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Sen. John McCain on ISIS: ‘Kill ‘Em’

Sen. John McCain on ISIS: ‘Kill ‘Em’.(Newsmax).

Sen. John McCain on Tuesday joined a growing chorus of Republican lawmakers saying that the Islamic State group (ISIS) must be completely wiped out rather than merely contained.

“Kill ‘em,” the U.S. senator from Arizona told Fox News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren when she asked how the United States should deal with the terrorist group that has threatened to attack America.

“They’ve got to be destroyed, and you’ve got to have a goal … and we have to have a strategy to fit that goal and policies that will implement it. We have none of the above,” McCain said.

The Islamic State group released a video Tuesday claiming to show the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff.

The video came two weeks after journalist James Foley was beheaded by the same group.

McCain was critical of President Barack Obama, who said last week that he had no strategy for dealing with the Islamic State group in Syria. The United States is currently hitting the group with limited airstrikes in Iraq.
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'I'm back, Obama': ISIS executioner Jihadi John taunts President as he beheads second US journalist, Steven Sotloff.

'I'm back, Obama': ISIS executioner Jihadi John taunts President as he beheads second US journalist, Steven Sotloff. (Dailymail).

BEIRUT (AP) — An Internet video purports to show the beheading of U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff by the Islamic State group.

Sotloff, who freelanced for Time and Foreign Policy magazines, had last been seen in Syrian in August 2013 until he appeared in a video released online last month by the Islamic State group that showed the beheading of fellow American journalist James Foley.

Dressed in an orange jumpsuit against the backdrop of an arid Syrian landscape, Sotloff was threatened in that video with death unless the U.S. stopped airstrikes on the group in Iraq.

In the video distributed Tuesday and entitled “A Second Message to America,” Sotloff appears in a similar jumpsuit before he is beheaded by an Islamic State fighter.

…Dressed in an orange jumpsuit against the backdrop of an arid Syrian landscape, Sotloff was threatened in that video with death unless the U.S. stopped airstrikes on the group in Iraq.

In the video distributed Tuesday and entitled “A Second Message to America,” Sotloff appears in a similar jumpsuit before he is beheaded by an Islamic State fighter.

The video appears to show the same British fighter who killed James Foley. He threatens a new hostage, Briton David Haines.Hmmm....The NYT post exposing Sotloff's Jewish roots did in fact put Sotloff as next in line for beheading. Shortly after posting the story the NYT changed the story, but that might have been too late.Read the full story here.More here from Carl in Jerusalem.

Video showing beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff by Islamic militant is authentic, US says http://t.co/je277JvPfA
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) September 3, 2014

Update: Steven Sotloff Was Jewish. HT: Forward.

We can now say that Steven Joel Sotloff was Jewish.
We can now say that he was the grandson of Holocaust survivors, that his mother was a preschool teacher at Temple Beth Am in Pinecrest, Florida, a Reform synagogue in South Miami where Sotloff attended day school.
We can now relay to you that “the family has been very much a part of the South Bay Jewish community,” as Jacob Solomon, president and CEO of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, told us for the record.
We can now say all this publicly because Sotloff is dead, the second American journalist beheaded by the barbaric Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. An impermeable cone of silence surrounded news of Sotloff’s disappearance last year and, more recently, the fact of his Jewish background and connections. That silence was requested by his family and maintained by media and Jewish organizations, including the Forward, in the hope that it would protect him from the worst.

Sec of State John Kerry and his Jewish Roots.

Sec of State John Kerry and his Jewish Roots.(INN)Written by Trooper Amy Barath.

My Grandmother has a failsafe method for determining a man’s Jewishness. She stares at him. She claims every Jewish man is adorned with an invisible yarmulke on his head and an equally invisible Tallit hanging from his shoulders. She claims these adornments are clearly visible; one only has to look carefully.With one long crooked finger she will knight thee, “Jewish,”  loudly and confidently. There will be no need to confirm this on Google, Grandma is always correct.

Imagine my surprise, when Senator John Kerry, the controversial Vietnam veteran turned President Obama’s Secretary of State, came into Grandma’s line of fire. As her finger pointed to John Kerry’s image on the TV screen. “Jewish,” she said.
“The Irish Catholic Massachusetts Senator?” I said in disbelief.
“Jewish,” she insisted. “Jewish blood. It will be good for Israel,” she added.
I wasn’t so sure about either of those predictions.
Here’s what Grandma saw - after I did Google it:

Benedikt Kohn (John Kerry’s Great-Grandfather)

According to the records I was able to find, John Kerry’s Great-Grandfather was a man named Benedikt Kohn, who lived in southern Moravia. He married Mathilde Frankel. They lived in a town called Bennisch, which boasted a population of 4200, 27 of whom were Jewish.
Benedikt Kohn died in 1870; Mathilde moved to Vienna with her three children, one of whom was Fritz, who would become John Kerry’s grandfather.


Fritz Kohn/Fred Kerry (John Kerry’s Grandfather)

John Kerry’s Grandfather Fritz suffered through a growing anti-Semitism that prevaied in Europe at the time. Fritz and his brother Otto decided to abandon their Jewish heritage and converted to Catholicism. Otto dropped a pencil on a map and it landed on the Ireland County of Kerry and so, both brothers took the name of Kerry, dropping the name Kohn.

Ida Loewe (John Kerry’s Grandmother- descendant of Rabbi Judah Loew)

Fritz became known as Fred. Fred married Ida Loewe, a Jewish musician from Budapest.  Ida was a descendant of Sinai Loew, a brother of Rabbi Judah Loew, the famous Kabbalist, known as the “Maharal of Prague,” believed to have invented the Golem. Two of Ida’s siblings were killed in Nazi concentration camps.
Fred (Fritz) immigrated to America through Ellis Island in 1905. They had three sons who were all baptized as Catholics. They kept their Jewish roots a secret.

Fritz Kohn/Fred Kerry (John Kerry’s Grandfather commits suicide)

In 1921, Fritz Kohn (John Kerry’s Grandfather), shot himself in the head in a Boston hotel; he was 48 years old. There were whispers that the transition from Czechoslovakian Jew to American Catholic was too great a burden for him to bear any longer.

Richard Kerry (father of John Kerry-baptized as a Catholic)

Cameron Kerry (brother of John Kerry-marries a Jewish woman and converts to Judaism)

John Kerry’s father Richard was six years old when his father committed suicide. He went on to marry Rosemary Forbes, the beneficiary of the Forbes family trusts. John is one of four children. His younger brother Cameron married a Jewish woman and personally converted to Judaism in 1983.
It’s a lot to swallow; but not unlike the family histories of many Americans. And so now John Kerry (Kohn) finds himself at a powerful crossroads.

Which John Kerry Kohn will Israel meet?

Every 4 years or so, Israel must suffer the consequences of the American Presidential election. The question is raised each time: What should America do about Israel?
If you’re on the Palestinian/anti-Israel side, you’ve established a precedent called prisoner release. In exchange for only a promise of coming to the table to talk, hundreds of vicious murderers will be freed from prison; if you’re waiting for the punch line I must disappoint you as this is not dark comedy, only dark reality.
This is one way to break prisoners out of jail without much effort, if you only have to agree to talk just divide the amount of meetings according to the number of prisoners and they will all be home for dinner eventually.
When a new US Secretary of State is appointed, Middle East Peace Talks are all the buzz. The newly appointed secretary is certain that this time he or she will be the difference maker. We’ve heard it many times before. It always results in Israel relinquishing land, releasing criminals, or both, without any benefit in return; the returns are dire.
Israel does this for what, a pat on the head from the US? Israel does not need a pat on the head from the US.
This time however, it is truly special, Israel has the chance to get so much more than just a pat on the head from the US; Israel has the chance to be betrayed by a Kohn.