hebrew prophets,’ and which has ‘safeguard[ed] the sanctity and inviolability of the shrines and Holy Places of all religions.’
“And like Israel’s Declaration of Independence, my administration will similarly call upon Israel’s neighbors to cooperate with the Jewish nation and return to the ways of peace for the common good of all.
“While the president demands Israel give back land necessary to protect their existence, he has taken his eye off of the most serious threat to Middle East security, a nuclear Iran. Some 80 years ago the world saw evil rising. A mad man spoke, but the world did not listen and the world sank into an enormous conflict and millions of Jews lost their lives.
“Today a mad man again speaks and once again it seems as if the world isn’t really listening though Iran’s president has made his intentions for Israel clear. He intends to wipe Israel from the face of the earth once he obtains nuclear weapons, and he will seek to use them against the United States shortly after achieving his first goal.
“Consider the Iranian constitution, which states that Iran’s Army and Revolutionary Guard ‘will be responsible…for fulfilling the ideological mission of jihad in God’s way; that is, extending the sovereignty of God’s law throughout the world.’
“And Iran has made good on that promise over the last 30 years from the bombing of the United States Marine base in Beirut to being the leading supplier of arms to kill Americans in Iraq. Iran is at the heart of much of Israel’s problems.
“Two principles must guide U.S. policy toward Iran. First, we must never allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons. And second, we must realize that this is as much a threat to U.S. national security as it is to Israel’s and should not outsource U.S. national security to the United Nations. This is the moment for clarity in standing with Israel and against Iran.
“We can’t afford to wait until the election to change course, the president must make it the policy of the United States now to support the dissidents of the current regime in Iran to bring down the terrorist leaders and replace it with a democratic government at peace with the U.S., Israel and the free world.
“The U.S. must be clear that it is the policy of the United States to stop Iran from building and deploying nuclear weapons. In leading from behind the president has been ambiguous with Iran and has given them the luxury of time to advance their nuclear weapons program without real punishment as we learned from the IAEA report last week.
“The U.S. should develop and deploy comprehensive ballistic missile systems on land, at sea, in the air, and in space to protect the American people and our allies from the threat of ballistic missiles. Iran, with the help of the Chinese has obtained missile delivery systems for nuclear weapons that pose a threat to Israel, to the region and potentially the United States.
“While the United States does not buy oil from Iran, Iran is a major player in the oil market and affects its price, which directly affects the United States. We need to legalize American energy production to free us from Iran’s influence through oil.
“The U.S. must immediately end appeasement and weakness towards Iran and pursue decisive, common sense strategies ignored or rejected by the current administration.
“We need Secretaries of State and Defense who fully support a pro-freedom and security policy towards Iran, and we need them to replace those in the bureaucracy — especially at State — who will not fully support this policy.
“We need crushing economic sanctions on Iran, including on the central bank and the oil and gas industries. We must hurt the Iranian economy more severely by doing damage to their oil revenues and their central bank.
“The president stands with Occupy Wall Street, but he doesn’t stand with Israel. When Israel looks at President Obama, they don’t see a friend. The State Department should regularly expose the atrocious activities of the Iranian regime that are arresting, imprisoning, torturing and murdering innocent Iranian citizens.
“We must accelerate covert operations and cyber operations in Iran and order the CIA Director to take all means necessary to stop Iran from getting the Bomb before it is too late. The Pentagon should prepare a war plan, as a last resort, should all else fail in preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
“But the president’s lack of leadership and the failure of the Supercommittee this week will lead to, in Defense Secretary Panetta’s words, ‘devastating cuts that will seriously damage readiness’ making a military response more difficult. President Obama has seriously damaged the security of Israel by decreasing our status as a military superpower.
“Part of that plan should be to direct the Navy to make preparations for a possible blockade of Iran’s ports from all oil and gas imports and exports to cut off critical petroleum revenues from going to the regime in Tehran.
“We should continue comprehensive missile defense development while moving additional Aegis and Patriot missile defense systems into the Middle East to protect U.S. citizens and assets, Israel and our allies. We must sell Israel the additional fighter jets, bunker buster bombs, refueling tankers and other materials they need to defend themselves.
“A Bachmann administration will recognize that Israel is the historic homeland of the Jewish people, a vibrant democracy and America’s staunch ally. My administration will fully recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital, and will be the first administration to finally implement the laws passed by Congress requiring the State Department to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. My administration will also recognize Israel’s 1980 annexation of the Golan Heights and any settlements, which Israel, as a sovereign state, chooses to annex. Simply put, my administration will accord Israel the respect to which sovereign, democratic nations are entitled.
“On the day of my inauguration as president I will announce that the U.S. Embassy will be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. “I do not take lightly the prospect of committing U.S. troops in an effort to stop Iran. Only a fool wishes for war. But we must be prepared to do whatever is necessary to stop the Iranians from obtaining a nuclear weapon and massively destabilizing the region by attacking our ally Israel, and supplying those weapons to even more radical regimes or individuals that would use them to do harm to America and its way of life. I recognize that the security of America is intertwined with the security of Israel.
“Hitler once famously said in justification of his order to murder millions of Jews, ‘Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?’ Ahmadinejad is counting on the same collective memory today as he marches toward a second holocaust.
“We must send him the message that – we will never forget!
“God bless you and God bless Israel and God bless the United States of America.”

ZOA Recognizes Distinguished Americans For Their Contributions To Israeli Security

 “The Pentagon should prepare a war plan, as a last resort, should all else fail in preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons,” stated U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) to a packed audience at the Zionist Organization of America’s Louis Brandeis Dinner held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City Sunday night.

Media superstar and best-selling author Glenn Beck was the keynote speaker and received the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson Defender of Israel Award. Beck warned of the serious dangers facing Israel and the West telling the crowd of almost 800 attendees, “Things could get worse.” Dr. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson, who are among America’s most generous Jewish philanthropists, presented the award.

Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, of Florida (R-FL), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, received the Dr. Irving and Cherna Moskowitz Award. She gave a rousing speech strongly criticizing the Palestinian Authority for promoting hatred and violence against Israel in their media, schools, and speeches and stated “they should not be receiving any U.S. funds until they change.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed the crowd by video, praising the ZOA as a remarkable and important pro-Israel organization that never stops telling the truth. He also strongly praised Glenn Beck and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen as long-time and strong friends of Israel. He had special kind words for the Adelsons, saying that naming an award after them signals the importance of that award.

Father and son real estate entrepreneurs William and Mark Langfan received the Louis D. Brandeis Award.

Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, rallied the crowd with a speech demanding, “the U.S. government, the Israeli government and Europe must begin to express their outrage at the PA forming an alliance with Hamas; never showing Israel on their maps; naming schools, streets, and sports teams after Jew-killing terrorists and openly stating that no Jew will be allowed in a future Palestinian state.”

U.S. Representatives Robert Turner (R-NY); Joe Walsh (R-IL); Dan Burton (RR-IN); and Ann Marie Buerkle (R-NY) also were in attendance, as well as terrorism expert Steve Emerson and Richard Stone, Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: United States Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, GOP candidate

My first foreign policy directive on day one of my presidency would be recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.... Israel should not cede any land -- not one acre, not one square foot, not one inch -- to the Palestinians in order to make peace.

Civil Trial Attorney Baruch Cohen with Congresswoman Michele Bachmann at Republican Jewish Coalition Sukkah Event

Civil Trial Attorney Baruch Cohen with Congresswoman Michele Bachmann

SERAPHIC SECRET: Michele Bachmann: Israel & The Glamour Quotient

Michele Bachmann (Republican, MN) is running for the GOP Presidential nomination. Karen and I have long been supporters of Representative Bachmann, proudly contributing to her campaigns.

She is the anti-Obama when it comes to fiscal and social policy and especially in regard to America and Israel. Bachman was raised in a conservative Christian home where love of Israel was a given. Obama was raised by a radical leftist family—mother and grandparents—who were, no doubt, hostile to the Jewish State. Need I mention Obama’s 20-year discipleship to the rabid Jew-hater Jeremiah Wright?

Bachmann is the anti-Obama.

She understands that Israel is the canary in the coal mine for Western civilization.

Obama is not even aware of the coal mine, unless it’s used as leverage for non-existent so-called green jobs.

Here’s Representative Bachmann on Israel:

Michelle Bachmann will be savaged by the liberal establishment because she is:

1. Conservative

2. Christian

3. Mother of five and mother to 23 foster children. (Liberals prefer abortion to adoption)

4. Smart

5. Capable

6. Beautiful

Bachmann is also ladylike—love the June Cleaver pearls—and technicolor glamorous. But you will not see Vogue doing a chirpy story on Bachmann. That’s reserved for Democrats—see Vogue gush over Huma Abedin—or the, ahem, “leggy” wife of a mass murdering Arab tyrant.

Bachmann’s glamour quotient is probably what the left most fears about this formidable woman.

Conservative women are, according to liberal dogma, matronly and ill-bred. To see such articulate Republican hotties as Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin,  and Kristi Noem of South Dakota, drives liberals out of their narrow and intolerant minds.

I cannot tell you how many of my Hollywood colleagues have savaged these women as she-wolves of the SS. It would be funny if it were not so delusional and profoundly ignorant.

As Sarah Palin was treated  as a hated “Jew” by the elite media, so will Michelle Bachmann be the object of deranged scorn and the inevitable blood-libels

Melanie Phillips on Michele Bachmann

Melanie Phillips, whom I have had the pleasure of meeting here in Israel, has moved her blog off the Spectator site to her own site. You can check out the reasons why here.

Melanie also has a timely post in which she discusses Michele Bachmann's pro-Israel bona fides, and concludes that Bachmann gets it. As I am sure many of you have heard, on Monday, Bachmann announced that she is running for President of the United States.

Yup, Michele Bachmann gets it -- and how. Bachmann is a Christian. Christianity owes its existence to Judaism. An unbreakable thread links Judaism, Christianity and America. Israel embodies American and western values. Abandon Israel and you abandon America and destroy the west. That is what Obama is doing. That is what Bachmann – a candidate for the US presidency -- has said in this video. She got to the heart of it -- why the west is going down, why Israel is the key issue of our time, why the drum now being beaten by Obama and the western left against Israel is the very same drum that is being beaten against America and the west itself.

The implications for American politics are crystal clear. Israel should become the driving issue for Republicans.

Read the whole thing.

Michele Bachmann: Update on Israel

Solidly pro-Israel Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota announces she is running for the GOP presidential nomination and already is at the top of polls in Iowa.

A Christian who says she “grew up with a love for Israel," she is a social conservative who has all the physical, religious and political assets of another Tea Party darling, Sarah Palin, but without her image of ignorance of foreign relations.
However, she has been called “flaky,” a description she told Fox News Sunday is “insulting, because I am a serious person.” She added, "I have a titanium spine for doing what we need to do to get the country turned around.”
She is formally announcing her candidacy Monday in Iowa, where she was born.  At present, Rep.Bachmann shares the top spot in the polls with Gov. MittRomney.
Her main campaign opponent does not come from the pool of other Republican contenders but rather is U.S. President Barack Obama, whom she accuses of not having “a basic understanding of how do the job of president of the United States."
Like many other Republican candidates who may attract pro-Israel supporters, Rep. Bachmann names the economy as the number one issue in the United States. Her positions include not raising the federal debt ceiling and exercising “tough love: to cut spending, including military expenditures, if necessary."
She decidedly sees Israel and the United States as one and the same in terms of values and mutual needs.
The Minnesota legislator stated in a pre-campaign video released earlier this year that Israel and the United States “share the same exceptional mission – to be a light unto the nations. I was raised in a home full of love for Israel. We learned that our Christian faith is rooted in Judaism.”
She volunteered on a Negev kibbutz in 1974 when Rep. Bachmann said she “came to the understanding that Israel is not merely the cradle of our faith but is the greatest strategic asset that the United States has in the region.
“If we want to protect our national security, the best policy to ensure that Israel stays strong…. Upholding American values means…we must stand with Israel. I stand with Israel,” which must be strong enough to defend itself."