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President Obama met with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks about Iran’s nuclear program. It seems that Israel wants to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities by military action. On the other hand, the U.S. wants more time for economic sanctions to take effects. If Israel takes any sort of action against Iran- it would force the U.S. to support Israel because of their alliance. This position put the Obama administration at odds with the Israeli’s government philosophy of wanting to start yet another conflict in the region that the U.S. would be forced into.President Obama met with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks... more
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"Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is due to submit his bid to the UN for recognition of a Palestinian state.
He is expected to present a letter in the next few hours requesting admission to the UN shortly before addressing the General Assembly to argue the case.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to speak soon after, and is expected to denounce the move.
Israel and the US oppose it, saying a Palestinian state can only be achieved through talks with Israel.
President Barack Obama told Mr Abbas on Thursday that the US will use its UN Security Council veto to block the move, but Mr Abbas vowed to press ahead with the bid.
Meanwhile in the West Bank, Palestinians are expected to begin gathering in the early evening shortly before the submission of the bid.""Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is due to submit his bid to the UN for... more
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by Jon Ber
Yossi Sarid, a prominent Israeli politician, published today in Haaretz, a direct appeal to the US Jews, on behalf of the Palestinian people aspiration for an independent state and in regards to the pending UN vote next week.
The US is expected to be the only country on Earth to join Israel in objection to the Palestinian freedom quest.
Sarid writes:" The Jews of New York's 9th Congressional district certainly thought they were doing a good thing for us when they voted in a new Republican congressman to replace Democrat Anthony Weiner. In the process, the voters also sent a blunt message to the White House: Beware, Barack Hussein Obama, of our retribution."
"And in his fright, the president is already prepared to restrain himself when it comes to continued West Bank Jewish settlement construction. This is not necessarily a matter of turning a blind eye, but rather of doing it with eyes wide open."
"You, Jews who are both warm and hot under the collar, are working against Israel's interests as well as against the interests of America, your homeland, which is now seen in its full isolation and hypocrisy: All of the people in our region are accorded the democratic right to rise up against tyranny, everyone except the Palestinians, who have suffered not from a home-grown tyrant, but from a foreign occupier, and the end of the occupation is not in sight after 44 years."
More http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/dear-u-s-jews-please-don-t-let-netanyahu-deceive-you-1.385241
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent statement that Israel can't defend itself with borders drawn along pre-1967 lines has been questioned in certain foreign policy circles. These critics have noted that Israel successfully fought two wars, in 1956 and in 1967, while based within those borders. And they have claimed that borders don't matter as much in modern warfare. But Netanyahu is right.
The idea that the 1967 line isn't defensible has actually been around for decades. Indeed, the architects of Israel's national security doctrine reached that conclusion soon after the Six-Day War. The main strategic problem that Israel faced at that time was the enormous asymmetry between its small standing army, which needed to be reinforced with a timely reserve mobilization, and the large standing armies of its neighbors, which could form coalitions in times of tension and exploit Israel's narrow geography with overwhelming numbers. True, Israel won in 1967, but the war also pointed out the country's many vulnerabilities.
In the years following the war, the main advocate for creating new boundaries to replace the fragile lines from before 1967 was Yigal Allon, then Israel's deputy prime minister. Allon had considerable military experience, having commanded the Palmach, the elite strike units of the Jewish forces, in the 1948 war that created Israel.
In 1976, while serving as foreign minister, Allon wrote an article for Foreign Affairs outlining the strategic logic for his position. He pointed out that the 1967 line was an armistice line from Israel's war of independence and never intended as a final political boundary. Allon quoted the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1967, Arthur Goldberg, who said that the 1967 line was neither secure nor recognized. Given this background, U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, backed by both the United States and Britain, only called for "withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict" — but not from "all the territories." The resolution also didn't specify strict adherence to the pre-1967 line, advocating only that "secure and recognized" boundaries be established.
Full Story: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gold-israel-borders-20110605,0,6320227.storyPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent statement that Israel can't... more
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As a follow up to his lapdog interviews with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Sean Hannity debated Fox News contributor Juan Williams Wednesday night about Israel, the prospects for Middle East peace, and President Obama.
Although Hannity loves to fashion himself as some kind of patriot extraordinaire, he made no bones about how much he preferred Netanyahu to Obama.
"The president created the scenario (of getting scolded by Netanyahu) by sandbagging him… It was like you had Professor Obama, Harvard, Columbia, wherever he went to school and then you had somebody who’s living in the real world saying, ‘You don’t understand,’ …and that was embarrassing for Obama. (Hannity did not evidence a scintilla of sympathy for our president’s embarrassment.)
You can’t appease – and I think the president follows the classic policies of appeasement and Netanyahu understands the reality of dealing with terror and evil and Netanyahu’s right and Obama’s weak."Video of debate at link.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled his date with pop sensation Justin Bieber over the singer's refusal to meet with children living in communities affected by Gaza rocket fire, Channel Two reported on Tuesday.
The prime minister was scheduled to host the young singer at his office in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, before Bieber's Thursday night concert.
Taking advantage of the PR opportunity presented by the meeting with Bieber, Netanyahu's advisers invited a group of children from communities near the Gaza border to attend.
The children had disembarked from a school bus just before it was hit by a Hamas rocket last Thursday, critically wounded a teen and moderately wounding the bus driver.
Bieber reportedly refused to meet the children, which led Netanyahu to cancel the meeting.
Upon arriving in Israel on Monday, the singer was met by throngs of tween girls who mobbed his Tel Aviv hotel.
Some 200 young fans gathered at Tel Aviv's Sheraton Hotel Monday morning, staying there for hours in the hope of catching sight of the phenom. Bieber is scheduled to give a concert in Tel Aviv on Thursday night.
"We arrived especially on a flight from Eilat," said Yaakov Melamed, father of a 12-year old girl - one of about 200 groupies in the hotel's lobby on Monday. "We are following him everywhere," said Adi, 14, from Ganei Tikva. "I will go with him to Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, and I've been waiting here since eight in the morning," she said.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/netanyahu-cancels-bieber-date-over-refusal-to-meet-kids-affected-by-gaza-rockets-1.355598Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled his date with pop sensation Justin... more
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Zionists rejoice!
Israel investigates itself and finds that it acted in accordance with international law.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday expressed his satisfaction with the findings of Turkel Commission, which probed the Israel Defense Forces raid on a Gaza-bound ship last May and found that Israeli soldiers acted in accordance with international law during the operation.
"The truth is simple," said Netanyahu. "IDF soldiers defended themselves and their country. It is not only their privilege but also their duty and the State of Israel stands behind their actions."Zionists rejoice!
Israel investigates itself and finds that it acted in accordance... more
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Fifty Israeli rabbis have signed an open letter warning Jews not to rent or sell property to non-Jews, saying those who do should be "ostracised".
"Anyone who sells (property to a non-Jew) must be cut off!!"
"In answer to the many questions, we say that it is forbidden in the Torah to sell a house or a field in the land of Israel to a foreigner," they wrote, referring to the Pentateuch - the first five books of the Bible.
The letter, which was signed mostly by state-employed rabbis, warns that "he who sells or rents them a flat in an area where Jews live causes great harm to his neighbours."
According to the Israeli news website Ynet, the letter is to be published in religious newspapers and distributed in synagogues across the country later this week.
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel slammed the letter as "racist."
"Rabbis who are civil servants have an obligation to the entire public, including Israel's Arab citizens. It is unthinkable that they would use their public status to promote racism and incitement," the group said in a statement.
The organisation called on Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, to take disciplinary action against state-employed rabbis who signed the document.
Mohammed Barakeh, an Arab-Israeli member of parliament, said the letter was "supremely racist" and called for the government's legal adviser to investigate the rabbis behind it.
"It seems that the signatories realise that the Israeli establishment is complicit in the crimes of incitement to racial hatred, so they are acting without fear," he said in a statement.
The letter came as tensions grow between religious Jewish and Arab-Israeli residents of the northern town of Safed, where local rabbi Shmuel Eliahu has called on Jews to avoid renting or selling property to Arabs.
Safed's college attracts Arab-Israeli students from the surrounding area, many of whom seek accommodation in the town while studying.Fifty Israeli rabbis have signed an open letter warning Jews not to rent or sell... more
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took a rare public jab at his successor on Thursday, saying that Israel should agree to the U.S. demand to halt settlement construction in the West Bank in order to restart Mideast peace talks.
Olmert suggested the current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Obama administration are wasting valuable time by focusing on such a "marginal" issue, rather than tackling the essential issues at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
President Barack Obama has asked for a new three-month moratorium on settlement construction after a 10-month slowdown expired in September, leading peace negotiations to stall. Palestinians say they will not talk unless a freeze is in place.
http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-11-25/world/24947000_1_olmert-settlement-freeze-settlement-constructionFormer Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took a rare public jab at his successor on... more
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(WINDSOR, N.H.) - Seated at the table, before the first hand is dealt, the game operator (President Barack Obama) brazenly informs the players that he is not adverse to a little cheating by the Prime Minister of Israel (Binyamin Netanyahu) and that his opponent, the Illegitimate President of the West Bank of Palestine (Abu Mazen), has a lot of work to do if he thinks he can win a single hand at this table.
President Obama then shakes the hand of the Prime Minister and clumsily passes 4 palmed aces as he tells the PM his security is assured. The Prime Minister grins smugly, tucks the cards on his lap, checking first to insure that those cards are from the marked deck he had supplied the President during the pre-game talk.
Assured, he nods to Abu Mazen and thanks him for being a serious partner in this high stakes game then nods to the just arriving audience and expresses his conviction, to them, that they will witness the fairest game he has ever played. The President then takes the hand of Abu Mazen, squeezes it as hard as he can, and wiggles his middle finger against Mazen’s palm.
At this point, the President rises, announces the dealer (Hillary Clinton) who makes her way to the table, jokingly whispers between her and Abu Mazen, “Remember to deal from the top!” and exits. As he heads out the door a reporter asks, “Why are there no Hamas players today?”, to which he quickly responds, “They cheat... and, besides, we haven’t supplied them with a big enough stake. Hell, Mazen will just barely make the ante.”
The reporter scribbles on his pad, “The President states that Hamas would only try to undermine the game.”
Sounds cynical, doesn’t it? Let’s take a closer look.
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september062010/palestinian-people-mdp.php(WINDSOR, N.H.) - Seated at the table, before the first hand is dealt, the game... more
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JERUSALEM — David Rubinger, one of Israel’s best-known photojournalists and a man firmly on the political left, cast his ballot last year for Benjamin Netanyahu for prime minister, the first time he had ever voted for the right-leaning Likud Party.
“The left wants to make peace but cannot, while the right doesn’t want to but, if forced to, can do it,” he said in an interview. “So last year I decided to vote not with my heart but with my head.”
As Mr. Netanyahu joins Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, at the State Department on Thursday to start direct peace negotiations, Mr. Rubinger’s theory — and it is not his alone — will be tested. Will the Israeli leader who built a career opposing a Palestinian state be the one to help bring it into being?JERUSALEM — David Rubinger, one of Israel’s best-known photojournalists... more
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Jerusalem’s police have tapped a controversial figure who has been accused of torturing an Arab detainee and threatening East Jerusalem activists as its new adviser on Arab affairs, drawing condemnation from Israeli-Palestinian legislators and human-rights groups.Jerusalem’s police have tapped a controversial figure who has been accused of... more
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The contents of a secretly recorded video threaten to gravely embarrass Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Obama administration. The film was shot, apparently without Netanyahu’s knowledge, nine years ago. In it, he boasts that he deceived the US president at the time, Bill Clinton, into believing he was helping implement the Oslo accords, the US-sponsored peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, by making minor withdrawals from the West Bank while actually entrenching the occupation. He brags that he thereby destroyed the Oslo process.The contents of a secretly recorded video threaten to gravely embarrass Israeli Prime... more
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Israel's Army Radio reported this past week that the United States has sent Israel a secret document committing to nuclear cooperation between the two countries.Israel's Army Radio reported this past week that the United States has sent... more
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Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s far-right foreign minister, set out this past week what he called a “blueprint for a resolution to the conflict” with the Palestinians that demands most of the country’s large Palestinian minority be stripped of citizenship and relocated outside Israel’s future borders.Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s far-right foreign minister, set out this past week... more
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A deputy to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this past week that their country is ready for a war on Iran.A deputy to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this past week that their... more
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Iran plans to lodge a complaint with the United Nations about what it sees as President Obama's threat to attack it with nuclear weapons.Iran plans to lodge a complaint with the United Nations about what it sees as... more
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to abruptly cancel a trip to a nuclear conference in Washington has spotlighted a key sore point in international nonproliferation efforts: Israel's own atomic weapons.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to abruptly cancel a trip to... more
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