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
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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
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