EMET CALLS ON CONGRESS TO SIGN LETTER SUPPORTING IRAQI DISSIDENTS

(Washington, D.C., September 27, 2021) EMET is proud to stand in solidarity with over 300  courageous Iraqi dissidents, intellectuals and tribal leaders who met in a conference in Erbil this past Friday, asking for their country to join the path of peace with Israel and sign onto the Abraham Accords.

This group faces the possibility of imprisonment, torture or even death at the hands of the Iraqi government, which has already issued arrest warrants for those whom the government can identify, and are trying to determine the identity of all 300-plus participants for the same purpose. According to the Iraqi Penal Code, any overtures of peace toward "the Zionist entity" is punishable by death. 

EMET is currently circulating a letter in Congress to Secretary of State Antony Blinken to "immediately and publicly intervene on behalf of these brave humanitarians" and to sanction individual members of the Iraqi government for issuing arrest warrants for leaders of the conference. We further ask that the United States government also sanction those Iraqi leaders directly responsible for these retrograde and primitive arrest warrants.  

EMET calls on all members of Congress to sign onto this letter to protect the human rights and lives of those forward-thinking and heroic individuals who participated in this Erbil conference and to continue building on the Abraham Accords, a historic step toward stabilizing the Middle East.  

On September 17th, Secretary Blinken gave an address from the White House recognizing the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Abraham Accords, in which he said, "We will encourage more countries to follow the lead of the Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco. We want to widen the circle of peaceful diplomacy, because it's in the interests of countries across the region and around the world for Israel to be treated like any other country. Normalization leads to greater stability, more cooperation, mutual progress – all things the region and the world need very badly right now."  

Said EMET President and Founder Sarah Stern, "We therefore encourage President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to stand on the side of those who encourage peaceful co-existence with Israel. Our voice should be lent to the forward forces of light in the region; not to the retrograde forces of darkness, of prejudice and of enmity." 

We also encourage our readers to call into their member of Congress and Senators, asking them to please sign onto the EMET letter. You can find our letter here.

President Biden's Vaccine Mandates are an Unprecedented Abuse of Power, says Family Research Council

September 10, 2021

Washington, D.C. -- Family Research Council today criticized President Joe Biden's mandate that federal government employees and contractors take the Covid vaccine, as well as his plan to order private businesses with 100 or more employees to take the vaccine or undergo weekly testing.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins made the following comments:

"President, or more appropriately, Comrade Biden's vaccine mandate affecting millions of Americans is an unprecedented and unacceptable abuse of power. If allowed to stand, this will have far-reaching consequences for civil liberties, conscience rights, religious freedom, human dignity, and the ability of families to make health decisions.

"President Biden is telling Americans that you will be vaccinated or be placed on a special watch list and possibly lose your job. For a president who pledged to bring unity to the country, this dictate will bring more significant division and further erode trust between Americans and their government. His heavy-handed approach will turn people against the very vaccine he is trying to promote. I'm not anti-vaccine; in fact, I encourage those in high-risk categories to get the vaccine. Decisions of vaccination should be made based on science and not politics. The Biden administration's failure to include natural immunity, health status, and religious objections in their immunization campaign raises numerous efficacy and ethical questions. Until those questions and issues are resolved, Americans have a right, not only a responsibility, to resist this unconstitutional and unethical mandate.

"Consider that on the same day the Biden administration sued the state of Texas, arguing that a woman should be able to have the choice to kill her unborn child, and then two hours later announced Americans can't have a choice as to whether to take a vaccine. It is clear the Biden administration is guided not by the science, but by the politics of the Left.

"This idea that the government feels entitled to dictate what's best for us ought to sound all kinds of alarm bells. Americans must decide if they want to accept this form of soft despotism. Will we live in freedom? Or will we live in fear?

"At the end of the day, this is all going to come down to an election, because as long as we have the current regime in place, we're going to continue to get this type of authoritarian, over-reaching government, and we must resist it," concluded Perkins.

A Tale Of Two Phone Calls

By Gary Bauer

In July of 2019, President Trump called the president of Ukraine and said that he wanted him to get to the truth. Trump also reassured him that the weapons he needed to defend his country from Russia were on the way. That became the "quid pro quo" that led to Trump's impeachment.

Two years later, almost to the day, Joe Biden called the president of Afghanistan and essentially said, "I need you to lie about what is happening on the ground there. It's not helpful if everyone realizes the Taliban is winning."

According to a transcript of the call provided by Reuters, Ghani said he needed U.S. air support for the Afghan military to successfully fight back, and Biden said we would continue to provide it. (Biden lied about that.)

So, Trump told the leader of a nation to get to the truth, and Democrats impeached him. Biden told the leader of a nation to lie, and there's crickets.

By the left's own standards, Biden deserves to be impeached.