In this week's EWTN The World Over, Raymond Arroyo reviews the headline news of the week, plus: Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, Congressman from Nebraska's 1st District, joins Raymond to discuss the crisis on the U.S. border, the ongoing violence in Gaza, and his recently introduced House Resolution to shield Iraqi Christians and religious minorities from attacks from Islamic State terrorists. Raymond also speaks with Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism, about his son Owen's autism and the role that Disney film characters played in reconnecting with Owen and understanding his condition. Plus, Raymond presents an encore of his exclusive interview with Cardinal Luis Tagle, archbishop of Manila, on his life and ministry and his work in Rome as one of the three president-delegates at the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family being held at the Vatican in October.
In this week's EWTN The World Over, Raymond Arroyo reviews the headline news of the week, plus: Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom and Mother Olga of the Sacred Heart, founder of the Daughters of Mary of Nazareth, join Raymond to talk about the genocide of Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq. Plus, Elaine Stritch, legendary Broadway, TV and film actress, passed away on July 17. In this never-seen-before interview conducted in 2012 she talks with Raymond about her life and career and how her Catholic upbringing helped get her to Broadway. And Erwin McManus, author of The Artisan Soul, discusses the relationship between spirituality and creativity and his belief that we are all artists when it comes to shaping our own lives.
Jim and Greg rip European leaders for concluding there's nothing they can do to Putin, rip the FAA decision to suspend flights into Tel Aviv, and slam Obama for pretending like everything's just fine.
Will Obama Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory Over Hamas?
But there is a big positive in the equation. As part of the Brotherhood and the global jihad, Hamas is also more isolated than it has ever been. As those of us opposed to U.S. intervention in Syria have contended, by not interrupting our enemies while they were squaring off against each other, we'd see their relations rupture. That is exactly what has happened.
As Judge Mukasey observes, Iran, Syria and Hezbollah – respectively, Hamas's former principal patron, safe-haven, and jihadist ally – turned on Hamas once it threw its lot in with the Syrian regime's enemies: the Muslim Brotherhood-Sunni supremacist axis of Morsi's Egypt, Erdogan's Turkey, and Qatar (headquarters of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi). Hamas's gamble came up snake-eyes when the Brotherhood was ousted in Egypt. And a bonus: so badly had the Brotherhood soured relations with its former Gulf patrons in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that these nervous Sunni regimes not only firmly back the new Egyptian government but are quietly pulling for Israel to quell Hamas.
So for allies, Hamas is down to Erdogan's sharia state, whose ties to the Brotherhood and violent jihadists I outlined in Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy; and Qatar, which, besides Hamas, backs the al-Qaeda offshoots ISIS and al-Nusra, among others.
Meaning that, right now, there is a tremendous opportunity to demolish Hamas. Doing so is the only chance of breaking the Palestinian jihadist will, paving the way for the three obvious Palestinian concessions needed for peace: accept Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, renounce terrorism (or "resistance"), and abandon the nonsensical "right of return" demand. If you really want a two-state solution, there is only one way to get it: the jihad has to be utterly defeated. So let Israel win - and why do we keep having to remind everyone that this just means siding with our actual ally, the only real democracy in the region? - and begin negotiations from that clean slate. The worst thing that could happen right now is a ceasefire that enables Hamas to regroup before Israel has destroyed what we now know is its prodigious terrorist arsenal and infrastructure.
But when it comes to American relations with our Israeli allies and our Islamic-supremacist enemies, you can always rely on Obama to do the wrong thing...
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