Thursday, December 31, 2009
Delusional Roger Cohen...
New sanctions against Tehran would only throw a lifeline to Khamenei and
further enrich the Revolutionary Guards...read more
further enrich the Revolutionary Guards...read more
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Friday, December 25, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Peace
"Es kann der frömmste nicht in Frieden leben, wenn es dem bösen Nachbar
nicht gefällt"
Schiller
"Not even the most pious can live in peace when that doesn`t please
his/her evil neighbour."
nicht gefällt"
Schiller
"Not even the most pious can live in peace when that doesn`t please
his/her evil neighbour."
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Suspend your Zionism
Kadima chairwoman MK Tzipi Livni, can justifiably criticize him from a right-wing perspective...read
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Friday, November 27, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Abbas: People must resist
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said, "He is suffering from a condition of political, legal and constitutional bankruptcy and he wants to cast all his failures on the Hamas movement, while whining about the failure in his relations with the Zionist enemy." ... read more
Ynet Talkback
There has been a parade of liberals running through Israel and the surrounding areas, everyone from John Kerry to Dennis Kucinich. These lovers of peace yearn to do for the Jewish State what they did for Cambodia. Having learned nothing from the Pol Pot experience, they yet again insist that there exists a struggle between the cruel forces of Western imperialism and the persecuted indigenous peoples who are represented by freedom fighters….and while those freedom fighters pledge to commit genocide, let's not be overly concerned by the heated rhetoric of the moment.
Sure, the Palestinians may say they want to kill Jews, but what they mean is that they want peaceful coexistence with their cherished Jewish brethren.
It is the same recurring liberal fable that has literally claimed millions of innocent lives worldwide. Once more, the Democratic Party cannot distinguish between good and evil, even when evil is screaming at the top of its lungs about the atrocities it intends to commit. To Kerry and company, the problem is not the genocidal maniacs, be they the Khmer Rouge or the Viet Cong or Fatah or Hamas. The problem as they see it is that America's ally is imperfect. The solution as they see it - as liberals always see it - is to appease implacable murderers. And the more that strategy leads to mass murder, the more convinced liberals become that it is the only true way to peace.
Yet none dare call it insanity.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Aljazeera-Israel Discriminates
read the article and then go to the link to saudi arabia in the actual state department report. Fair and accurate reporting.
Implications of U.S. Military Training of Palestinian Security Forces,
Our friend Dayton... read more
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
PA State and EU
Speaking for the EU, Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt said: "I would hope we would be in a position to recognize a Palestinian state but there has to be one first. So I think that is a bit premature... We would be ready to recognize a Palestinian state but conditions are not there as of yet.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Clinton and demography
Clinton noted that two things remain unchanged since slain prime minister Yitzhak Rabin spoke on the White House lawn in 1993: geography and demographics. He said that the Palestinians have more children than Israelis can have, adding that it is only a matter of time until Palestinian rockets have navigational systems, and they will be able to kill more people. Therefore, it is urgent that the Israelis and the Palestinians make peace... read more
Obama's failure, Netanyahu's opportunity
The shocking truth is that the demographic threat is an empty threat.
The demographic doomsday scenarios for Israel are all based on falsified
Palestinian census data from 1997 that inflated the number of
Palestinians in Israel, Judea, Samaria and Gaza by 50%. As the
independent American-Israel Demographic Research Group demonstrated in
early 2005, Israel has no reason to be concerned that by maintaining its
control over Judea and Samaria, it will become a majority Arab state.
Today, the combined population ofIsrael and Judea and Samaria leaves
Jews with a two-thirds majority. With Jewish immigration and fertility
rates rising, negative Arab immigration rates, and decreasing Arab
fertility rates, the long-term projections for Israel's demographic
viability are all positive...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=2&cid=1258027277862&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The demographic doomsday scenarios for Israel are all based on falsified
Palestinian census data from 1997 that inflated the number of
Palestinians in Israel, Judea, Samaria and Gaza by 50%. As the
independent American-Israel Demographic Research Group demonstrated in
early 2005, Israel has no reason to be concerned that by maintaining its
control over Judea and Samaria, it will become a majority Arab state.
Today, the combined population ofIsrael and Judea and Samaria leaves
Jews with a two-thirds majority. With Jewish immigration and fertility
rates rising, negative Arab immigration rates, and decreasing Arab
fertility rates, the long-term projections for Israel's demographic
viability are all positive...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=2&cid=1258027277862&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Friday, November 13, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Delusional Congressional Vote
Publicly, Hamas leaders have stated time and again that the lull is a
Palestinian national interest. On several occasions, Hamas members have
arrested Fatah operatives who were involved in firing at Israel and
confiscated their arms...read more
Palestinian national interest. On several occasions, Hamas members have
arrested Fatah operatives who were involved in firing at Israel and
confiscated their arms...read more
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
From China and the Moon
Jerusalem must be capital of both Israel and Palestine, UN chief says...read more
Monday, October 26, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
A Dogged Taliban Chief Rebounds, Vexing U.S.
Eight years later, Mullah Omar leads an insurgency...read more
Oren: Obama approval in Israel must improve
it is a sine qua non for progress in the peace process." ...read more
Monday, October 5, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Our friends in Jordan
Jewish zealots and Israeli security forces clashed with Palestinian worshippers defending the sanctity of their holy sites from intruders in
and around the area ..read more
and around the area ..read more
Friday, September 25, 2009
The restraining of Obama
The American recklessness resulting from the influence of the Israeli left has changed...read more
Thursday, September 24, 2009
The U.N.'s Anti-Antiterror Report
A biased 'finding' on Gaza could also apply to Afghanistan... read more
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Goldstone Report is a Barrier to Peace
If Israel withdraws from West Bank...every country has the right to self defense under the United Nations Charter and under the rules of international law...read more
Monday, September 21, 2009
Carter Says Israel Must Stop Building Settlements
"All 22 Arab countries have offered diplomatic recognition and full trade and commerce if Israel will withdraw from occupied territories"...read more
Column One: Our irredeemable international system
Instead of promoting global security, human rights, freedom and international peace, they facilitate war and aggression, human suffering and tyranny...read more
Friday, September 18, 2009
A Roadmap for Terrorists
all the military tactics our members can use to annihilate the Little Satan, i.e. Zionist enemy, the Big Satan, i.e. the United States...read more
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Netanyahu: PA Will Take Over Part of Israel
no desire to govern 1.5 million Arabs in Judea and Samaria... read more
Sunday, September 13, 2009
West returns to pre-Sept. 11 thinking
political-intellectual elite's investment in the politics of multiculturalism. ...read more
Thursday, September 10, 2009
The point of no return
Half a million Jews beyond Green Line make West Bank’s evacuation impossible...read more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
High Court: Why aren't laws enforced against Palestinians?
Supreme Court Justice Edna Arbel wonders how only three demolition orders issued in past 14 years read more
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Iranian reporter: Swedish article on IDF organ harvesting 'credible'
Since the early 1970s the Israelis have snatched thousands of Palestinian bodies from hospitals in the territories and transferred them to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.. read more
Monday, August 31, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Merkel: No comparison between Iran, Nazis
"We must make progress in the peace process...and a stopping of the settlement (building) is very important," Merkel said. "Time is of the essence,"... read more
Richard Branson: Without Mideast resolution, 'something ghastly' could happen
visited the refugee camp of Qalandiyah and ate the meal ending the daily Ramadan fast with Palestinians...read more
Saturday, August 22, 2009
The lost Palestinian Jews
many Palestinians retain Jewish customs, including mourning rituals,
lighting Shabbat or memorial candles and even wearing tefillin....read more
lighting Shabbat or memorial candles and even wearing tefillin....read more
Democratic rep. criticizes Obama demand for Israeli settlement freeze
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is waiting for the U.S. to present him Israel on a platter...read more
Obama Ramadan Greeting
On behalf of the American people – including Muslim communities in all fifty states – . Ramadan Kareem.... read more
Et tu, Netanyahu?
Caroline B. Glick
This week we discovered that we have been deceived. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's... read more
This week we discovered that we have been deceived. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's... read more
L.A. Jews mull boycott of Israel university over 'apartheid' op-ed
Dr. Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva, a veteran peace activist, branded Israel as an apartheid state and said that a boycott was "the only way to save it from itself."...read more
Friday, August 21, 2009
'Dozens killed' in Yemen fighting
Yemen, one of the poorest Arab countries, is also combating a wave of al-Qaeda attacks and rising secessionist sentiment in the south... read more
time for 2 states for 2 people in Yemen<
time for 2 states for 2 people in Yemen<
Thursday, August 20, 2009
where is life not intolerable in the Arab world?
Palestinian Arabs are highly literate, richer and healthier than people in most other Arab countries...read more
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Ya'alon calls on state to drop 'illegal' qualifier from outposts
These are communities that were established with the state's
encouragement...read more
encouragement...read more
Obama reaches out to Islamist parties in Pakistan
Liaqat Baloch, a top member of the religious, right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami party, welcomed the new administration's public change in tone toward Muslims around the world....read more
Jerusalem’s Jewish history and the Temple denied
Oh [Sons of] Zion, no matter how much you dig and no matter how much you destroy, your imaginary Temple will not come into being...read more
Top Sweden newspaper says IDF kills Palestinians for their organs
Israeli soldiers are abducting Palestinians in order to steal their
organs...read more
organs...read more
The Holocaust's shadow over Israel's choices
To remain Jewish will require apartheid measures that ensure Jewish minority control over land that will soon have a Palestinian-Arab majority...read more
Monday, August 17, 2009
Netanyahu: Israel will enforce law in West Bank
"These are not unlawful outposts, but rather legal settlements established by the government of Israel," Yishai said...read more
freedom
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of ANY nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 - 2005
Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 - 2005
Friday, August 14, 2009
Hamas gunmen clash with radicals who declare 'Islamic emirate'
announced the start of theocratic rule in the Palestinian territories,
starting at Rafah, and vowed to implement Islamic laws.
...http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1107639.html read more
starting at Rafah, and vowed to implement Islamic laws.
...http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1107639.html read more
Arab Journalist: Arab World Puts 'Refugees' Through Hell
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"These countries must stop treating the Palestinians like a plague...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Mideast Peace Starts With Respect
by Ron Lauder
Note to Obama: The Palestinians still haven’t recognized the Jewish state... read more
Note to Obama: The Palestinians still haven’t recognized the Jewish state... read more
Israel 'won't make Jordan Palestine'
At least 40,000 Palestinians are believed to have lost their status as Jordanian citizens in recent months...read more
Analysis: How Fatah has evolved into the Palestinian Ba'ath party
Had it not been for the security fence and the construction in settlements, Fatah would be less corrupt...read more
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The Two-State Solution Doesn’t Solve Anything
By HUSSEIN AGHA and ROBERT MALLEY (NY Times)
looking past the occupation to questions born in 1948 — Arab rejection of the newborn Jewish state and the dispossession and dislocation of Palestinian refugees...read more
looking past the occupation to questions born in 1948 — Arab rejection of the newborn Jewish state and the dispossession and dislocation of Palestinian refugees...read more
Monday, August 10, 2009
Fatah backs two-state solution, sharpening rift with Hamas
the armed struggle is a right reserved to us in international law," said
senior Fatah member Nabil Shaath.
... http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1106393.html read more
senior Fatah member Nabil Shaath.
... http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1106393.html read more
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Bullying Israel
Israel--democratic, capitalist, Western, pro-American--is emblematic of all the things that Obama in the past has been skeptical about, since Israel appreciates our values, history, and what we stand for...http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=35836 read more
Friday, August 7, 2009
Who killed Arafat?!?
2,000 delegates rose to applaud the late leader's nephew Nasser al-Kidwa, former PLO ambassador to the UN, when he demanded the congress officially denounce Israel for being behind the "assassination" of the late PA chairman...read more
According to Haaretz: Israel does have a Palestinian partner
What a sweet deal!!!
June 4, 1967 borders, East Jerusalem as its capital, and solution to the refugee problem on the basis of UN Resolution 194. The convention rejected the demand to recognize Israel as the "state of the Jewish people"... read more
June 4, 1967 borders, East Jerusalem as its capital, and solution to the refugee problem on the basis of UN Resolution 194. The convention rejected the demand to recognize Israel as the "state of the Jewish people"... read more
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
JTA full disclosure
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the main source of news coverage for the Jewish media - plays down the Fatah incitement to armed struggle at Fatah Congress in Bethlehem... read more
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Will Fatah Give Up the Armed Struggle,at Its Sixth General Congress?
Fatah retains the armed struggle as a strategy in order to liberate the whole of Palestine and eliminate Israel...read more
Clinton slams Israel for evicting Arab families from East Jerusalem
the homes in question have been Jewish-owned for more than 80 years, and the eviction was ordered by a court because the Palestinian tenants
violated the terms of their rental contract...read more
violated the terms of their rental contract...read more
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Judge: Israeli law applies in disputed West Bank territory
The judge based his decision partly on a statement by former foreign minister Tzipi Livni, who said in September 2006 that Israeli jurisdiction and administration applied to any disputed territory since 1967...read more
Min. Katz: Fatah platform draft is declaration of war on Israel
Fatah plans to oppose recognizing Israel as a Jewish state...read more
Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
The 9th of Av's new tears
By Yisrael Medad
President Obama's policies toward Israel add fresh pain to a day of lament... read more
President Obama's policies toward Israel add fresh pain to a day of lament... read more
Apartheid??
The apartheid paradigm fearfully evoked by Olmert has crept slowly but surely into mainstream political discourse on the Palestine issue...read more
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Where does Solow Stand?
U.S. Jewish leader denies fallout with Obama over settlements dispute...read more
Sunday, July 26, 2009
HISTORY RECURS: THE PRESIDENT, THE JEWS AND THE ARABS
Roosevelt said subsequently that he had learned more in a five minute
conversation with the king about the problems of the region...read more
conversation with the king about the problems of the region...read more
National Jewish Leader Turns against Obama
Solow found "disturbing the objections raised to the proposed construction of residential units on property that was legally purchased. The area in question houses major Israeli governmental
agencies, including the national police headquarters... read more
agencies, including the national police headquarters... read more
Friday, July 24, 2009
The Prisons of the Arab Mind
a regressive, dogmatic interpretation of religion that is totally at odds with the realities of the age, with science and
civilization....read more
civilization....read more
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Is Israel Safe for Jews?
interview with Michael Oren, the new Israeli ambassador to the
U.S.,...read more
U.S.,...read more
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Amman revoking Palestinians' citizenship
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Reports in a number of Jordanian newspapers said that the Jordanian fans also chanted anti-Palestinian slogans and cursed Palestine, the PLO, Jerusalem and the Aksa Mosque...read motr
Reports in a number of Jordanian newspapers said that the Jordanian fans also chanted anti-Palestinian slogans and cursed Palestine, the PLO, Jerusalem and the Aksa Mosque...read motr
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The Arab immigration wave
by Aluf Benn
An economic treasure is hidden there, a gold mine whose potential has barely been tapped: Israel's Arab citizens.read more
An economic treasure is hidden there, a gold mine whose potential has barely been tapped: Israel's Arab citizens.read more
Knesset Speaker: PA State, Nothing More than Autonomy,
invoked the lessons learned from the Gaza withdrawal in 2005...read more
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Netanyahu: Jews can live anywhere in Jerusalem
"United Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish people. Our sovereignty cannot be challenged."... read more
Israel's nuclear obsession
By PATRICK SEALE
Iranian bomb - if one were ever built - would undermine Israel's cherished security doctrine of total regional military hegemony...read more
Iranian bomb - if one were ever built - would undermine Israel's cherished security doctrine of total regional military hegemony...read more
Friday, July 17, 2009
AJC Praises Obama for Stressing Commitment to Israel with Jewish Leaders
The President could not have been clearer that his primary motivation in seeking to re-energize an Israeli-Palestinian peace process is Israel's long-term security...read more
Economic Revival and Security Raise Hopes in West Bank
NY Times
You don't appreciate the value of law and order until you lose it...read more
You don't appreciate the value of law and order until you lose it...read more
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Obama wants to help Israel overcome its demographic problem
Obama met with 15 American Jewish leaders...read more
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Netanyahu: Palestinian recognition of Jewish state 'key to peace'
Shalom also presented a list of projects that had been delayed for years due to various bureaucratic difficulties...read more
Saturday, July 11, 2009
There is no Palestinian Sadat, no Palestinian Mandela
Ari Shavit
It's true that I am short-tempered, Uzi Arad replied...read more
It's true that I am short-tempered, Uzi Arad replied...read more
Does Netanyahu back two-state solution or not?
Aluf Benn
We have achieved national consensus on the concept of two states for two peoples... read more
We have achieved national consensus on the concept of two states for two peoples... read more
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Fayad: Jews welcome in our future state
If Jews want to live in someplace like Hebron, or anyplace else in a Palestinian state, for whatever reasons or historical attachments, why should they not be treated the same way Israeli Arabs are?...read more
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
WATCH: Settler attacks Peace Now activists
...documenting settlement construction... read more
If all the settlers went back to Europe. Peace would break out immediately!
If all the settlers went back to Europe. Peace would break out immediately!
Monday, July 6, 2009
Secret Failure
Ze'ev B. Begin
When the PLO negotiators were explicitly asked whether, after an agreement is reached to their satisfaction, they would agree to include in it a specific article stating that this puts an end to the dispute and terminates all further claims. The PLO leadership ominously answered in the negative...read more
When the PLO negotiators were explicitly asked whether, after an agreement is reached to their satisfaction, they would agree to include in it a specific article stating that this puts an end to the dispute and terminates all further claims. The PLO leadership ominously answered in the negative...read more
Where is everyone?
Ben Caspit and Ben-Dror Yemini
Imagine that this were not happening now in Tehran, but rather here. Let's say in Nablus. Spontaneous demonstrations of Palestinians turning into an ongoing bloodbath... read more
read in hebrew
Imagine that this were not happening now in Tehran, but rather here. Let's say in Nablus. Spontaneous demonstrations of Palestinians turning into an ongoing bloodbath... read more
read in hebrew
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Israel's reliable friend
Yoram Ettinger
Recent Israeli governments have underestimated the power of Congress... read more
Recent Israeli governments have underestimated the power of Congress... read more
Interview with Ron Dermer
The first prime minister who has actually expressed a vast consensus in Israel... read more
No Amnesty for Israel in new report on Gaza
Forget the rockets from Gaza...Two days after last Christmas Israeli armed forces invaded the Gaza Strip killing 1400 Palestinians, almost all civilians including 300 children. read more
PM: Int'l consensus on 2-state solution major accomplishment
The prime minister explained that the agreement was that "the Palestinians will need to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, the refugee issue will be resolved outside of Israel's borders, and that Israel needs and will get defensible borders that include the full demilitarization of the Palestinian territory."...read more
Ha'aretz added: The prime minister added that one of the most important achievements of the first 100 days of his administration was the infusion of "real meaning" into the two-state solution.
Ha'aretz added: The prime minister added that one of the most important achievements of the first 100 days of his administration was the infusion of "real meaning" into the two-state solution.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Endorsing Palestinian apartheid
Why does world accept notion of Palestinian state free of Jews?... read more
Israel is bullied because it acts like a doormat
When the norm is to submit to pressure, the pressures only increase...read more
The Germans know about Peace
Merkel demands Israeli construction in West Bank stop, saying it endangers 'two-state solution that is urgently needed'... read more
Just say “No” to the settlement freeze
By Ted Belman
The Arabs know what they want, and that is the end of Israel...read more
The Arabs know what they want, and that is the end of Israel...read more
Sarkozi, the Airbus 310-300 and Comoron
One-party state under Abdallah (Abu Mazen). Abdallah set up an authoritarian regime and the influence of traditional Islam increased. How compassionate were the French in Africa. Where was Lieberman when Africa needed him?... read more
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
We’ve Got Your Back on the Settlement Freeze, Mr. President
We cannot accept this vision absolutely, completely freezing these
settlements. I think we must keep natural growth...
http://btvshalom.org/ga_messages/ga_20090624.html read more
settlements. I think we must keep natural growth...
http://btvshalom.org/ga_messages/ga_20090624.html read more
Israel as brutal as Iran
The Huffington Post has an online reach equal to that of the New York Times and LA Times and exceeds that of MSNBC. Go to the bottom of the the Huffington Post article and add your comments to the talkback debate...read more
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Around the Net
When Obama receives his physical, he should have a brain scan, because there has got to be something terribly wrong "with a man who seems to be far more concerned with a Jew building a house in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran
In defense of 'settlements'
By Yisrael Medad
Jews belong in Judea and Samaria as much as Palestinians who stayed in Israel...read more
Jews belong in Judea and Samaria as much as Palestinians who stayed in Israel...read more
Monday, June 29, 2009
Israeli Arabs flood Palestinian cities to boost ailing economy
There's huge demand from the Jewish side to actually purchase land in the Arab Old City...read more
Hillary Is Wrong About the Settlements
By ELLIOTT ABRAMS
The U.S. and Israel reached a clear understanding about natural growth. read more
The U.S. and Israel reached a clear understanding about natural growth. read more
Outpost watch
Where are the Arab settlers building? There is room for everyone. Just
drive around Yehuda and Shomron. It is empty.read more
drive around Yehuda and Shomron. It is empty.read more
The confused Barack Obama
With passage of time, greater doubts emerge over values guiding president... read more
Sunday, June 28, 2009
President Obama is leaning on Israel rather than leaning on the terrorists
..the ultimate solution in Israel may not be a "two-state" solution, but a "one heart" solution. He said, "Most Muslims in the Middle East are not hard-line. They're very open to the gospel. ...read more
Kadima MK Nachman Shai:
In contrast to his pre-election promises, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is working assiduously to legitimize the rule of Hamas in Gaza, a terror organization ... read more
Israel's settlements are on shaky ground
Good old Sarah Leah!!
International law mandates that they must be removed and that the Palestinians should be compensated for their losses.read more
International law mandates that they must be removed and that the Palestinians should be compensated for their losses.read more
Clerical Errors
The conflict in Tehran between liberals and clergy is the tragedy of modern Iranian history....read more
Friday, June 26, 2009
Aharon Barak: A State of All its Citizens
"A Jew has precedence when it comes to Aliyah [immigration], but as soon as he gets here, his rights should be equal to those of an Arab,"...read more
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Mashaal rejects idea of demilitarized Palestine as 'pathetic'
Hamas politburo chief responds to Obama, Netanyahu speeches, says Palestinians 'reject Israel's position on the refugees, Jerusalem, and the Jewish state.' ... read more
Aristotle
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion.
Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom
they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less
easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle
Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom
they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less
easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive
them of their arms.
Aristotle
Demilitarized Palestinian State?
by Prof. MK Arieh Eldad
Once upon a time, there was such a state,"I don't think there's a Palestinian nation. There's an Arab nation. I don't think there's a Palestinian nation...read more
Once upon a time, there was such a state,"I don't think there's a Palestinian nation. There's an Arab nation. I don't think there's a Palestinian nation...read more
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
How To Help the Palestinian People
by Khaled Abu Toameh
Walid Omari, the head of the Qatar-based satellite TV station's operations in the West Bank, told Reporters Without Borders that his crew was preparing a report on the death of a detainee at the Palestinian Authority detention center in Hebron that might have been the result of torture... read more
Walid Omari, the head of the Qatar-based satellite TV station's operations in the West Bank, told Reporters Without Borders that his crew was preparing a report on the death of a detainee at the Palestinian Authority detention center in Hebron that might have been the result of torture... read more
The War Of Words That Israel Must Start Winning
Israel-bashing has become a national sport in many countries...read morel
Palestinians were made to pay an unfair price
Their refusal to accept the Partition Plan of 1947...read more
Haaretz talkback
Ganz suffers from a syndrome in which born Jews hope that by accepting the cause of enemies of the Jews, they & the Jews will be spared the consequences of anti-Semitism. Sufferers of this syndrome truly believe in the false hope that those who hate Jews will change their attitude once Jews paliate one demand or another. It`s sick.
Haaretz talkback
Ganz suffers from a syndrome in which born Jews hope that by accepting the cause of enemies of the Jews, they & the Jews will be spared the consequences of anti-Semitism. Sufferers of this syndrome truly believe in the false hope that those who hate Jews will change their attitude once Jews paliate one demand or another. It`s sick.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
'The Emperor has no clothes!'
by Jan Willem van der Hoeven
"Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace (Jeremiah 8:11)...
read more
"Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace (Jeremiah 8:11)...
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Encountering Peace: Dressing up the Palestinian state
by Gershon Baskin
Let us assume for a moment that the Palestinians accept all of Netanyahu's conditions - their state will be demilitarized, it will have no effective control of its external borders, its airspace, seaport, electromagnetic sphere. The Palestinians will agree to define the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people....read more
Let us assume for a moment that the Palestinians accept all of Netanyahu's conditions - their state will be demilitarized, it will have no effective control of its external borders, its airspace, seaport, electromagnetic sphere. The Palestinians will agree to define the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people....read more
No holds barred: Spectator of the free world: Obama and Teheran
by Shmuley Boteach
"And Moses looked this way and that way and saw there was no man. Then he smote the Egyptian." When Moses saw there was none but him to address this moral outrage, he sacrificed his cushy position in Egyptian society and acted to right a wrong. read more
"And Moses looked this way and that way and saw there was no man. Then he smote the Egyptian." When Moses saw there was none but him to address this moral outrage, he sacrificed his cushy position in Egyptian society and acted to right a wrong. read more
PM Fayad: Palestinian state within 2 years
He refused to back down from the Palestinian stance that there would be no peace negotiations until a West Bank settlement freeze. ...read more
Olmert pulling out
Olmert's proposal implies Israeli willingness to give up sovereignity over the Temple Mount, the Old City and the Mount of Olives....read more
enemy of my enemy
"You never know what will disappear in Iran first – their enriched uranium or their poor government," said Mr. Peres....read more
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Settlers and Peace in Iran
If only the settlers would go back to Europe and Moslem countries there would be peace in Iran
Column One: Israel's rare opportunity
b Caroline Glick
The revolutionary atmosphere building in Iran presents Israel with a prospect it has rarely confronted: a safe bet...read more
The revolutionary atmosphere building in Iran presents Israel with a prospect it has rarely confronted: a safe bet...read more
Think before you speak
JOHN KERRY, Washington
The grass-roots protests that have engulfed Iran since its presidential election last week have grabbed America's attention and captured headlines — unfortunately, so has the clamor from neoconservatives urging President Obama... read more
The grass-roots protests that have engulfed Iran since its presidential election last week have grabbed America's attention and captured headlines — unfortunately, so has the clamor from neoconservatives urging President Obama... read more
Friday, June 19, 2009
Obama's Real Agenda: Israel's Dimona Nuclear Facility
As long as Islamists think that Obama is on their side, they'll refrain from attacking, keep the oil flowing and the prices low...read more
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Post Modernism
Time for Jews to Abandon the Old Foundation Myth of Israel?
You cannot assume that your opponents are out to destroy your very existence, simply because they are trying to drive a hard bargain; You cannot assume that all the fault and blame for the problem lies with your opponents; You cannot let your self-esteem rest on showing your strength by being intransigent, prejudging outcomes, and inflicting defeats on your opponent.... read more
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Palestinian Response to Netanyahu's Speech
June 16, 2009 Khaled Abu Toameh, Journalist
The Palestinian leadership's reaction was so fierce that some of its senior representatives went as far as hurling personal insults against Netanyahu, calling him a "fraud," a "nobody" and a "liar."... read more
The Palestinian leadership's reaction was so fierce that some of its senior representatives went as far as hurling personal insults against Netanyahu, calling him a "fraud," a "nobody" and a "liar."... read more
Mix oil and vinegar
Ladies and gentlemen, you may know of the Danish psychologist Nicolai Sennels, who recently said that Muslim integration in the West is simply impossible. Now, that is not a novel idea. A certain Frenchman said pretty much the same thing in 1959. I quote, “Those who recommend integration must be considered pea-brained even if they are scholars and scientists. Just try mixing oil and vinegar. Then shake the bottle. After a moment the two substances will separate again. Do you really believe French society could absorb ten million Muslims, who would be twenty million tomorrow and forty million the day after? In fact, my own village would no longer be Colombey-les-deux-Églises but would rather come to be known as Colombey-les-deux-mosques.”
This quote, you guessed it, is from none other than the former French President Charles de Gaulle.
This quote, you guessed it, is from none other than the former French President Charles de Gaulle.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Reaction to Netanyahu speech creates strange bedfellows
Ben Caspit, writing in the same newspaper, called the speech "one small step for the peace process, one giant leap for Binyamin Netanyahu...
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Evangelical support is eroding
Brian Schrauger is director of radio broadcasting for Israel World TV
Israel's military campaign in Gaza should have been named "8,000 is enough!" This would have communicated a determination to stop the barrage of missiles from Hamas... read more
Israel's military campaign in Gaza should have been named "8,000 is enough!" This would have communicated a determination to stop the barrage of missiles from Hamas... read more
A brilliant expose by PM Netanyahu
No Arab (or anyone for that matter who opposes Zionism) could possibly
agree to the very fair and reasoned analysis presented by Netanyahu!
There can never be a Palestinian "state" that does not include Jerusalem, that does not include "refugees" west of the Jordan River, that does not have the ability to "defend" itself, that recognizes Israel as a Jewish State, and that accepts substantive "adjustments" to the 1948/9 cease fire lines.
Now that Netanyahu has forthrightly confronted the irresolvable issues, Israel can continue to be mired in the echoes of Oslo or can move forward in an affirmative way with a real alternative to the complex array of two-state plans.
agree to the very fair and reasoned analysis presented by Netanyahu!
There can never be a Palestinian "state" that does not include Jerusalem, that does not include "refugees" west of the Jordan River, that does not have the ability to "defend" itself, that recognizes Israel as a Jewish State, and that accepts substantive "adjustments" to the 1948/9 cease fire lines.
Now that Netanyahu has forthrightly confronted the irresolvable issues, Israel can continue to be mired in the echoes of Oslo or can move forward in an affirmative way with a real alternative to the complex array of two-state plans.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Yes to road map. No to settlement freeze
Netanyahu's speech:
By Aluf Benn and Barak Ravid
By Aluf Benn and Barak Ravid
Netanyahu will present a few conditions for the implementation of the
road map, above all a Palestinian recognition of Israel as the homeland
of the Jewish people. He will also demand that the future Palestinian
state be demilitarized
...read more
Occupation
An Israeli arrives at London?s Heathrow airport.
As he fills out the entry form, the immigration officer asks him: "OCCUPATION? "
The Israeli promptly replies: "NO, NO, JUST VISITING!"
The Israeli promptly replies: "NO, NO, JUST VISITING!"
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Netanyahu May Favor Andorra-Like Solution
...The new state would be like Andorra, the small country between France and Spain, and would have recognized borders. Andorra, only 468 square kilometers (181 square miles) in size and with a population of 90,000, is a member of the United Nations, but responsibility for its defense lies with France and Spain...read more
Minister Yaalon rejects swift peace process
Creation of Palestinian state within two years may lead to establishment of Hamastan in West Bank, strategic affairs minister tells Washington audience; 'Let us begin to talk about building infrastructure for peace,' ... read more
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?
There is far more violence in the Bible than in the
Qur'an...read more
Qur'an...read more
Send this link to Obama and Hillary
The identity of the Land
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MldnIxwUJo
another interview
Hebrew too strong to distribute.
Supreme Court Could Use More Jewish Law
The committee is chaired by Justice Minister Yaakov Ne'eman, and includes Environment Minister Gilad Erdan, Supreme Court Chief Justice Dorit Beinisch, Supreme Court justices Edmond Levi and Ayala Procaccia, and two Israel Bar Association members.... read more
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Settlement Myth
by Charles Krauthammer, Friday, June 5, 2009
President Obama repeatedly insists that American foreign policy be conducted with modesty and humility. Above all, there will be no more "dictating" to other countries...In Middle East negotiations, he told al-Arabiya, America will henceforth "start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating."...read more
1919 Paris agreement between King Feisal and Weizmann
Haaretz talkback
By the principle of estoppel, the 1919 Paris agreement between King
Feisal and Weizmann which divided Palestine equally into a Jewish state
and an Arab state is the one and only defining instrument of
International Law.
Under this law, there is no `occupation`, there are no illegal
`settlement` etc. Jews are in fact obligated and encouraged to settle
the land. The only illegal action was by Churchill who `gave` the
Hashemites the land between the Jordan River and the Hejaz railway. In
creating the Kingdom of Jordan it was made illegal for Jews to own
property there. A clearly racist and illegal act. So in fact, the two
state solution was agreed 90 years ago! But only the Arab state was
created and it exceeded its allocated territory (from 50% to 78%).
It took the Hollocaust and a war of independence for the Jewish state to
be re-constituted!
The two state solution is still on `the books`, so enact it.
By the principle of estoppel, the 1919 Paris agreement between King
Feisal and Weizmann which divided Palestine equally into a Jewish state
and an Arab state is the one and only defining instrument of
International Law.
Under this law, there is no `occupation`, there are no illegal
`settlement` etc. Jews are in fact obligated and encouraged to settle
the land. The only illegal action was by Churchill who `gave` the
Hashemites the land between the Jordan River and the Hejaz railway. In
creating the Kingdom of Jordan it was made illegal for Jews to own
property there. A clearly racist and illegal act. So in fact, the two
state solution was agreed 90 years ago! But only the Arab state was
created and it exceeded its allocated territory (from 50% to 78%).
It took the Hollocaust and a war of independence for the Jewish state to
be re-constituted!
The two state solution is still on `the books`, so enact it.
Chris Matthews feels a tingling going up and down his leg
Nothing President Obama accomplished on his recent tour can give any comfort to the Christians and Jews. It remains to be seen whether his "outreach to Muslims" will bear any but the bitterest of fruit...read more
Fatah says Hamas arresting its men in Gaza
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's faction accused Hamas Islamists on
Saturday of arresting some 150 Fatah activists in Gaza, in apparent
retaliation for raids that killed four Hamas men in the West Bank this
week....read more
Saturday of arresting some 150 Fatah activists in Gaza, in apparent
retaliation for raids that killed four Hamas men in the West Bank this
week....read more
Friday, June 5, 2009
The End of America’s Strategic Alliance with Israel?
by Caroline Glick...In 1922 the League of Nations mandated Great Britain
to facilitate the reconstitution of the Jewish commonwealth in the Land
of Israel on both sides of the Jordan River. The international
community's decision to work towards the reestablishment of Jewish
sovereignty in Israel owed to its recognition of the Jewish people's
legal, historic, and moral rights to our homeland.
to facilitate the reconstitution of the Jewish commonwealth in the Land
of Israel on both sides of the Jordan River. The international
community's decision to work towards the reestablishment of Jewish
sovereignty in Israel owed to its recognition of the Jewish people's
legal, historic, and moral rights to our homeland.
Arab propaganda finds this basic and fundamental truth inconvenient. So
for the past 60 years, the Arabs have been advancing the fiction that
Israel's existence owes solely to European guilt over the Holocaust. As
far as the Arabs are concerned, the Jews have no legal, historic, or
moral right to what the Arabs see as Islamic land...
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Ex-Defense Minister Arens: 'We Must Build Up Settlements'
"I do not accept the terms of 'natural growth.' We are not living in
Judea and Samaria because of our 'natural growth,' but because of our
natural
rights."..read more
Judea and Samaria because of our 'natural growth,' but because of our
natural
rights."..read more
Obama Will Not Make a Difference
by Prof. Sami Alrabaa
Islamic terrorism and a severe global economic crisis added impetus to
his success. Rhetorically talented and charismatic figures usually
flourish in crises. But will rhetoric and charisma help Mr. Obama
succeed at home and in the Middle East?
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
Shulamit Aloni / Israel is controlled by religious fanaticism
By Shulamit Aloni
...Rothschild explains why he refuses to support the establishment of a
Jewish state in the Land of Israel...
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...Rothschild explains why he refuses to support the establishment of a
Jewish state in the Land of Israel...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
So What's your solution?
By Moshe Arens
The defeat of Palestinian terrorism could open the possibility of
implementing any of the above four solutions...
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The defeat of Palestinian terrorism could open the possibility of
implementing any of the above four solutions...
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Good old Abe is at it again
Abraham Foxman
Israel should simply find a way to acknowledge that a solution to the conflict requires a Palestinian state...read more
Israel should simply find a way to acknowledge that a solution to the conflict requires a Palestinian state...read more
Mideast survival guide
Mordechai Kedar
We need patience, ideology, and endurance to survive in Middle East...read more
We need patience, ideology, and endurance to survive in Middle East...read more
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Egypt launches 'moderate' satellite TV
..It will initially broadcast in Arabic and English, with a view to later expanding to programs that will include Hindi and Turkish...read more
Monday, June 1, 2009
Obama's Priorities
Global economic trauma and aftermath; Iraq; Iran; Afghanistan; Korea;
Pakistan; 1.5 million Arabs living in Judea and Samaria
Pakistan; 1.5 million Arabs living in Judea and Samaria
US Jews discomfited by rightist bills
May. 27, 2009 by Haviv Rettig Gur, THE JERUSALEM POST
Several new legislative initiatives from right-wing parties are causing discomfort among mainstream US Jewish advocacy organizations.. read more
Several new legislative initiatives from right-wing parties are causing discomfort among mainstream US Jewish advocacy organizations.. read more
Demography is central to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute
Monday, June 1, 2009
EDITORIAL: Middle East Fertility Wars
THE WASHINGTON TIMESWhat does Hillary Rodham Clinton have against Jewish babies?... read more
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Ya'alon said
Educational Reform:
The PA currently teaches Arab children that the entirety of Israel is an illegal colonialist entity, Yaalon said, and denies any historic Jewish connection to the Land of Israel. In addition, the PA teaches Jihad (holy war) against Israel and honors suicide bombers.
Changing the PA school system to teach the value of life, not of death, and to accurately portray Jewish history is crucial, he said.
Economic Reform:
In order to create a viable economy, the PA must strengthen small businesses and create a stable middle class, Yaalon said.
Attempts to create a PA economy through international aid have failed due to a corrupt PA leadership that misappropriates funds, and terrorist groups that attempt to keep PA Arabs living in poverty, he said. To avoid the problems posed by corrupt leadership, the world should focus on PA businessmen and support their initiatives.
Political Reform:
Beyond creating a political entity, the PA must allow for freedom of expression, freedom of the press and protect human rights.
Yaalon referred to “the American mistake” of supporting strong dictators over true democratic activists. Activists who seek true democracy and freedom should win encouragement from the West, he said.
Legal Reform:
The goal should be “One authority, one law, one weapon,” Yaalon said, referring to the disarming of rogue terrorist groups and the enforcement of law throughout the PA territories.
Security Reform:
The PA must begin to truly fight terrorism, Yaalon said. Among other things, the PA must rid itself of the “revolving door” by which terrorists serve only light sentences, and the sentencing of terrorists who murdered Israelis for “harming the public interest” instead of “murder.” These things encourage terrorism, he said.
On November 15, 1988 Yasser Arafat declared independence for the state of Palestine.
Gershon Baskin , THE JERUSALEM POST
There is no solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict other than "two states for two peoples." Any other proposal guarantees the continuation of the conflict and the end of the Zionist enterprise, the State of Israel...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1243259515612&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter read moreWhy 2-State Solution Didn't Work
(IsraelNN.com) A Knesset conference Tuesday brought MKs and military and
intelligence experts together to discuss reasons for the failure of the
"two-state solution."...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131607 read more
intelligence experts together to discuss reasons for the failure of the
"two-state solution."...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131607 read more
Alternatives to two-states
כנס חלופה לרעיון 'שתי מדינות לשני עמים'
http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/189733Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Israel disavows MK's proposal to turn West Bank over to Jordan
... The setting up of a Palestinian state that lives in peace with
Israel "represents a supreme strategic interest for Jordan", the
minister was quoted as telling the Israeli
envoy....http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1088343.html read more
Israel "represents a supreme strategic interest for Jordan", the
minister was quoted as telling the Israeli
envoy....http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1088343.html read more
PA: Settlers can become Palestinian citizens
...residents of Ma'aleh Adumim or Ariel who would rather stay in their homes could live under Palestinian rule and law, just like the Israeli Arabs who live among you. They could hold Palestinian and Israeli nationalities...read more
Monday, May 25, 2009
Peres: Israeli concessions brought on rockets
...After the Gaza experience, Israel could not be expected to withdraw
from Judea and Samaria while rockets continued to threaten its citizens,
he said....read more
from Judea and Samaria while rockets continued to threaten its citizens,
he said....read more
Obama said!!
" If we resume negotiations, as we plan to do, then I think that the
Palestinians will have to recognize Israel as a Jewish state; will
have to also enable Israel to have the means to defend itself. And if
those conditions are met, Israel's security conditions are met, and
there's recognition of Israel's legitimacy, its permanent legitimacy,
then I think we can envision an arrangement where Palestinians and
Israelis live side by side in dignity, in security, and in peace."
Palestinians will have to recognize Israel as a Jewish state; will
have to also enable Israel to have the means to defend itself. And if
those conditions are met, Israel's security conditions are met, and
there's recognition of Israel's legitimacy, its permanent legitimacy,
then I think we can envision an arrangement where Palestinians and
Israelis live side by side in dignity, in security, and in peace."
Death of Israel?
Obama may have held the first White House seder, but he's not planning
to spend next year in Jerusalem... read more
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to spend next year in Jerusalem... read more
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Peace isn't Arab goal
WHO FAVORS a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict?
President Obama does, of course, as he made clear in welcoming Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on Monday. So does former president George W. Bush, who began advocating Palestinian statehood in 2002 and continued until his final days in office. The Democratic Party's national platform endorses a two-state solution; the Republican platform does, too. The UN Security Council unanimously reaffirmed its support a few days ago, and the European Union is strongly in favor as well... read more
Israel 'deaf' to two-state solution
"If we resume negotiations then I think the Palestinians will have to recognise Israel as a Jewish state and also enable Israel to have the means to defend itself," Netanyahu said.
Following the meeting, Netanyahu said: "I did not say two states for two peoples."
He also said that Israel did not want to govern the Palestinians.
"We want them to govern themselves [minus] a handful of powers that could endanger the state of Israel," Netanyau said... read more
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Obama approach to Mideast peace makes U.S. less secure
By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
This is a lousy time to have a president in the White House who is, apparently, contemptuous of Winston Churchill... read more
This is a lousy time to have a president in the White House who is, apparently, contemptuous of Winston Churchill... read more
Obama Iran Strategy
quoted from Haaretz
Obama set a rough timetable for his diplomatic outreach to Iran for the first time on Monday. "The important thing is to make sure there is a clear timetable," he said. "By the end of the year we should have some sense whether or not these discussions [involving Iran] are starting to yield significant benefits." Obama also said he was not closing off a "range of steps" against Iran, including sanctions, if it continues its nuclear program, which Washington believes is aimed at producing an atomic weapon but Tehran says is for peaceful purposes.
He also held out the prospect of tougher sanctions against Tehran "to ensure that Iran understands we are serious." Obama stressed that attempts by the Bush administration to isolate Iran had failed, "so what we are going to try to do is do something different." He said he hoped to begin negotiations with Tehran soon, after Iran holds elections next month. Iran's leaders have so far rebuffed his efforts to reach out to them and toughened their rhetoric.
Obama set a rough timetable for his diplomatic outreach to Iran for the first time on Monday. "The important thing is to make sure there is a clear timetable," he said. "By the end of the year we should have some sense whether or not these discussions [involving Iran] are starting to yield significant benefits." Obama also said he was not closing off a "range of steps" against Iran, including sanctions, if it continues its nuclear program, which Washington believes is aimed at producing an atomic weapon but Tehran says is for peaceful purposes.
He also held out the prospect of tougher sanctions against Tehran "to ensure that Iran understands we are serious." Obama stressed that attempts by the Bush administration to isolate Iran had failed, "so what we are going to try to do is do something different." He said he hoped to begin negotiations with Tehran soon, after Iran holds elections next month. Iran's leaders have so far rebuffed his efforts to reach out to them and toughened their rhetoric.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Two States will lead to Collapse of Israel
Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon Abbas Zaki: Two-State Solution Will Lead to the Collapse of Israel: "With the two-state solution, in my opinion, Israel will collapse, because if they get out of Jerusalem, what will become of all the talk about the Promised Land and the Chosen People? What will become of all the sacrifices they made – just to be told to leave? They consider Jerusalem to have a spiritual status. The Jews consider Judea and Samaria to be their historic dream. If the Jews leave those places, the Zionist idea will begin to collapse...
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Abbas: Man of Peace??
Fear causes Abbas to delay new gov't... read more May. 14, 2009
Khaled Abu Toameh , THE JERUSALEM POST
Khaled Abu Toameh , THE JERUSALEM POST
Christians who face the Church's tragic legacy
Christians who face the Church's tragic legacy
May. 13, 2009
MALCOLM HEDDING , THE JERUSALEM POST
Like so many of my Israeli friends, I too have been disappointed with the pope's visit to Jerusalem this week... read more
May. 13, 2009
MALCOLM HEDDING , THE JERUSALEM POST
Like so many of my Israeli friends, I too have been disappointed with the pope's visit to Jerusalem this week... read more
PA has not changed
We Fooled You, We Intend to Destroy You. So Now What Will You Give Us?
Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal.
When talking among themselves and in Arabic, Middle East radicals often "let their hair down," to use the English-language idiom, meaning talk frankly about how they are fooling the dumb rubes in the West and what their real goals are... during the Oslo peace process era, from 1994 to 2000, Israel admitted more than 200,000 Palestinians to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...read more
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Read this Bibi
by Irwin N. Graulich
May 14, 2009
Monday, May 18th, 2009...a day that will live in infamy. How do you tell President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton and Special Envoy Mitchell that a Palestinian State simply will not work? How does Benjamin Netanyahu explain to the American Liberal that compromise for the creation of a 49th Muslim nation is the kiss of death?....
http://www.jewishindy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9952 read more
May 14, 2009
Monday, May 18th, 2009...a day that will live in infamy. How do you tell President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton and Special Envoy Mitchell that a Palestinian State simply will not work? How does Benjamin Netanyahu explain to the American Liberal that compromise for the creation of a 49th Muslim nation is the kiss of death?....
http://www.jewishindy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9952 read more
All pigs must die
because they descend from Jews:
According to Egyptian Islamic scholar
According to Egyptian Islamic scholar
by Itamar Marcus & Barbara Crook, May 13, 2009
All pigs alive today are descendants of the Jews who were turned into
pigs by Allah, according to a senior Egyptian religious leader. Since
all pigs are descendants of Jews, it is obligatory to kill all pigs,
says Sheikh Ahmed Ali Othman.
Presumably if pigs were merely animals, they would not face destruction.
It is their Jewish ancestry that condemns them to death...
Jews first then Christians
Ignoring the Real Causes of Christian Exodus 
Pope Benedict’s visit to Israel this week has increased media attention on the plight of Christians in the Middle East and their declining...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Demography Governs Policy
Demography has been used in Israel for decades by both left and right to
advance and justify policies in the territories and regarding borders.
Early advocates of a withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank, for
example, cited, in addition to moral arguments, the fear that Arabs
would eventually outnumber Jews in the land under Israeli control...
advance and justify policies in the territories and regarding borders.
Early advocates of a withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank, for
example, cited, in addition to moral arguments, the fear that Arabs
would eventually outnumber Jews in the land under Israeli control...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
NY Times: Advice for Bibi
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An Agenda for Mr. Netanyahu
May 11, 2009
President Obama has set clear and appropriate priorities ahead of the visit to Washington on May 18 by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. read moreMonday, May 11, 2009
PA Muslim Leader
The Fatah-appointed sheikh, then-chairman of the PA's Islamic Law
Council, stated, "The Jews are destined to be persecuted, humiliated,
and tortured forever, and it is a Muslim duty to see to it that they
reap their due. No petty arguments must be allowed to divide us. Where
Hitler failed, we must succeed."
Council, stated, "The Jews are destined to be persecuted, humiliated,
and tortured forever, and it is a Muslim duty to see to it that they
reap their due. No petty arguments must be allowed to divide us. Where
Hitler failed, we must succeed."
Tamimi has also called on Muslims to pray for the destruction of the
United States...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131305 read more
Will Bibi Cave-in?
Bibi must inform Obama Israel no shtetl that can be bullied into submission
Martin Sherman
“…An increasingly intolerant and hostile world…thinks sacrificing Israel’s vital interests or even the state itself would be a small price to pay for ending the global confrontation between the West and Islamic fundamentalism.” (Prof. Eytan Gilboa, October 2006)
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3714381,00.html read more
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Peace for Peace with Syria
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of Russian-language reporters Thursday that Israel will never withdraw from the Golan Heights.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1084397.html read more
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1084397.html read more
Did Israel Policy Create Anti-Zionists??
The paradox of Israel's pursuit of might.
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 9 May 2009
Forty years ago, I was enraptured by Israel's courageous sense of mission. For me today, as for many, that idealism has palled. I first visited Israel in 1969. It was a time when much of the western world was still passionately enthused about the country's triumph in the 1967 six-day war. President Nasser had for years promised to sweep the Israelis into the sea. Instead, the tiny Jewish state, less than 20 years old, had engaged the armies of three Arab nations, and crushingly defeated them all. The Israelis successively smashed through Nasser's divisions on the western front, scaled and seized the Golan Heights, and snatched east Jerusalem and the West Bank in the face of Hussein's highly capable Jordanian army. Sinai was left strewn with the boots of fleeing Egyptians. read more
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 9 May 2009
Forty years ago, I was enraptured by Israel's courageous sense of mission. For me today, as for many, that idealism has palled. I first visited Israel in 1969. It was a time when much of the western world was still passionately enthused about the country's triumph in the 1967 six-day war. President Nasser had for years promised to sweep the Israelis into the sea. Instead, the tiny Jewish state, less than 20 years old, had engaged the armies of three Arab nations, and crushingly defeated them all. The Israelis successively smashed through Nasser's divisions on the western front, scaled and seized the Golan Heights, and snatched east Jerusalem and the West Bank in the face of Hussein's highly capable Jordanian army. Sinai was left strewn with the boots of fleeing Egyptians. read more
How Dare the Jews Dig in King David's Backyard?
Parks Fortify Israel's Claim to Jerusalem
ETHAN BRONNER and ISABEL KERSHNERPublished: Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 5:13 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 5:13 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 5:13 a.m.
JERUSALEM — Israel is quietly carrying out a $100 million, multiyear development plan in some of the most significant religious and national heritage sites just outside the walled Old City here as part of an effort to strengthen the status of Jerusalem as its capital.
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Palestinians sit among billboards promoting park space on land widely seen as the ancient capital of the biblical King David.
Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times
The plan, parts of which have been outsourced to a private group that is simultaneously buying up Palestinian property for Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem, has drawn almost no public or international scrutiny. However, certain elements related to it — the threatened destruction of unauthorized Palestinian housing in the redevelopment areas, for example — have brought widespread condemnation.
But as Pope Benedict XVI prepares to visit Christian sites here this week and as the Obama administration promotes a Palestinian state with parts of Jerusalem as its capital, Israeli activity in the area, known as the holy basin — land both inside and just outside the Old City — will be cause for growing concern and friction.
"Everything Israel does now will be highly contentious," said Robert H. Serry, the United Nations special Middle East coordinator, on a recent tour of East Jerusalem. He warned the Israeli authorities "not to take actions that could pour oil on the fire."
Friday, May 8, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Lovely Balanced Headline
New York Times
World Briefing | Middle East
Gaza Militants and Israel Exchange Fire
What Are the Mullahs Up To?
May 7, 2009 6:30 AM | Nicholas Guariglia
Foreign Policy Analyst and Columnist
What Are the Mullahs Up To?
Be forewarned: the possibility exists that Ayatollah Khamenei is using Mir-Hossein Mousavi as a sham presidential contestant forWednesday, May 6, 2009
New Arab "Peace" Plan??
Report: Arabs drafting 'moderate' peace initiative by Roee Nahmias
Al-Quds al-Arabi quotes Palestinian sources as saying that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan revising Arab peace plan at Obama's request to make it acceptable to US, Israel; new initiative to call for settling Palestinian refugees in Arab countries, future Palestinian state
Al-Quds al-Arabi quotes Palestinian sources as saying that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan revising Arab peace plan at Obama's request to make it acceptable to US, Israel; new initiative to call for settling Palestinian refugees in Arab countries, future Palestinian state
Quoting Palestinian sources, the London-based Arabic language newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi reported Wednesday that the leaders of the moderate Arab countries are revising the Saudi peace initiative in order to make it more acceptable to Israel.
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Far Out?
Obama's Plan to Destroy Israel
Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and freelance commentator.
If there's one thing that the Carter Administration can be given credit for, it's creating the new wave of Islamist terrorism, both Sunni, operating out of Afghanistan, and Shiite, operating out of Iran. The Carter Administration cracked down on Israel and put its "faith" in Muslim terrorists, who then went on to wage war on America, even while Carter was in office.
Today, thanks in part to the Carter Administration, they control several countries and have designs on several more. From Pakistan to Afghanistan, from Gaza to Lebanon, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia, the threat is very real and bigger than ever particularly as the race by both Sunni and Shiite groups to build and deploy nuclear weapons continues...read more
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2009/05/obamas-plan-to-destroy-israel.html
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Netanyahu: Peace and Security
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| Last update - 11:43 05/05/2009 Netanyahu to AIPAC: We want peace with Arab worldBy Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz Correspondent In an unexpectedly short speech before AIPAC's policy conference delegates late Monday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated his desire to pursue Mideast peace talks, and voiced his concern over Iran's progressing nuclear program.... "Peace will not come without security, so I want to be very clear - we shall never compromise on Israel's security. Second, for a final peace settlement to be achieved, the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state. They must recognize Israel as a nation state of the Jewish people." read more http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=1083175 |
Obama the Untested
A look ahead to the crises—from Russian power plays to Israeli military strikes—that could really show us what the president is made of.
The American media has just released an avalanche of reports assessing President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office. Ignore it all. It doesn’t matter. The revealing part of his presidency hasn’t begun yet. At about this point in his presidency, George W. Bush had, with the help of his secretary of state, Colin Powell, just won the release of the crew of a U.S. spy plane from China, leading the world media elite to declare Bush a pragmatic president in foreign affairs, and Powell his most important advisor. As for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, it was said that he would be gone by summer—a short-serving and utterly forgettable secretary of defense. 9/11, of course, still lay in the future.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905u/kaplan-obama-100-days
Pakistan and Hamastan
MK Katz: Pakistan Situation Proves Dangers of 2-State Solution
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff to U.S. President Barack Obama, told a large group of AIPAC supporters on Sunday that American efforts to stop Iran’s nuclear program depend on progress in Israel’s peace talks with the Palestinian Authority. So reported Channel One’s Mabat TV news report.
MK Yaakov Katz, chairman of the Ichud Leumi (National Union) party, says the veiled threat by Emanuel should be rebuffed and exposed for what it is: “He is basically telling Israel to commit suicide in exchange for American consent to consider dealing with the Iranian threat to the world.
What Emanuel is saying is that in order for the U.S. to agree to act against the nuclear program that threatens not only Israel, but entire other nations around the world, the price is that Israel should commit suicide - i.e., we must agree to a two-state solution that will see Hamas threatening us with its missiles not only from Gaza, as it is now, but from the very heart of Israel as well, in Judea and Samaria.”...
read more http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131196Sunday, May 3, 2009
Definition of Israel
Barriers to Equality: the Arabs in Israel
Hasson Shlomo and Karayanni Michael 2006Which do you prefer? Israel is a
Jewish democratic state
Jewish democratic state with a national Arab minority
or
Jewish democratic, multicultural state
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
AIPAC Case Dropped
The New York Times story today on the dropping of the government case against the AIPAC lobbyists Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman comes in separate parts, not entirely signaled by paragraph breaks or outward format. The report by Neil A. Lewis and David Johnston sets out to answer three questions. What was this investigation about? Who is pleased and who displeased by the reversal? And why was the case dropped at just this moment? ...
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IMAM
The 12th Imam: What Is An Imam?
What is the 12th Imam? According to Islamic belief, an Imam is an anointed leader or ruler. Especially among the Shia beliefs an Imam is thought (though not required), to be a prayer leader or cleric when the word is capitalized...
The Shiite interpretation is that only Allah can appoint an Imam and no man has the power to do so. The 12th Imam is said to be a descendent of the Prophet Muhammad, having divine status as did each of this succession of sons. The 12th Imam is also called the Hidden Imam and the Mahdi (guided one).
What is the 12th Imam? According to Islamic belief, an Imam is an anointed leader or ruler. Especially among the Shia beliefs an Imam is thought (though not required), to be a prayer leader or cleric when the word is capitalized...
The Shiite interpretation is that only Allah can appoint an Imam and no man has the power to do so. The 12th Imam is said to be a descendent of the Prophet Muhammad, having divine status as did each of this succession of sons. The 12th Imam is also called the Hidden Imam and the Mahdi (guided one).
The 12th Imam: Who Is The 12th Imam?
Within the Shiite, (which is predominate in Iran), it is prophesied that there is a coming 12th Imam who is the great spiritual savior. This Imam is named Abu al-Qasim Muhammad or also called Muhammad al Mahdi. He is said to have been born the son of the 11th Imam, Hasan Al-Askari and his wife, the granddaughter of an Emperor. There are conflicting statements of her name being either Fatima or Nargis Khatoon...It said he has been ‘in hiding’ in caves ever since but will supernaturally return just before the Day of Judgment. According to the Hadith the criteria for the Hidden Imam are:
- He will be a descendant of Muhammad and the son of Fatima
- Will have a broad forehead and pointed nose
- Will return just before the end of the world
- His appearance will be preceded by a number of prophetic events during 3 years of horrendous world chaos, tyranny and oppression
- Will escape from Madina to Mekkah, thousands will pledge allegiance to him
- Will rule over the Arabs and the world for 7 years
- Will eradicate all tyranny and oppression bringing harmony and total peace
- Will lead a prayer in Mekkah which Jesus will be at his side and follow in
The 12th Imam: Why Is This Especially Important Now?
While Christians look for Jesus’ 2nd coming, the Jews await the Messiah and Muslims await the 12th Imam. However, of the three, Allah’s designated Mahdi is the only one who demands a violent path to conquer the world. Mr. Ahmadinejad, and his cabinet, say they have a ‘signed contract’ with al Mahdi in which they pledge themselves to his work. What does this work involve? In light of concerns over Iran’s nuclear capabilities, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reportedly stated Israel should be wiped off the map...
This notion and goal, along with a violent hatred of infidels, America and Israel reminds us of Biblical prophecies of the coming anti-Christ and the pledges of millions to a deceiving False Messiah who will claim to bring peace. Could this 12th Imam Mahdi and his servant Ahmadinejad spark the last days of the coming true Savior? "http://www.allaboutpopularissues.org/12th-imam.htm">read more
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