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RUSH: Denville, New Jersey. It\u2019s Alan. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Good afternoon, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. Good.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. So just quick to the point. You mentioned before when you were discussing how President Obama had started using the term “ISIL” and staying away from “ISIS” and I think the reason behind that, and I also will back it up from what I recall hearing him say last night in a speech, was that ISIS, of course, Islamic State in Syria. <\/line>Now, Syria is something that happened way after President Bush left office. ISIL is — has the word “Iraq” in it. So it\u2019s an inference to try to sort of pin the creation of Islamic State during the period of Iraq before President Obama came into office. And during the speech last night, I think it was around the 15 to 20-minute mark, somewhere in there, President Obama mentioned something about the US has dealt with Islamic State already during the Iraq insurgency. And, as I best recall, ISIS was not a factor at that point, we never heard of them, and the insurgency happened during the tail end of the Bush administration. So I\u2019m just wondering what your thoughts are, that maybe it\u2019s a tactic to sort of push it off back again to the previous administration.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I actually reject that for only one reason. You may be right that that\u2019s what he\u2019s doing, but that requires a level of deep understanding and sophistication on the part of his average voters that just doesn\u2019t exist. I mean, everything you just said I guarantee you most liberals and Democrats are hearing it for the first time. I think most people are wondering, “What is this ISIL? Why does he keep calling it ISIL? It\u2019s ISIS.” They\u2019re not saying, “Well, that\u2019s because ISIS he can pin to Bush, but ISIL he can\u2019t, so he doesn\u2019t want to –” I just don\u2019t think that anybody in the Regime even thinks that people are going to think in these terms. I think there\u2019s a totally different reason for this. And I don\u2019t know how to say it. (laughing) (interruption) Well, it does. Snerdley is asking me, “Doesn\u2019t it have something to do with Israel?” Yes, because the Levant is the entire region.<\/p>\n

ISIS stands for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, or Iraq and Syria, that\u2019s the I-S, and ISIL, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant includes more than Iraq and Syria. It would include Israel, which, to these people, Israel is a fraud. Israel doesn\u2019t deserve to be there. That\u2019s all Palestine and that\u2019s what I think is behind the pronunciation, this insistence that it be called ISIL. He\u2019s the only one that does it. I mean, others in the Regime do. Even the media calls it ISIS, but he sticks with ISIL.<\/p>\n

I think he\u2019s got a different audience for the term. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s talking to the American people. I think he\u2019s talking to Iran. We just heard Walid Phares say that Obama\u2019s linkage here is not to oppose ISIL because Iran supports ISIL, and it\u2019s all to do with the sectarian violence between the Sunnis and the Shi\u2019ites and the fact that Iran capitalizes on the sectarian violence, does not want it solved because they hope to end up controlling the entire Levant — uh, sorry — region. Didn\u2019t mean to say that.<\/p>\n

So your explanation makes total sense if people were attuned, the American people domestically were attuned to when ISIS began, when it didn\u2019t began. See, I don\u2019t think — I could be wrong about this. Very rare that I would be wrong, but it\u2019s possible. I think the American people are so far beyond “Bush did it” and this and that. I mean, Bush is eight years ago now, seven-years. They know Bush had nothing to do with San Bernardino. He had nothing to do with Fort Hood. People know that when Bush was president, this stuff didn\u2019t happen. People know that when Bush was president, there wasn\u2019t an ISIS. ISIS and all of this happens to coincide with the election of Barack Hussein O. But the use of the word “Levant” has an audience in the Middle East. He\u2019s not talking to us.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I looked it up. “ISIL” has been the official United States government-designation of the group since May of 2014. Now, I originally found that it was an Obama executive order mandating that the official name of ISIS be ISIL, back in May of 2014. Then I found something that contradicted that from the State Department. It seems that the State Department has amended the Obama executive order. I didn\u2019t have much time to read it, and it\u2019s in that legal government-ese that they write in.<\/line><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter who did it. The point is that according to the government, the group\u2019s official government-designated name since May of 2014 is “ISIL.” Now Jean-Francois Kerry, our secretary of state, called them Daesh. They have a third name, Daesh, and he does that to sound more like the French. That is what the French call it. But the bottom line is, it\u2019s ISIS.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Oh, and, by the way, just to reiterate something: ISIS versus ISIL. The Levant, includes Israel, includes much of the eastern Mediterranean shoreline. By using the term “ISIL,” it is meant to delegitimize Israel. It is meant to include Israel in the Levant, which would make it Palestine. I\u2019m telling you, there\u2019s a reason Obama does this, and his audience is not us.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s calling it ISIL for a foreign audience, not us. And he\u2019s the only one doing it. Everybody calls it ISIS. He calls it ISIL. The media tries to tell you there\u2019s really no difference, it\u2019s the same. There\u2019s a huge difference. ISIS, Islamic State, Iraq and Syria, that\u2019s two countries. ISIL, Islamic State in Iraq and Levant, which is the whole region, but more importantly, it includes Israel in the Levant and Israel ought not be there. They don\u2019t have a right to be there. Levant is us, it\u2019s not them. That\u2019s Palestine, is what Levant means. Don\u2019t doubt me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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