New shocking Obama scandal. Unbelievable. Nobody is reporting this yet. Why? Obama may have had a difficult time formulating a strategy to deal with the ISIS crisis, yet he alone has been almost obsessively resolute in referring to the group as “ISIL.” In some of Obama’s briefings on ISIS, he has gone so far as to spell out ISIL. “Levant is a bigger territory,” she said. “That’s why they want to embrace that name, and it includes many, many more countries than just Syria.” Fox News’ Harris Faulkner suggests Obama is “tipping his hat” to ISIS by calling it ISIL. ISIS - Islamic State in Syria and Iraq - was the original name of the al-Qaida offshoot. ISIS changed its name to ISIL – Islamic State in the Levant - a few months ago. ISIS - ISIL recently chose to be known simply as Islamic State. Indeed it does. And one of those countries is Israel, as former Rep. Allen West points out. “First, if you choose to refer to this group as ISIL, you have basically rewritten the map of the Middle East and fallen into the trap of not recognizing the existence of Israel and also Lebanon,” West wrote on his blog. “If you use ISIL, you are then validating the Islamic totalitarian and jihadist claim that the modern-day Jewish state of Israel is an occupation state and does not exist in the eyes of Muslims.” The idea that Obama is disrespecting Israel by adopting the name ISIL has been popular. Indeed, the use of the term Levant by Islamic militants in the past has been motivated precisely by their ambitions for taking over the Jewish state. Rose Ann Salantiri, a contributing writer to the conservative commentary site TPATH, had an even more mysterious theory. “The territory known as the Assyrian Empire seemed to disappear off the pages of history,” she wrote. “It did not. It divided into the nations we now know as Syria, southern Turkey, Iran and Iraq – the nations we now call ISIS – not ISIL. The distinction is an important one. The southern Levant also included today’s nations of Israel and Jordan along with the Gaza Strip and the southern part of Lebanon.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:24:25 +0000
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