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Candidly Speaking: The rabble that is the Israeli cabinet
-> By ISI LEIBLER, Jerusalem Post
"It is not merely that our prime minister is
a failed leader, repeating the same flawed policies which
led to our recent self-inflicted disasters. His
dysfunctional ministers, content to remain ignorant of the
concessions being offered to the Palestinians with life and
death implications for us all, are equally blameworthy. In
addition, they suffer from a malady commonly described as
"flapping gums," an uncontrollable urge to conduct their
private political theater via statements and leaks to the
media.
Instead of working in unison, they condemn the policies of
their government, criticize ministerial colleagues, and
frequently even contradict their own statements. No
democratic government in the world has ministers behaving in
such an undisciplined and irresponsible manner.
Of course, the problem is the prime minister's weakness and
his lack of any coherent policy beyond struggling to retain
power. He conducts sham negotiations with a corrupt and
impotent Palestinian clique who publicly deny our right to
exist as a Jewish state, threaten to revert to armed
struggle, and retain militias which continue launching
murderous acts of terror against our civilians..."
"UK Is European Center of Anti-Semitism"
-> by Etgar Lefkovits, Jerusalem Post
"Britain has become the epicenter for anti-Semitic trends in
Europe, exacerbated by a growing and increasingly radical
Muslim population and the detachment of the British from
their Christian roots, said Hebrew University Prof. Robert
S. Wistrich at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The
Cambridge University-educated historian said anti-Semitism
in Britain "has been around for 1,000 years of recorded
history," noting that the expulsion of all Jews from Britain
in 1290 by King Edward I was the first major expulsion of
any Jewish community in Europe.
During World War II, the British refusal to rescue the
Jews of Europe and their decision to close the gates of
Palestine stemmed not only from realpolitik but from
anti-Semitic sentiments, he said. "Nothi ng was to be
construed as fighting a Jewish war." Wistrich said that
today's British media had an almost universal anti-Israel
bias. "Palestinian terrorism is portrayed as a minor
pin-prick compared to 'massive' retaliation of this 'rogue'
state [Israel]," he said."
"The demographic problem is not only not
lethal to Israel," Ettinger told
Yishai Fleisher on IsraelNationalRadio.com, "the
tailwind is in fact going in favor of the Jews, not the
Arabs. The most startling recent demographic finding,
Ettinger said, "is that between 1995 and 2007, the annual
number of Jewish births has increased by 40%, from some
80,000 to 112,000 Jewish births each year. During this
period, the number of Arab births within the Green Line
[pre-'67 Israel] has stabilized at around 39,000 a year. In
addition, in 1995, the number of Jewish births comprised 69%
of all births in Israel, while today it is 75%. This means
that from year to year, Jewish society in Israel becomes
relatively younger, while Arab society becomes older."
The true numbers, Ettinger told Arutz-7 last
month, are as follows: "Within the Green Line, there are
currently 1.4 million Arabs, compared with almost 6 million
Jews. In Judea and Samaria, there are 1.5 million Arabs,
and not 2.3 million, as [the PA] claims. In Gaza, there are
1.1 million, and not 1.5 million."
Hatred of the Jewish People
-> by Michael Gove, Times-UK
"In 2006, Israel came under attack from the Lebanese-based
terror group Hizbullah. Its leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah,
is on record as saying: "If we searched the entire world for
a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in
psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find
anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli."
Anti-Semitism is finding new allies, making new
connections, gathering new force. Learned magazines devote
thousands of words to the pernicious nature of Jewish
influence on Western governments, and senior commentators
then celebrate the delicious courage of this novel argument.
Academics, without apparently being conscious of the irony,
argue for a boycott of Israeli thinkers in the name of
freedom. It is one of the grave distempers of our times,
this prejudice towar ds the Jewish people, their nation and
their collective identity. And one of the tasks of our times
is its exposure, its combating and its defeat."
The Palestinian Refugee Issue: Rhetoric vs. Reality
-> by Sidney Zabludoff,
Jewish Political Studies
Review
"Number of Jewish refugees in 1948 and following years: close
to 1,000,000. Number of Palestinian refugees in 1948:
550,000, plus 100,000 (net) in 1967. Jewish refugees' assets
lost in Middle East and North Africa: $6 billion.
Palestinian refugees' assets lost: $3.9 billion (in 2007
dollars)." (The writer is an international economist who
has worked on numerous economic issues at the CIA, White
House, and Treasury, as well as issues of restitution of
assets stolen by the Nazis.)
U.S. Report: New Anti-Semitism Disguised by Hatred of Israel
"Jews worldwide are facing a new form of anti-Semitism
disguised by hatred toward Israel, in addition to more
traditional forms of anti-Semitism, the U.S. State
Department said Thursday in a new report documenting
anti-Semitic acts worldwide. "Anti-Semitism couched as
criticism of Zionism or Israel often escapes condemnation
since it can be more subtle than traditional forms of
anti-Semitism," the report said. Critics of Israel have a
"responsibility to consider the effect their actions may
have in prompting hatred of Jews," it said, adding that
hostility toward Israel has at times manifested itself in
violence toward Jews.
The report singled out a number of leaders, governments
and state-sponsored institutions for fanning the flames of
anti-Semitism, with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at
t he top of the list. It also took to task the Syrian
government, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, as well as the
government-backed Venezuelan, Saudi Arabian and Egyptian
media." (AFP)
Bush's Betrayal -> By Jacob Laksin,
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, January 08, 2008
"Saul Bellow once observed that a great deal of intelligence
can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is
deep. President Bush’s ill-advised trip to Jerusalem and the
West Bank this week to promote a "two-state solution" would
seem to underscore the wisdom of Bellow’s insight..."
The Olmert Regime - A Government of Rabble
->
by Sultan Knish, Posted: 23 Dec 2007 02:42
PM CST
Sharon like Rabin in the decaying years of his life, decided
to embrace a single undemocratic policy and to see it
through the end. Like Rabin, he never did see it through to
the end but the damage he did would continue to wreak havoc
across the nation.
When Ariel Sharon passed out of the world of the living he
left behind to his unintended successor, Ehud Olmert, a
party and a government that had been built around him.
Ariel Sharon had been known as the bulldozer and when he was
thwarted by his own party in his plans, he decided to set up
a new party built around himself.
Sharon jotted down over a hundred proposed names for the
party and the one that he picked, Kadima, had no political
ideology attached to it.
$7.4 billion for Palestinian thievery and terrorism? Nuts!
-> by Jerry Gordon, December 18, 2007
Donors money and for killing of the Jews
Sleepwalking Into a Nightmare -> by Newt Gingrich
"The United States is suffering from a lack of vision and a
lack of honesty in confronting radical Islam, from Al-Qaida
to Iran, and the result could be a nuclear nightmare, former
House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a crowd of more than 200
people at a Jewish National Fund luncheon at Federation's
midtown headquarters Nov. 15..."
Questions And Answers About Israel, Annapolis, And
'Peace' -> By Steven Plaut, November 7, 2007
Annapolis Blues -> by Daniel Pipes, Jerusalem Post,
October 24, 2007
"The Bush administration's plans to convene a new round of
Israeli-Arab diplomacy on Nov. 26 will, I predict, do
substantial damage to American and Israeli interests.
As a rule, successful negotiations require a common aim; in
management-labor talks, for example, both sides want to get
back to work. When a shared premise is lacking, not only do
negotiations usually fail, but they usually do more harm
than good. Such is the case in the forthcoming Annapolis,
Maryland, talks. One side (Israel) seeks peaceful
coexistence while the other (the Arabs) seeks to eliminate
its negotiating partner, as evidenced by its violent
actions, its voting patterns, replies to polls, political
rhetoric, media messages, school textbooks, mosque sermons,
wall graffiti, and much else.
Damage will be done should the Israeli government make
"painful concessions" and get a cold peace or empty promises
in return, as has consistently been the case since 1979.
This lop-sided outcome would, once again, boost Arab
exhilaration and determination to eliminate the Jewish
state..."
The Egyptian Beginning of Anti-Semitism's Long History
by -> Interview with Pieter W. van der Horst, No. 62, 1
November 2007 / 20 Cheshvan 5768
"
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Most anti-Jewish material from Greek and
Latin authors is pre-Christian. The main protagonists in
the anti-Jewish propaganda came from Alexandria. There
also the first anti-Jewish pogrom in history took place
in 38 CE.
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The initial indication of a negative
attitude toward Jews is found at the beginning of the
third century BCE in the writings of an Egyptian priest
called Manetho. This Greek-speaking Egyptian devotes a
large section of his main work, which deals with the
history of Egypt, to the Exodus of the Israelites.
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Alongside the history of anti-Jewish
literature there is an outspoken pro-Jewish line. These
voices are to be heard all the time side by side-one of
admiration and one of scorn and detestation.
One aspect of the history of Jew-hatred, that is, the
twenty-three known centuries of anti-Semitism, is the
tenacity of many motifs such as that Jews are dangerous
and enemies of humankind. These notions are easily
demonstrable as nonsense, yet they have been kept alive
among many millions of people all over the world until
today. It is apparently impossible to break through
these perceptions."
A banana republic in the making -> by Isi Leibler,
October 11, 2007
"Never have Israelis been as frustrated with their leaders
as today. Yet the old guard not only retains the reins of
power, but with unabashed hutzpa launches new policies that
the vast majority of their constituents adamantly oppose.
There is a virtual consensus that the negotiations initiated
by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with the Palestinians will
lead to nowhere. Even if Mahmoud Abbas had undergone a
genuine transformation - which is doubtful - today he is
utterly impotent and incapable of delivering anything.
Indeed, if he survives, the most likely outcome is that he
will reach an accommodation with Hamas and whatever weapons
we provide or concessions we make will, as in the past, be
turned against us...."
Five Went Forth To Give Away the Land of Israel: The Modern
Day Meraglim -> by Sultan Knish , Thursday, October 11,
2007
"When our teacher Moshe sent twelve spies to spy out the land
of Caanan, each of their names was listed and from those
names we learn out their praise and their folly. Each man
was listed, so that those who turned against the Land of
Israel would be known to their eternal shame and those who
stood for the land and for G-d would too be remembered
forever. These are the names of the modern Meraglim, the
five men who have gone to give away the land of Israel.
Ehud Olmert - Tried once in criminal court on corruption but
not convicted. Currently facing multiple criminal
investigations. A man utterly without principle or shame. If
Ariel Sharon, was the Herod, the non-Jewish ruler who
commenced the destruction of Israel, Olmert is the next in
line in the Herodian dynasty. His two sons who campaigned
against Israel have gone to live abroad while his wife and
lesbian daughter regularly participate in anti-Israel
protests at home.
Yoram Turbowicz - Olmert's Mini-Me, the
Harvard educated Yoram is his Chief of Staff who has become
Olmert's second in command. The slimy Yoram has an extensive
web of political and business connections going from the
Trade Authority to private business and back again,
exploiting them to benefit Olmert's donors.
Shalom Turgeman - Turgeman was closely
involved in the Sharon and Olmert governments from
Disengagement to the various negotiations. serving as
political and diplomatic advisor with a primarily diplomatic
background in the US and the Arab world, as well as an
intelligence background.
Aharon Abramovitch - Abramovitch served as
the director of the Jewish Agency at a time when its mission
became corrupted beyond recognition. He served as the
Director of the Ministry of Justice and was heavily
responsible for the betrayal and denial of compensation to
the refugees of Gush Katif and as a reward for doing
Olmert's dirty work, he was appointed as Director of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, even though he has no
diplomatic background.
Amos Gilad - Gilad has specialized in giving
his political masters the expedient solution, telling them
what they want to hear and when they want to hear it. His
solutions of half-measures led to disaster after disaster,
favoring the same strategy of using minimal force to
maneuver Palestinian terrorists into making some kind of
agreement, that each time has produced only broken promises
and lies. This of course makes him perfect for this mission.
And thus are named the five men, the five Meraglim,
fittingly two of them have backgrounds in intelligence, who
have gone forth to give away the land. Like their ten
predecessors their mission is to convince the people of
Israel that further resistance is useless, that there is no
hope in fighting the enemy, only in retreat. Instead of
giant fruit they will come back bearing treaties and
agreements that surrender the land. Like their ten
predecessors, these five come without faith in G-d, without
faith in the People of Israel and they damn themselves and
those who follow after them. May their names be forever
cursed."
Zionism's Bleak Present ->by Daniel Pipes, Jerusalem Post,
October 11, 2007
"We are all Keynsians now," Richard Nixon famously asserted just as
the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes fell into disrepute.
Likewise, one could have said with similar confidence in 1989, as
Israel's existence reached wide acceptance, "We are all Zionists
now." No longer.
Count the ways Israel is under siege: from Iranians building a
nuclear bomb, Syrians stockpiling chemical weapons, Egyptians and
Saudis developing serious conventional forces, Hizbullah attacking
from Lebanon, Fatah from the West Bank, Hamas from Gaza, and
Israel's Muslim citizens becoming politically restive and more
violent.
World-wide, professors, editorialists, and foreign ministry
bureaucrats challenge the continued existence of a Jewish state.
Even friendly governments, notably the Bush administration, pursue
diplomatic initiatives that undermine Israeli deterrence even as
their arms sales erode its security.
Let's suppose, however, that the country muddles through these many
problems. That leaves it face to face with its ultimate challenge: a
Jewish population increasingly disenchanted with, even embarrassed
by, the country's founding ideology, Zionism, the Jewish national
movement.
As developed by Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) and other theoreticians,
Zionism's call for a sovereign Jewish state fit the political
context and mood of its time. If Chinese, Arabs, and Irish sought to
establish a national state, why not Jews?..."
The imperatives of war -> By Caroline B. Glick
"Prime Minister Ehud Olmert couldn't have
looked more pathetic when he responded this week to a rocket
attack on a day care center in Sderot by writing a letter of
complaint to the United Nations. But what is he to do?
Olmert and his government colleagues are
stumped. They unwilling to pay the political price that
comes with abandoning the defense of the Western Negev to
Palestinian rockets in Gaza. But they are also unwilling to
pay the military and political price of launching a
wide-scale ground campaign in Gaza...."
Why Is the Temple Mount So Important?
-> by Gabriel Barkay (One Jerusalem)
Dr. Gabriel Barkay, a professor of biblical
archaeology at Bar-Ilan University and the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, explained in an interview the Jewish and
Christian connections to the Temple Mount and why it is
vital to stop the destruction of Jewish antiquities on the
Temple Mount currently being carried out by Muslim religious
authorities who are digging a trench at the site:
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The Temple Mount is the heart, soul, and
spirit of the Jewish people. It is the only holy place
that Jews have and it is the place chosen by the
Almighty which is mentioned in Deuteronomy. This is the
place believed to be the site of the binding of Isaac.
This is the place where David built the altar on the
threshing floor of Aravna the Jebusite to stop the
plague. This is the place where the First Temple was
built and the Second followed it, built by the returnees
to Zion from Babylonian captivity. This is also the
place of the third edifice built on the site by King
Herod the Great - the building so frequently mentioned
in the New Testament.
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The Temple Mount occupies about 1/6th of
the total area of the old city of Jerusalem and this is
one of the most important cornerstones of Western
civilization. It is at the moment the focus of a
political battle that embodies within it the crux of the
Near Eastern conflict, as both parties claim to have
historical linkage to the site.
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The Temple Mount represents the Near
Eastern conflict in a nutshell and whatever happens to
the Temple Mount will happen to the rest of the country.
If the Temple Mount is under Palestinian rule and there
is no accessibility for Jews to the Temple Mount and no
control on the antiquities discovered there, that means
that the legitimacy of Jews in the entire country is
questioned.
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The gigantic stones of the Temple Mount
are mentioned in the New Testament: Jesus was brought to
the Temple Mount as an infant, and later in his career
he chased away the money changers from the Temple Mount.
There are approximately twenty references to the Temple
Mount in the New Testament and beyond any doubt the
Temple Mount is an integral part of the Christian
heritage. It should be sacred and important to any
civilized person all around the world.
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I am amazed that there was a world
outcry concerning the blowing up of the statues of
Buddha in the Bamiyan Valley by the Taliban authorities
in Afghanistan, while the destruction on the Temple
Mount didn't hit the media and there was no outrage
expressed.
The New Anti-Semitism
by -> Denis MacShane (Washington Post)
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Hatred of Jews has reached new heights
in Europe. Last year I chaired a blue-ribbon committee
of British parliamentarians that examined the problem of
anti-Semitism in Britain. None of us are Jewish or
active in the unending debates on the
Israeli-Palestinian question.
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Our report showed a pattern of fear
among a small number of British citizens - there are
around 300,000 Jews in Britain - that is not acceptable
in a modern democracy. Synagogues attacked. Jewish
schoolboys jostled on public transportation. Rabbis
punched and knifed. British Jews feeling compelled to
raise millions to provide private security for their
weddings and community events. On campuses, militant
anti-Jewish students fueled by Islamist or far-left hate
seeking to prevent Jewish students from expressing their
opinions.
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More worrisome was what we described as
anti-Jewish discourse, a mood and tone whenever Jews are
discussed, whether in the media, at universities, among
the liberal media elite or at dinner parties of modish
London. To express any support for Israel or any feeling
for the right of a Jewish state to exist produces
denunciation, even contempt.
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To Britain's credit, the Blair
administration produced a formal government response
setting out tough new guidelines for the police to
investigate anti-Semitic attacks and for universities to
stop anti-Jewish ideology from taking root on campuses.
Britain's Foreign Office has been told to protest to
Arab states that allow anti-Jewish broadcasts. Tony
Blair's successor, Gordon Brown, recently said in London
that he stood with Israel "in bad times as well as good
times," and one of the remarkable turnarounds of the new
Labor leadership that governs Britain is a strong
support for Israel and its commitment to combating
anti-Semitism.
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Today the old anti-Semitism and
anti-Zionism have morphed into something more dangerous.
Anti-Semitism today is officially sanctioned state
ideology and is being turned into a mobilizing and
organizing force to recruit thousands in a new crusade
to eradicate Jewishness from the region whence it came
and to weaken and undermine all the humanist values of
rule of law, tolerance and respect for core rights such
as free expression that Jews have fought for over time.
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We are at the beginning of a long
intellectual and ideological struggle. It is not about
Jews or Israel. It is about everything democrats have
long fought for: the truth without fear, no matter one's
religion or political beliefs. The new anti-Semitism
threatens all of humanity. The Jew-haters must not pass.
Restitution of Holocaust-Era Assets: Promises and Reality
-> Sidney Zabludoff, (Jewish Political Studies Review)
Less than 20%
of the value of Jewish assets stolen by the Nazis and their
collaborators has been restored. At least $115-$175 billion
(2005 prices) remains unreturned despite numerous clear and
explicit international agreements and country promises made
during World War II and immediately thereafter. Even the
highly publicized resurgence of restitution efforts since
the mid-1990s resulted in the return of only 3% of Holocaust
property. A key reason for these meager results was the
failure to make a comprehensive, and timely effort to deal
adequately with an event unequaled in the annals of modern
history - the extermination of more than two-thirds of
continental European Jewry and the confiscation of nearly
all of its assets.
EJC: Anti-Semitism Rising in France and Russia -> by
Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com), August 14, 2007
"Senior members of the European Jewish Congress led by EJC
president Moshe Kantor warned of rising anti-Semitism Monday
during a visit to Israel..."
ON REVOLUTION -> by Prof. Paul Eidelberg,
Foundation for Constitutional Democracy (December 10,
1994—updated June 16, 2007)
"A respected political scientist has said that a revolution
would have erupted in any Third World country had its people
suffered what the people of Israel have suffered under the
Rabin (now read the Sharon or Olmert) government: deceit,
betrayal, Jewish bloodshed, humiliation:
● Releasing and arming thousands of Arab terrorists
● Exercising self-restraint while Arab terrorists murdered
1,500 Jews
● Expelling 10,000 Jews from their homes in Gaza and
northern Samaria
● Allowing thousands of Arab missile to terrorize and ruin
Sderot
● Failing to demolish Hezbollah whose missiles caused a
million Jews to flee northern Israel..."
Understanding the Palestinian Movement (An HIR Series, in
four parts) ->
Historical and Investigative Research - 22 April 2006 by
Francisco Gil-White
Two states of destruction -> By Cal Thomas, Jewish
World Review, June 19, 2007
"The Bush administration's announced goal for Israel and the
"Palestinian people" has been two states, living side by
side in peace. The administration is two-thirds there. There
are now two states — one in Gaza, headed by the militant
Hamas organization, which shot its way to power; and another
in the West Bank headed by accused Holocaust denier Mahmoud
Abbas. Unfortunately for Israel, there is no peace, which
should not surprise those who have been predicting exactly
what is now coming to pass..."
Israel's Deadly Stupor -> by Jeff Jacoby, Published:
05/11/07, 11:44 AM
"...As America's beleaguered ally searches
for new leadership, one voice worth heeding is that of
Hebrew University game theorist Robert Aumann, a Nobel
laureate in economics. Those who grow tired of defeating
their enemies generally end up being defeated by them. "We
are like a mountain climber who gets caught in a snowstorm,"
Aumann said at this year's Herzliya Conference in January.
"He is cold and tired, and he wants to sleep. If he falls
asleep, he will freeze to death. We are in terminal danger
because we are tired. I will allow myself to say a few
unpopular, unfashionable words: our panicked lunging for
peace is working against us. It brings us farther away from
peace, and endangers our very existence. "Roadmaps,
capitulation, gestures, disengagements, convergences,
deportations, and so forth do not bring peace. On the
contrary, they bring war, just as we saw last summer."
New Pew Survey -- 26% Of U.S. Muslims Support Suicide
Bombing -- Only 40% Believe Arabs Caused 9/11 - by
ZOA, May 29, 2007
No solutions to Qassams? -> by Isi Leibler, May 30, 2007
"Only tough military action can bring Palestinians to
realization their lives will improve only if they rid
themselves of leaders who believe terror will destroy us..."
Statecraft in the absence of statesmen -> By Caroline B.
Glick
"Over the past week, Ma'ariv has reported on two separate
diplomatic initiatives that seem to be coming into line.
First, there is the possibility that Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert will open negotiations with Syria regarding the
surrender of the Golan Heights to Damascus. Second, the
Jordanians are now raising the possibility of forming a
confederation with the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria..."
Israel at 59 - Facing Unpleasant Facts in the Middle East
-> By Steven Plaut, Haifa, Israel
"The world is now well into the post-Oslo. post-911 era, in
which the delusions and denials of reality that were the
foundations of the "Middle East peace process" are at last
being acknowledged for what they were. For those returning
to the planet Earth from Fantasyland in the "Oslo" parallel
universe, it behooves them and us all to bear in mind some
of the unpleasant facts of life about the Middle East..."
How Nicolas Sarkozy Could Destroy Hizbullah
-> by Matthew Levitt and Michael Jacobson (New Republic)
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While the U.S. government designated
Hizbullah as a terrorist organization a decade ago, the
European Union has not. Doing so would require the
consensus of all 27 member states, and several countries
have been opposed, including Spain, Belgium, and, in
particular, France.
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Now, the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as
France's new president may represent the best chance yet
for Europe to reconsider its position. In a September
2006 closed-door session with Jewish leaders in the
U.S., Sarkozy reportedly referred to Hizbullah as a
"terrorist organization." During last summer's war
between Hizbullah and Israel, Sarkozy defended Israel's
right to defend itself against an organization he
described as the "one aggressor" in the conflict.
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Hizbullah uses Europe primarily as a
fund-raising and recruiting ground. An annual German
intelligence assessment estimates that 900 Lebanese
Hizbullah members live in that country alone. A ban
would significantly constrain Hizbullah's European
activities, especially its ability to raise funds there.
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According to Hizbullah leader Hassan
Nasrallah, EU designation of Hizbullah as a terrorist
organization would "destroy" the organization as "[t]he
sources of our funding will dry up and the sources of
moral, political and material support will be
destroyed."
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The U.S. should engage the new French
president on this issue as soon as possible. Sarkozy is
uniquely positioned to make Nasrallah's fear a reality.
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Why Israel But Not Burma?
-> Stephen Glover (Independent-UK)
"The motion by
the National Union of Journalists to single out Israel as
being uniquely evil, and worthy of measures that are not
contemplated against anyone else, is intellectually
disreputable. The NUJ has not passed any motion to boycott
China, where there are hundreds of political prisoners. Nor
has it picked on North Korea, a totalitarian state in which
millions of people have been deprived of the bare
necessities of life. The same could be said of Burma. I do
not believe that the NUJ has puffed itself in indignation
against Saudi Arabia, an autocratic state where women do not
enjoy rights that are taken for granted in Israel.
Whatever criticisms can be justly made of Israel, it is
a functioning democracy with a free press and a robust
tradition of free speech. Why is Israel singled out? I
hesitate to raise the charge of anti-Semitism, but though
laying aside that explanation, I confess that I am unable to
find another one."
Biased BBC - Editorial
The BBC's lavish state funding
of more than £3 billion a year is usually justified by
references to its role of serving the "public interest,"
which includes scrutinizing government. Now the BBC is using
taxpayers' money to hide its own work from scrutiny. The
issue is anti-Israel bias. The BBC refuses to publish a 2004
report by former BBC editor Malcolm Balen, which the BBC
itself commissioned in 2003 after Jerusalem temporarily
withdrew all official cooperation with the broadcaster over
its perceived bias. Numerous examples point to a simplistic
narrative that invariably portrays Israel as the aggressor
and the Palestinians as mere victims.
The BBC's power to influence foreign policy and shape
public opinion is almost unparalleled among media
organizations. Its radio shows alone attract more than 160
million listeners a week. Little wonder, then, that
according to opinion polls, an increasing number of
Europeans consider Israel a pariah state and anti-Jewish
feelings are on the rise. (Wall Street Journal, 20Apr07)
From Bad to Unthinkable
-> by Mortimer B. Zuckerman (U.S. News)
"If the West
must now choose between its survival and the survival of
radical Islamic forces, we should choose our own
survival..."
Vichy-era law still forces Jews to pay extra for property
-> By
YANIV SALAMA-SCHEER
"Jews in Nice who want to
buy an apartment have to pay an added fee of €900-€7,000 to
skirt an outdated Vichy government law still on the books
which prohibits them from owning apartments in that city,
The Jerusalem Post has learned..."
How the mainstream Jewish leadership failed the Jewish
people in World War II
-> by by Francisco Gil-White
An excellent 5-parts analysis including
modern time Jewish self-destructive tendencies
(local
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Israel slander corrupts human rights ->
By HAVIV RETTIG, Feb. 13, 2007 0:57 | Updated
Feb. 13, 2007 10:28, Jerusalem Post On Line
Edition
"Human rights are misused by
anti-Semitic anti-Israel campaigns that mask
their efforts to dismember the only Jewish state
through sophisticated and insidious use of the
language of human rights, former Canadian
justice minister Irwin Cotler, an
internationally renowned expert on human rights,
told the closing session of the Global Forum for
Combating Anti-Semitism in Jerusalem on
Monday...."
Ex-CIA Director: PA Arabs Don't Deserve State -> by
Hillel Fendel, Jan 24, '07 / 5 Shevat 5767
"James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA, told
IsraelNationalRadio's Alex Traiman that a Palestinian state
should wait "many decades" until they stop teaching their
children to hate and murder. .."
Why Europe Abandoned Israel -> By Richard Baehr,
January 13, 2007
"Why is Israel viewed so differently in Europe than in the
United States? To argue as the title of this article does,
that Europe has abandoned Israel, is to suggest that it was
once in its corner. And in fact, this is true..."
Exclusive: Handwritten Note From Jimmy Carter Interceding
for Nazi SS Guard Proven to Have Murdered Jews -> by
New York Sun, January 19, 2007
FROM THE WEBMASTER OF ISRAELUNITED.ORG
- WHEN YOU OPEN THE LINK ABOVE ALSO READ COMMENTS AT
THE END OF THE THE NEW YORK SUN'S ARTICLE - WHAT A PARADE OF
ANTI-SEMITISM WITH NO CONCEALMENT AND NO EMBARRASSMENT...
"We now have a copy of the note that Jimmy
Carter sent to the U.S. Justice Department's Office of
Special Investigation, interceding on behalf of a Nazi SS
Guard. We first reported on this story this morning.
Carter's note is attached to a letter from the daughter of
the Nazi SS Guard to Mr. and Mrs. Carter, asking for them to
help the Nazi SS Guard. Mr. Carter sent the letter to the
Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, with
the following note attached..."
Lost in the Middle East
-> January 17, 2007 Editorial, (Washington Post)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is making a high-profile
effort to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process - in
spite of an unfavorable situation in the region - in order
to solidify an alliance of "the mainstream" against Iran and
in support of U.S. policy in Iraq. The administration has
decided to seek $98 million in funding for Palestinian
security forces - the same forces it rightly condemned in
the past as hopelessly corrupt and compromised by
involvement in terrorism. Those forces haven't changed, but
since they are nominally loyal to "mainstream" Mahmoud Abbas
and serve as a check on the power of the "extremist" Hamas,
they are on the right side of Ms. Rice's new divide. So is
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a thuggish autocrat who
was on the wrong side of Ms. Rice's previous Mideast divide
between pro-democracy forces and defenders of the illiberal
status quo.
The administration's concern
about Iran is well founded. Yet the new U.S. policy betrays
President Bush's freedom agenda, giving a free pass to
dictators who support the new geopolitical cause. Mr. Bush
and Ms. Rice have said again and again that such trade-offs
during the Cold War helped lay the groundwork for groups
such as al-Qaeda - which was founded and is led by Saudis
and Egyptians.
The bitter fruits of corruption -> By Caroline B. Glick,
Jewish World Review Jan. 5, 2007 / 15 Teves, 5766
"With the Israeli media scope-locked on bigger stories, the
fact that Thursday Prime Minister Ehud Olmert paid an
obsequious and shameful visit to a country which propagates
Holocaust denial and sponsors the Palestinian jihad went
largely unnoticed.
No, Olmert did not visit Iran. He visited Egypt."
How the West Could Lose -> by
Daniel Pipes, New York Sun, December 26, 2006
After defeating fascists and communists, can the West now
defeat the Islamists?
On the face of it, its military preponderance makes victory seem
inevitable. Even if Tehran acquires a nuclear weapon, Islamists
have nothing like the military machine the Axis deployed in
World War II, nor the Soviet Union during the cold war. What do
the Islamists have to compare with the Wehrmacht or the Red
Army? The SS or Spetznaz? The Gestapo or the KGB? Or, for that
matter, to Auschwitz or the gulag?
Yet, more than a few analysts, including myself, worry that it's
not so simple. Islamists (defined as persons who demand to live
by the sacred law of Islam, the Sharia) might in fact do better
than the earlier totalitarians. They could even win. That's
because, however strong the Western hardware, its software
contains some potentially fatal bugs. Three of them – pacifism,
self-hatred, complacency – deserve attention.
Archive sheds new light on concentration camps ->
By ASSOCIATED PRESS, BAD AROLSEN, Germany
"This is another in an occasional series based on access granted
to The Associated Press to the largest archive of Nazi
concentration camp records, which has been closed for 50 years
Within weeks of Hitler's 1933 rise to power, the iron gates
slammed shut on inmates of the first Nazi concentration camps.
It was the start of an unparalleled experiment in persecution
and genocide that expanded over the next 12 years into a pyramid
of ghettos, Gestapo prisons, slave labor camps and, ultimately,
extermination factories.
Holocaust historians are only now piecing together the scattered
research in many languages to understand the vast scope of the
camps, prisons and punishment centers that scarred German-ruled
Europe, like a pox on the landscape stretching from Greece to
Norway and eastward into Russia...."
Two Israeli Nobel Prize laureates foresee a gloomy future for
the state -> by Ynetnews December 25, 2006
"From a political point of view, they are poles apart, but on
one topic Prof. Yisrael Aumann and Prof. Aharon Ciechanover are
of the same opinion: Pitiful and failed leadership is leading
Israel to destruction
What worries them most is the deterioration in academics and
education. "There is a close connection between the sinking of
the Israeli spirit and the downfall of the State," they warn.
Everything here seems lacking in values, temporary, one patch on
top of another, a thin bandage that can be torn off with any
breeze." ...
Israel's Plummeting Image: A Call To Action! -> by Isi
Leibler, Israel Insider, December 19, 2006
Jimmy Carter's vile anti Israel tract aptly titled "Palestine:
Peace and Apartheid" brings to mind the UN sponsored anti racist
conference in South Africa which became the launching pad for
the resurrection of the new global anti Semitism.
Carter's slanders and outright falsehoods expressed in a
sanctimonious manner have been exposed and condemned in reviews
written primarily by Jewish activists. The media fest
accompanying the book launch enabled Carter to even further
embellish his Orwellian libels against Israel. Regrettably much
of the mainstream media failed challenge the preposterous lies
being disseminated.
Uzi Landau: 'Israel's Churchill' Warns of Iran's Hitler
-> by Kenneth R. Timmerman Monday, Dec. 18, 2006
"Former Israeli Interior Minister Uzi Landau, a leading
contender to succeed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, was in the
United States last week to sound the alarm on Iran.
He believes the world needs to wake up to the threat from Iran,
and compared Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Adolf
Hitler in 1938..."
Center's Kyle and Woolsey warn against negotiating with Iran and
Syria
"...In particular, the two Honorary Co-Chairmen of the Center
for Security Policy's bipartisan National Security Advisory
Council warn against one of the commission's most controversial
and ill-advised ideas: opening direct negotiations with Iran and
Syria. Senator Kyl and Director Woolsey wrote:
In our view, opening negotiations with Iran (and Syria) as
suggested by the ISG will have several undesirable effects.
- First, such negotiations will legitimate that
increasingly dangerous regime and reward its violent and
hostile actions against us and our allies. We should
rather endeavor to discredit and undermine this regime.
- Second, such a course will embolden our enemies who
already believe they are sapping our will to resist
them.
- Third, such an initiative would buy further time for
the Iranian mullahs to obtain and prepare to wield
weapons of mass destruction.
- Fourth, entering into negotiations with Tehran's
theocrats will create the illusion that we are taking
useful steps to contend with the threat from Iran -
when, in fact, we would not be. As a result, other, more
effective actions - specifically, steps aimed at
encouraging regime change in Iran - will not be
pursued...."
Don't Expect Peace Soon
-> by Jonathan Spyer (Guardian-UK)
- The results of unilateral disengagement, which was
implemented in Gaza in 2005, have included: the
transformation of Gaza into an armed camp as the result of
massive smuggling of weapons; the victory of Hamas in
Palestinian Authority elections in January, at least
partially as a result of disengagement being depicted as an
Israeli flight in the face of Palestinian military action;
and the failure of Israel to achieve deterrence vis-a-vis
Hamas-led Gaza, with the resulting launches of Kassam
rockets.
- The war with Hizballah has helped to further damage the
idea of unilateralism, at least for the moment, because of
the perceived need for Israel to rebuild a strong deterrent
stance, and the negative effect that disengagement is seen
to have had in this regard.
- The current idea is to "engage" with the region in order
to recruit the good offices of regional players to help
prevent further meltdown. From this point of view, it
matters little if there is coherence to the notion that
dysfunction and strife in Iraq are in any way related to the
separate matter of the Israelis and Palestinians.
- There is, sadly, little cause for optimism, though from
Hamas' point of view, things are going rather well. Attempts
to found the long-awaited unity government in the PA remain
becalmed because of the refusal of Hamas to compromise on
Israel's right to exist, commitment to prior agreements, and
abandoning terror.
- Reports indicate that Hamas has found a way around
economic sanctions, engaging in smuggling cash into PA
areas. This money goes largely towards financing the
movement's charity and paramilitary structures. In the
meantime, the cease-fire suits Hamas just fine, enabling it
to replenish and re-arm. And to return to the fight at a
time of its choosing.
- The bottom line is that no substantive revival of the
peace process between Israelis and Palestinians should be
expected any time soon. Forces hostile to peace and
stability are on the rise among the Palestinians and their
regional backers.
Gates: No One Can Promise Iran Would Not Use Nuclear Weapons
Against Israel -> by Eli Lake (New York Sun)
President Bush's nominee to be defense secretary, Robert Gates,
told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday that he would
counsel against a military strike targeting Iran except as a
last resort and says he does not think the Iranian regime would
use nuclear weapons in a first strike against Israel. Gates said
he believed that Iran desired nuclear weapons and that Iran's
president was "not kidding" when he spoke of his desire to wipe
Israel off the map. But he also cautioned that President
Ahmadinejad did not have the final say in the regime and that a
nuclear weapon would likely be acquired as a deterrent to attack
from others. When pressed, the nominee said, "If Iran obtains
nuclear weapons, no one can promise that it would not use them
against Israel."
Islam and Violence -> Daniel Allott by
(Washington Times)
In a recent survey on global conflict, Monty Marshall and Ted
Burr of the Center for International Development and Conflict
Management found that of the 24 major armed conflicts taking
place worldwide in 2005, more than half (13) involved Muslim
governments or paramilitary groups on one or both sides of the
fighting. What's more, among six countries with "emerging armed
conflicts," four are predominantly Muslim and another, Thailand,
involves a Muslim separatist movement. Experts assure us that
only a small percentage (perhaps 10 percent) of Muslims are
willing to participate in terror; with 1.2 billion Muslims
globally, that's more than 100 million jihadists.
UN General Assembly Approves Six Pro-Palestinian Resolutions
Over U.S. and Israeli Objections
December 4, 2006
The UN General Assembly approved six pro-Palestinian resolutions
over U.S. and Israeli objections Friday. The U.S., Israel, the
Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau voted against all six
resolutions. A resolution that declared any attempt to impose
Israel's laws, jurisdiction, and administration on Jerusalem
illegal was approved by a vote of 157-6 with 10 abstentions. A
resolution demanding that Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights
was approved 107-6 with 60 abstentions. (AP/International
Herald Tribune)
Israel Still Marching Toward Disappearance -> By: Louis Rene Beres, Wednesday, August 30, 2006
"Technically, the Lebanon war against Hizbullah is over. In
fact, however, Israel remains starkly vulnerable to further
rocket attacks, and – even more ominously – to a still-nuclearizing
Iran. Making matters worse, Prime Minister Olmert has yet to
openly change course from his indisputably catastrophic plan for
“realignment” and “convergence.”
Why has there been absolutely no learning from lessons of the
past? The answer is plain. Israel now marches headlong toward
disappearance because its current leaders still fail to
understand several essential and interrelated truths..."
The
Corruption of our Elites or What to do about Tel Aviv ->
by ISI LEIBLER, THE
JERUSALEM POST, Aug. 28, 2006
"We are already immersed in painful evaluations to identify the
cause of the breakdowns in our decision-making processes and in
rectifying the weaknesses in the IDF as a consequence of the
recent war.
What went wrong?..."
At War with Islamic Fascists -> by Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com, August 14, 2006
"In his first response to the major terror airline scare in
London, President Bush said on Aug. 10 that “The recent arrests
that our fellow citizens are now learning about are a stark
reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who
will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to
hurt our nation.”
His use of the term “Islamic fascists” spurred attention and
controversy, especially among Islamists..."
Want to win muslim "hearts and minds"?
Learn more about Koran first
"Sura 5: O Believers! take not the Jews or Christians as
friends. They are but one another’s friends. If any one of you [muslim]
taketh them for his friends, he surely is one of them! God will
not guide the evil doers."
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