Tuesday 9 June 2009

Israel Matzav: The Andorra solution

The Andorra solution

Could this be what Prime Minister Netanyahu plans to propose on Sunday?

Another report, in the daily Yisrael HaYom, says that Netanyahu will propose a diplomatic process leading to the formation of a Palestinian state without an army. The new state would be like Andorra, the small country between France and Spain, and would have recognized borders. Andorra, only 468 square kilometers (181 square miles) in size and with a population of 90,000, is a member of the United Nations, but responsibility for its defense lies with France and Spain.

Netanyahu has long been in favor of an Andorra-like solution for the Palestinian Authority. In 1997, during his first term as Prime Minister, he told interviewer Sir David Frost that in his vision,

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Israel Matzav: The Andorra solution

Israel Matzav: Dating, Hamas style

Israel Matzav: Dating, Hamas style

Israel Matzav: America's first Muslim President?

America's first Muslim President?

Writing in the Washington Times, Frank Gaffney says that while Barack Hussein Obama may not be a Muslim (and Gaffney now apparently believes even that is debatable), he certainly aligns with the policies of Shari'a adherents.

Even more troubling were the commitments the president made in Cairo to promote Islam in America. For instance, he declared: "I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear." He vowed to ensure that women can cover their heads, including, presumably, when having their photographs taken for passports, driver's licenses or other identification purposes. He also pledged to enable Muslims to engage in zakat, their faith's requirement for tithing, even though four of the eight types of charity called for by Shariah can be associated with terrorism. Not surprisingly, a number of Islamic "charities" in this country have been convicted of providing material support for terrorism.

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Israel Matzav: A step backward on Jerusalem

A step backward on Jerusalem

Earlier this week, I reported on the Obama administration's omission of an important passage from the semi-annual notice that the US embassy isn't moving to Jerusalem just yet.

In the Bush years the memo contained the sentence, "My Administration remains committed to beginning the process of moving our embassy to Jerusalem." The Obama team edited that passage out.

In an editorial in Tuesday's edition, the Washington Times calls Obama on that omission and on other mis-statements about Jerusalem:
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Israel Matzav: A step backward on Jerusalem

Israel Matzav: IDF to withdraw from 'Palestinian' cities?

IDF to withdraw from 'Palestinian' cities?

From September 2000 until the spring of 2002, we were living in a war zone. When you said good bye to your spouse and children in the morning, you never knew whether they would all be there in the evening. Taking buses or walking in many parts of this city was like playing Russian roulette. Our government under Ehud Barak was unwilling to jeopardize 'peace' with the 'Palestinians' by doing what needed to be done.

Ariel Sharon was elected Prime Minister in February 2002 (without a Knesset election - this was during the brief period when we had a directly elected Prime Minister) with a mandate to restore security to the country. When the 'Palestinians' perpetrated the Seder Night Massacre a couple months later, Sharon decided he'd had enough. In Operation Defensive Shield, he sent the IDF into the 'Palestinian' cities to ensure that terrorists could no longer reach Israel's cities. It took another two years for the terror to die down, but it has been relatively quiet since 2004. Largely because the IDF is still in those cities.

Now, the 'Palestinians' are trying to convince the Obama administration to force Israel to return to its September 2000 starting point, to withdraw the IDF from the 'Palestinian' cities and to keep it outside those cities. The 'Palestinian Authority,' which can't even control downtown Ramallah, is claiming that its American trained 'police force' should take control of the 'Palestinian' cities, with the IDF staying out.
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Israel Matzav: IDF to withdraw from 'Palestinian' cities?

Israel Matzav: Eric Cantor on Obama's Cairo speech

Eric Cantor on Obama's Cairo speech

At Power Line, Scott Johnson shares Republican House Whip Eric Cantor's comments on President Obama's Cairo speech:

Once again, President Obama painted the "natural growth" of Israeli "settlements" in the West Bank as a main stumbling block that "undermines efforts to achieve peace." This for the most part is a gratuitous fight. The natural growth in question takes place in confined Jewish population blocks that will undoubtedly be a part of Israel once a two-state solution is implemented (based on the precedents set in the peace offering at Camp David in 2000 and later by the Bush Administration). Should the Israelis not be allowed to maintain an adequate infrastructure to accommodate their growing population within those communities? Why the outrage?

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Israel Matzav: Eric Cantor on Obama's Cairo speech

Israel Matzav: Obama responds to questions about Iran's nukes by pointing at the US

Israel Matzav: Obama responds to questions about Iran's nukes by pointing at the US

Israel Matzav: Video: A Jewish response to Obama's Cairo speech

Israel Matzav: Video: A Jewish response to Obama's Cairo speech

Israel Matzav: Yet another moral equivalence

Yet another moral equivalence

Just in case any of you thought that President Obumbler didn't draw a moral equivalence between the Holocaust victims and 'ordinary Germans' when he was in Dresden last Friday, he did. It just wasn't spoken.

Dresden is, as Angela Merkel put it in her joint press conference with Obama on Friday morning, a “highly symbolic city.” And within this highly symbolic city, there is no more symbolic monument than the historic Frauenkirche or “Church of our Lady.” The Frauenkirche was destroyed in the fires provoked by the Allied bombing and it was left in ruins for decades. The renovated church was first reopened to the public in 2005. The symbolic significance of Obama’s visit to Dresden could hardly be made complete without a visit to the Frauenkirche. But as late as Friday morning, there were still doubts about whether Obama would go to the church. Seemingly cognizant of the controversy that his Dresden visit had sparked back home, the president and his handlers were reportedly resisting the entreaties of his German hosts.

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Israel Matzav: Yet another moral equivalence

Israel Matzav: Spot-on advice for Israel's government

Israel Matzav: Spot-on advice for Israel's government

Israel Matzav: The two-year plan?

The two-year plan?

London-based pan-Arabic daily al-Sharq al-Awswat is reporting that American President Barack Hussein Obama is determined to bring the Israeli-'Palestinian' dispute to an end within two years, has developed a definitive plan, and has given the parties six weeks from the date of his Cairo speech to respond.
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Israel Matzav: The two-year plan?

The U.S. Chutzpah vs Israeli Settlements

The U.S. Chutzpah vs Israeli Settlements

Jerusalem Issue Brief

Institute for Contemporary Affairs
founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation

Vol. 9, No. 2 9 June 2009

U.S. Policy on Israeli Settlements

by Dore Gold

The Obama administration's tough, confrontational rhetoric on Israeli settlements raises a number of specific questions: Were Israeli settlements a violation of international law? Were Israeli settlements a violation of agreements and an obstacle to further progress in any future peace talks? Did the administration envision Israel withdrawing completely to the 1967 lines or did it accept the idea that Israel would retain part of the territories for defensible borders?


Many observers are surprised to learn that settlement activity was not defined as a violation of the 1993 Oslo Accords or their subsequent implementation agreements. If the U.S. is now seeking to constrain Israeli settlement activity, it is essentially trying to obtain additional Israeli concessions that were not formally required according to Israel's legal obligations under the Oslo Accords.

President Bush's deputy national security advisor, Elliot Abrams, wrote in the Washington Post on April 8, 2009, that the U.S. and Israel negotiated specific guidelines for settlement activity, whereby "settlement activity is not diminishing the territory of a future Palestinian entity." If the U.S. is concerned that Israel might diminish the territory that the Palestinians will receive in the future, then the Obama team could continue with the quiet guidelines followed by the Bush administration and the Sharon government.
Given the fact that the amount of territory taken up by the built-up areas of all the settlements in the West Bank is estimated to be 1.7 percent of the territory, the marginal increase in territory that might be affected by natural growth is infinitesimal. Moreover, since Israel unilaterally withdrew 9,000 Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005, the argument that a settler presence will undermine a future territorial compromise has lost much of its previous force.

The U.S. and Israel need to reach a new understanding on the settlements question. Legally and diplomatically, settlements do not represent a problem that can possibly justify putting at risk the U.S.-Israel relationship. It might be that the present tension in U.S.-Israeli relations is not over settlements, but rather over the extent of an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank that the Obama administration envisions.
Disturbingly, on June 1, 2009, the State Department spokesman, Robert Wood, refused to answer repeated questions about whether the Obama administration viewed itself as legally bound by the April 2004 Bush letter to Sharon on defensible borders and settlement blocs. It would be better to obtain earlier clarification of that point, rather than having both countries expend their energies over an issue that may not be the real underlying source of their dispute.
taken from :B'NAI ELIM (http://bnaielim.blogspot.com/)

Life in Israel: What Obama Taught Me....

What Obama Taught Me....

The NY Post columnist Ralph Peters learned the following lessons from the Obama Cairo speech:

There is no more terrorism.

Wow, cool! No more security checks at airports, right? It's unclear which side won, but it's all over. Obama didn't mention terrorism a single time in his star-turn speech in Cairo. Only a few "violent extremists" (our own troops?) remain at large.

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The Torah Revolution: History of Palestine

The Torah Revolution: History of Palestine

ANOTHER BIT OBAMA FORGOT

Another Bit Obama Forgot

It has already been well established that Obama's Cairo speech was poor history in an attempt to forge a new direction for history. I'd even be willing to accept there may have been a connection between his effort and yesterday's electoral victory of the Western-friendly camp in Lebanon over the anti-mankind parties, though I wouldn't get carried away quite yet. There was a moment in 2004 when Lebanese politics had hardened Bush-haters wondering if he'd gotten something right, and a lot that helped. Lebanon, like the rest of the world only exageratedly, is largely impervious to wishful thinking.

Still, it's worth noting the many things Obama got wrong, not to denigrate him but to retain clarity. While I certainly hope Obama's aspirations materialize, pretending history didn't happen is a fine tactic for a speech, but a poor strategy for changing things.

Did you notice he managed to overlook the ethnic cleansing of the Jews of the Arab world, and its ongoing denial? Andre Aciman wishes to remind you.
taken from : Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

A day in the life of an IDF combat soldier during boot camp - Haaretz - Israel News

A day in the life of an IDF combat soldier during boot camp - Haaretz - Israel News

Chesler Chronicles » French Funnyman Dieudonne Talks To Carlos the Jackal.

Chesler Chronicles » French Funnyman Dieudonne Talks To Carlos the Jackal.

Player - Baby Come Back

Yes-Starship Trooper 1973

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 3rd Impression

Emerson Lake and Palmer - Nutrocker

Israel Matzav: Required reading: Anne Bayefsky on Obama's Cairo speech

Required reading: Anne Bayefsky on Obama's Cairo speech

Anne Bayefsky rips Obama's apologia in Cairo:

Obama thought he would prove his even-handedness towards Israel by boasting of Friday’s trip to a concentration camp and rejecting Holocaust denial. In this context, however, the move of doing Jews these supposed favors appears to be cynical political opportunism, especially having just set the Holocaust side-by-side with the “suffering” and “pain” of Palestinians “for more than 60 years.” After all, the president made no emotive references to the “intolerable” “suffering” of Israeli victims of Arab terror “for more than 60 years.” The word “terrorism” never left his lips. Far from bolstering the fight against terror and the anti-Semitism driving it, such maneuvers embolden more hate and violence against Israelis.

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Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

chicago - 25 or 6 to 4

Chicago - Happy Man

I Heart Jews: Top 10 Jewish Superheroes To Look For On Free Comic Book Day

Top 10 Jewish Superheroes To Look For On Free Comic Book Day

>> Friday, May 1, 2009


Hey Nerds! Free Comic Book Day is tomorrow! In honor of this festive Saturday, I heart Jews presents our TOP 10 JEWISH SUPERHEROES (JEWPERHEROES) !

10. SABRA (a.k.a. Ruth Bat-Seraph)
Wow, this sexy Jewperhero sure doesn't keep her religious (or political) identity a secret! Her outfit is a freakin' Israeli flag, for Pete's sake! Known as the heroine of Israel, Sabra's name is indicative of both her birthplace, and a native fruit of Israel, which is thorny and scary, just like her energy quills.



9. COLOSSAL BOY (a.k.a Gim Allon)
If you couldn't tell from his adorable Jew-fro in the picture below, this mensch is totally chosen. He spent his Summers on a kibbutz! He also got his parent's blessing before joining the Legion of Super-Heroes. What a good boy!




8. SONGBIRD(a.k.a Melissa Joan Gold, a.k.a. Mimi Schwartz)

Songbird is a convert. Not to Judaisim, but to heroism, as she used to be a super villain, Screaming Mimi. Though she's currently one of the good guys, you still probably don't want to sit next to her in shul. Her voice is capable of causing all kinds of damage from anxiety to blindness. Rumor has it, her version of "Adon Olam" at last years High Holidays ceremony sent an entire minyan to the hospital.



7. ATOM SMASHER (a.k.a Albert Julian Rothstein)

If you squint, his atomic symbol could totally be a star of David. Also, even though we totally know that JSA stands for Justice Society of America, every time we see it we can't help thinking briefly that Atom Smasher was a member of the Jewish Student Association.


6. SASQUATCH (a.k.a. Walter Langkowski) He's like a harrier, more controlled, Canadian, Jewish Hulk. Awesome.

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I Heart Jews: Top 10 Jewish Superheroes To Look For On Free Comic Book Day

The Star Spangled Banner, like you've never heard it Vídeo por Smittys Place - Vídeos do MySpace

The Star Spangled Banner, like you've never heard it Vídeo por Smittys Place - Vídeos do MySpace

Etta James - At Last

Billy Joel River of dreams

Robbie Williams - Supreme

Israel Matzav: We reap what we sowed

We reap what we sowed

In an editorial in Monday's editions, JPost rips President Obama for the connection he has drawn between Israel's 'right to exist' and the Holocaust.

BARACK OBAMA has been terribly misinformed if he thinks Israel's legitimacy hinges on the Shoah. Of course, had the Jews achieved a national homeland in Palestine before the outbreak of WWII - as Britain promised in the 1917 Balfour Declaration and as the League of Nations affirmed in 1920 - the doors to this country would not have been barred to Jewish refugees seeking to escape from the Nazi killing machine. History would have turned out very differently indeed.

What the Holocaust proved is that the world is too dangerous a place for Jews to be stateless and defenseless. But we Zionists were making that argument long before Hitler came to power.

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Israel Matzav: We reap what we sowed

Israel Matzav: Krauthammer: 'Obama did more in three minutes to delegitimize the existence of Israel than any President in history'

Israel Matzav: Krauthammer: 'Obama did more in three minutes to delegitimize the existence of Israel than any President in history'

Israel Matzav: What the Syrians think of the Lebanese election results

Israel Matzav: What the Syrians think of the Lebanese election results

Israel Matzav: What the Saudis think of secularists

Israel Matzav: What the Saudis think of secularists
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