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...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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.
... http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3711551,00.html read more
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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