Elul 11, 5770, 21 August 10 10:44, by David Lev
(Israelnationalnews.com) The United States on Friday announced that direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority would resume at the beginning of September. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that she invited Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and PA chief Mahmoud Abbas “to relaunch direction negotiations to resolve all final status issues, which we believe can be completed within one year.” The talks will kick off with a peace summit, which Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah will also attend.
World leaders praised the renewed talks, with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon saying in a statement Saturday that “we should all be aware that this is an opportunity that must not be wasted.” EU leaders made similar statements, with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle that “it's now up to the two parties to look ahead and have the courage to find solutions for all the key open questions.”
However, problems arose immediately after the announcement. Talks on the major issues are supposed to proceed on September 2nd, after the invited leaders get together for the summit a day earlier. Reports Saturday night said that there was not yet any agreement on the specific issues that would be discussed after the initial summit, where the working talks would take place, or at what level. In addition, PA officials saying that they would not participate in the talks if the building freeze in Judea and Samaria was not extended, while the Netanyahu government has pledged numerous times not to extend the freeze when it expires in late September. Speaking Friday, Clinton said that “without a doubt we will hit more obstacles. The enemies of peace will keep trying to defeat us and to derail these talks.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu welcomed the inception of talks, with a statement by his office saying that “the prime minister has been calling for direct negotiations for the past year and a half. He was pleased with the American clarification that the talks would be without preconditions.” Hamas denounced the talks immediately, saying its representatives would not attend, even if they were invited. “The Palestinian people will not feel bound by the results of this misleading invitation,” a Hamas spokesperson said.
Reaction was mixed on the right in Israel on the renewal of talks. MK Ofer Akunis, head of the Likud's response team, said that the American announcement was “a great victory for Israel. It took a year and a half to convince the international community and the Palestinians that direct talks is the only way to achieve a settlement. This is further evidence that when you stand up for your principles, you achieve diplomatic results.”
MK Danny Danon (Likud) said that the announcement was a positive one, assuming that Israel stated its positions clearly - “peace with the Palestinians, but without a separate Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria with its capital in Jerusalem, a Palestinian recognition of our rights in the Land of Israel, and no right of return. The Prime Minister must clarify to President Obama that Israel will not participate in diplomatic games that raise false hopes, based on positions that are against the will of the Israeli public.”
On Saturday night, Yesha Council head Danny Dayan said that “since the U.S. has stated that all the core issues will be discussed, Israel must inform the administration that it will not discuss dividing Jerusalem, removal of settlements, a return to the 1967 border, or the return of refugees.”
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Lieberman: I expressed the facts and public opinion
By REBECCA ANNA STOIL AND JPOST.COM STAFF, 28/09/2010
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday that the Palestinians are not interested in peace and the time has come for Israel to stop blaming itself for failing to achieve peace.
Lieberman made the comments during an interview with Channel 2 news while defending comments he made earlier at the UN General Assembly.
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In his speech before the General Assembly, Lieberman told international leaders that he believed that Israel must arrive at an interim agreement with the Palestinians, that peace would only be possible after a number of decades, and that an ultimate agreement would require population and territorial exchanges.
The foreign minister said during the Channel 2 interview that at the UN he talked about the facts and expressed the opinions of "the majority of the Israeli public" on the issue of peace negotiations.
He said that everyone wants peace and "maybe the time has come to change the direction of negotiations."
"Peace needs to come naturally, its like a premature birth - if it comes to early then it can be dangerous," Lieberman said.
Prime Minister Netanyahu's office distanced itself almost immediately from the remarks by informing the media that his speech had not been coordinated with Netanyahu.
Despite Netanyahu’s speedy disassociation from the controversial statements made by Lieberman, Kadima jumped to the bit, accusing the prime minister of failing to maintain a united coalition on issues of foreign policy.
“The “A” Prime Minister Netanyahu talks about a final agreement and two states, Prime Minister “B” Lieberman speaks about an interim agreement and population exchange, while Prime Minister “C” Yishai does not believe in an agreement,” mocked MK Yoel Hasson (Kadima). “The Netanyahu government speaks with a number of voices and it seems as though Prime Minister Netanyahu represents only his own perspective. This shows Netanyahu’s weakness, as he is unable to advance his stance among his ministers and his coalition partners. This is a government without a head, without a leader, and without a direction.”
MK Nahman Shai (Kadima) echoed Hasson’s statements, saying that “the Prime Minister needs to decide if he is running a country or conducting a choir. The foreign minister’s statements are in complete opposition to the declared policies of the government, both regarding the connection between the Iranian problem and the peace process, as well as in his reference to the process as a gesture to the world community rather than as a vital Israeli interest.”
MK Majalee Whbee (Kadima) took his criticism a step further, blasting not simply Lieberman’s comments, but also describing Netanyahu’s response as “flaccid”, saying that it was an “additional proof that Netanyahu prefers coalitional peace over regional peace.”
Kadima was not the only party in the coalition to take the opportunity to attack Lieberman’s statements. “It is known that he who places the mission of peace on the next generation strives for war and not for peace,” complained Meretz Faction Chairman MK Ilan Gilon.
Gilon said that Israel must reach a holistic solution with the Palestinians, but that Lieberman is trying to do harm to any future agreement, leaving Israel as a policy of eternal warfare. “It is clear that the fundamentalist forces are the enemy of democracy, and they must be addressed through a strategic alliance with Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, alongside an agreement with the Palestinians while strengthening the Palestinian Authority against its enemies at home.”
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Netanyahu, Heed Thyself!
Tishrei 16, 5771, 24 September 10 08:15, by David Isaac
(Israelnationalnews.com) Since his policy speech at Bar-Ilan University on June 14, 2009, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that Israel be given security guarantees in order for there to be any “real peace agreement.” He repeated this insistence at the opening of peace talks on Sept. 2nd, referring to guarantees as one of the “twin pillars of peace.”
That Netanyahu would want to build a peace agreement on a foundation of security guarantees is surprising, to say the least, given the long and ignominious history of such guarantees. Whether in the form of peacekeepers, demilitarized zones or promises of aid in times of crisis, security guarantees have evaporated like mist at precisely the moment when Israel most needed them.
Security guarantees have always been no more than a sop given by the U.S. during negotiations to lure Israel into making dangerous territorial concessions. One may add that such guarantees were in turn used by Israel’s leaders as a sop to convince a skeptical Israeli public to go along with such concessions.
In his book “Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine,” (Bantam Books, 1973), Shmuel wrote about the history of international guarantees and how they have ill-served Israel’s interests.
When Israel’s birth was threatened by Arab invasion in 1948 and she repelled the Egyptians, she was browbeaten into withdrawing from Sinai, then cajoled into leaving the Gaza area in Egyptian hands. In return, she secured an Armistice Agreement that turned out to be worthless, a worldwide Arab boycott, and a heavy toll of life from endemic Arab forays across the Armistice lines. In 1956-1957, the pattern was repeated.
Forced for the first time to take preemptive action against the immediate threat of attack, and having then driven the Egyptians from Sinai and the Gaza area, Israel was persuaded by Western guarantees and finally lulled by a United Nations military presence into handing Sinai and the Gaza Strip to Egypt once more.
The threat of the Arab onslaught resounding throughout the world in the spring of 1967, and the Egyptians’ closure of the Straits of Tiran, were followed by an incredible international response. The United Nations force in Sinai and Gaza – established as an international “guarantee” for Israel in 1957 – was immediately withdrawn at a word of command from Cairo. The American President could not find in the state archives the record of promises made ten years earlier to insure Israel’s freedom of navigation. The American President and the British Prime Minister together were unable to get the United Nations Security Council (including the members who had joined in that promise) to consider the Egyptians’ demonstrative flouting of that freedom. Overnight, the gossamer safeguards by which Israel had been deluded were blown away.
In “Peril in Sinai” (The Jerusalem Post, Jan. 22, 1982), Shmuel described how Israel awoke to the danger of relying on guarantees after the Six Day War. Quoting Abba Eban, then foreign minister, in a speech he gave to the UN General Assembly shortly after the war, Shmuel wrote:
“What is the use of a fire brigade which vanishes from the scene as soon as the first smoke and flames appear? Is it surprising that we are firmly resolved never again to allow a vital Israel interest and our very security to rest on such a fragile foundation?”
Eban spoke then for all Israel, and his undertaking was unequivocal: that no government in Israel would ever allow itself to forget what happened in 1967, nor ever again rest any part of the security of the state or the lives of its people on the assurances and guarantees of other peoples.
Unfortunately, the awakening was all too brief. Commenting on the Begin government’s determination to evacuate the Sinai, Shmuel added:
That agonized declaration, that bold assurance of future steadfastness in the face of foreign promises, has been swept away like chaff in the wind. In the Israeli Government’s headlong rush towards the disaster of the surrender of Sinai, it embraced anew the transparent illusion that an international force would be an effective barrier to renewed Arab aggression.
Today, Netanyahu doesn’t talk of an international force (that will come later) but of demilitarization. He said in his Bar-Ilan speech, “We are now asking our friends in the international community, headed by the USA, for what is necessary for our security, that in any peace agreement, the Palestinian area must be demilitarized. No army, no control of air space. … I told President Obama in Washington, if we get a guarantee of demilitarization, and if the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state, we are ready to agree to a real peace agreement, a demilitarized Palestinian state side by side with the Jewish state.”
But demilitarization is of little value. In “Peril In Sinai,” Shmuel wrote:
Former chief of staff Haim Bar-Lev — in criticizing the surrender of Sinai on security grounds — pointed out that “all security arrangements, from demilitarization to the presence of UN forces, have one single value: a so-many-hours’ warning. Even if all of Sinai is demilitarized, and there are large numbers of UN forces and an infinite number of American early-warning stations, the military value is of half a day, at most a day of warning”.
“Demilitarization,” Shmuel said, “becomes a fiction precisely when the aggressor decides that he no longer needs it.” What’s more, the Arabs would never accept demilitarization because it defeats their purpose. As he wrote in “Sharon’s Egregious Blunder” (The Jerusalem Post, Jan. 3, 2003):
If Israel were to reach the nadir of political inanity of actually helping to establish a state for the Palestinian Arabs, the Arabs would reject with all vigor the idea that their state would be hobbled by a denial of major armaments. No less emphatic would be the hostile reaction of a large segment of the European and other nations.
Even friends, appalled and distressed, would find themselves bound, albeit reluctantly, to deplore such a limitation of sovereignty. They would find it intolerable.
For the Arabs the military issue is doubly critical. First because the very idea of demilitarization would be regarded as a blow to their honor; second, because a sovereign state has never been the ultimate purpose of Arab policy. The purpose is the destruction of Israel. A state could represent only the penultimate ‘phase’ in the policy of phases. It could be the staging ground – with a large and variegated arsenal – for the ‘final phase.’ That is the original Arab game plan.
Netanyahu knows this. It wasn’t long ago that he ridiculed the idea of demilitarization himself. In a May 12, 2002 speech to the Likud Central Committee, he argued against then-Prime Minister Sharon’s implied support for a demilitarized Palestinian Arab state.
“[I]t [the Palestinian state] will demand all the powers of a state, such as controlling borders, bringing in weapons, control of airspace and the ability to knock down any Israeli plane that enters its area, the ability to sign peace treaties and military alliances with other countries.
“Once you give them a state, you give them all these things, even if there is an agreement to the contrary, for within a short time they will demand all these things, and they will assume these powers, and the world will stand by and do nothing but it will stop us from trying to stop them…We will thus have created with our own hands a threat to our very existence. What will happen if the Palestinians do what the Germans did after World War I, when they nullified the demilitarized zone? The world did nothing then, and the world will do nothing now as well.”
Listening to Netanyahu then, one would have felt sure that once in power he would not have adopted the same stance as Sharon. But, alas, in this world, there are no guarantees.
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Lieberman at UN: Peace Decades Away, Can be Based on Land Swap
Tishrei 20, 5771, 28 September 10 07:28, by Gil Ronen
(Israelnationalnews.com) Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told the nations of the world Tuesday that peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority would not be achieved anytime soon. The Prime Minister's Office said Lieberman was not speaking for the Prime Minister.
In his address before the United Nations General Assembly, Lieberman said that a peace treaty dividing the Land of Israel between Jews and Arabs would not be signed in the next few decades. The sides would do best to reach a long term temporary agreement at this point, he explained.
Lieberman said that a long term temporary agreement will enable the Palestinian Authority to achieve economic growth and enjoy freedom of movement. It will make it possible, he added, for new generations of Jews and Arabs who are not raised on hatred and incitement, to reach peace several decades hence.
A permanent agreement, Lieberman said, must be based on land swaps that would involve population swaps. Lieberman stressed that he was referring to redrawing the borders in a way that reflects demographics, and not to actually moving populations from their current locations.
The PMO said that Lieberman's speech was not coordinated beforehand with the Prime Minister. In a response to journalists' questions, the PMO said that “the Prime Minister is the one directing the diplomatic negotiations in Israel's name.”
Lieberman also said that those who say that a solution to the Iranian threat depends on a solution to the conflict between Israel and the PA has things backward. Defeating the radical regime in Teheran, he explained, would also bring down Hamas, which receives its marching orders from Iran – and make peace more attainable.
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(Israelnationalnews.com) Since his policy speech at Bar-Ilan University on June 14, 2009, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that Israel be given security guarantees in order for there to be any “real peace agreement.” He repeated this insistence at the opening of peace talks on Sept. 2nd, referring to guarantees as one of the “twin pillars of peace.”
That Netanyahu would want to build a peace agreement on a foundation of security guarantees is surprising, to say the least, given the long and ignominious history of such guarantees. Whether in the form of peacekeepers, demilitarized zones or promises of aid in times of crisis, security guarantees have evaporated like mist at precisely the moment when Israel most needed them.
Security guarantees have always been no more than a sop given by the U.S. during negotiations to lure Israel into making dangerous territorial concessions. One may add that such guarantees were in turn used by Israel’s leaders as a sop to convince a skeptical Israeli public to go along with such concessions.
In his book “Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine,” (Bantam Books, 1973), Shmuel wrote about the history of international guarantees and how they have ill-served Israel’s interests.
When Israel’s birth was threatened by Arab invasion in 1948 and she repelled the Egyptians, she was browbeaten into withdrawing from Sinai, then cajoled into leaving the Gaza area in Egyptian hands. In return, she secured an Armistice Agreement that turned out to be worthless, a worldwide Arab boycott, and a heavy toll of life from endemic Arab forays across the Armistice lines. In 1956-1957, the pattern was repeated.
Forced for the first time to take preemptive action against the immediate threat of attack, and having then driven the Egyptians from Sinai and the Gaza area, Israel was persuaded by Western guarantees and finally lulled by a United Nations military presence into handing Sinai and the Gaza Strip to Egypt once more.
The threat of the Arab onslaught resounding throughout the world in the spring of 1967, and the Egyptians’ closure of the Straits of Tiran, were followed by an incredible international response. The United Nations force in Sinai and Gaza – established as an international “guarantee” for Israel in 1957 – was immediately withdrawn at a word of command from Cairo. The American President could not find in the state archives the record of promises made ten years earlier to insure Israel’s freedom of navigation. The American President and the British Prime Minister together were unable to get the United Nations Security Council (including the members who had joined in that promise) to consider the Egyptians’ demonstrative flouting of that freedom. Overnight, the gossamer safeguards by which Israel had been deluded were blown away.
In “Peril in Sinai” (The Jerusalem Post, Jan. 22, 1982), Shmuel described how Israel awoke to the danger of relying on guarantees after the Six Day War. Quoting Abba Eban, then foreign minister, in a speech he gave to the UN General Assembly shortly after the war, Shmuel wrote:
“What is the use of a fire brigade which vanishes from the scene as soon as the first smoke and flames appear? Is it surprising that we are firmly resolved never again to allow a vital Israel interest and our very security to rest on such a fragile foundation?”
Eban spoke then for all Israel, and his undertaking was unequivocal: that no government in Israel would ever allow itself to forget what happened in 1967, nor ever again rest any part of the security of the state or the lives of its people on the assurances and guarantees of other peoples.
Unfortunately, the awakening was all too brief. Commenting on the Begin government’s determination to evacuate the Sinai, Shmuel added:
That agonized declaration, that bold assurance of future steadfastness in the face of foreign promises, has been swept away like chaff in the wind. In the Israeli Government’s headlong rush towards the disaster of the surrender of Sinai, it embraced anew the transparent illusion that an international force would be an effective barrier to renewed Arab aggression.
Today, Netanyahu doesn’t talk of an international force (that will come later) but of demilitarization. He said in his Bar-Ilan speech, “We are now asking our friends in the international community, headed by the USA, for what is necessary for our security, that in any peace agreement, the Palestinian area must be demilitarized. No army, no control of air space. … I told President Obama in Washington, if we get a guarantee of demilitarization, and if the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state, we are ready to agree to a real peace agreement, a demilitarized Palestinian state side by side with the Jewish state.”
But demilitarization is of little value. In “Peril In Sinai,” Shmuel wrote:
Former chief of staff Haim Bar-Lev — in criticizing the surrender of Sinai on security grounds — pointed out that “all security arrangements, from demilitarization to the presence of UN forces, have one single value: a so-many-hours’ warning. Even if all of Sinai is demilitarized, and there are large numbers of UN forces and an infinite number of American early-warning stations, the military value is of half a day, at most a day of warning”.
“Demilitarization,” Shmuel said, “becomes a fiction precisely when the aggressor decides that he no longer needs it.” What’s more, the Arabs would never accept demilitarization because it defeats their purpose. As he wrote in “Sharon’s Egregious Blunder” (The Jerusalem Post, Jan. 3, 2003):
If Israel were to reach the nadir of political inanity of actually helping to establish a state for the Palestinian Arabs, the Arabs would reject with all vigor the idea that their state would be hobbled by a denial of major armaments. No less emphatic would be the hostile reaction of a large segment of the European and other nations.
Even friends, appalled and distressed, would find themselves bound, albeit reluctantly, to deplore such a limitation of sovereignty. They would find it intolerable.
For the Arabs the military issue is doubly critical. First because the very idea of demilitarization would be regarded as a blow to their honor; second, because a sovereign state has never been the ultimate purpose of Arab policy. The purpose is the destruction of Israel. A state could represent only the penultimate ‘phase’ in the policy of phases. It could be the staging ground – with a large and variegated arsenal – for the ‘final phase.’ That is the original Arab game plan.
Netanyahu knows this. It wasn’t long ago that he ridiculed the idea of demilitarization himself. In a May 12, 2002 speech to the Likud Central Committee, he argued against then-Prime Minister Sharon’s implied support for a demilitarized Palestinian Arab state.
“[I]t [the Palestinian state] will demand all the powers of a state, such as controlling borders, bringing in weapons, control of airspace and the ability to knock down any Israeli plane that enters its area, the ability to sign peace treaties and military alliances with other countries.
“Once you give them a state, you give them all these things, even if there is an agreement to the contrary, for within a short time they will demand all these things, and they will assume these powers, and the world will stand by and do nothing but it will stop us from trying to stop them…We will thus have created with our own hands a threat to our very existence. What will happen if the Palestinians do what the Germans did after World War I, when they nullified the demilitarized zone? The world did nothing then, and the world will do nothing now as well.”
Listening to Netanyahu then, one would have felt sure that once in power he would not have adopted the same stance as Sharon. But, alas, in this world, there are no guarantees.
www.IsraelNationalNews.com
Lieberman at UN: Peace Decades Away, Can be Based on Land Swap
Tishrei 20, 5771, 28 September 10 07:28, by Gil Ronen
(Israelnationalnews.com) Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told the nations of the world Tuesday that peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority would not be achieved anytime soon. The Prime Minister's Office said Lieberman was not speaking for the Prime Minister.
In his address before the United Nations General Assembly, Lieberman said that a peace treaty dividing the Land of Israel between Jews and Arabs would not be signed in the next few decades. The sides would do best to reach a long term temporary agreement at this point, he explained.
Lieberman said that a long term temporary agreement will enable the Palestinian Authority to achieve economic growth and enjoy freedom of movement. It will make it possible, he added, for new generations of Jews and Arabs who are not raised on hatred and incitement, to reach peace several decades hence.
A permanent agreement, Lieberman said, must be based on land swaps that would involve population swaps. Lieberman stressed that he was referring to redrawing the borders in a way that reflects demographics, and not to actually moving populations from their current locations.
The PMO said that Lieberman's speech was not coordinated beforehand with the Prime Minister. In a response to journalists' questions, the PMO said that “the Prime Minister is the one directing the diplomatic negotiations in Israel's name.”
Lieberman also said that those who say that a solution to the Iranian threat depends on a solution to the conflict between Israel and the PA has things backward. Defeating the radical regime in Teheran, he explained, would also bring down Hamas, which receives its marching orders from Iran – and make peace more attainable.
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Sunday, September 26, 2010
Balloons, Cheers as Freeze Comes to an End
Tishrei 18, 5771, 26 September 10 08:37, by Maayana Miskin
(Israelnationalnews.com) Thousands of Likud members celebrated in the Samaria town of Revava on Sunday as the sun set and the ten-month Judea and Samaria construction freeze officially ended, at least accordin to the Hebrew calendar. Those at the rally counted backward to the moment at which the freeze was over, then released 2,000 balloons, one for each new housing unit that can now be built with no need for further approval.
MK Danny Danon (Likud) was there and led the countdown. Danon told Arutz Sheva's Hebrew-language news service that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's staff had hoped to downplay the end of the freeze, but said, “It's impossible to stop this energy.”
Earlier in the day, Danon had laid the cornerstone for a new day care building in the Kiryat Netafim neighborhood. “Today, the Likud is returning to its true path, to Menachem Begin's path of settlement,” Danon announced, invoking the name of the Likud's founding leader and its first prime minister.
Judea and Samaria (Yesha) Council head Danny Dayan addressed the crowd in Revava and said, “Today it's over, and we will do all we can to make sure this never happens again. For ten months, Israel left the path of Zionism. Israel became weaker in those months; whoever needs proof of that should look at the brutal pressure put on Israel by London and Paris and understand that our political situation has worsened.”
Deputy Minister for the Negev and Galilee Ayoub Kara (Likud) criticized the freeze as well, saying, “The freeze didn't have any benefit, not for Israel and not for the Palestinian Authority.”
MK Tzipi Hotoveli (Likud) told celebrants that the Likud was elected in order to safeguard the Land of Israel. “Tonight at midnight will be the moment of truth for Israel's leaders, today the government of Israel will be tested on its ability to keep its promises,” she said.
MK Nissim Ze'ev of Shas was also present at the Likud rally. “On this day, the entire people of Israel is unified," he proclaimed. "This is not only a worldwide Likud event, but an event for the entire people of Israel.” The country of Israel “must begin a new campaign regarding international law. All Jews in Judea and Samaria are as if they were born here, due to their historical connection. That is what should lead us when discussing our rights with the Quartet and the United Nations: we were born here, and this is our forefathers' inheritance, forever.”
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(Israelnationalnews.com) Thousands of Likud members celebrated in the Samaria town of Revava on Sunday as the sun set and the ten-month Judea and Samaria construction freeze officially ended, at least accordin to the Hebrew calendar. Those at the rally counted backward to the moment at which the freeze was over, then released 2,000 balloons, one for each new housing unit that can now be built with no need for further approval.
MK Danny Danon (Likud) was there and led the countdown. Danon told Arutz Sheva's Hebrew-language news service that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's staff had hoped to downplay the end of the freeze, but said, “It's impossible to stop this energy.”
Earlier in the day, Danon had laid the cornerstone for a new day care building in the Kiryat Netafim neighborhood. “Today, the Likud is returning to its true path, to Menachem Begin's path of settlement,” Danon announced, invoking the name of the Likud's founding leader and its first prime minister.
Judea and Samaria (Yesha) Council head Danny Dayan addressed the crowd in Revava and said, “Today it's over, and we will do all we can to make sure this never happens again. For ten months, Israel left the path of Zionism. Israel became weaker in those months; whoever needs proof of that should look at the brutal pressure put on Israel by London and Paris and understand that our political situation has worsened.”
Deputy Minister for the Negev and Galilee Ayoub Kara (Likud) criticized the freeze as well, saying, “The freeze didn't have any benefit, not for Israel and not for the Palestinian Authority.”
MK Tzipi Hotoveli (Likud) told celebrants that the Likud was elected in order to safeguard the Land of Israel. “Tonight at midnight will be the moment of truth for Israel's leaders, today the government of Israel will be tested on its ability to keep its promises,” she said.
MK Nissim Ze'ev of Shas was also present at the Likud rally. “On this day, the entire people of Israel is unified," he proclaimed. "This is not only a worldwide Likud event, but an event for the entire people of Israel.” The country of Israel “must begin a new campaign regarding international law. All Jews in Judea and Samaria are as if they were born here, due to their historical connection. That is what should lead us when discussing our rights with the Quartet and the United Nations: we were born here, and this is our forefathers' inheritance, forever.”
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
Time to Topple Netanyahu
Tishrei 14, 5771, 22 September 10 03:20, by David Shalom
(Israelnationalnews.com) Time has come to topple Netanyahu and install a leader not afraid to champion Israel’s interests and fulfil his basic duty of defending the country. Bibi should have to fear the National Camp more than the Left, he must fear the Jews more than the Arabs.
Benjamin“Bibi” Netanyahu as leader of the Likud and thus the rightist “national camp” has in practice been leading one of the most leftist governments in Israel’s history and time has come for his camp to admit this and work for his speedy retirement.
Let us consider his actions over the past two years to get an accurate picture of the process of decline that has led the leader of the Right to be the champion for the leftist defeatists in Israel today.
Before the February 10, 2009 elections Netanyahu managed to reduce the Likud from a consistent lead in the polls (of 33-35 Knesset seats) to a low of 27, one less than Kadima. This was due to his fear of challenging Kadima and calling it a far left party and his disgraceful machinations against the nationalists within his own party. Bibi was hungry for power and more than willing to share this with Kadima and thus didn’t challenge its poor record in office. It would have been easy to highlight its failures in the two wars which it both started and lost (without any planning or strategic considerations) and allowed the myth of Kadima and its third-class leader to remain immune from the ridicule and scrutiny she rightly deserved.
This meant that although the National Camp won a large majority (65 seats compared to 44 for the Left and 11 for the Arab parties) he had effectively reduced the power of the Right and given Kadima (which in truth is an extreme-left party as evidenced by Olmert’s own revelations today that he was willing to surrender Jerusalem and allow the inward migration of tens of thousands of hostile Arabs into “Israel proper”) the status of the leading opposition party. Bibi’s cowardly silence allowed Kadima to falsely position itself as a centrist party with the aid of its friends in Israel’s leftist media circles.
On the 14 June 2009, shortly after forming his government, Netanyahu spoke to the world in what has notoriously became known as his Bar-Ilan speech. Here the prime minister accepted the PLO charter and tore up the platform of the Likud and the entire camp he nominally leads. He accepted the fallacy of a “Palestinian people”- even though this Arab propaganda lie was created and still remains in place to delegitimize Israel and to create a 23rd Arab state in place of her. He accepted the lie and stated his intention to build a 23rd Arab state in the heart of the Land of Israel. He then tried to placate his supporters by saying such an entity will be “de-militarised” as if he would be able to dictate the national affairs of a separate sovereign country once created.
Netanyahu betrayed the wishes of the voters who voted overwhelmingly for the National camp by bringing the Left, and by that one refers to the Labour party and its failed leader Ehud Barak in particular, into the government. By bringing Labour into government he strengthened its hand (the party fell to the historic low of 13 seats) and stopped its long- needed decline. One can only draw comparison with Rabin who, after Gulf War One (during which Arafat had supported Saddam and was the subject of general international opprobrium), revived the PLO and brought its terrorist leadership from Tunis back to the shores of Erets Yisrael . As prime minister in 1993 Rabin reinvigorated Arafat and his gang and elevated them to the status of international statesman no less. Bibi- brought back Barak, a man discredited in part because of his complete surrender to the same Arafat at Camp David in 2000 and also because of his surrender to Hizbullah of the southern security zone in Lebanon, to the fore of Israeli politics.
By making him Defence minister- arguably the second most powerful job in the entire Middle East- Barak was now to be sold as an acceptable leader to the Israeli people. Barak who caused the Oslo war (or second “intifada” as our enemies call it), who created the terror state in southern Lebanon and who failed to stop the development of a second one in Gaza is the same person who was also willing to divide Jerusalem with PLO terrorists. That this man was now charged with defending the country is an act of recklessness that cannot be easily underestimated, for the damage Barak has done will no doubt pale in comparison with the legacy of his inept and weak leadership- let us not forget this serial failure is now charged with dealing with the Iranian threat.
But Barak is not to blame, for his party secured little more than 10 percent of the vote and only half of his small party actually supports him in the Knesset (the rest being termed “rebels” by the Hebrew media). Bibi bears full responsibility as the prime minister and it seems he preferred to disproportionately give Labour 5 ministries and bestow Barak with power and privilege rather than give half a ministry to the National Union party and those loyal to the land of Israel.
The Flotilla incident, whereby Turkish terrorists seeking to send aid to Hamas, were allowed to beat Israeli commandoes armed with paintball guns, serves both as a mark of shame and a lesson to the follies in the lack of strategic leadership in Israel today. Firstly, it was known for weeks before that the IHH organisation and its supporters on the ships were hostile extremists and yet it was not considered that these people would be armed. Barak also felt it acceptable to risk his soldiers’ lives by arming them with paintball guns rather than draw negative international media fire. Of course the International media pilloried Israel anyway, and the Turks and their fundamentalist prime minister, instead of being shamed for their act of aggression continue to play victim.
Bibi allowed Barak to act, Bibi was in charge and the excuse that he was abroad at the time of the incident only makes things worse for him. The aftermath of the incident is even more shocking if not so well-reported in the international media. For instead of putting these terrorists who beat our soldiers with clubs and knives on trial- Israel promptly released them and sent them home to Turkey to receive a hero’s welcome from Erdogan and his AKP party thugs. Israel then released the ships including the Mavi Marmara itself without charge. A self respecting government would have kept the ships until the Turks paid compensation for the damage caused and covered the huge overheads incurred in the commando operation. At a minimum the cargo- intended for our Arab enemies in Gaza should have been sold and the proceeds given to the citizens of Sderot and Ashkelon who face daily rocket fire from the Gazans. Yet instead Israel transported by land this “aid” to Gaza at its own cost and of course with no mention in the international media and with the obvious instilment of further disgust in Arab eyes at the weakness of the state. It also put paid to the line that those on the ships were terrorists- for if this is the case why were they summarily released without trial?
In December 2009 Bibi acceded to American pressure on Israel by issuing an anti-Semitic edict forbidding Jews to build in parts of the Land of Israel for 10 months. This act goes against the very foundations of the Likud and his camp whose goal is to build the land of Israel and for Jews to settle every part of their ancestral home. A premier who forbids Jewish construction in the land of Israel is no Zionist and certainly no revisionist thinker, including Bibi’s own father, the respected historian and student of Jabotinsky himself, could not deny this as being anything but a betrayal. The edict contradicts international law itself- going against the League of Nations mandate of 1922 that sets aside the entire land for a Jewish national home.
Indeed no leader of the Left, not even Rabin himself, had gone so far in accepting the PLO narrative and preventing natural Jewish growth within its homeland.
The building freeze is now set to end, yet it is clear that the Hussein Obama and his administration will seek to extend this .The Arabs have done nothing in the meantime- save for their usual piracy and murder on Israel’s highways – to merit such a concession. And yet Bibi will most likely concede- for he has no backbone, for he is afraid of America and the Left and everyone except his supporters and it is this that must change.
Bibi should have to fear the National Camp more than the Left, he must fear the Jews more than the Arabs and this can be only achieved by directly challenging his leadership both from within his party and the coalition. All the parties within the National camp- including the Likud should seek a new leader (Avigdor Lieberman or Moshe Yaalon would be the best at this moment in time) and should act now to stop the impending dangers that continued weakness and surrender entail. The Right must force Labour out of the coalition- or at least the resignation of Barak and should ask Bibi to step aside or face no confidence motions.
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Russia may attend NATO summit
Tags: Russia-NATO summit , Politics, World, Russia, News, Russian-NATO relations
Sep 25, 2010 16:41 Moscow Time
In the coming November, Russia may send delegates to Lisbon to attend the next summit of NATO.
According to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, it is looking forward to fruitful discussions on terrorism, drugs, Afghanistan and possibilities to deliver on summit understandings between the Russian and the American Presidents to jointly explore and fend off common missile threats.
One more important issue is the two-year-old initiative by President Dmitri Medvedev for a binding Euro-Atlantic security treaty. Medvedev believes this treaty must guarantee equal security for all and rule out unilateralism in policing peace and quiet in Europe.
(Israelnationalnews.com) Time has come to topple Netanyahu and install a leader not afraid to champion Israel’s interests and fulfil his basic duty of defending the country. Bibi should have to fear the National Camp more than the Left, he must fear the Jews more than the Arabs.
Benjamin“Bibi” Netanyahu as leader of the Likud and thus the rightist “national camp” has in practice been leading one of the most leftist governments in Israel’s history and time has come for his camp to admit this and work for his speedy retirement.
Let us consider his actions over the past two years to get an accurate picture of the process of decline that has led the leader of the Right to be the champion for the leftist defeatists in Israel today.
Before the February 10, 2009 elections Netanyahu managed to reduce the Likud from a consistent lead in the polls (of 33-35 Knesset seats) to a low of 27, one less than Kadima. This was due to his fear of challenging Kadima and calling it a far left party and his disgraceful machinations against the nationalists within his own party. Bibi was hungry for power and more than willing to share this with Kadima and thus didn’t challenge its poor record in office. It would have been easy to highlight its failures in the two wars which it both started and lost (without any planning or strategic considerations) and allowed the myth of Kadima and its third-class leader to remain immune from the ridicule and scrutiny she rightly deserved.
This meant that although the National Camp won a large majority (65 seats compared to 44 for the Left and 11 for the Arab parties) he had effectively reduced the power of the Right and given Kadima (which in truth is an extreme-left party as evidenced by Olmert’s own revelations today that he was willing to surrender Jerusalem and allow the inward migration of tens of thousands of hostile Arabs into “Israel proper”) the status of the leading opposition party. Bibi’s cowardly silence allowed Kadima to falsely position itself as a centrist party with the aid of its friends in Israel’s leftist media circles.
On the 14 June 2009, shortly after forming his government, Netanyahu spoke to the world in what has notoriously became known as his Bar-Ilan speech. Here the prime minister accepted the PLO charter and tore up the platform of the Likud and the entire camp he nominally leads. He accepted the fallacy of a “Palestinian people”- even though this Arab propaganda lie was created and still remains in place to delegitimize Israel and to create a 23rd Arab state in place of her. He accepted the lie and stated his intention to build a 23rd Arab state in the heart of the Land of Israel. He then tried to placate his supporters by saying such an entity will be “de-militarised” as if he would be able to dictate the national affairs of a separate sovereign country once created.
Netanyahu betrayed the wishes of the voters who voted overwhelmingly for the National camp by bringing the Left, and by that one refers to the Labour party and its failed leader Ehud Barak in particular, into the government. By bringing Labour into government he strengthened its hand (the party fell to the historic low of 13 seats) and stopped its long- needed decline. One can only draw comparison with Rabin who, after Gulf War One (during which Arafat had supported Saddam and was the subject of general international opprobrium), revived the PLO and brought its terrorist leadership from Tunis back to the shores of Erets Yisrael . As prime minister in 1993 Rabin reinvigorated Arafat and his gang and elevated them to the status of international statesman no less. Bibi- brought back Barak, a man discredited in part because of his complete surrender to the same Arafat at Camp David in 2000 and also because of his surrender to Hizbullah of the southern security zone in Lebanon, to the fore of Israeli politics.
By making him Defence minister- arguably the second most powerful job in the entire Middle East- Barak was now to be sold as an acceptable leader to the Israeli people. Barak who caused the Oslo war (or second “intifada” as our enemies call it), who created the terror state in southern Lebanon and who failed to stop the development of a second one in Gaza is the same person who was also willing to divide Jerusalem with PLO terrorists. That this man was now charged with defending the country is an act of recklessness that cannot be easily underestimated, for the damage Barak has done will no doubt pale in comparison with the legacy of his inept and weak leadership- let us not forget this serial failure is now charged with dealing with the Iranian threat.
But Barak is not to blame, for his party secured little more than 10 percent of the vote and only half of his small party actually supports him in the Knesset (the rest being termed “rebels” by the Hebrew media). Bibi bears full responsibility as the prime minister and it seems he preferred to disproportionately give Labour 5 ministries and bestow Barak with power and privilege rather than give half a ministry to the National Union party and those loyal to the land of Israel.
The Flotilla incident, whereby Turkish terrorists seeking to send aid to Hamas, were allowed to beat Israeli commandoes armed with paintball guns, serves both as a mark of shame and a lesson to the follies in the lack of strategic leadership in Israel today. Firstly, it was known for weeks before that the IHH organisation and its supporters on the ships were hostile extremists and yet it was not considered that these people would be armed. Barak also felt it acceptable to risk his soldiers’ lives by arming them with paintball guns rather than draw negative international media fire. Of course the International media pilloried Israel anyway, and the Turks and their fundamentalist prime minister, instead of being shamed for their act of aggression continue to play victim.
Bibi allowed Barak to act, Bibi was in charge and the excuse that he was abroad at the time of the incident only makes things worse for him. The aftermath of the incident is even more shocking if not so well-reported in the international media. For instead of putting these terrorists who beat our soldiers with clubs and knives on trial- Israel promptly released them and sent them home to Turkey to receive a hero’s welcome from Erdogan and his AKP party thugs. Israel then released the ships including the Mavi Marmara itself without charge. A self respecting government would have kept the ships until the Turks paid compensation for the damage caused and covered the huge overheads incurred in the commando operation. At a minimum the cargo- intended for our Arab enemies in Gaza should have been sold and the proceeds given to the citizens of Sderot and Ashkelon who face daily rocket fire from the Gazans. Yet instead Israel transported by land this “aid” to Gaza at its own cost and of course with no mention in the international media and with the obvious instilment of further disgust in Arab eyes at the weakness of the state. It also put paid to the line that those on the ships were terrorists- for if this is the case why were they summarily released without trial?
In December 2009 Bibi acceded to American pressure on Israel by issuing an anti-Semitic edict forbidding Jews to build in parts of the Land of Israel for 10 months. This act goes against the very foundations of the Likud and his camp whose goal is to build the land of Israel and for Jews to settle every part of their ancestral home. A premier who forbids Jewish construction in the land of Israel is no Zionist and certainly no revisionist thinker, including Bibi’s own father, the respected historian and student of Jabotinsky himself, could not deny this as being anything but a betrayal. The edict contradicts international law itself- going against the League of Nations mandate of 1922 that sets aside the entire land for a Jewish national home.
Indeed no leader of the Left, not even Rabin himself, had gone so far in accepting the PLO narrative and preventing natural Jewish growth within its homeland.
The building freeze is now set to end, yet it is clear that the Hussein Obama and his administration will seek to extend this .The Arabs have done nothing in the meantime- save for their usual piracy and murder on Israel’s highways – to merit such a concession. And yet Bibi will most likely concede- for he has no backbone, for he is afraid of America and the Left and everyone except his supporters and it is this that must change.
Bibi should have to fear the National Camp more than the Left, he must fear the Jews more than the Arabs and this can be only achieved by directly challenging his leadership both from within his party and the coalition. All the parties within the National camp- including the Likud should seek a new leader (Avigdor Lieberman or Moshe Yaalon would be the best at this moment in time) and should act now to stop the impending dangers that continued weakness and surrender entail. The Right must force Labour out of the coalition- or at least the resignation of Barak and should ask Bibi to step aside or face no confidence motions.
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Russia may attend NATO summit
Tags: Russia-NATO summit , Politics, World, Russia, News, Russian-NATO relations
Sep 25, 2010 16:41 Moscow Time
In the coming November, Russia may send delegates to Lisbon to attend the next summit of NATO.
According to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, it is looking forward to fruitful discussions on terrorism, drugs, Afghanistan and possibilities to deliver on summit understandings between the Russian and the American Presidents to jointly explore and fend off common missile threats.
One more important issue is the two-year-old initiative by President Dmitri Medvedev for a binding Euro-Atlantic security treaty. Medvedev believes this treaty must guarantee equal security for all and rule out unilateralism in policing peace and quiet in Europe.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Transcript of Obama’s Remarks to the U.N. General Assembly on Palestine
September 23, 2010, 11:29 AM ET
Amidst this upheaval, we have also been persistent in our pursuit of peace. Last year, I pledged my best efforts to support the goal of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security, as part of a comprehensive peace between Israel and all of its neighbors. We have travelled a winding road over the last 12 months, with few peaks and many valleys. But this month, I am pleased that we have pursued direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians in Washington, Sharm el Sheikh and Jerusalem.
Now I recognize many are pessimistic about this process. The cynics say that Israelis and Palestinians are too distrustful of each other, and too divided internally, to forge lasting peace. Rejectionists on both sides will try to disrupt the process, with bitter words and with bombs and with gunfire. Some say that the gaps between the parties are too big; the potential for talks to break down is too great; and that after decades of failure, peace is simply not possible.
I hear those voices of skepticism. But I ask you to consider the alternative. If an agreement is not reached, Palestinians will never know the pride and dignity that comes with their own state. Israelis will never know the certainty and security that comes with sovereign and stable neighbors who are committed to coexistence. The hard realities of demography will take hold. More blood will be shed. This Holy Land will remain a symbol of our differences, instead of our common humanity.
I refuse to accept that future. And we all have a choice to make. Each of us must choose the path of peace. Of course, that responsibility begins with the parties themselves, who must answer the call of history. Earlier this month at the White House, I was struck by the words of both the Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “I came here today to find a historic compromise that will enable both people to live in peace, security, and dignity.” And President Abbas said, “We will spare no effort and we will work diligently and tirelessly to ensure these negotiations achieve their cause.”
These words must now be followed by action and I believe that both leaders have the courage to do so. But the road that they have to travel is exceedingly difficult, which is why I call upon Israelis and Palestinians — and the world — to rally behind the goal that these leaders now share. We know that there will be tests along the way and that one test is fast approaching. Israel’s settlement moratorium has made a difference on the ground and improved the atmosphere for talks.
And our position on this issue is well known. We believe that the moratorium should be extended. We also believe that talks should press on until completed. Now is the time for the parties to help each other overcome this obstacle. Now is the time to build the trust — and provide the time — for substantial progress to be made. Now is the time for this opportunity to be seized, so that it does not slip away.
Now, peace must be made by Israelis and Palestinians, but each of us has a responsibility to do our part as well. Those of us who are friends of Israel must understand that true security for the Jewish state requires an independent Palestine — one that allows the Palestinian people to live with dignity and opportunity. And those of us who are friends of the Palestinians must understand that the rights of the Palestinian people will be won only through peaceful means — including genuine reconciliation with a secure Israel.
I know many in this hall count themselves as friends of the Palestinians. But these pledges of friendship must now be supported by deeds. Those who have signed on to the Arab Peace Initiative should seize this opportunity to make it real by taking tangible steps towards the normalization that it promises Israel.
And those who speak on behalf of Palestinian self-government should help the Palestinian Authority politically and financially, and in doing so help the Palestinians build the institutions of their state.
Those who long to see an independent Palestine must also stop trying to tear down Israel. After thousands of years, Jews and Arabs are not strangers in a strange land. After 60 years in the community of nations, Israel’s existence must not be a subject for debate.
Israel is a sovereign state, and the historic homeland of the Jewish people. It should be clear to all that efforts to chip away at Israel’s legitimacy will only be met by the unshakeable opposition of the United States. And efforts to threaten or kill Israelis will do nothing to help the Palestinian people. The slaughter of innocent Israelis is not resistance — it’s injustice. And make no mistake: The courage of a man like President Abbas, who stands up for his people in front of the world under very difficult circumstances, is far greater than those who fire rockets at innocent women and children.
The conflict between Israelis and Arabs is as old as this institution. And we can come back here next year, as we have for the last 60 years, and make long speeches about it. We can read familiar lists of grievances. We can table the same resolutions. We can further empower the forces of rejectionism and hate. And we can waste more time by carrying forward an argument that will not help a single Israeli or Palestinian child achieve a better life. We can do that.
Or, we can say that this time will be different — that this time we will not let terror, or turbulence, or posturing, or petty politics stand in the way. This time, we will think not of ourselves, but of the young girl in Gaza who wants to have no ceiling on her dreams, or the young boy in Sderot who wants to sleep without the nightmare of rocket fire.
This time, we should draw upon the teachings of tolerance that lie at the heart of three great religions that see Jerusalem’s soil as sacred. This time we should reach for what’s best within ourselves. If we do, when we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the United Nations — an independent, sovereign state of Palestine, living in peace with Israel. (Applause.)
It is our destiny to bear the burdens of the challenges that I’ve addressed — recession and war and conflict. And there is always a sense of urgency — even emergency — that drives most of our foreign policies. Indeed, after millennia marked by wars, this very institution reflects the desire of human beings to create a forum to deal with emergencies that will inevitably come.
Obama Slammed as 'Racist,' 'Ignorant' Over UN Speech
Tishrei 15, 5771, 23 September 10 10:56, by Maayana Miskin
(Israelnationalnews.com) United States President Barack Obama was criticized Thursday after calling on Israel to continue to forbid Jews to build in Judea and Samaria, in a speech to the United Nations.
“Israel's settlement moratorium has made a difference on the ground, and improved the atmosphere for talks,” he said. “We believe that the moratorium should be extended. We also believe that talks should press on until completed.”
Regarding talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Obama said, “We can say that this time it will be different, that this time, we will not let terror, or turbulence, or posturing, or petty politics stand in the way.” If talks succeed, he said, “we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the United Nations – an independent, sovereign state of Palestine, living in peace with Israel.”
Obama's call to continue the construction freeze led Samaria Regional Council head Gershon Mesika to term the U.S. president “racist” and “ignorant.”
“Hussein Obama is a racist, arrogant politician who really and truly believes, apparently due to ignorance, that Israel is a dictatorship like the rest of the countries in the Middle East, and that its leaders can 'pull tricks' despite the will of the people,” he said. Most Israelis oppose the construction freeze, Mesika said, describing the freeze as “a racist step against Jews alone.”
MK Danny Danon (Likud) dimissed Obama's pressure, saying, “Obama is welcome to turn on CNN on Sunday and watch the tractors resume construction in the land of Israel.” He expressed concern over the president's statements, saying that whoever believes that peace depends on a construction freeze is out of touch with reality, and should not play a part in peace talks.
MKs Aryeh Eldad (National Union) and Zev Elkin (Likud) of the Knesset Lobby for the Land of Israel called on Obama to “honor the democratic decision of Israel's citizens, who voted in favor of strengthening Jewish cities in Judea and Samaria, and against concessions and withdrawals.”
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said he was pleased with Obama's speech. In his own speech, Abbas said that he is ready for peace. Abbas insisted on a freeze as a prerequisite for talks, but did not agree to them until the ten month freeze was almost over, using its continuation as a lever for pressuring Israel.
"How can the President of the United States be a broker for peace if he demands preconditions for talks when Israel is ready to negotiate without preconditions, and how can he demand a condition that is so one sided," was the response of Danny Dayan, head of the Council of Judea and Samaria.
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Russia bans arms supplies to Iran
English.news.cn 2010-09-23 01:49:48 FeedbackPrintRSS
MOSCOW, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on Wednesday, officially prohibiting shipment of military equipment to Iran, said the Kremlin website.
The decree banned supplies of S-300 air defense missile systems, armored vehicles, warplanes and helicopters, warships in line with the UN Security Council resolution No.1929.
The decree also banned the transit of military equipment to Iran via Russian territory or air space.
Russian Chief of General Staff earlier Wednesday confirmed that Moscow has scrapped plans to sell S-300s to Iran as they fall under the UN sanctions.
The S-300 air defense system is an advanced mobile system that can shoot down aircraft and cruise missiles from up to 150 km away.
Iran struck a deal with Russia to buy S-300 missile systems in 2007, but Russia has delayed the delivery of the missiles. The United States and Israel oppose the sale of the missiles to Iran.
Russian officials repeatedly said that it was up to Medvedev to decide what weapons may fall under the new sanctions imposed on Tehran by the UN Security Council.
Abbas: Israel must choose between peace and settlements
By ASSOCIATED PRESS AND JPOST.COM STAFF 25/09/2010
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that Israel "must choose between peace and the continuation of settlements," in his address to the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
"Restoring the credibility of the peace process mainly requires compelling the government of Israel to comply with its obligations and commitments, particularly to cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory especially in and around east Jerusalem," he said.
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Clinton: Netanyahu, Abbas trying to seek common ground
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent nearly a half-hour Friday meeting with Abbas as the Obama administration tried to prevent Israeli-Palestinian peace talks from collapsing.
After Clinton's 25-minute meeting with Abbas, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters that the US efforts to keep the talks alive were continuing.
In a furious, last-minute round of diplomacy, the Obama administration is pressing Israel to extend the settlement slowdown, while urging Abbas not to make good on his threat to leave the negotiations.
"It is a pretty intense set of negotiations going on right now with the Israelis and the Palestinians," said Jeffrey Feltman, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs. "We know that time is short. This is an important issue."
Feltman told reporters the US is urging Israel to extend the moratorium and that both parties need to see the negotiations through to their conclusion.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said he does not intend to extend the slowdown, but some Israeli officials have hinted that a compromise could be reached.
Clinton met earlier in the week with Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and US special Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell has been shuttling between the two sides in a bid to craft some sort of a compromise.
Earlier Friday, Palestinian officials said they were waiting for the latest American effort to break the standoff with Israel over the settlements.
With Sunday's deadline looming, US President Barack Obama has increasingly placed efforts to resolve the conflict at the center of his foreign policy. On Thursday, Obama made an impassioned appeal at the United Nations to support a solution and called on Israel to extend the slowdown.
The Palestinians have threatened to walk out of the talks if Israel does not exten
Amidst this upheaval, we have also been persistent in our pursuit of peace. Last year, I pledged my best efforts to support the goal of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security, as part of a comprehensive peace between Israel and all of its neighbors. We have travelled a winding road over the last 12 months, with few peaks and many valleys. But this month, I am pleased that we have pursued direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians in Washington, Sharm el Sheikh and Jerusalem.
Now I recognize many are pessimistic about this process. The cynics say that Israelis and Palestinians are too distrustful of each other, and too divided internally, to forge lasting peace. Rejectionists on both sides will try to disrupt the process, with bitter words and with bombs and with gunfire. Some say that the gaps between the parties are too big; the potential for talks to break down is too great; and that after decades of failure, peace is simply not possible.
I hear those voices of skepticism. But I ask you to consider the alternative. If an agreement is not reached, Palestinians will never know the pride and dignity that comes with their own state. Israelis will never know the certainty and security that comes with sovereign and stable neighbors who are committed to coexistence. The hard realities of demography will take hold. More blood will be shed. This Holy Land will remain a symbol of our differences, instead of our common humanity.
I refuse to accept that future. And we all have a choice to make. Each of us must choose the path of peace. Of course, that responsibility begins with the parties themselves, who must answer the call of history. Earlier this month at the White House, I was struck by the words of both the Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “I came here today to find a historic compromise that will enable both people to live in peace, security, and dignity.” And President Abbas said, “We will spare no effort and we will work diligently and tirelessly to ensure these negotiations achieve their cause.”
These words must now be followed by action and I believe that both leaders have the courage to do so. But the road that they have to travel is exceedingly difficult, which is why I call upon Israelis and Palestinians — and the world — to rally behind the goal that these leaders now share. We know that there will be tests along the way and that one test is fast approaching. Israel’s settlement moratorium has made a difference on the ground and improved the atmosphere for talks.
And our position on this issue is well known. We believe that the moratorium should be extended. We also believe that talks should press on until completed. Now is the time for the parties to help each other overcome this obstacle. Now is the time to build the trust — and provide the time — for substantial progress to be made. Now is the time for this opportunity to be seized, so that it does not slip away.
Now, peace must be made by Israelis and Palestinians, but each of us has a responsibility to do our part as well. Those of us who are friends of Israel must understand that true security for the Jewish state requires an independent Palestine — one that allows the Palestinian people to live with dignity and opportunity. And those of us who are friends of the Palestinians must understand that the rights of the Palestinian people will be won only through peaceful means — including genuine reconciliation with a secure Israel.
I know many in this hall count themselves as friends of the Palestinians. But these pledges of friendship must now be supported by deeds. Those who have signed on to the Arab Peace Initiative should seize this opportunity to make it real by taking tangible steps towards the normalization that it promises Israel.
And those who speak on behalf of Palestinian self-government should help the Palestinian Authority politically and financially, and in doing so help the Palestinians build the institutions of their state.
Those who long to see an independent Palestine must also stop trying to tear down Israel. After thousands of years, Jews and Arabs are not strangers in a strange land. After 60 years in the community of nations, Israel’s existence must not be a subject for debate.
Israel is a sovereign state, and the historic homeland of the Jewish people. It should be clear to all that efforts to chip away at Israel’s legitimacy will only be met by the unshakeable opposition of the United States. And efforts to threaten or kill Israelis will do nothing to help the Palestinian people. The slaughter of innocent Israelis is not resistance — it’s injustice. And make no mistake: The courage of a man like President Abbas, who stands up for his people in front of the world under very difficult circumstances, is far greater than those who fire rockets at innocent women and children.
The conflict between Israelis and Arabs is as old as this institution. And we can come back here next year, as we have for the last 60 years, and make long speeches about it. We can read familiar lists of grievances. We can table the same resolutions. We can further empower the forces of rejectionism and hate. And we can waste more time by carrying forward an argument that will not help a single Israeli or Palestinian child achieve a better life. We can do that.
Or, we can say that this time will be different — that this time we will not let terror, or turbulence, or posturing, or petty politics stand in the way. This time, we will think not of ourselves, but of the young girl in Gaza who wants to have no ceiling on her dreams, or the young boy in Sderot who wants to sleep without the nightmare of rocket fire.
This time, we should draw upon the teachings of tolerance that lie at the heart of three great religions that see Jerusalem’s soil as sacred. This time we should reach for what’s best within ourselves. If we do, when we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the United Nations — an independent, sovereign state of Palestine, living in peace with Israel. (Applause.)
It is our destiny to bear the burdens of the challenges that I’ve addressed — recession and war and conflict. And there is always a sense of urgency — even emergency — that drives most of our foreign policies. Indeed, after millennia marked by wars, this very institution reflects the desire of human beings to create a forum to deal with emergencies that will inevitably come.
Obama Slammed as 'Racist,' 'Ignorant' Over UN Speech
Tishrei 15, 5771, 23 September 10 10:56, by Maayana Miskin
(Israelnationalnews.com) United States President Barack Obama was criticized Thursday after calling on Israel to continue to forbid Jews to build in Judea and Samaria, in a speech to the United Nations.
“Israel's settlement moratorium has made a difference on the ground, and improved the atmosphere for talks,” he said. “We believe that the moratorium should be extended. We also believe that talks should press on until completed.”
Regarding talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Obama said, “We can say that this time it will be different, that this time, we will not let terror, or turbulence, or posturing, or petty politics stand in the way.” If talks succeed, he said, “we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the United Nations – an independent, sovereign state of Palestine, living in peace with Israel.”
Obama's call to continue the construction freeze led Samaria Regional Council head Gershon Mesika to term the U.S. president “racist” and “ignorant.”
“Hussein Obama is a racist, arrogant politician who really and truly believes, apparently due to ignorance, that Israel is a dictatorship like the rest of the countries in the Middle East, and that its leaders can 'pull tricks' despite the will of the people,” he said. Most Israelis oppose the construction freeze, Mesika said, describing the freeze as “a racist step against Jews alone.”
MK Danny Danon (Likud) dimissed Obama's pressure, saying, “Obama is welcome to turn on CNN on Sunday and watch the tractors resume construction in the land of Israel.” He expressed concern over the president's statements, saying that whoever believes that peace depends on a construction freeze is out of touch with reality, and should not play a part in peace talks.
MKs Aryeh Eldad (National Union) and Zev Elkin (Likud) of the Knesset Lobby for the Land of Israel called on Obama to “honor the democratic decision of Israel's citizens, who voted in favor of strengthening Jewish cities in Judea and Samaria, and against concessions and withdrawals.”
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said he was pleased with Obama's speech. In his own speech, Abbas said that he is ready for peace. Abbas insisted on a freeze as a prerequisite for talks, but did not agree to them until the ten month freeze was almost over, using its continuation as a lever for pressuring Israel.
"How can the President of the United States be a broker for peace if he demands preconditions for talks when Israel is ready to negotiate without preconditions, and how can he demand a condition that is so one sided," was the response of Danny Dayan, head of the Council of Judea and Samaria.
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Russia bans arms supplies to Iran
English.news.cn 2010-09-23 01:49:48 FeedbackPrintRSS
MOSCOW, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on Wednesday, officially prohibiting shipment of military equipment to Iran, said the Kremlin website.
The decree banned supplies of S-300 air defense missile systems, armored vehicles, warplanes and helicopters, warships in line with the UN Security Council resolution No.1929.
The decree also banned the transit of military equipment to Iran via Russian territory or air space.
Russian Chief of General Staff earlier Wednesday confirmed that Moscow has scrapped plans to sell S-300s to Iran as they fall under the UN sanctions.
The S-300 air defense system is an advanced mobile system that can shoot down aircraft and cruise missiles from up to 150 km away.
Iran struck a deal with Russia to buy S-300 missile systems in 2007, but Russia has delayed the delivery of the missiles. The United States and Israel oppose the sale of the missiles to Iran.
Russian officials repeatedly said that it was up to Medvedev to decide what weapons may fall under the new sanctions imposed on Tehran by the UN Security Council.
Abbas: Israel must choose between peace and settlements
By ASSOCIATED PRESS AND JPOST.COM STAFF 25/09/2010
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said that Israel "must choose between peace and the continuation of settlements," in his address to the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
"Restoring the credibility of the peace process mainly requires compelling the government of Israel to comply with its obligations and commitments, particularly to cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory especially in and around east Jerusalem," he said.
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Clinton: Netanyahu, Abbas trying to seek common ground
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent nearly a half-hour Friday meeting with Abbas as the Obama administration tried to prevent Israeli-Palestinian peace talks from collapsing.
After Clinton's 25-minute meeting with Abbas, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters that the US efforts to keep the talks alive were continuing.
In a furious, last-minute round of diplomacy, the Obama administration is pressing Israel to extend the settlement slowdown, while urging Abbas not to make good on his threat to leave the negotiations.
"It is a pretty intense set of negotiations going on right now with the Israelis and the Palestinians," said Jeffrey Feltman, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs. "We know that time is short. This is an important issue."
Feltman told reporters the US is urging Israel to extend the moratorium and that both parties need to see the negotiations through to their conclusion.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said he does not intend to extend the slowdown, but some Israeli officials have hinted that a compromise could be reached.
Clinton met earlier in the week with Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and US special Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell has been shuttling between the two sides in a bid to craft some sort of a compromise.
Earlier Friday, Palestinian officials said they were waiting for the latest American effort to break the standoff with Israel over the settlements.
With Sunday's deadline looming, US President Barack Obama has increasingly placed efforts to resolve the conflict at the center of his foreign policy. On Thursday, Obama made an impassioned appeal at the United Nations to support a solution and called on Israel to extend the slowdown.
The Palestinians have threatened to walk out of the talks if Israel does not exten
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Bill Clinton claims Russian immigrants obstacle to peace
By JPOST.COM STAFF, 22/09/2010
Russian immigrants in Israel could be one of the main obstacles to achieving peace with the Palestinians, Bill Clinton told reporters in New York on Tuesday, according to Foreign Policy magazine.
The former US president reportedly said that children of immigrants who serve in the IDF have difficulties imagining any division of land that may in the future be part of a peace agreement.
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Clinton highlighted that the large numbers of Russian immigrants and settlers serving in the IDF could make it difficult for the army to confront settlers if this was required and feared this could cause problems in the future, according to the report.
The people who are most opposed to dividing the land are the settlers and the Russians, the former president noted, and an increasing number of people serving in the army are children of these groups.
According to the report Clinton said this poses a serious problem. He also pointed out that Israel has changed and some 16% of Israelis now speak Russian.
Clinton said that Russian immigrants are among the people in Israel that are least interested in reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
Clinton criticizes Sharansky, Sharansky refutes claims
The magazine claimed that Clinton talked about a conversation that he had with Natan Sharansky, who, according to Clinton, was the only Israeli minister to reject the comprehensive peace agreement Clinton proposed at the Camp David Summit in 2000.
"I said, ‘Natan, what is the deal [about not supporting the peace deal],'" Clinton was quoted as saying. "He said, ‘I can't vote for this, I'm Russian... I come from one of the biggest countries in the world to one of the smallest. You want me to cut it in half. No, thank you.'"
Sharansky, The Jewish Agency chairman denied Wednesday that the alleged coversation ever took place. “A report of President Clinton's comments has been brought to my attention which I hope is inaccurate."
“However, as to the basic facts, I was never at Camp David and never had the opportunity to discuss the negotiations there with President Clinton," said Sharansky.
Yisrael Beitenu say Clinton made "crude generalizations"
Yisrael Beitenu, a party comprised mainly of Russian migrants, condemned Clinton's comments claiming that Clinton made "crude generalizations."
"It seems that Clinton has forgotten that it was the [former] chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat who refused to Clinton's peace offer, which included unbearable concessions on the part of Israel," said a statement released by the party.
The statement also said that "the people of Israel are one, and the Russian immigrants, as the other citizens of Israel, yearn for true peace based on recognition of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people."
Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver from Yisrael Beiteinu, said that any attempts from outside to create divides among the Israeli society is wrong.
"The immigrants of Russia contributed to the development of the state of Israel in every field, including science, culture, sports, economy and defense. This year, the entire country is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Russian aliyah. This shows that the Israeli people are united," said Landver.
Russian immigrants in Israel could be one of the main obstacles to achieving peace with the Palestinians, Bill Clinton told reporters in New York on Tuesday, according to Foreign Policy magazine.
The former US president reportedly said that children of immigrants who serve in the IDF have difficulties imagining any division of land that may in the future be part of a peace agreement.
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Clinton highlighted that the large numbers of Russian immigrants and settlers serving in the IDF could make it difficult for the army to confront settlers if this was required and feared this could cause problems in the future, according to the report.
The people who are most opposed to dividing the land are the settlers and the Russians, the former president noted, and an increasing number of people serving in the army are children of these groups.
According to the report Clinton said this poses a serious problem. He also pointed out that Israel has changed and some 16% of Israelis now speak Russian.
Clinton said that Russian immigrants are among the people in Israel that are least interested in reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
Clinton criticizes Sharansky, Sharansky refutes claims
The magazine claimed that Clinton talked about a conversation that he had with Natan Sharansky, who, according to Clinton, was the only Israeli minister to reject the comprehensive peace agreement Clinton proposed at the Camp David Summit in 2000.
"I said, ‘Natan, what is the deal [about not supporting the peace deal],'" Clinton was quoted as saying. "He said, ‘I can't vote for this, I'm Russian... I come from one of the biggest countries in the world to one of the smallest. You want me to cut it in half. No, thank you.'"
Sharansky, The Jewish Agency chairman denied Wednesday that the alleged coversation ever took place. “A report of President Clinton's comments has been brought to my attention which I hope is inaccurate."
“However, as to the basic facts, I was never at Camp David and never had the opportunity to discuss the negotiations there with President Clinton," said Sharansky.
Yisrael Beitenu say Clinton made "crude generalizations"
Yisrael Beitenu, a party comprised mainly of Russian migrants, condemned Clinton's comments claiming that Clinton made "crude generalizations."
"It seems that Clinton has forgotten that it was the [former] chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat who refused to Clinton's peace offer, which included unbearable concessions on the part of Israel," said a statement released by the party.
The statement also said that "the people of Israel are one, and the Russian immigrants, as the other citizens of Israel, yearn for true peace based on recognition of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people."
Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver from Yisrael Beiteinu, said that any attempts from outside to create divides among the Israeli society is wrong.
"The immigrants of Russia contributed to the development of the state of Israel in every field, including science, culture, sports, economy and defense. This year, the entire country is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Russian aliyah. This shows that the Israeli people are united," said Landver.
Monday, September 20, 2010
ETs And The Secret War on Israel
Is anything hard for the Lord? (Gen 18:14)
In 1980 I was invited to publish my article At the sources of the Copernican astronomy in a Polish magazine of the Friends of Astronomy (Urania 1/1981/LII), by a Polish astronomer who studied in Moscow. The man, in order to survive, is now teaching ecology i.e. the science of worshiping the Copernican goddess Gaia whom pope John Paul II hugged on his every pilgrimage.
In 1981 I found at the Yale University Library an abstract of a 1975 lecture by Prof. S. Sambursky, a friend of Einstein's who, in 1975, the year when the UN approved of the resolution equating zionism with racism, introduced Copernicus to the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities as “the man who initiated this era of modern science...as the man who by the sheer force of imagination broke the chains of sense perception, the ingenious discoverer of a scientific truth involving one of the greatest revolutions in man's view of the world” (Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, vol. V, No 11)
During WWII the people in the State Department who were most closely associated with the rescue of Jews were Assistant Secretary Breckenridge Long and several middle-level officials. They included George Brandt, Long’s executive assistant, James Dunn and Wallace Murray, departmental advisers on political relations, Ray Atherton, acting chief of the Division of European Affairs, Howard Travers, chief of the Visa Division, and a number of lesser officers, especially R. Borden Reams. These men were indifferent to the tragedy of the European Jews. Randolph Paul of the Treasury Department described them as an American “underground movement…to let the Jews be killed.” That was confirmed by an eighteen-page memorandum on State Department obstruction entitled Report to the Secretary (of Treasury) on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews. Led by DuBois, the Foreign Funds Control staff prepared this searing indictment, which charged that the State Department was “guilty not only of gross procrastination and willful failure to act, but even of willful attempts to prevent action from being taken to rescue Jews from Hitler.
Between the First and Second World Wars, the United States and British Commonwealth controlled most of the major sea gates – such as the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Strait of Hormuz and the English Channel – that could be used as hoke points for shipping. The Anglo-Americans did not want the re-born Israel to “possess the gate of their enemies” (Suez Canal) as promised in Gen 22:17.
According to Polish Ambassador Ciechanowski, friendliness toward Germany decidedly increased in America as late as 1944. Germanophile sentiment increased “because of increasing fear of Russia and of Communism. The idea was spreading that Germany, after having been purged of Nazism might be used as a convenient barrier against Soviet expansion.” And the numerically strong and well-organized group of Americans of German descent constituted an influential body in the electorate.
As for Pres. Eisenhower, American Jews had noticed that he rarely spoke about their favorite subjects: Israel and the Holocaust. Eisenhower was not even certain that he – in Truman’s position – would have supported Israel’s birth; but now that it was an accomplished fact, he would have to live with it.
In 1953, Pres. Eisenhower picked up as his Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Both John and his brother Allen were deeply entangled in the web of financial connections that linked Nazi Germany with the US. Allen Dulles was a former director of the German Schröder Bank owned by Baron von Schröder; Allen’s brother John even sat on IG’s Farben Board before America entered war.
The OSS was set up in 1942. Allen Dulles arrived in Switzerland that November and received diplomatic status at the US embassy in Bern as an assistant to the ambassador. Dulles’s contacts with Nazi Germany in his previous work as a lawyer proved most useful, although once war broke out they could be maintained openly and had to be preserved through clandestine channels; he openly maintained his business with Nazi Germany until hostilities broke out. Unlike many of his operatives, Dulles was not an antifascist with a hatred of Nazism. He had no great love for Jews, was tainted by anti-Semitism and, as a former State Department official in the Middle East Department, had extensive business dealings in the Middle East, particularly in the Arabian Gulf, where he had a network of connections with oil companies.
Dulles had German clients before the war and kept legal relations with them, and once he started work in the OSS he put these German connections to use. He knew German bankers and manufacturers who were politically conservative. He was very ingenious and used third parties such as the intelligence agencies of central European countries, where he also had contacts. Small wonder then, that so many Nazi officers and scientists (W. von Braun among them) found a ready welcome for their skills and research in the offices of the American intelligence services after Germany’s defeat.
Like Schellenberg, his Nazi mirror image, A. Dulles was planning for a postwar Europe. His aim was to build up a continent-wide intelligence network, both as part of his personal empire and as a means of laying the groundwork for the coming Cold War against the Soviet Union.
Project Alpha
This product of a series of secret meetings in Washington and London suggested that Israel and Jordan should exchange some land, to make their borders and highways more secure. Jordan would gain access to the Israeli port of Haifa. Israel would cede a small part of the Negev Desert to Egypt, to permit a land connection with Jordan. The large Israeli raid on Egyptian forces in Gaza was meant to torpedo Project Alpha. It sank with barely a trace.
Project Gamma
There was a specific presidential envoy, a former navy secretary Robert Anderson. A Texas businessman, favored by many Republicans to be a presidential candidate. Anderson spent the first two and a half months of 1956 hopping between Jerusalem and Cairo in a small plane with intermediate steps in Athens and cover stories concocted by A. Dulles’s CIA. The Anderson mission failed because Nasser insisted on getting part of the Negev as a land corridor to Jordan – a suicidal bisection, in Israel’s view. This bisection is nowadays coded as “contiguous, viable Palestine.”
Project Gamma died in March 1956. As described by Eisenhower in a diary entry, “Nasser proved to be a complete stumbling block.” On the other hand, the president criticized Ben Gurion for refusing to cede territory while demanding weapons “as a means of ensnaring the US as a protector.” Israel in fact, was busily – but secretly – bringing itself under the protective umbrella of two other powers: France and Great Britain.When Nasser-inspired Arab nationalists overthrew Iraq’s government and tried to do the same in Jordan and Lebanon, Ben Gurion granted British paratroops permission to overfly Israel on their way to Jordan.
Project ETs
“To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian (and Jewish-rp)) system of faith at once little and ridiculous and scatters in the mind like feathers in the air.” (Tom Paine)
The early apologist of Galileo, the Dominican friar. Campanella in his book Apologia pro Galileo (Frankfurt 1623) pointed out that Galileo shared Muhammad’s belief in “many worlds with lands and seas, and with human inhabitants. Muhammad, for political reasons, rejected the idea of the Biblical Eden planted by God on earth and embraced instead the idea of the garden of Immortality that the Babylonian myth placed in Heaven. Unlike the Biblical Adam who was simply “sent forth from the garden of Eden” (Gen. 3:23), the Koran’s Adam was “sent down from the garden” (Sura Ta-Ha 20:123). Similarly, in the so-called Gospel of Marcion Jesus was send down:
In the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar,
Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea,
Jesus descended [out of heaven] into Capernaum, a city in Galilee,
and was teaching [in the synagogue] on the Sabbath days;
And they were astonished at his doctrine. (3:1/4:31)
Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world believe in Jewishness of Jesus, but Marcion's “Gospel” undercut this belief and presented Jesus as one of the extraterrestrials, an offspring of evolutionary spontaneous generation matching that of the Persian sun god Mithra born out of a cosmic rock (petra genetrix).Accordingly, the medieval iconography presented often Jesus standing on a globe flanked by the four philosophical elements. Eisenhower's policy aimed at separating Jesus from Jewish people in order to weaken the admiration of millions of Christians for the Holy Land promised by God to His Chosen people. Marcion's Jesus was not “The Deliverer who will come out of Zion and who will turn away ungodliness from Jacob (whose name was changed to Israel.” -Rom 11:26
Marcion's “Gospel” was inspired by the heliocentric science of the Roman poet Virgil who “prophesied” the coming of a 'Messiah” from the cosmos who would introduce a new Golden era of peace and communism:
Now is come the last age of the Cumaean prophecy: the great cycle of periods is born anew. Now returns the Virgin, returns the reign of Saturn: now from high heaven a new generation comes down. Yet do thou at that boy's birth, in whom the iron race shall begin to cease, and the golden to arise over all the world, holy Lucina, be gracious; now thine own Apollo reigns.
The secret NASA footage posted all over the Internet shows the alien moon base located on the Dark Side of the moon. (NASA Launches Effort for Closer Cooperation with Israel, Shevat 10, 5770, 25 January 10 10:47, by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, Israel national News)
Let me point out here that the US Moon landing program went hand in hand with what Father M. Martin in his book The Jesuits referred to as “refashioning a Jesus into a beautiful Apollo,” undertaken by the Vatican as its policy of sabotaging the young Jewish state.
The mystery of MJ-12
J.V. Forrestal was a workaholic with a burning desire to join the ranks of the “sheikhs”. Within a few years of his arrival on Wall Street, he made a substantial fortune. He entered the Federal Government in 1940. In a short time, he was appointed Under Secretary of the Navy. When Secretary of the Navy William Franklin (Frank) Knox died in April 1944, he was the natural choice to replace him.
When Truman recognized the newly created state of Israel Secretary Forrestal was appalled: ‘no group in this country’, he wrote of the Jewish lobby, ‘should be permitted to influence our policy to the point where it could endanger our national security.’ At the same time he was lobbying for the Arab interests: ‘Unless we had access to Middle East oil, the American automobile companies would have to devise a four cylinder motor car.’ What would Arabs do with all that oil? A sheikh shows Ford a four-cylinder motorcar and a sheikh gets what he wants.
He resigned his Defense Department post on March 1, 1949. He was admitted to Bethesda Naval Hospital (where he was placed in a 16th floor suite which had originally been built for President Franklin Roosevelt) shortly thereafter for psychiatric care. His death is described as follows in his official biography: “After getting rid of the one person who could stop him quickly, Mr. Forrestal tied the silk belt from his dressing gown around his neck. After securing the other end to a radiator he removed a simple (as opposed to a security) screen and lowered himself outside. There was evidence that he hung for about one minute and then tried to climb back inside. Unfortunately it was at this point that the knot at the radiator end gave, dropping him to death. He landed on top of the roof of the third story passageway. The remains had to be removed from the roof where he landed.” Similarly died the pro-Arab Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk.
But William Cooper, a member of the Intelligence Briefing Team of the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet in his research paper entitled The Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12, a result of his own research into the TOP SECRET/MAJIC material, which he saw and read mentions James Forrestal as the man who objected to the secrecy which prevented divulging any information about “a special group of America’s top scientists who were organized under the name Project SIGN in December 1947 to study the sightings of UFOs.” W. Cooper himself was not sure if the material that he viewed in the Navy was authentic and therefore he termed his paper a hypothesis. Consider this content of the material at his disposal: “An alien craft was found on February 13, 1948, on a mesa near Aztec, New Mexico. Another craft was located on March 25, 1948, in White Sands Proving Ground. It was 100 feet in diameter. A total pf 17 alien bodies were recovered from those two crafts. Of even greater significance was the discovery of a large number of human body parts stored within both of these vehicles. A demon had reared its head and paranoia quickly took hold of everyone ‘in the know.’ The secret lid immediately became a Top Secret lid and was screwed down tight. The security blanket was even tighter than that imposed upon the Manhattan project.”
(http://www.thewatcherfiles.com/cooper/secret_government.htm)
It was a hot period in the international politics resulting from the Soviet Union’s decision to support the establishment of the Jewish State; a long series of speeches by Soviet (and Soviet bloc) representatives, delivered in 1948, proves the coinciding interests of the Soviet Union and Israel at the time.
In March 1948, when the Americans, apparently having had second thoughts, tried to change the Assembly decision of November 29, 1947, and to substitute a temporary United Nations trusteeship for the partition plan, Gromyko, on March 30, accused the United States of being “concerned not with the just settlement of the question of the future of Palestine and the relations between Arabs and Jews, but with its own oil interests and military-strategic positions in the Near East.
Anticipating that some Jews might survive the Holocaust, the Polish puppet government-in-exile had Roman Knoll, a member of its foreign affairs office, draft a memo on the subject: “In the Homeland as a whole – regardless of the general psychological situation at any given moment – the position is such that the return of the Jews to their jobs and workshops is quite out of question, even if the number of Jews were greatly reduced. The non-Jewish population has filled their places in the towns and cities; in much of Poland this is a fundamental change, and final in character. The return of masses of Jews would be perceived by the population not as an act of restitution but as an invasion against which they would have to defend themselves, even by physical means…The government is correct in assuring world opinion that anti-Semitism will no longer exist in Poland; but it will no longer exist only if the surviving Jews do not endeavor to return to Poland’s cities and town en masse.
Considering the difficult situation, the Homeland sees only one way out: the Polish Government must take the initiative – immediately if possible – with the aim of creating a national center for the Jews of Eastern Europe. This project should be drawn up in co-operation with Jewish Zionist circles; it should focus on an East-European territory for the future Jewish state, in preference to Palestine – which is too small for the purpose, too exotic, and has aroused conflict with the Arab world – and in preference to some to some tropical colony to which the Jews will refuse to emigrate. It may be too early to decide precisely what territory should be considered. Our attitude in this matter should be philo-Jewish rather than anti-Jewish…” (Quoted by Yisrael Gutman, Polish and Jewish Historiography on the Question of Polish-Jewish Relations During World War II. In: The Jews in Poland, ed. By Chimen Abramsky, Maciej Jachimczyk, and Anthony Polonsky. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986, p. 182). Let me remind that with the same purpose, Hitler wanted to resettle all the Jews to the Lublin area, but because of the strong opposition of the local population he had to give up the idea. Raoul Wallenberg entertained the same idea and that’s why, most likely, he was executed by the Soviets. Sweden's hostility to the idea of Jewish state on its historical territory endures to this day.
In meetings of the First Committee in April and May 1948, Gromyko (on April 20), the Byeolrussian delegate Kaminski (on April 21), and the Ukrainian representative, Vasili Tarassenko (on April 22), made a concerted attack against “politically bankrupt Britain” and against United States efforts to “wreck the decision on the Partition of Palestine.” On April 23, the Soviet delegate, A. Panyushkin, reiterating that the decision of November 29, 1947, “met the deep-rooted national interests of the Arabs and Jewish peoples of Palestine,” laid the blame for the situation in Palestine on “the United Kingdom, whose policy was calculated to kindle national hatred between Arabs and Jews.” He spoke of “Arab bands” which had penetrated into Palestine with the connivance of Britain. (Avigdor Dagan, Moscow and Jerusalem.1970, with an introduction of Abba Eban)
The political line of James Forrestal regarding the UFO problem anticipated similar events mentioned above connected with Y. Arafat’s visits to the White House. He believed that the public should be told. James Forrestal was also one of the “first known abductees.” W. Cooper: “When he began to talk to leaders of the opposition party and leaders of the Congress about the alien problem he was asked to resign by Truman. He expressed his fears to many people. Rightfully, he believed that he was being watched. This was interpreted by those who were ignorant of these facts as paranoia. Forrestal later was said to have suffered a mental breakdown. He was ordered to the mental ward of Bethesda Naval Hospital. His family and friends were denied permission to visit.
Finally, on May 21, 1949, Forrestal’s brother made a fateful decision. He notified authorities that he intended to remove James from Bethesda on May 22. Sometime in the early morning of May 22, 1948, agents of the CIA tied a sheet around James Forrestal’s neck, fastened the other end to a fixture in his room, then threw James Forrestal out of the window. The sheet tore and he plummeted to his death. James Forrestal’s secret diaries were confiscated by the CIA and were kept in the White House for many years. Due to public demand the diaries were eventually rewritten and published in a sanitized version. The real diary information was later furnished by the CIA in book form to an agent who published the material as fiction. The name of the agent is Whitley Strieber and the book is Majestic” J. Forrestal died 4 days after Gromyko, on May 18, condemned the Arab countries “which are prepared to accept any decision, if only they can thwart the possibility of the creation of a Jewish State.” On May 20, Tarassenko attacked Britain as being directly responsible for the war in Palestine, or at least “for the actions of Transjordan’s armed forces in the State of Israel (which are) manifestly illegal and manifestly aimed at a breach of peace in Palestine… The UK bears the responsibility because it has inspired the actions of the Transjordanian armed forces. These forces are in fact armed forces of the UK…commanded by British officers, maintained by British money, closely connected with Britain and subject to British High Command…The UK Government is doing all it can to thwart the possibility of putting an end to the disorders in Palestine.”
The pro-Israeli – and, of course, at the same time, anti-British and anti-American – line of Soviet policy continued. In August 1948, a Soviet legation was opened in Tel Aviv, and at the beginning of September, Golda Meir, Israel’s first Minister to the Soviet Union, and her staff arrived in Moscow. From then on, the UN ceased to be the only forum of Israeli-Soviet contacts and dialogue. (A. Dagan, ib.)
Pres. Eisenhower’s enmity toward Israel went hand in hand with his interest for the UFO problem. W. Cooper relates what he found in the secret papers: “President Eisenhower met with the aliens on February 20, 1954, and a formal treaty between the alien nation and the United States of America was signed. We then received our first alien ambassador from outer space. He was the hostage that had been left at the first landing in the desert. His name was ‘His Omni-potent Highness Crill or Krill,’ pronounced Crill or Krill. In the American tradition of disdain for royal titles he was secretly called ‘Original Hostage Crill, or Krill.’ Shortly after this meeting President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack.
Four others present at the meeting were Franklin Allen of the Hearst Newspapers, Edwin Nourse of Brookings Institute, Gerard Light of metaphysical research fame, and Catholic Bihop (sic!) MacIntyre of Los Angeles. Their reaction was judged as a microcosm of what the public reaction might be. Based on their reaction, it was decided that the public could not be told. Later studies confirmed the decision as sound.”
The secret NASA footage posted all over the Internet shows the
alien moon base located on the Dark Side of the moon.
Priests at the Vatican Observatory do continue their researches in the spirit of that “meeting.” According to Berliner Morgenpost, they have come to conclusion that “earth’s inhabitants are not the only creatures of God in the universe. As explained by George Coyne, director of the observatory, “the universe is simply far too large for us to be alone.” To reach these extraterrestrials with the Gospel, several monasteries have been sending the Syrian New Testament (Peshitta) into space as an encoded message. What the Vatican would like to know, says the newspaper, “is whether Jesus Christ has manifested himself on other planets too.” And, adds Coyne, “Whether Jesus Christ has also saved the inhabitants” of those planets. The basic dogma of the materialist philosophy of the Roman Epicurean Lucretius recognized life not as created by a god but as evolving from dead atoms in infinite universe: “Life does not differ essentially from other matter; it is a product of moving atoms which are individually dead. As the universe took form by the inherent laws of matter, so the earth produced by a purely natural selection all the species and organs of life.”
Cathy O’Brien, in her astonishing book, Trance Formation Of America, written with Mark Phillips writes of how George Bush was sitting in front of her in his office in Washington DC when he opened a book at a page depicting “lizard-like aliens from a far off, deep space place.” Bush then claimed to be an ‘alien’ himself and appeared, before her eyes, to transform ‘like a chameleon’ into a reptile. Cathy believed that some kind of hologram had been activated to achieve this in this way...
G. Bruno proclaimed, The earth is not the center of the world, nor is the sun; beyond the world that we see there are others worlds, and beyond these other worlds are other worlds again (expanding universe), and so on endlessly; we cannot conceive an end, nor a beginning. And instead of the “fixed” stars being fixed, as Copernicus thought, they change their place constantly; even in the skies panta rei, all things flow. Space, time, and motion are relative; there is no center, no circumference, no up or down; the same motion differs when seen from different places or stars; and as time is the measure of motion, time too is relative. Probably many stars are inhabited by living, intelligent beings; did Christ die for them too? Yet in this endless immensity there is an invariable conservation of matter, an eternal and inviolable constancy of law.
The Copernicanism began a process of exterminating and replacing the Bible with “science” as the new source of Absolute Truth. Kepler, Galileo, and Newton, supported by philosophers such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer established heliocentric mythology solidly over a 300-year period in the universities. In 1820 Canon Giuseppe Settele, professor of astronomy in Rome and Washington, had written an elementary book in which the Copernican system was taken for granted. On the 16th of August, 1820, the Congregation of the Holy Office (Inquisition) decided that Settele might teach the Copernican system as established, and this decision was approved by the Pope. On the 5th of May, 1829, Thorwaldsen’s statue of Copernicus was unveiled in Warsaw. In the 1880s philosopher Nietzsche boasted: “god is dead; we have killed him with our science!”
The Passion of the God of the Bible continues. The author of the website NASA’s Agenda: Promoting Copernicanism & Evolutionism describes how NASA’s ORIGINS PROGRAM will search for clues to help us find our cosmic roots, to eliminate once and for all the Biblical story of Creation. Another author of website article NASA’s Hanky-Panky: Virtual Reality Technology unmasks how NASA will be inputting information that is to be presented as real when it is not real. Cyberpunks will be representing a merging of science fiction and bohemia. The double rehabilitation of Copernicanism and Darwinism by the Pope sounds like a new obituary proclaiming death of the God of the Bible (His Ten Commandments had been put into solitary confinement in the Alabama court building). NASA is getting its New Generation Space Telescope (NGST) on line! When it gets cranked, it will transmit all sorts of visual “evidence” of life forms from Mars on out to deep space 9. Or will it? God willing.
In 1980 I was invited to publish my article At the sources of the Copernican astronomy in a Polish magazine of the Friends of Astronomy (Urania 1/1981/LII), by a Polish astronomer who studied in Moscow. The man, in order to survive, is now teaching ecology i.e. the science of worshiping the Copernican goddess Gaia whom pope John Paul II hugged on his every pilgrimage.
In 1981 I found at the Yale University Library an abstract of a 1975 lecture by Prof. S. Sambursky, a friend of Einstein's who, in 1975, the year when the UN approved of the resolution equating zionism with racism, introduced Copernicus to the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities as “the man who initiated this era of modern science...as the man who by the sheer force of imagination broke the chains of sense perception, the ingenious discoverer of a scientific truth involving one of the greatest revolutions in man's view of the world” (Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, vol. V, No 11)
During WWII the people in the State Department who were most closely associated with the rescue of Jews were Assistant Secretary Breckenridge Long and several middle-level officials. They included George Brandt, Long’s executive assistant, James Dunn and Wallace Murray, departmental advisers on political relations, Ray Atherton, acting chief of the Division of European Affairs, Howard Travers, chief of the Visa Division, and a number of lesser officers, especially R. Borden Reams. These men were indifferent to the tragedy of the European Jews. Randolph Paul of the Treasury Department described them as an American “underground movement…to let the Jews be killed.” That was confirmed by an eighteen-page memorandum on State Department obstruction entitled Report to the Secretary (of Treasury) on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jews. Led by DuBois, the Foreign Funds Control staff prepared this searing indictment, which charged that the State Department was “guilty not only of gross procrastination and willful failure to act, but even of willful attempts to prevent action from being taken to rescue Jews from Hitler.
Between the First and Second World Wars, the United States and British Commonwealth controlled most of the major sea gates – such as the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Strait of Hormuz and the English Channel – that could be used as hoke points for shipping. The Anglo-Americans did not want the re-born Israel to “possess the gate of their enemies” (Suez Canal) as promised in Gen 22:17.
According to Polish Ambassador Ciechanowski, friendliness toward Germany decidedly increased in America as late as 1944. Germanophile sentiment increased “because of increasing fear of Russia and of Communism. The idea was spreading that Germany, after having been purged of Nazism might be used as a convenient barrier against Soviet expansion.” And the numerically strong and well-organized group of Americans of German descent constituted an influential body in the electorate.
As for Pres. Eisenhower, American Jews had noticed that he rarely spoke about their favorite subjects: Israel and the Holocaust. Eisenhower was not even certain that he – in Truman’s position – would have supported Israel’s birth; but now that it was an accomplished fact, he would have to live with it.
In 1953, Pres. Eisenhower picked up as his Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Both John and his brother Allen were deeply entangled in the web of financial connections that linked Nazi Germany with the US. Allen Dulles was a former director of the German Schröder Bank owned by Baron von Schröder; Allen’s brother John even sat on IG’s Farben Board before America entered war.
The OSS was set up in 1942. Allen Dulles arrived in Switzerland that November and received diplomatic status at the US embassy in Bern as an assistant to the ambassador. Dulles’s contacts with Nazi Germany in his previous work as a lawyer proved most useful, although once war broke out they could be maintained openly and had to be preserved through clandestine channels; he openly maintained his business with Nazi Germany until hostilities broke out. Unlike many of his operatives, Dulles was not an antifascist with a hatred of Nazism. He had no great love for Jews, was tainted by anti-Semitism and, as a former State Department official in the Middle East Department, had extensive business dealings in the Middle East, particularly in the Arabian Gulf, where he had a network of connections with oil companies.
Dulles had German clients before the war and kept legal relations with them, and once he started work in the OSS he put these German connections to use. He knew German bankers and manufacturers who were politically conservative. He was very ingenious and used third parties such as the intelligence agencies of central European countries, where he also had contacts. Small wonder then, that so many Nazi officers and scientists (W. von Braun among them) found a ready welcome for their skills and research in the offices of the American intelligence services after Germany’s defeat.
Like Schellenberg, his Nazi mirror image, A. Dulles was planning for a postwar Europe. His aim was to build up a continent-wide intelligence network, both as part of his personal empire and as a means of laying the groundwork for the coming Cold War against the Soviet Union.
Project Alpha
This product of a series of secret meetings in Washington and London suggested that Israel and Jordan should exchange some land, to make their borders and highways more secure. Jordan would gain access to the Israeli port of Haifa. Israel would cede a small part of the Negev Desert to Egypt, to permit a land connection with Jordan. The large Israeli raid on Egyptian forces in Gaza was meant to torpedo Project Alpha. It sank with barely a trace.
Project Gamma
There was a specific presidential envoy, a former navy secretary Robert Anderson. A Texas businessman, favored by many Republicans to be a presidential candidate. Anderson spent the first two and a half months of 1956 hopping between Jerusalem and Cairo in a small plane with intermediate steps in Athens and cover stories concocted by A. Dulles’s CIA. The Anderson mission failed because Nasser insisted on getting part of the Negev as a land corridor to Jordan – a suicidal bisection, in Israel’s view. This bisection is nowadays coded as “contiguous, viable Palestine.”
Project Gamma died in March 1956. As described by Eisenhower in a diary entry, “Nasser proved to be a complete stumbling block.” On the other hand, the president criticized Ben Gurion for refusing to cede territory while demanding weapons “as a means of ensnaring the US as a protector.” Israel in fact, was busily – but secretly – bringing itself under the protective umbrella of two other powers: France and Great Britain.When Nasser-inspired Arab nationalists overthrew Iraq’s government and tried to do the same in Jordan and Lebanon, Ben Gurion granted British paratroops permission to overfly Israel on their way to Jordan.
Project ETs
“To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian (and Jewish-rp)) system of faith at once little and ridiculous and scatters in the mind like feathers in the air.” (Tom Paine)
The early apologist of Galileo, the Dominican friar. Campanella in his book Apologia pro Galileo (Frankfurt 1623) pointed out that Galileo shared Muhammad’s belief in “many worlds with lands and seas, and with human inhabitants. Muhammad, for political reasons, rejected the idea of the Biblical Eden planted by God on earth and embraced instead the idea of the garden of Immortality that the Babylonian myth placed in Heaven. Unlike the Biblical Adam who was simply “sent forth from the garden of Eden” (Gen. 3:23), the Koran’s Adam was “sent down from the garden” (Sura Ta-Ha 20:123). Similarly, in the so-called Gospel of Marcion Jesus was send down:
In the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar,
Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea,
Jesus descended [out of heaven] into Capernaum, a city in Galilee,
and was teaching [in the synagogue] on the Sabbath days;
And they were astonished at his doctrine. (3:1/4:31)
Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world believe in Jewishness of Jesus, but Marcion's “Gospel” undercut this belief and presented Jesus as one of the extraterrestrials, an offspring of evolutionary spontaneous generation matching that of the Persian sun god Mithra born out of a cosmic rock (petra genetrix).Accordingly, the medieval iconography presented often Jesus standing on a globe flanked by the four philosophical elements. Eisenhower's policy aimed at separating Jesus from Jewish people in order to weaken the admiration of millions of Christians for the Holy Land promised by God to His Chosen people. Marcion's Jesus was not “The Deliverer who will come out of Zion and who will turn away ungodliness from Jacob (whose name was changed to Israel.” -Rom 11:26
Marcion's “Gospel” was inspired by the heliocentric science of the Roman poet Virgil who “prophesied” the coming of a 'Messiah” from the cosmos who would introduce a new Golden era of peace and communism:
Now is come the last age of the Cumaean prophecy: the great cycle of periods is born anew. Now returns the Virgin, returns the reign of Saturn: now from high heaven a new generation comes down. Yet do thou at that boy's birth, in whom the iron race shall begin to cease, and the golden to arise over all the world, holy Lucina, be gracious; now thine own Apollo reigns.
The secret NASA footage posted all over the Internet shows the alien moon base located on the Dark Side of the moon. (NASA Launches Effort for Closer Cooperation with Israel, Shevat 10, 5770, 25 January 10 10:47, by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, Israel national News)
Let me point out here that the US Moon landing program went hand in hand with what Father M. Martin in his book The Jesuits referred to as “refashioning a Jesus into a beautiful Apollo,” undertaken by the Vatican as its policy of sabotaging the young Jewish state.
The mystery of MJ-12
J.V. Forrestal was a workaholic with a burning desire to join the ranks of the “sheikhs”. Within a few years of his arrival on Wall Street, he made a substantial fortune. He entered the Federal Government in 1940. In a short time, he was appointed Under Secretary of the Navy. When Secretary of the Navy William Franklin (Frank) Knox died in April 1944, he was the natural choice to replace him.
When Truman recognized the newly created state of Israel Secretary Forrestal was appalled: ‘no group in this country’, he wrote of the Jewish lobby, ‘should be permitted to influence our policy to the point where it could endanger our national security.’ At the same time he was lobbying for the Arab interests: ‘Unless we had access to Middle East oil, the American automobile companies would have to devise a four cylinder motor car.’ What would Arabs do with all that oil? A sheikh shows Ford a four-cylinder motorcar and a sheikh gets what he wants.
He resigned his Defense Department post on March 1, 1949. He was admitted to Bethesda Naval Hospital (where he was placed in a 16th floor suite which had originally been built for President Franklin Roosevelt) shortly thereafter for psychiatric care. His death is described as follows in his official biography: “After getting rid of the one person who could stop him quickly, Mr. Forrestal tied the silk belt from his dressing gown around his neck. After securing the other end to a radiator he removed a simple (as opposed to a security) screen and lowered himself outside. There was evidence that he hung for about one minute and then tried to climb back inside. Unfortunately it was at this point that the knot at the radiator end gave, dropping him to death. He landed on top of the roof of the third story passageway. The remains had to be removed from the roof where he landed.” Similarly died the pro-Arab Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk.
But William Cooper, a member of the Intelligence Briefing Team of the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet in his research paper entitled The Origin, Identity, and Purpose of MJ-12, a result of his own research into the TOP SECRET/MAJIC material, which he saw and read mentions James Forrestal as the man who objected to the secrecy which prevented divulging any information about “a special group of America’s top scientists who were organized under the name Project SIGN in December 1947 to study the sightings of UFOs.” W. Cooper himself was not sure if the material that he viewed in the Navy was authentic and therefore he termed his paper a hypothesis. Consider this content of the material at his disposal: “An alien craft was found on February 13, 1948, on a mesa near Aztec, New Mexico. Another craft was located on March 25, 1948, in White Sands Proving Ground. It was 100 feet in diameter. A total pf 17 alien bodies were recovered from those two crafts. Of even greater significance was the discovery of a large number of human body parts stored within both of these vehicles. A demon had reared its head and paranoia quickly took hold of everyone ‘in the know.’ The secret lid immediately became a Top Secret lid and was screwed down tight. The security blanket was even tighter than that imposed upon the Manhattan project.”
(http://www.thewatcherfiles.com/cooper/secret_government.htm)
It was a hot period in the international politics resulting from the Soviet Union’s decision to support the establishment of the Jewish State; a long series of speeches by Soviet (and Soviet bloc) representatives, delivered in 1948, proves the coinciding interests of the Soviet Union and Israel at the time.
In March 1948, when the Americans, apparently having had second thoughts, tried to change the Assembly decision of November 29, 1947, and to substitute a temporary United Nations trusteeship for the partition plan, Gromyko, on March 30, accused the United States of being “concerned not with the just settlement of the question of the future of Palestine and the relations between Arabs and Jews, but with its own oil interests and military-strategic positions in the Near East.
Anticipating that some Jews might survive the Holocaust, the Polish puppet government-in-exile had Roman Knoll, a member of its foreign affairs office, draft a memo on the subject: “In the Homeland as a whole – regardless of the general psychological situation at any given moment – the position is such that the return of the Jews to their jobs and workshops is quite out of question, even if the number of Jews were greatly reduced. The non-Jewish population has filled their places in the towns and cities; in much of Poland this is a fundamental change, and final in character. The return of masses of Jews would be perceived by the population not as an act of restitution but as an invasion against which they would have to defend themselves, even by physical means…The government is correct in assuring world opinion that anti-Semitism will no longer exist in Poland; but it will no longer exist only if the surviving Jews do not endeavor to return to Poland’s cities and town en masse.
Considering the difficult situation, the Homeland sees only one way out: the Polish Government must take the initiative – immediately if possible – with the aim of creating a national center for the Jews of Eastern Europe. This project should be drawn up in co-operation with Jewish Zionist circles; it should focus on an East-European territory for the future Jewish state, in preference to Palestine – which is too small for the purpose, too exotic, and has aroused conflict with the Arab world – and in preference to some to some tropical colony to which the Jews will refuse to emigrate. It may be too early to decide precisely what territory should be considered. Our attitude in this matter should be philo-Jewish rather than anti-Jewish…” (Quoted by Yisrael Gutman, Polish and Jewish Historiography on the Question of Polish-Jewish Relations During World War II. In: The Jews in Poland, ed. By Chimen Abramsky, Maciej Jachimczyk, and Anthony Polonsky. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986, p. 182). Let me remind that with the same purpose, Hitler wanted to resettle all the Jews to the Lublin area, but because of the strong opposition of the local population he had to give up the idea. Raoul Wallenberg entertained the same idea and that’s why, most likely, he was executed by the Soviets. Sweden's hostility to the idea of Jewish state on its historical territory endures to this day.
In meetings of the First Committee in April and May 1948, Gromyko (on April 20), the Byeolrussian delegate Kaminski (on April 21), and the Ukrainian representative, Vasili Tarassenko (on April 22), made a concerted attack against “politically bankrupt Britain” and against United States efforts to “wreck the decision on the Partition of Palestine.” On April 23, the Soviet delegate, A. Panyushkin, reiterating that the decision of November 29, 1947, “met the deep-rooted national interests of the Arabs and Jewish peoples of Palestine,” laid the blame for the situation in Palestine on “the United Kingdom, whose policy was calculated to kindle national hatred between Arabs and Jews.” He spoke of “Arab bands” which had penetrated into Palestine with the connivance of Britain. (Avigdor Dagan, Moscow and Jerusalem.1970, with an introduction of Abba Eban)
The political line of James Forrestal regarding the UFO problem anticipated similar events mentioned above connected with Y. Arafat’s visits to the White House. He believed that the public should be told. James Forrestal was also one of the “first known abductees.” W. Cooper: “When he began to talk to leaders of the opposition party and leaders of the Congress about the alien problem he was asked to resign by Truman. He expressed his fears to many people. Rightfully, he believed that he was being watched. This was interpreted by those who were ignorant of these facts as paranoia. Forrestal later was said to have suffered a mental breakdown. He was ordered to the mental ward of Bethesda Naval Hospital. His family and friends were denied permission to visit.
Finally, on May 21, 1949, Forrestal’s brother made a fateful decision. He notified authorities that he intended to remove James from Bethesda on May 22. Sometime in the early morning of May 22, 1948, agents of the CIA tied a sheet around James Forrestal’s neck, fastened the other end to a fixture in his room, then threw James Forrestal out of the window. The sheet tore and he plummeted to his death. James Forrestal’s secret diaries were confiscated by the CIA and were kept in the White House for many years. Due to public demand the diaries were eventually rewritten and published in a sanitized version. The real diary information was later furnished by the CIA in book form to an agent who published the material as fiction. The name of the agent is Whitley Strieber and the book is Majestic” J. Forrestal died 4 days after Gromyko, on May 18, condemned the Arab countries “which are prepared to accept any decision, if only they can thwart the possibility of the creation of a Jewish State.” On May 20, Tarassenko attacked Britain as being directly responsible for the war in Palestine, or at least “for the actions of Transjordan’s armed forces in the State of Israel (which are) manifestly illegal and manifestly aimed at a breach of peace in Palestine… The UK bears the responsibility because it has inspired the actions of the Transjordanian armed forces. These forces are in fact armed forces of the UK…commanded by British officers, maintained by British money, closely connected with Britain and subject to British High Command…The UK Government is doing all it can to thwart the possibility of putting an end to the disorders in Palestine.”
The pro-Israeli – and, of course, at the same time, anti-British and anti-American – line of Soviet policy continued. In August 1948, a Soviet legation was opened in Tel Aviv, and at the beginning of September, Golda Meir, Israel’s first Minister to the Soviet Union, and her staff arrived in Moscow. From then on, the UN ceased to be the only forum of Israeli-Soviet contacts and dialogue. (A. Dagan, ib.)
Pres. Eisenhower’s enmity toward Israel went hand in hand with his interest for the UFO problem. W. Cooper relates what he found in the secret papers: “President Eisenhower met with the aliens on February 20, 1954, and a formal treaty between the alien nation and the United States of America was signed. We then received our first alien ambassador from outer space. He was the hostage that had been left at the first landing in the desert. His name was ‘His Omni-potent Highness Crill or Krill,’ pronounced Crill or Krill. In the American tradition of disdain for royal titles he was secretly called ‘Original Hostage Crill, or Krill.’ Shortly after this meeting President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack.
Four others present at the meeting were Franklin Allen of the Hearst Newspapers, Edwin Nourse of Brookings Institute, Gerard Light of metaphysical research fame, and Catholic Bihop (sic!) MacIntyre of Los Angeles. Their reaction was judged as a microcosm of what the public reaction might be. Based on their reaction, it was decided that the public could not be told. Later studies confirmed the decision as sound.”
The secret NASA footage posted all over the Internet shows the
alien moon base located on the Dark Side of the moon.
Priests at the Vatican Observatory do continue their researches in the spirit of that “meeting.” According to Berliner Morgenpost, they have come to conclusion that “earth’s inhabitants are not the only creatures of God in the universe. As explained by George Coyne, director of the observatory, “the universe is simply far too large for us to be alone.” To reach these extraterrestrials with the Gospel, several monasteries have been sending the Syrian New Testament (Peshitta) into space as an encoded message. What the Vatican would like to know, says the newspaper, “is whether Jesus Christ has manifested himself on other planets too.” And, adds Coyne, “Whether Jesus Christ has also saved the inhabitants” of those planets. The basic dogma of the materialist philosophy of the Roman Epicurean Lucretius recognized life not as created by a god but as evolving from dead atoms in infinite universe: “Life does not differ essentially from other matter; it is a product of moving atoms which are individually dead. As the universe took form by the inherent laws of matter, so the earth produced by a purely natural selection all the species and organs of life.”
Cathy O’Brien, in her astonishing book, Trance Formation Of America, written with Mark Phillips writes of how George Bush was sitting in front of her in his office in Washington DC when he opened a book at a page depicting “lizard-like aliens from a far off, deep space place.” Bush then claimed to be an ‘alien’ himself and appeared, before her eyes, to transform ‘like a chameleon’ into a reptile. Cathy believed that some kind of hologram had been activated to achieve this in this way...
G. Bruno proclaimed, The earth is not the center of the world, nor is the sun; beyond the world that we see there are others worlds, and beyond these other worlds are other worlds again (expanding universe), and so on endlessly; we cannot conceive an end, nor a beginning. And instead of the “fixed” stars being fixed, as Copernicus thought, they change their place constantly; even in the skies panta rei, all things flow. Space, time, and motion are relative; there is no center, no circumference, no up or down; the same motion differs when seen from different places or stars; and as time is the measure of motion, time too is relative. Probably many stars are inhabited by living, intelligent beings; did Christ die for them too? Yet in this endless immensity there is an invariable conservation of matter, an eternal and inviolable constancy of law.
The Copernicanism began a process of exterminating and replacing the Bible with “science” as the new source of Absolute Truth. Kepler, Galileo, and Newton, supported by philosophers such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer established heliocentric mythology solidly over a 300-year period in the universities. In 1820 Canon Giuseppe Settele, professor of astronomy in Rome and Washington, had written an elementary book in which the Copernican system was taken for granted. On the 16th of August, 1820, the Congregation of the Holy Office (Inquisition) decided that Settele might teach the Copernican system as established, and this decision was approved by the Pope. On the 5th of May, 1829, Thorwaldsen’s statue of Copernicus was unveiled in Warsaw. In the 1880s philosopher Nietzsche boasted: “god is dead; we have killed him with our science!”
The Passion of the God of the Bible continues. The author of the website NASA’s Agenda: Promoting Copernicanism & Evolutionism describes how NASA’s ORIGINS PROGRAM will search for clues to help us find our cosmic roots, to eliminate once and for all the Biblical story of Creation. Another author of website article NASA’s Hanky-Panky: Virtual Reality Technology unmasks how NASA will be inputting information that is to be presented as real when it is not real. Cyberpunks will be representing a merging of science fiction and bohemia. The double rehabilitation of Copernicanism and Darwinism by the Pope sounds like a new obituary proclaiming death of the God of the Bible (His Ten Commandments had been put into solitary confinement in the Alabama court building). NASA is getting its New Generation Space Telescope (NGST) on line! When it gets cranked, it will transmit all sorts of visual “evidence” of life forms from Mars on out to deep space 9. Or will it? God willing.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Another Blackmail
Abbas may resign if talks fail: Fatah official
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RAMALLAH, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas hints at stepping down from office in case direct negotiations with Israel was aborted, an official from Abbas's Fatah party revealed on Saturday.
A member of Fatah Central Committee, Jamal Mohissen, told Xinhua that Abbas informed Fatah leadership and the Executive Committee of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) that he was planning "a serious step" if the negotiations failed.
The current situation, in which Israel is unlikely to renew a partial freeze on Jewish settlement in the West Bank, would force Abbas to take that decision, Mohissen added.
He stressed that he believes that Abbas would not surprise the Central Committee by stepping down and that "he would not abandon his responsibilities in light of the very complicated Palestinian situation."
"Eventually, Fatah will not stop at one person, and it has its options if President Abbas clings to this option", Mohissen said.
Abbas accepted a U.S. proposal for resuming direct peace talks with Israel and the talks kicked off on September 2 after they had been stalled for almost 15 months.
The United States said a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians could be achieved in one year.
However, Palestinian Islamic and leftist parties showed opposition to these talks.
Mohissen was pessimistic from the path of the direct negotiations with Israel, saying that "the gap is still vast between the two sides."
"we seek to end the Israeli occupation to our land and obtain our rights and national constants through negotiations, yet Israel is not ready for peace and insists to boost its occupation through settlement construction and its call for a Jewish state."
The Palestinians and the Israelis held three rounds of talks by U.S. sponsorship in the Washington, Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt and Jerusalem, however, neither Israel nor the Palestinians announced a breakthrough over any of the controversial issues, on top of which is the issue of settlement construction.
Later this week, President Abbas is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York on the sidelines of the 65th UN General Assembly meetings.
Why isn’t India a pariah state?
By ROB BROWN, 19/9/10
Most citizens of this country probably feel they already have quite enough on their plates dealing with Hizbullah and Hamas without pondering what’s happening way off in the Himalayas. Current events in Kashmir do, however, deserve serious consideration, if only because dark and dangerous parallels between that conflict and the Israel-Palestinian one are being drawn by global jihadists, as well as by some influential international opinion-formers who should know better.
An “intifada-style popular revolt” is how The New York Times has portrayed the latest popular uprising against Indian occupation which has swept through this predominantly Muslim province this summer, making the breathtakingly beautiful Kashmir Valley appear even more of a paradise lost. Although not clad in keffiyehs, young Kashmiri teenagers can sometimes resemble their Palestinian peers as they throw stones at army patrols and dodge tear-gas canisters on the streets of the state capital, Srinagar.
But what the world is never told by The New York Times, nor by most other supposedly liberal organs, is that New Delhi’s response to such civil disobedience has been far more savage and brutal than anything authorized in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, leading in the past to serious armed insurrection (often incited by Pakistan).
The Indian essayist Pankaj Mishra justly observed recently: “The killing fields of Kashmir dwarf those of Palestine and Tibet. In addition to the everyday regime of arbitrary arrests, curfews, raids and checkpoints enforced by nearly 700,000 Indian soldiers, the valley’s 4 million Muslims are exposed to extrajudicial execution, rape and torture, with such barbaric variations as live electric wires inserted into the penis.”
A LEADING local NGO, the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-Administered Kashmir, has reported that extrajudicial killings and torture are commonplace there. It claims that the Indian military occupation of that state between 1989-2009 has resulted in more than 70,00 deaths, and many of these killings were deemed “acts of service” by India’s feared Central Reserve Police Force, leading to promotion and financial reward (bounty is paid after claims made by officers are verified, apparently).
Still, there are no serious moves afoot in editorial corridors or academic campuses anywhere in the Western world to transform India into an international pariah. No calls for boycotts, disinvestment or sanctions against the world’s largest democracy.
The deafening silence over Kashmir speaks volumes about the double standards by which different governments around the globe are judged on their human rights records.
Partly this stems from the post-imperial guilt complex which continues to afflict so many citizens of the West.
The atrocities committed by former colonies are endlessly excused by loose-thinking liberals in London and Paris, however flagrant and ugly such abuses might be. On the extremely rare occasions when repugnant regimes are taken to task, the real responsibility for their brutality is usually reported to lie with external agents.
The Pakistani Marxist polemicist Tariq Ali recently regaled readers of the zealously anti-Zionist London Review of Books with the claim that the real cause of Kashmiris’ current suffering is the ever-evil IDF. “It has been open season on Muslims since 9/11, when the liberation struggle in Kashmir was conveniently subsumed under the war on terror,” he wrote. “Israeli military officers were invited to visit Akhnur military base in the province and advise on counter-terrorism measures.”
Ali gleefully quotes the Web site India Defense, which noted in September 2008 that “Maj.-Gen. Avi Mizrahi paid an unscheduled visit to the disputed state of Kashmir last week to get an up-close look at the challenges the Indian military faces in its fight against Islamic insurgents.
Mizrahi was in India for three days of meetings with the country’s military brass, and to discuss a plan the IDF is drafting for Israeli commandos to train Indian counter-terror forces.”
The concern isn’t that such conspiracy theories are recycled on the pages of the LRB – a small, self-important literary journal – but they are also plastered across countless Islamofascist Web sites, reinforcing the dangerously warped worldview of some of the most dangerous people on the planet. In her days as director-general of the British security service MI5, Eliza Mannigham- Buller observed how jihadists are driven by “a powerful narrative that weaves together conflicts from across the globe, [including] long-standing conflicts such as Israel-Palestine and Kashmir.”
What this leading spook didn’t add is that the crazed fury which results from such communal paranoia isn’t directed with equal vehemence and violence against the various alleged perpetrators. The once heavenly Kashmir Valley has become hell on earth for many of its inhabitants, but Indians are unlikely to have to endure the same hellish condemnation as Israelis. The sole Jewish state on the planet is proving a wonderful lightning rod for Islamic militants – and their misguided liberal-leftist allies – in a way that the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir could never be.
Raw economic factors reinforce such inconsistencies.
People may be killed like poultry in Kashmir, as in Tibet, but even “progressive” Western politicians are too chicken to jeopardize their countries’ rapidly expanding commercial connections with either India or China. Of course, little Israel isn’t anywhere near as lucrative a marketplace. Consequently, a Kashmiri (or a Tibetan) life will continue to count for far less than that of a Palestinian.
The writer is a British journalism educator, currently based in Ireland, who has been a visiting professor in India and has personally observed the situation is Kashmir.
Most citizens of this country probably feel they already have quite enough on their plates dealing with Hizbullah and Hamas without pondering what’s happening way off in the Himalayas. Current events in Kashmir do, however, deserve serious consideration, if only because dark and dangerous parallels between that conflict and the Israel-Palestinian one are being drawn by global jihadists, as well as by some influential international opinion-formers who should know better.
An “intifada-style popular revolt” is how The New York Times has portrayed the latest popular uprising against Indian occupation which has swept through this predominantly Muslim province this summer, making the breathtakingly beautiful Kashmir Valley appear even more of a paradise lost. Although not clad in keffiyehs, young Kashmiri teenagers can sometimes resemble their Palestinian peers as they throw stones at army patrols and dodge tear-gas canisters on the streets of the state capital, Srinagar.
But what the world is never told by The New York Times, nor by most other supposedly liberal organs, is that New Delhi’s response to such civil disobedience has been far more savage and brutal than anything authorized in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, leading in the past to serious armed insurrection (often incited by Pakistan).
The Indian essayist Pankaj Mishra justly observed recently: “The killing fields of Kashmir dwarf those of Palestine and Tibet. In addition to the everyday regime of arbitrary arrests, curfews, raids and checkpoints enforced by nearly 700,000 Indian soldiers, the valley’s 4 million Muslims are exposed to extrajudicial execution, rape and torture, with such barbaric variations as live electric wires inserted into the penis.”
A LEADING local NGO, the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-Administered Kashmir, has reported that extrajudicial killings and torture are commonplace there. It claims that the Indian military occupation of that state between 1989-2009 has resulted in more than 70,00 deaths, and many of these killings were deemed “acts of service” by India’s feared Central Reserve Police Force, leading to promotion and financial reward (bounty is paid after claims made by officers are verified, apparently).
Still, there are no serious moves afoot in editorial corridors or academic campuses anywhere in the Western world to transform India into an international pariah. No calls for boycotts, disinvestment or sanctions against the world’s largest democracy.
The deafening silence over Kashmir speaks volumes about the double standards by which different governments around the globe are judged on their human rights records.
Partly this stems from the post-imperial guilt complex which continues to afflict so many citizens of the West.
The atrocities committed by former colonies are endlessly excused by loose-thinking liberals in London and Paris, however flagrant and ugly such abuses might be. On the extremely rare occasions when repugnant regimes are taken to task, the real responsibility for their brutality is usually reported to lie with external agents.
The Pakistani Marxist polemicist Tariq Ali recently regaled readers of the zealously anti-Zionist London Review of Books with the claim that the real cause of Kashmiris’ current suffering is the ever-evil IDF. “It has been open season on Muslims since 9/11, when the liberation struggle in Kashmir was conveniently subsumed under the war on terror,” he wrote. “Israeli military officers were invited to visit Akhnur military base in the province and advise on counter-terrorism measures.”
Ali gleefully quotes the Web site India Defense, which noted in September 2008 that “Maj.-Gen. Avi Mizrahi paid an unscheduled visit to the disputed state of Kashmir last week to get an up-close look at the challenges the Indian military faces in its fight against Islamic insurgents.
Mizrahi was in India for three days of meetings with the country’s military brass, and to discuss a plan the IDF is drafting for Israeli commandos to train Indian counter-terror forces.”
The concern isn’t that such conspiracy theories are recycled on the pages of the LRB – a small, self-important literary journal – but they are also plastered across countless Islamofascist Web sites, reinforcing the dangerously warped worldview of some of the most dangerous people on the planet. In her days as director-general of the British security service MI5, Eliza Mannigham- Buller observed how jihadists are driven by “a powerful narrative that weaves together conflicts from across the globe, [including] long-standing conflicts such as Israel-Palestine and Kashmir.”
What this leading spook didn’t add is that the crazed fury which results from such communal paranoia isn’t directed with equal vehemence and violence against the various alleged perpetrators. The once heavenly Kashmir Valley has become hell on earth for many of its inhabitants, but Indians are unlikely to have to endure the same hellish condemnation as Israelis. The sole Jewish state on the planet is proving a wonderful lightning rod for Islamic militants – and their misguided liberal-leftist allies – in a way that the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir could never be.
Raw economic factors reinforce such inconsistencies.
People may be killed like poultry in Kashmir, as in Tibet, but even “progressive” Western politicians are too chicken to jeopardize their countries’ rapidly expanding commercial connections with either India or China. Of course, little Israel isn’t anywhere near as lucrative a marketplace. Consequently, a Kashmiri (or a Tibetan) life will continue to count for far less than that of a Palestinian.
The writer is a British journalism educator, currently based in Ireland, who has been a visiting professor in India and has personally observed the situation is Kashmir.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Israel-Palestinian talks may be interrupted- an Ultimatum
Sep 18, 2010 21:21 Moscow Time
If Israel does not extend its moratorium for the construction of settlements on West Bank the direct Palestinian-Israeli talks will be interrupted, Nabil Shaath, a member of the delegation of Palestinian negotiators said in Ramallah Saturday.
He also said that Palestinians do not recognize Israel as the Jewish state.
Meanwhile, Israel's Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the recognition of Israel as the Jewish state is the basic condition for signing peaceful agreement with Palestine and made it clear that Israel is not going to extaned the moratorium.
Palestinians to end talks if Israel resumes settlement construction
Sep 17, 2010 10:17 Moscow Time
Palestinians have again threatened with pooling out from the ongoing direct talks with Israel if the Jewish State resumes the construction of settlements on the West Bank.
This came in a statement yesterday night by the Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki.
The current moratorium on Jewish settlement construction expires on the 26th of this month. Israel, although repeatedly urged by the world community to prolong the moratorium, has so far signalled no intention to do so.
Moscow urges continuation of Mideast peace talks
Sep 16, 2010 16:31 Moscow Time
Moscow has urged the continuation of direct Israeli-Palestinian parleys after September 26, when Tel Aviv’s settlement construction moratorium is due to expire.
In a statement on Thursday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pointed to the necessity of going ahead with the talks, which, he said, “are much better than their absence”.
Wednesday witnessed the beginning of the direct talks in Jerusalem between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The sit-down failed to contribute to tackling the Middle East peace talks, which are yet to see Israel freeze its settlement construction in the West Bank.
Clinton Repeats 'Comprehensive Peace' Hopes, Mitchell in Syria
Tishrei 10, 5771, 18 September 10 10:16, by Maayana Miskin
(Israelnationalnews.com) United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton repeated a call this week for “comprehensive peace” that goes beyond Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Clinton was in Israel for the second round of talks between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
“We believe that it is not only important to pursue the Palestinian- Israeli negotiations but a comprehensive regional peace consistent with the heart of the Arab Israeli peace initiative,” she stated.
U.S. envoy George Mitchell met Thursday with Syrian President Bashar Assad and Foreign Minister Walid Muallem. Earlier in the week French envoy Claude Cousseran was in Damascus to meet with Assad and push Israel-Syria peace talks.
Assad expressed skepticism that his country and Israel would reach a deal.
Syria has demanded that Israel hand over the strategic Golan Heights, which were under Syrian control between 1948 and 1967, and have been in Israeli hands since the Six Day War. Israel officially annexed the area in 1981.
Syria has demanded that Israel agree in principle to relinquish the Golan before talks begin, a demand that Israel has rejected. Israeli leaders say Syria must ends its ties with Iran and with PA-based terrorist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
www.IsraelNationalNews.com
And the PA demands that Israel agree in principle to relinquish Judea and Samaria before talks begin. So what to talk about? Well, they want the whole Israel between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. And that's their idea of the “peace” talks.. It is expressed in their song:
PA TV Song: Pull the Trigger - Redeem the Country
Tishrei 10, 5771, 18 September 10 10:09, by -
(Israelnationalnews.com) Palestinian Authority TV broadcast, in the midst of the current round of direct peace talks between Mahmoud Abbas and Binyamin Netanyahu, a PA dance group performing and singing about conquering Israel. The song describes Israelis as "despicable" and an "invading enemy," and declares that "the Palestinian revolution awaits [them]." Israeli cities Lod, Ramle, and of course Jerusalem are presented as Palestinian cities to be liberated via Jihad. The song then calls upon PA Arabs to "Pull the trigger."
Below is a selection from the video, courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch:
[flash:125030]
%ad%
The following is a transcript and description of the performance:
Band member recites a poem: "Fight, brother, the flag will never be lowered,
the torches will never die out."
On [Mt.] Carmel (in Israel) and in the [Jordan] Valley,
we are rocks and streams.
In Lod (Israeli city) we are poems, and in Ramle (Israeli city) - grenades.
We, my brother, shall remain the revolution of the fighting nation."
Vocalist sings: "The Zionists went out from [their] homelands,
compounding damage and enmity.
But the Palestinian revolution awaits [them].
The orchard called us to the [armed] struggle.
We replaced bracelets with weapons.
We attacked the despicable [Zionists].
This invading enemy is on the battlefield.
This is the day of consolation of Jihad.
Pull the trigger.
We shall redeem Jerusalem, Nablus and the country."
www.IsraelNationalNews.com
If Israel does not extend its moratorium for the construction of settlements on West Bank the direct Palestinian-Israeli talks will be interrupted, Nabil Shaath, a member of the delegation of Palestinian negotiators said in Ramallah Saturday.
He also said that Palestinians do not recognize Israel as the Jewish state.
Meanwhile, Israel's Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the recognition of Israel as the Jewish state is the basic condition for signing peaceful agreement with Palestine and made it clear that Israel is not going to extaned the moratorium.
Palestinians to end talks if Israel resumes settlement construction
Sep 17, 2010 10:17 Moscow Time
Palestinians have again threatened with pooling out from the ongoing direct talks with Israel if the Jewish State resumes the construction of settlements on the West Bank.
This came in a statement yesterday night by the Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki.
The current moratorium on Jewish settlement construction expires on the 26th of this month. Israel, although repeatedly urged by the world community to prolong the moratorium, has so far signalled no intention to do so.
Moscow urges continuation of Mideast peace talks
Sep 16, 2010 16:31 Moscow Time
Moscow has urged the continuation of direct Israeli-Palestinian parleys after September 26, when Tel Aviv’s settlement construction moratorium is due to expire.
In a statement on Thursday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pointed to the necessity of going ahead with the talks, which, he said, “are much better than their absence”.
Wednesday witnessed the beginning of the direct talks in Jerusalem between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The sit-down failed to contribute to tackling the Middle East peace talks, which are yet to see Israel freeze its settlement construction in the West Bank.
Clinton Repeats 'Comprehensive Peace' Hopes, Mitchell in Syria
Tishrei 10, 5771, 18 September 10 10:16, by Maayana Miskin
(Israelnationalnews.com) United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton repeated a call this week for “comprehensive peace” that goes beyond Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Clinton was in Israel for the second round of talks between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
“We believe that it is not only important to pursue the Palestinian- Israeli negotiations but a comprehensive regional peace consistent with the heart of the Arab Israeli peace initiative,” she stated.
U.S. envoy George Mitchell met Thursday with Syrian President Bashar Assad and Foreign Minister Walid Muallem. Earlier in the week French envoy Claude Cousseran was in Damascus to meet with Assad and push Israel-Syria peace talks.
Assad expressed skepticism that his country and Israel would reach a deal.
Syria has demanded that Israel hand over the strategic Golan Heights, which were under Syrian control between 1948 and 1967, and have been in Israeli hands since the Six Day War. Israel officially annexed the area in 1981.
Syria has demanded that Israel agree in principle to relinquish the Golan before talks begin, a demand that Israel has rejected. Israeli leaders say Syria must ends its ties with Iran and with PA-based terrorist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
www.IsraelNationalNews.com
And the PA demands that Israel agree in principle to relinquish Judea and Samaria before talks begin. So what to talk about? Well, they want the whole Israel between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. And that's their idea of the “peace” talks.. It is expressed in their song:
PA TV Song: Pull the Trigger - Redeem the Country
Tishrei 10, 5771, 18 September 10 10:09, by -
(Israelnationalnews.com) Palestinian Authority TV broadcast, in the midst of the current round of direct peace talks between Mahmoud Abbas and Binyamin Netanyahu, a PA dance group performing and singing about conquering Israel. The song describes Israelis as "despicable" and an "invading enemy," and declares that "the Palestinian revolution awaits [them]." Israeli cities Lod, Ramle, and of course Jerusalem are presented as Palestinian cities to be liberated via Jihad. The song then calls upon PA Arabs to "Pull the trigger."
Below is a selection from the video, courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch:
[flash:125030]
%ad%
The following is a transcript and description of the performance:
Band member recites a poem: "Fight, brother, the flag will never be lowered,
the torches will never die out."
On [Mt.] Carmel (in Israel) and in the [Jordan] Valley,
we are rocks and streams.
In Lod (Israeli city) we are poems, and in Ramle (Israeli city) - grenades.
We, my brother, shall remain the revolution of the fighting nation."
Vocalist sings: "The Zionists went out from [their] homelands,
compounding damage and enmity.
But the Palestinian revolution awaits [them].
The orchard called us to the [armed] struggle.
We replaced bracelets with weapons.
We attacked the despicable [Zionists].
This invading enemy is on the battlefield.
This is the day of consolation of Jihad.
Pull the trigger.
We shall redeem Jerusalem, Nablus and the country."
www.IsraelNationalNews.com
Friday, September 17, 2010
Gov’t rejects extended freeze, despite heavy pressure
By HERB KEINON AND KHALED ABU TOAMEH, 17/09/2010
Despite considerable pressure from both the US and Egypt to continue the settlement construction moratorium for another three months, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s senior ministers, a forum known as the septet, decided this week not to extend the freeze.
Since a cabinet decision was needed to put the freeze into effect last November, another cabinet decision would be needed to extend it, and the septet decided, before Netanyahu’s meeting in Jerusalem with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, not to ask for an extension.
RELATED:
Opinion: End this freeze!
Netanyahu faces coalition threats from both sides
Defense Minister Ehud Barak reportedly was in favor of an American compromise to extend the moratorium for three months in order to come to an agreement with the Palestinian Authority on final borders, so that it would then be clear where Israel would, and would not, be able to build.
Clinton, however, reiterated in a Channel 10 interview that the US still wanted to see the moratorium extended, although she said she understood Netanyahu’s argument that the PA did not take advantage of the moratorium in place for the last 9-1/2 months to enter into talks.
MKs Seek Forgiveness for Freeze
Tishrei 9, 5771, 17 September 10 10:58, by Maayana Miskin
(Israelnationalnews.com) Members of Knesset from the Jewish Home and Yisrael Beiteinu “confessed their sins” Thursday, saying the Judea and Samaria construction freeze was a bad decision and they were sorry it had begun. Jews traditionally confess their sins prior to Yom Kippur and apologize to those they have wronged.
Minister of Science Daniel Hershkowitz, head of the Jewish Home party, said, “Everyone has their personal introspection to do, but as a minister in the government, on a national level, the greatest mistake was the construction freeze, the decision made ten months ago. We came to the land to build and be built, and also, putting politics aside, it is absurd to freeze construction only for Jews.”
If it weren't for the decision to freeze Judea and Samaria construction for Jews, the government would not currently be under pressure to continue the freeze, Hershkowitz said. “The mistake was that we set the standard that we can freeze construction, that is the sin and the great mistake, and I hope that regarding what we did, the damage can be rectified,” he said.
Israel can repent for the freeze by refusing to extend it despite pressure from the United States, and renewing construction on September 26, he concluded.
MK David Rotem of Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) made a similar apology. “We sinned in that we did not sufficiently strengthen our settlement in the land of Israel, and as a result, we did not sufficiently resist the construction freeze. For this we must ask forgiveness,” he said.
Rotem listed other national sins as well. “We sinned in that we did not allow the soldiers of the IDF to protect the people of Israel with all their might. We sinned in that Gilad Shalit is still not home, because we should have carried out a strong, serious operation to bring him home,” he said.
He added an apology to non-Jews who have been mistreated while attempting to convert to Judaism. “I want to request forgiveness from all those who wish to convert, and we create unnecessary obstacles,” he said.
“I want to request forgiveness from all of those I mentioned, and I hope the next year will be a better year,” Rotem continued. He concluded, “We must make every effort to fix things, we may not always succeed, but we must make the maximum effort.”
www.IsraelNationalNews.com
Despite considerable pressure from both the US and Egypt to continue the settlement construction moratorium for another three months, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s senior ministers, a forum known as the septet, decided this week not to extend the freeze.
Since a cabinet decision was needed to put the freeze into effect last November, another cabinet decision would be needed to extend it, and the septet decided, before Netanyahu’s meeting in Jerusalem with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, not to ask for an extension.
RELATED:
Opinion: End this freeze!
Netanyahu faces coalition threats from both sides
Defense Minister Ehud Barak reportedly was in favor of an American compromise to extend the moratorium for three months in order to come to an agreement with the Palestinian Authority on final borders, so that it would then be clear where Israel would, and would not, be able to build.
Clinton, however, reiterated in a Channel 10 interview that the US still wanted to see the moratorium extended, although she said she understood Netanyahu’s argument that the PA did not take advantage of the moratorium in place for the last 9-1/2 months to enter into talks.
MKs Seek Forgiveness for Freeze
Tishrei 9, 5771, 17 September 10 10:58, by Maayana Miskin
(Israelnationalnews.com) Members of Knesset from the Jewish Home and Yisrael Beiteinu “confessed their sins” Thursday, saying the Judea and Samaria construction freeze was a bad decision and they were sorry it had begun. Jews traditionally confess their sins prior to Yom Kippur and apologize to those they have wronged.
Minister of Science Daniel Hershkowitz, head of the Jewish Home party, said, “Everyone has their personal introspection to do, but as a minister in the government, on a national level, the greatest mistake was the construction freeze, the decision made ten months ago. We came to the land to build and be built, and also, putting politics aside, it is absurd to freeze construction only for Jews.”
If it weren't for the decision to freeze Judea and Samaria construction for Jews, the government would not currently be under pressure to continue the freeze, Hershkowitz said. “The mistake was that we set the standard that we can freeze construction, that is the sin and the great mistake, and I hope that regarding what we did, the damage can be rectified,” he said.
Israel can repent for the freeze by refusing to extend it despite pressure from the United States, and renewing construction on September 26, he concluded.
MK David Rotem of Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) made a similar apology. “We sinned in that we did not sufficiently strengthen our settlement in the land of Israel, and as a result, we did not sufficiently resist the construction freeze. For this we must ask forgiveness,” he said.
Rotem listed other national sins as well. “We sinned in that we did not allow the soldiers of the IDF to protect the people of Israel with all their might. We sinned in that Gilad Shalit is still not home, because we should have carried out a strong, serious operation to bring him home,” he said.
He added an apology to non-Jews who have been mistreated while attempting to convert to Judaism. “I want to request forgiveness from all those who wish to convert, and we create unnecessary obstacles,” he said.
“I want to request forgiveness from all of those I mentioned, and I hope the next year will be a better year,” Rotem continued. He concluded, “We must make every effort to fix things, we may not always succeed, but we must make the maximum effort.”
www.IsraelNationalNews.com
Monday, September 13, 2010
Muslim Mafia:
Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America
By P. Dave Gaubatz and Paul Sperry
What you'll learn in this book:
Which politicians are given money by Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). How Capitol Hill staffers are strategically placed by CAIR.
Why FBI bonuses are paid to agents who are nice to CAIR.
Why our government is afraid to reveal what they really know about CAIR.
How CAIR has compromised our intelligence systems.
How CAIR is secretly working with government officials to ban the Patriot Act to make future attacks against our country even easier.
And the list goes on....
Never one Arab spy was arrested in the USA, but a few Israeli spies (like J. Pollard, for instance) are languishing in the U.S. Jails.
“In his column of Friday, Yemini (whose family came from Yemen) denounces a “conference” held in Spain under the official auspices of the Spanish government, in which only leftists were invited, to search for “peace solutions” to the Middle East conflict. Except admission to the conference was reserved mainly for those who endorsed the “Palestinian Right of Return” and also who endorse the replacement of Israel by a “bi-national state,” meaning a Rwandan-style country in which the Arab majority would quickly eliminate the “problem” of the Jewish minority in a new Final Solution. The conference was largely the initiative of one Ofer Bronstein, an Israeli leftist who is currently promoting the division of Jerusalem but used to organize pilgrimages of leftist “rabbis” to kiss Arafat's scientific hand. Bornstein is associated with the anti-Israel extremist and ex-Nazi Uri Avnery. Yemini concludes his column, “The battle against the fascist Left is not yet lost...Not that the fascist Left will disappear any time soon.”
Report: Blair's 'Peace' Ideas May be Motivated by Profit
Tishrei 4, 5771, 12 September 10 04:44, by Maayana Miskin
(Israelnationalnews.com) The British paper Daily Mail has charged former British Prime Minister Tony Blair with exploiting the cause of Middle East peace in order to line his pockets. A recent deal involving a Palestinian Authority telephone network, in which Blair was involved as an international envoy, saved a bank which pays Blair's salary from taking a loss.
Blair was heavily involved in getting Israeli leaders to sign over frequencies to a new PA cell phone company, Watania. Israel had held back on allowing Watania to use the frequencies, which IDF commanders said they needed for military communications.
Blair met several times with Defense Minister Ehud Barak and raised the issue of the frequencies requested by Watania, which were eventually awarded to the cell phone start-up despite security concerns. Blair argued that the issue was important to the PA economy and to the peace process.
By getting the go-ahead for Watania, Blair saved the American bank JP Morgan an estimated $200 million. The bank stood to lose money due to its involvement in the $2 billion loan with which JP Morgan client Qtel, a Qatari firm, had purchased Wataniya from its original owners.
JP Morgan employs Blair as a consultant and pays him more than $3 million a year.
Blair has faced pressure in Britain to explain his earnings in the time since he left office. He has earned over $20 million, some of which is thought to have come from deals he made while working as a “peace envoy” on behalf of the International Quartet.
Besides his involvement in the Watania affair, Blair is also suspected of using his ties in Libya to do business on behalf of JP Morgan in the country.
A spokesman for Blair said the former prime minister was unaware of any connection between Watania and JP Morgan. He became involved with one goal, “to help the Palestinians,” he said.
The Watania deal has turned a profit for the family of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and several other PA higher-ups. Abbas's son Tarek runs the advertising agency that has contracted with Watania as its lead agency, while his friend, Firas Nasruddin, runs the company hired to provide Watania with security.
In April, the PA passed a law banning the sale of Israeli mobile phone cards within the territories it controls in Judea and Samaria – a law that is likely to profit Watania and thus Abbas's son Tarek and a second son, Yasser, who also has ties to the firm.
The month before, Watania was the center of scandal when it received millions in U.S. aid meant for small businesses at Chairman Abbas's request.
The present promotion of Nazi ideology in Great Britain by the upper classes is as relentless as it was in the 1930s when Hitler and his thugs received millions for their anti-Semitic, genocidal propaganda. The British sympathy for the Nazis also determined their policy in the post-war Palestine. The intelligence documents cited in A Memorandum Submitted to the Special Session of the General Assembly of the United Nation in April 1948 by The Nation Associates show that before the 15 May 1948 invasion, British intelligence knew that the Arabs terrorizing the future Israel were being led in part by Nazi advisers. These included Bosnian Muslims from the infamous Handzar Division of the Waffen SS. According to a French intelligence document published by The Nation seven month later, the British sent thousands of Nazi prisoners of war, including top war criminals, to assist the Arab attack. This was after the Arab invasion.
Consistent with British tolerance for and apparent employment of Nazi war criminals against new-born Israel, The Nation memorandum shows that the British adopted a propaganda line reminiscent of the Nazis’ “Jewish-Bolshevist plot” which five years later was embraced by the ill-famous Senator McCarthy. The British accused Jewish Holocaust survivors trying to get to Palestine of being Soviet Communist infiltrators.
The Nation Associates presented the facts in their memorandum as essential to a wise and just decision. An examination of these facts show that the post-war violence in Palestine resulted from:
British sabotage of Partition – This British sabotage was deliberately undertaken in order to insure British base rights in Palestine in perpetuity, as well as to safeguard British oil and trade and military interests in the Middle East
British Alliance with Arab League – Within a month after the November 29th resolution, the Arabs were encouraged to believe partition would be substituted by a Federal State, and arms shipments continued to the Arab States despite their known use for Palestine warfare. On April 28, 1948 Foreign Minister Bevin was still refusing to halt them.
The British have also allowed 10,000 foreign invaders to enter Palestine, offering the feeble excuse that the British armed forces, consisting, at the outset, of over 80,000 men, could not adequately protect the border. Through their action they have admitted into Palestine Arabs of known Nazi allegiance in command of the invading forces, and have even admitted escaped Nazi prisoners of war, now to be found in command of Arab detachments.
Their prejudice against the Jews has been clearly indicated in their refusal to allow the Jews to arm for defense against Arab attack, and their blowing up of Jewish defense posts; in their turning over to the Arabs - and to certain death - members of the Haganah; in their confiscation of Haganah arms; in their treatment of Jewish defense personnel as criminals. The British have connived at the starving of the Jewish population of Jerusalem by their failure to keep the highways open. They have refused armed escorts to the Jews.
By arrangement with the Arab League, if partition is shelved through any of several schemes to assure Arab dominance in Palestine, the British are to receive base rights in Haifa, the Negev and Galilee. But the British are not depending on Arab promises alone. They have already taken the necessary steps to assure the permanent rights in Palestine to air bases and land and sea communications. To be able to carry out this program, the Mandatory has required a free hand. That is why it has kept the United Nations Commission out of Palestine and refused it cooperation. (There are rich gas fields under the Mediterranean Sea close to Haifa).
So intent were the British upon destroying partition that they have shown themselves oblivious to the facts that with it they may destroy the authority of the United Nations, and even the peace of the world.
Haniyeh: Israel’s existence raises issues,
We need “liberation from the river to the sea”
Ismail Haniyeh wrote Tuesday, July 11, 2006 i.e. on the eve of the war in Lebanon, in The Washington Post: “If Israel is prepared to negotiate seriously and fairly, and resolve the core 1948 issues, rather than the secondary ones from 1967, a fair and permanent peace is possible.” Palestinian educational television teaches that all of Israel belongs to the Palestinians. It teaches that if "Palestine," which includes all of Israel, is not whole, it endangers the entire Arab world, because "Palestine" is the heart of the Arab world (What about Mecca, where millions of pilgrims are arriving every year). The map of “Palestine" encompasses all of Israel. In other words, Haniyeh wants Israel to surrender.
The Washington Post Tuesday, July 18, 2006; A19
By Richard Cohen
The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake*. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself.
Berlusconi Doubts Wisdom of Gaza Pullout
Shevat 16, 5770, 31 January 10 11:47 by Gil Ronen
Shevat 16, 5770, 31 January 10 08:47, by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
(Israelnationalnews.com) American Jewish protesters have convinced Target stores to recall a mini-globe that wiped Israel off the map and instead described the land as “Palestine.” Target apologized and said it had no intention “to offend any of our guests.”
The Saudis say 'No' to the U.S. Policy towards Hezbollah and Hamas
Voices in the Arab world are condemning Hezbollah: Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal has called on the Lebanese government to take control of its border with Israel. "The Lebanese government must apply its sovereignty on all the country's territory," said Faisal. (For more see below)
As the Somali Islamic terror organization al-Shabaab threatens to attack Kenya's capital city of Nairobi, a delegation of parliamentarians, security officials, and diplomats from that African country arrived in Israel this week to learn about standing up to radical Islamic terror, as reported by Sderot Media Center.
Al-Shabaab's website this week featured a video of terrorists chanting in Swahili, "We will reach Nairobi. When we arrive, we will hit until we kill." Recent violent demonstrations in Kenya followed a governmental decision to deport Jamaican Muslim cleric Abdullah al-Faisal, who has spent time in jail in Britain for urging Muslims to engage in holy war, or jihad, against Westerners, Hindus, and Jews. ( 28 January, 2010, Arutz Sheva)
Fatah TV on Eve of Peace Talks: Haifa Part of ‘Palestine’
Tishrei 4, 5771, 12 September 10 01:39, by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
(Israelnationalnews.com) Palestinian Authority incitement continues as Israel and the PA begin talks. Fatah TV, controlled by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, says Haifa and other Israeli cities are part of "Palestine," and a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) envoy expresses hope for the ”eradication” of Israel.
Palestinian Authority television continues to educate children that all of Israel is “Palestine,” according to program translations provided by the Palestinian Media Watch.
A repeating message on the children's show The Best Home, which was broadcast three times a week during the month of Ramadan, was that all Israeli cities are "occupied" Palestinian cities.
The PA TV host refers to cities in Israel alternately as "1948 occupied cities," "occupied cities" or "occupied territories." The Israeli cities described as Palestinian cities include Haifa, Yafo (Jaffa), Akko (Acre), all of which are located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, and Lod and Ramle, located near Ben Gurion Airport.
On one program, a PA TV host tells a girl, "You live in Jerusalem. Do you visit the 1948 occupied cities (Israeli cities)?"
After she replies, "I've been to Hevron,” the host continues, "No, Hebron is a city [in the Palestinian Authority] that we all can enter. The occupied cities - such as Lod, Ramle, Haifa, Jaffa, Acre—have you visited them?"
The girl says, "I've been to Haifa and Jaffa,” and the host then tells viewers, "We hope all children of Palestine will be able to go to the occupied territories, which we don't know and have never been able to see. Personally, I have never been there."
Meanwhile, the PLO envoy to Iran, Salah Zawawi, has told the official Iranian news agency IRNA that Muslim solidarity can lead to the “complete eradication of the fabricated regime” of Israel. He also declared that the relentless struggle with the Zionist occupiers will continue until liberation of Holy “Quds,” the Arabic term for Jerusalem. "No language but the language of resistance is the way of confronting it (Israel) and liberating our lands and sanctities from its hands," he added.
Zawawi spoke on the eve of the talks in Washington two weeks ago between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. The PLO is the parent body of the PA.
In an interview published by the state-controlled newspaper in Egypt al-Watan al-Yom, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said that the activities of "Palestinian and Lebanese resistance fighters obtained only limited gains and that the people were paying the price." "No one is doubting the rights of the people to resist the powers of occupation but the resistances must make considerations of losses and gains… the inflaming of the situation to make limited gains ignores the basic goal of the Palestinians which the establishment of an independent state," he said.
A Revealing Event
Upon arrival at Yad Vashem, during the presidential campaign, Obama was greeted by Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem.An Israeli journalist called out to Obama: “Can you ensure that there will be no second Holocaust?”
Obama walked into the museum’s main building without responding. . . .
In the “Hall of Remembrance,” Obama put on a white yarmulke, lit the “eternal flame” and placed a white chrysanthemum wreath on a stone slab.
Obama then went to the museum’s Janusz Korczak Plaza, where he signed the guest book.
Jake Tapper goes on to quote Obama’s BS speech about how terrible he feels about the Holocaust. Blah, blah, blah. Then, this:
Once again an Israeli journalist asked the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee how he’d help prevent a second Holocaust. “Senator can you assure Israel that there will be no second Holocaust despite Iran’s threat to wipe us off the map?” he asked.Obama demurred, saying that it wasn’t appropriate to answer the question there.
“This is Yad Vashem!” the journalist responded.
Obama said he would answer the question at a later press availability.
Obama, the Muslim Thing, And why it Matters
Arutz Sheva, 12 January 2008
The recent revelations of Obama's ties to Raila Odinga in Kenya are disconcerting as well, because Odinga is behind the terrible violence in his country. It was he who instigated bloody riots and killing after he lost the election. Obama's bias for his fellow Luo was so blatant that a Kenyan government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit to Raila's “stooge”. And while there are few angels in Kenya, Odinga is the source of great unrest and turmoil, and the MOU he signed with the Muslim Council to institute sharia is a foreshadowing of a dark fate for Kenya. Just how quickly will Kenya go Islamic?
Obama Sidesteps PA’s Refusal to Call Israel’ A Jewish State’
Tishrei 4, 5771, 12 September 10 09:51, by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
(Israelnationalnews.com) U.S. President Barack Obama has sidestepped a chance to back Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s demand that the Palestinian Authority call Israel a Jewish State, but he told reporters that the Prime Minister should accept Abbas’s demand and extend the building freeze for four more months.
The freeze on building Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria, and the issue of Israel’s being a Jewish State, are the major demands that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu have made for direct talks to address the issue of establishing the PA as a new Arab country.
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The Prime Minister told the Cabinet Sunday morning, "I hear about two states, but I don't hear two peoples."
In a press conference Friday, President Obama directly told reporters that Israel should meet Abbas' demand but ignored the Israeli demand, stated in a reporter's comment that “Abbas…said the Palestinians won’t recognize Israel as a Jewish state.” The reporter continued, “The question is, if these talks fail at an early stage, will this administration disengage? Or maybe you’re ready to step up and deepen your personal involvement.”%ad%
President Obama did not refer to the “Jewish State” issue except to clearly imply that its definition depends on Israel’s surrendering all of the areas restored to the country in the Six-Day War in 1967.
In a reply to another question if Israel "should extend the settlement moratorium as a gesture to peace," President Obama commented that “it makes sense [for Israel] to extend that moratorium," which is due to expire September 26.
Israel has reasoned that the freeze originally was offered to meet Abbas' condition to sit down with Israel for direct talks, but that he has balked and his time runs out in three weeks. President Obama implicitly justified the PA’s refusal, saying that “the Palestinians were very skeptical. They said this doesn’t do anything. And it turns out, to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s credit and to the Israeli government’s credit, the settlement moratorium has actually been significant. It has significantly reduced settlement construction in the region. And that's why now the Palestinians say, you know what, even though we weren’t that keen on it at first or we thought it was just window dressing, it turns out that this is important to us.
“And if you can get [an] agreement, then you can start constructing anything that the people of Israel see fit in undisputed areas.
President Obama also specifically stated that he knows extending the freeze makes “the politics for Prime Minister Netanyahu…very difficult [because] there are a number of members of his coalition who’ve said, 'We don’t want to continue this.'”
Netanyahu Hints at Partial Freeze, Obama Excuses PA
Tishrei 4, 5771, 12 September 10 02:21, by Hillel Fendel
(Israelnationalnews.com) With the end of the Jewish construction freeze only 12 days away, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Likud party Cabinet ministers this morning (Sunday), “It’s all or nothing [in terms of the freeze], but there are also interim options.” He did not elaborate.
Netanyahu thus appears to be giving in, even if only slightly, to pressure from the United States and elsewhere to extend the freeze on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria. The freeze, which some have called “racist” in that it applies only to Jews and not Arabs, was imposed nearly ten months ago in order to entice the Palestinian Authority to agree to direct talks with Israel.
For nine months, Israel froze construction while the PA did not talk with Israel; two weeks ago, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas finally agreed to talk directly with Netanyahu – but has demanded that the freeze be extended indefinitely, or else he would end the negotiations.
After a short period of indecision, the United States has now gone along with the PA’s demand. Just two days ago, U.S. President Barack Obama told reporters that he had told Netanyahu that it “makes sense to extend that [construction] moratorium so long as the talks are moving in a constructive way.”
The majority of Cabinet ministers are against extending the freeze. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman recently summed up their position when he said, “For ten months we have been waiting for the Palestinians to please come to the negotiations. They come at the last month - that’s their problem.”
Obama Excuses and Explains PA - Inaccurately
However, Obama excused and explained the PA position in this matter by saying, “To Netanyahu's credit and to the Israeli government's credit, the settlement moratorium has actually been significant. It has significantly reduced settlement construction in the region. And that's why now the Palestinians say: You know what; even though we weren't that keen on it at first or we thought it was just window dressing, it turns out that this is important to us.”
In fact, however, the PA was quite “keen on it at first,” never “thought it was just window dressing,” and stated this position many times. On Nov. 11 of last year, for instance, Reuters reported that Abbas had made a public call for an end to Jewish settlement construction before negotiations would begin. “We want a full stop to settlements, including natural growth and in Jerusalem," Abbas said at the time. Two months earlier, Abbas made a similar call, and PA negotiator Abu Rdineh said, "Our position is the same; there will be no negotiations without stopping the settlements."
An INN commentator summed up as Obama’s new position as being “akin to telling Lieberman and the Israeli government, ‘Yes, you waited 9-10 months for the PA, and pointlessly froze construction all this time, but now please freeze it for longer, because the PA wants you to.’”
By P. Dave Gaubatz and Paul Sperry
What you'll learn in this book:
Which politicians are given money by Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). How Capitol Hill staffers are strategically placed by CAIR.
Why FBI bonuses are paid to agents who are nice to CAIR.
Why our government is afraid to reveal what they really know about CAIR.
How CAIR has compromised our intelligence systems.
How CAIR is secretly working with government officials to ban the Patriot Act to make future attacks against our country even easier.
And the list goes on....
Never one Arab spy was arrested in the USA, but a few Israeli spies (like J. Pollard, for instance) are languishing in the U.S. Jails.
“In his column of Friday, Yemini (whose family came from Yemen) denounces a “conference” held in Spain under the official auspices of the Spanish government, in which only leftists were invited, to search for “peace solutions” to the Middle East conflict. Except admission to the conference was reserved mainly for those who endorsed the “Palestinian Right of Return” and also who endorse the replacement of Israel by a “bi-national state,” meaning a Rwandan-style country in which the Arab majority would quickly eliminate the “problem” of the Jewish minority in a new Final Solution. The conference was largely the initiative of one Ofer Bronstein, an Israeli leftist who is currently promoting the division of Jerusalem but used to organize pilgrimages of leftist “rabbis” to kiss Arafat's scientific hand. Bornstein is associated with the anti-Israel extremist and ex-Nazi Uri Avnery. Yemini concludes his column, “The battle against the fascist Left is not yet lost...Not that the fascist Left will disappear any time soon.”
Report: Blair's 'Peace' Ideas May be Motivated by Profit
Tishrei 4, 5771, 12 September 10 04:44, by Maayana Miskin
(Israelnationalnews.com) The British paper Daily Mail has charged former British Prime Minister Tony Blair with exploiting the cause of Middle East peace in order to line his pockets. A recent deal involving a Palestinian Authority telephone network, in which Blair was involved as an international envoy, saved a bank which pays Blair's salary from taking a loss.
Blair was heavily involved in getting Israeli leaders to sign over frequencies to a new PA cell phone company, Watania. Israel had held back on allowing Watania to use the frequencies, which IDF commanders said they needed for military communications.
Blair met several times with Defense Minister Ehud Barak and raised the issue of the frequencies requested by Watania, which were eventually awarded to the cell phone start-up despite security concerns. Blair argued that the issue was important to the PA economy and to the peace process.
By getting the go-ahead for Watania, Blair saved the American bank JP Morgan an estimated $200 million. The bank stood to lose money due to its involvement in the $2 billion loan with which JP Morgan client Qtel, a Qatari firm, had purchased Wataniya from its original owners.
JP Morgan employs Blair as a consultant and pays him more than $3 million a year.
Blair has faced pressure in Britain to explain his earnings in the time since he left office. He has earned over $20 million, some of which is thought to have come from deals he made while working as a “peace envoy” on behalf of the International Quartet.
Besides his involvement in the Watania affair, Blair is also suspected of using his ties in Libya to do business on behalf of JP Morgan in the country.
A spokesman for Blair said the former prime minister was unaware of any connection between Watania and JP Morgan. He became involved with one goal, “to help the Palestinians,” he said.
The Watania deal has turned a profit for the family of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and several other PA higher-ups. Abbas's son Tarek runs the advertising agency that has contracted with Watania as its lead agency, while his friend, Firas Nasruddin, runs the company hired to provide Watania with security.
In April, the PA passed a law banning the sale of Israeli mobile phone cards within the territories it controls in Judea and Samaria – a law that is likely to profit Watania and thus Abbas's son Tarek and a second son, Yasser, who also has ties to the firm.
The month before, Watania was the center of scandal when it received millions in U.S. aid meant for small businesses at Chairman Abbas's request.
The present promotion of Nazi ideology in Great Britain by the upper classes is as relentless as it was in the 1930s when Hitler and his thugs received millions for their anti-Semitic, genocidal propaganda. The British sympathy for the Nazis also determined their policy in the post-war Palestine. The intelligence documents cited in A Memorandum Submitted to the Special Session of the General Assembly of the United Nation in April 1948 by The Nation Associates show that before the 15 May 1948 invasion, British intelligence knew that the Arabs terrorizing the future Israel were being led in part by Nazi advisers. These included Bosnian Muslims from the infamous Handzar Division of the Waffen SS. According to a French intelligence document published by The Nation seven month later, the British sent thousands of Nazi prisoners of war, including top war criminals, to assist the Arab attack. This was after the Arab invasion.
Consistent with British tolerance for and apparent employment of Nazi war criminals against new-born Israel, The Nation memorandum shows that the British adopted a propaganda line reminiscent of the Nazis’ “Jewish-Bolshevist plot” which five years later was embraced by the ill-famous Senator McCarthy. The British accused Jewish Holocaust survivors trying to get to Palestine of being Soviet Communist infiltrators.
The Nation Associates presented the facts in their memorandum as essential to a wise and just decision. An examination of these facts show that the post-war violence in Palestine resulted from:
British sabotage of Partition – This British sabotage was deliberately undertaken in order to insure British base rights in Palestine in perpetuity, as well as to safeguard British oil and trade and military interests in the Middle East
British Alliance with Arab League – Within a month after the November 29th resolution, the Arabs were encouraged to believe partition would be substituted by a Federal State, and arms shipments continued to the Arab States despite their known use for Palestine warfare. On April 28, 1948 Foreign Minister Bevin was still refusing to halt them.
The British have also allowed 10,000 foreign invaders to enter Palestine, offering the feeble excuse that the British armed forces, consisting, at the outset, of over 80,000 men, could not adequately protect the border. Through their action they have admitted into Palestine Arabs of known Nazi allegiance in command of the invading forces, and have even admitted escaped Nazi prisoners of war, now to be found in command of Arab detachments.
Their prejudice against the Jews has been clearly indicated in their refusal to allow the Jews to arm for defense against Arab attack, and their blowing up of Jewish defense posts; in their turning over to the Arabs - and to certain death - members of the Haganah; in their confiscation of Haganah arms; in their treatment of Jewish defense personnel as criminals. The British have connived at the starving of the Jewish population of Jerusalem by their failure to keep the highways open. They have refused armed escorts to the Jews.
By arrangement with the Arab League, if partition is shelved through any of several schemes to assure Arab dominance in Palestine, the British are to receive base rights in Haifa, the Negev and Galilee. But the British are not depending on Arab promises alone. They have already taken the necessary steps to assure the permanent rights in Palestine to air bases and land and sea communications. To be able to carry out this program, the Mandatory has required a free hand. That is why it has kept the United Nations Commission out of Palestine and refused it cooperation. (There are rich gas fields under the Mediterranean Sea close to Haifa).
So intent were the British upon destroying partition that they have shown themselves oblivious to the facts that with it they may destroy the authority of the United Nations, and even the peace of the world.
Haniyeh: Israel’s existence raises issues,
We need “liberation from the river to the sea”
Ismail Haniyeh wrote Tuesday, July 11, 2006 i.e. on the eve of the war in Lebanon, in The Washington Post: “If Israel is prepared to negotiate seriously and fairly, and resolve the core 1948 issues, rather than the secondary ones from 1967, a fair and permanent peace is possible.” Palestinian educational television teaches that all of Israel belongs to the Palestinians. It teaches that if "Palestine," which includes all of Israel, is not whole, it endangers the entire Arab world, because "Palestine" is the heart of the Arab world (What about Mecca, where millions of pilgrims are arriving every year). The map of “Palestine" encompasses all of Israel. In other words, Haniyeh wants Israel to surrender.
The Washington Post Tuesday, July 18, 2006; A19
By Richard Cohen
The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake*. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself.
Berlusconi Doubts Wisdom of Gaza Pullout
Shevat 16, 5770, 31 January 10 11:47 by Gil Ronen
Shevat 16, 5770, 31 January 10 08:47, by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
(Israelnationalnews.com) American Jewish protesters have convinced Target stores to recall a mini-globe that wiped Israel off the map and instead described the land as “Palestine.” Target apologized and said it had no intention “to offend any of our guests.”
The Saudis say 'No' to the U.S. Policy towards Hezbollah and Hamas
Voices in the Arab world are condemning Hezbollah: Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal has called on the Lebanese government to take control of its border with Israel. "The Lebanese government must apply its sovereignty on all the country's territory," said Faisal. (For more see below)
As the Somali Islamic terror organization al-Shabaab threatens to attack Kenya's capital city of Nairobi, a delegation of parliamentarians, security officials, and diplomats from that African country arrived in Israel this week to learn about standing up to radical Islamic terror, as reported by Sderot Media Center.
Al-Shabaab's website this week featured a video of terrorists chanting in Swahili, "We will reach Nairobi. When we arrive, we will hit until we kill." Recent violent demonstrations in Kenya followed a governmental decision to deport Jamaican Muslim cleric Abdullah al-Faisal, who has spent time in jail in Britain for urging Muslims to engage in holy war, or jihad, against Westerners, Hindus, and Jews. ( 28 January, 2010, Arutz Sheva)
Fatah TV on Eve of Peace Talks: Haifa Part of ‘Palestine’
Tishrei 4, 5771, 12 September 10 01:39, by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
(Israelnationalnews.com) Palestinian Authority incitement continues as Israel and the PA begin talks. Fatah TV, controlled by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, says Haifa and other Israeli cities are part of "Palestine," and a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) envoy expresses hope for the ”eradication” of Israel.
Palestinian Authority television continues to educate children that all of Israel is “Palestine,” according to program translations provided by the Palestinian Media Watch.
A repeating message on the children's show The Best Home, which was broadcast three times a week during the month of Ramadan, was that all Israeli cities are "occupied" Palestinian cities.
The PA TV host refers to cities in Israel alternately as "1948 occupied cities," "occupied cities" or "occupied territories." The Israeli cities described as Palestinian cities include Haifa, Yafo (Jaffa), Akko (Acre), all of which are located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, and Lod and Ramle, located near Ben Gurion Airport.
On one program, a PA TV host tells a girl, "You live in Jerusalem. Do you visit the 1948 occupied cities (Israeli cities)?"
After she replies, "I've been to Hevron,” the host continues, "No, Hebron is a city [in the Palestinian Authority] that we all can enter. The occupied cities - such as Lod, Ramle, Haifa, Jaffa, Acre—have you visited them?"
The girl says, "I've been to Haifa and Jaffa,” and the host then tells viewers, "We hope all children of Palestine will be able to go to the occupied territories, which we don't know and have never been able to see. Personally, I have never been there."
Meanwhile, the PLO envoy to Iran, Salah Zawawi, has told the official Iranian news agency IRNA that Muslim solidarity can lead to the “complete eradication of the fabricated regime” of Israel. He also declared that the relentless struggle with the Zionist occupiers will continue until liberation of Holy “Quds,” the Arabic term for Jerusalem. "No language but the language of resistance is the way of confronting it (Israel) and liberating our lands and sanctities from its hands," he added.
Zawawi spoke on the eve of the talks in Washington two weeks ago between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. The PLO is the parent body of the PA.
In an interview published by the state-controlled newspaper in Egypt al-Watan al-Yom, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said that the activities of "Palestinian and Lebanese resistance fighters obtained only limited gains and that the people were paying the price." "No one is doubting the rights of the people to resist the powers of occupation but the resistances must make considerations of losses and gains… the inflaming of the situation to make limited gains ignores the basic goal of the Palestinians which the establishment of an independent state," he said.
A Revealing Event
Upon arrival at Yad Vashem, during the presidential campaign, Obama was greeted by Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem.An Israeli journalist called out to Obama: “Can you ensure that there will be no second Holocaust?”
Obama walked into the museum’s main building without responding. . . .
In the “Hall of Remembrance,” Obama put on a white yarmulke, lit the “eternal flame” and placed a white chrysanthemum wreath on a stone slab.
Obama then went to the museum’s Janusz Korczak Plaza, where he signed the guest book.
Jake Tapper goes on to quote Obama’s BS speech about how terrible he feels about the Holocaust. Blah, blah, blah. Then, this:
Once again an Israeli journalist asked the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee how he’d help prevent a second Holocaust. “Senator can you assure Israel that there will be no second Holocaust despite Iran’s threat to wipe us off the map?” he asked.Obama demurred, saying that it wasn’t appropriate to answer the question there.
“This is Yad Vashem!” the journalist responded.
Obama said he would answer the question at a later press availability.
Obama, the Muslim Thing, And why it Matters
Arutz Sheva, 12 January 2008
The recent revelations of Obama's ties to Raila Odinga in Kenya are disconcerting as well, because Odinga is behind the terrible violence in his country. It was he who instigated bloody riots and killing after he lost the election. Obama's bias for his fellow Luo was so blatant that a Kenyan government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit to Raila's “stooge”. And while there are few angels in Kenya, Odinga is the source of great unrest and turmoil, and the MOU he signed with the Muslim Council to institute sharia is a foreshadowing of a dark fate for Kenya. Just how quickly will Kenya go Islamic?
Obama Sidesteps PA’s Refusal to Call Israel’ A Jewish State’
Tishrei 4, 5771, 12 September 10 09:51, by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
(Israelnationalnews.com) U.S. President Barack Obama has sidestepped a chance to back Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s demand that the Palestinian Authority call Israel a Jewish State, but he told reporters that the Prime Minister should accept Abbas’s demand and extend the building freeze for four more months.
The freeze on building Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria, and the issue of Israel’s being a Jewish State, are the major demands that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu have made for direct talks to address the issue of establishing the PA as a new Arab country.
[flash:125018]
The Prime Minister told the Cabinet Sunday morning, "I hear about two states, but I don't hear two peoples."
In a press conference Friday, President Obama directly told reporters that Israel should meet Abbas' demand but ignored the Israeli demand, stated in a reporter's comment that “Abbas…said the Palestinians won’t recognize Israel as a Jewish state.” The reporter continued, “The question is, if these talks fail at an early stage, will this administration disengage? Or maybe you’re ready to step up and deepen your personal involvement.”%ad%
President Obama did not refer to the “Jewish State” issue except to clearly imply that its definition depends on Israel’s surrendering all of the areas restored to the country in the Six-Day War in 1967.
In a reply to another question if Israel "should extend the settlement moratorium as a gesture to peace," President Obama commented that “it makes sense [for Israel] to extend that moratorium," which is due to expire September 26.
Israel has reasoned that the freeze originally was offered to meet Abbas' condition to sit down with Israel for direct talks, but that he has balked and his time runs out in three weeks. President Obama implicitly justified the PA’s refusal, saying that “the Palestinians were very skeptical. They said this doesn’t do anything. And it turns out, to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s credit and to the Israeli government’s credit, the settlement moratorium has actually been significant. It has significantly reduced settlement construction in the region. And that's why now the Palestinians say, you know what, even though we weren’t that keen on it at first or we thought it was just window dressing, it turns out that this is important to us.
“And if you can get [an] agreement, then you can start constructing anything that the people of Israel see fit in undisputed areas.
President Obama also specifically stated that he knows extending the freeze makes “the politics for Prime Minister Netanyahu…very difficult [because] there are a number of members of his coalition who’ve said, 'We don’t want to continue this.'”
Netanyahu Hints at Partial Freeze, Obama Excuses PA
Tishrei 4, 5771, 12 September 10 02:21, by Hillel Fendel
(Israelnationalnews.com) With the end of the Jewish construction freeze only 12 days away, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Likud party Cabinet ministers this morning (Sunday), “It’s all or nothing [in terms of the freeze], but there are also interim options.” He did not elaborate.
Netanyahu thus appears to be giving in, even if only slightly, to pressure from the United States and elsewhere to extend the freeze on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria. The freeze, which some have called “racist” in that it applies only to Jews and not Arabs, was imposed nearly ten months ago in order to entice the Palestinian Authority to agree to direct talks with Israel.
For nine months, Israel froze construction while the PA did not talk with Israel; two weeks ago, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas finally agreed to talk directly with Netanyahu – but has demanded that the freeze be extended indefinitely, or else he would end the negotiations.
After a short period of indecision, the United States has now gone along with the PA’s demand. Just two days ago, U.S. President Barack Obama told reporters that he had told Netanyahu that it “makes sense to extend that [construction] moratorium so long as the talks are moving in a constructive way.”
The majority of Cabinet ministers are against extending the freeze. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman recently summed up their position when he said, “For ten months we have been waiting for the Palestinians to please come to the negotiations. They come at the last month - that’s their problem.”
Obama Excuses and Explains PA - Inaccurately
However, Obama excused and explained the PA position in this matter by saying, “To Netanyahu's credit and to the Israeli government's credit, the settlement moratorium has actually been significant. It has significantly reduced settlement construction in the region. And that's why now the Palestinians say: You know what; even though we weren't that keen on it at first or we thought it was just window dressing, it turns out that this is important to us.”
In fact, however, the PA was quite “keen on it at first,” never “thought it was just window dressing,” and stated this position many times. On Nov. 11 of last year, for instance, Reuters reported that Abbas had made a public call for an end to Jewish settlement construction before negotiations would begin. “We want a full stop to settlements, including natural growth and in Jerusalem," Abbas said at the time. Two months earlier, Abbas made a similar call, and PA negotiator Abu Rdineh said, "Our position is the same; there will be no negotiations without stopping the settlements."
An INN commentator summed up as Obama’s new position as being “akin to telling Lieberman and the Israeli government, ‘Yes, you waited 9-10 months for the PA, and pointlessly froze construction all this time, but now please freeze it for longer, because the PA wants you to.’”
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