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Hillary Is Wrong About Israeli Settlements

 
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Former Bush Administration staffer Elliott Abrams writes in the Wall Street Journal that "As the Obama administration has made the settlements issue a major bone of contention between Israel and the U.S., it is necessary that we review the recent history."
 
It is easy to see that Abrams has a very biased viewpoint but his analysis is still a must read...
 
 
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Thank G-d for Israel

Yesterday I went to the funeral and shiva (home based mourning ritual) of an 82 year old survivor of Auschwitz, the Death March and the Warsaw Ghetto. The 89 year old brother of the departed was at the shiva. The 89 year old brother was now the last of a family of seven, he survived Mauthausen. The two brothers were the only members of their immediate family to survive the Holocaust and the war. They both chose to make their lives and to raise their families in America. The 89 year old spoke a little at the shiva. It was very emotional. Among the things he said was just how hopeless the situation was for Polish Jews. Towards the end of the evening he said “if there had been an Israel in the 1930s there would not have been a Holocaust: Thank G-d for Israel.” The youngest grandson of the 82 year old graduated from a yeshiva high school earlier this month. In August he leaves for year of intensive Torah study in Jerusalem. Among the other things the 89 year old said last night was "We are here and Hitler is not. We won."
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In defense of Jewish 'settlements' in Israel

 
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Yisrael Medad writes in the June 28, 2009 L.A. Times that "No one, including a president of the United States of America, can presume to tell me, a Jew, that I cannot live in the area of my national homeland. That's one of the main reasons my wife and I chose in 1981 to move to Shiloh, a so-called settlement less than 30 miles north of Jerusalem."
 
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Israel & the Harmful Fantasy of "2 States for 2 Peoples"

 
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The Silly and Harmful Fantasy of "Two States for Two Peoples"
By Steven Plaut

Those who support the "Two States for Two Peoples" doctrine, and I suppose that now one must even include Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu in that category, no matter how reluctantly he joined it, have a very simple position. Indeed, the entire "Two States for Two Peoples" doctrine can be summed up in one simple idea, in fact in one simple sentence. It is this:

maybe after the Palestinians get their own state, then they will agree to live in peace with Israel.

No matter how complex and "scholarly" is any article or position paper that supports "Two States for Two Peoples" doctrine, once one clears away the verbiage it all boils down to that one simple idea.

To put it even more strongly, no one who is currently promoting "Two States for Two Peoples" would still be promoting it if they could be persuaded beyond all doubt that the Palestinians would NOT live in peace after getting their own state under "Two States for Two Peoples," or if they discovered with certainty that the second of those states ("Palestine") would be used for nothing other than terrorist aggression. Well, almost no one would…

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If Only Israel Wasn’t Jewish

 
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Aaron Goldstein writes:
The truth is that Israel could dismantle every last outpost, tear down the security fence and give up Jerusalem and for Palestinians it would be as if nothing happened. As long as there is an Israel that exists in any form there will still be Palestinian grievances of one kind or another.  They would find something to be angry about. Meanwhile, liberals in the West would say, "If only Israel wasn't Jewish."  As far as the Palestinians are concerned all of Israel is a Jewish settlement.  The Palestinians will not be satisfied until the state of Palestine supplants the State of Israel and every last Jew is gone.
 
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Christian Friends of Israel Respond to Obama in Cairo

 

Response to Obama's Speech! Obama in Egypt; Soaring Rhetoric Masks Sad Reality

Richard Hellman, President of CIPAC, the Christian Lobby for Israel now in its 20th year, has analyzed President Obama's Cairo speech today, June 4, and said that, sadly, his "soaring rhetoric masked a sad reality" that includes:

* An Iranian government that is on the verge of achieving nuclear-arms capability to carry out their genocidal threats to eliminate Jewish Israel, a capability and threat that have been confirmed, not removed, by Obama's offers to talk;
*The bold threat to Israel from the Obama team, is that if Israel does not agree to remove almost one half million Jews from most of biblical Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria (so-called "West Bank"), and the Golan Heights, and turn over all of the holy sites to terrorists, the US will not deal with Iran's nuclear weapons - or let Israel do so; and
*The facts that (1) Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah's leaders, whom Obama hinted he will work with if they are backed in elections, are still terrorists at war with us and Israel,
(2)The PLO run by the Fatah party, that lost the last PA election in 2006, somehow rules the Arab West Bank with US and IDF help is no better, and cannot deliver peace or security to Israel and America.

Therefore CIPAC continues to lead biblically-based Christian opposition to the failed road map, and the two-state vision by barraging Congress and the White House with the message that it is time to change US policy away from "land for peace" and instead to renewed support of Israel as the Jewish state with due protection of its rights of other peoples and religions - just as stated in Israel's Declaration of Independence 61 years ago, when President Harry Truman recognized the newly reborn state.

Richard Hellman and his wife Miriam are leading a solidarity mission to Israel next week to tell Israelis that they enjoy the broad support of over 100 million Americans and no longer need to give away God-given territory for terror, which is all they have received in their "land for peace" agreements to date. The Hellman's also will convey through the media the dangers to Christian and Jewish rights to worship and to visit the traditional biblical sites that the Obama/Saudi "peace plan" poses.

CIPAC's website can be found here: http://www.cipaconline.org/

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State Department Continues Islamist Outreach

 
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With the United States battling Islamist extremists, making America's case
to Muslims around the world has never been more of a priority for
policymakers. Unfortunately, the State Department continues to take a
counterproductive approach: serving as a veritable infomercial promoting
Islamist organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR), the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) and the Islamic Society of
North America (ISNA) while giving the back of the hand to the very
anti-jihadist Muslims that Washington should be cultivating.

The latest example is a State Department booklet issued in March titled
"Being Muslim in America." The 64-page booklet ...
 
 
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NEW BOOK: Culture of Terror: the Collapse of America

 
Eugene Narrett's new book, Culture of Terror: the Collapse of America now is available at www.authorhouse.com:

http://www.authorhouse.com/Bookstore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=62139
 
The book describes the development of the modern West, especially in America from the scientific utopianism of the Enlightenment to post-Modernism which it carefully describes using examples from pop culture and politics as well as great literature. Throughout, the counter-example of Israel and its simple, joyous and sane code is used to help explain the self-destructive imperial pride of the West.
 
Below are comments by disintguished authors on Dr. Narrett's new work:

“This is a work of first rate scholarship and splendid artistry. Employing the wisdom of the ages in a sparkling variety of writings to trace the decline of
America and the West, Eugene Narrett sets a “lamp before our feet to illuminate our path.” This is a hard-hitting message but Narrett’s writing is so crisp that what we have before us is a page-turner. This is a book that we all must read -- and heed. A brilliant performance; Bravo!” -- Jack Engelhard, author: Indecent Proposal; the Bathsheba Deadline; Escape from Mt.Moriah

“Eugene Narrett is no ordinary professor of English literature. He is a thinker, a rare and brilliant thinker. Although others—not many—have seen that the decline of America is largely the result of the combined influence of feminism and multiculturalism, Narrett correlates this decline to changes in Anglo-American literature… Narrett’s deep understanding of literature endows his profound understanding of America with a vividness rarely achieved in academia. His book on the American Collapse will enlighten and astonish his readers.” --- Dr. Paul Eidelberg, President, Foundation for Constitutional Democracy; author Discourse on Statesmanship; Judaic Man

Professor Narrett employs a breath-taking overview of literature, history and politics in this bold examination of America's descent into desperate shallowness, moral apathy and political fantasy. Narrett details this headlong rush to destruction with clarity and thoughtful eloquence. No one can brandish so compelling a phrase…” – Jim Long, filmmaker, author: the Riddle of the Exodus

visit http://www.authorhouse.com/Bookstore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=62139

In Culture of Terror Eugene Narrett brilliantly identifies postmodernism in its startling development from the Enlightenment’s revolution in values and scientific utopianism, the subsequent Gothic terrors and Romanticism, to Modernism’s shocks to the postmodern ‘state that follows history.’ This is a thrilling, fascinating ride from the confessional mode of the Romantics, to Modern psychology and introspective expressionism to the exhibitionism of media spectaculars and pop culture. Applying a broad palette of great writings from many disciplines Professor Narrett traces America’s collapse back to the formation of “the West,” a culture whose dynamism, productivity, unease and visions of imperial power are embedded in its hybrid roots. A remarkable achievement of cultural history and a must read to understand our times and cult, the media ‘distraction machine.’ 
 
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Peacemakers Will Bring National Suicide For Israel

 
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Herb Denenberg writes in "Peacemakers Will Bring National Suicide For Israel" that "The two-state solution is in fact a no-state solution for Israel. When you consider the facts ... you have to conclude that a two-state solution now would be nothing but a suicide pact for Israel."
 
"...the Obama administration and the Arab nations are giving Israel two alternative paths, both of which lead to Israel committing suicide. It can agree to a two-state solution and assure its own destruction, as its borders will be indefensible and as it will be giving citizenship to a demographic group now dedicated to its destruction. Or it can reject suicide via the two-state solution, and instead elect suicide by Iran — with the apparent approval of the U.S. and the Arab nations — and Iran’s development of nuclear weapons of mass destruction … which it has repeatedly announced it will use on Israel. Iran and its genocidal madness should be the top U.S. and world priority, as it is a threat to world safety. It should not be used as a bargaining chip or an appeasement attempt to sell a totally unreasonable Arab peace plan.

The U.S., the Arab states and the “international community” are trying to shove the suicidal two-state solution down Israel’s throat, as if it is the only way to go."
 
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Hypocrisy At United Nations

Hypocrisy At United Nations


By Darryl May, For The Bulletin (Philadelphia, PA)
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Genocide in Darfur.  Ethnic warfare in the Congo.  Repression of Tibetans by China.  Atrocities of all kinds in North Korea.  Denial of even the most basic womens’ rights in Saudi Arabia. Jailing of dissenters in Cuba. 

The list goes on and on.  There can be no doubt by any fair-minded person that the variety and number of human rights abuses, and abusers, is almost limitless, and a great scourge to the human spirit.

But not at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council.  There, an alternative reality exists:  99.9 percent of the world’s human rights abuses are committed by Israelis.

The Human Rights Council is in the news again because, after years of its being shunned as illegitimate by the Bush administration, on March 30, it was announced that  President Barack Obama has decided to rejoin the Council. 
 
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Say No To A Palestinian State - Forbes.com


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Daniel Doron writes: 
 
Solving this conflict has been so difficult because it has always been misconstrued. As a result of confusion about the conflict's nature, the solutions that were nevertheless tried, such as the Oslo agreement establishing the Palestinian Authority, or Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, resulted in costly failures...
 
Although Doron writes much that I disagree with, his article is thought provoking and much of his analysis is spot on. Read the aentire article here:
 
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Obama Signals Israel to Submit

 
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Obama’s Signal to Israel: Submit
By Mona Charen
 
In early April, Vice President Biden was asked if the administration was concerned that Israel might strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities. “I don’t believe Prime Minister Netanyahu would do that,” Mr. Biden replied. “I think he would be ill-advised to do that.”

A few weeks later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained the administration’s solution to the threat of an Iranian bomb: “For Israel to get the kind of strong support it’s looking for vis-à-vis Iran it can’t stay on the sideline with respect to the Palestinians and the peace efforts . . . they go hand-in-hand.”

And on May 10, National Security Advisor James Jones spelled it out further. “We understand Israel’s preoccupation with Iran as an existential threat. We agree with that. . . . By the same token, there are a lot of things that you can do to diminish that existential threat by working hard towards achieving a two-state solution.”
 
By what reasoning has the administration decided that pushing Israel to permit a new Palestinian state would — in any way — diminish the threat from Iran?...
 
 
 
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Israelis wonder if the Americans have quietly resigned themselves to a nuclear Iran

 
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Daniel Gordis writes: 

There’s a certain look to a widow who’s in her mid-twenties, whose husband was killed in Gaza in January.  Eyes swollen with tears, yet with steely determination at the same time.  A certain vulnerability on her still very young face, and a face that seems too old for her age, all at the same time.  An image of pain and of unspeakable sadness, but not asking for pity.  Was it just me, or was it clear that even in the midst of her unbearable burden, she knew full well that she - like the young husband who was taken from her far too early - is part of something much larger than she is?  Is that why, looking at her, I had a sense of - more than anything else - strength? 

I would have liked many more people to see her.  President Obama, for example, as he prepares for another stab at Middle East peace-making.  Hillary Clinton, who’s now telling us to make peace lest we lose American support in the looming confrontation with Iran. 

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A Defining Moment in History: Civilians Unite Against Radical Islam

 
From Phyllis Chesler's Chesler Chronicles

On Sunday, May 3rd, at noon, in Times Square, in New York City, a gathering of eagles and of angels will take place. Come rain or come shine, the Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam is holding a rally. Please join us. The coalition is composed of Muslim, ex-Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, atheist, and human rights leaders who are "calling for the defeat of radical Islam."

Note: I have not written that the coalition opposes "Islam" (although some may-they view it as a totalitarian, imperialistic, and apartheid political force, not as a "religion of peace"). Nor have I written that the coalition opposes "Muslims" (no one does-although, increasingly, the profound silence of "moderate" Muslims in response to radical Islamist crimes weighs heavily upon all human rights activists).

The groups who are sponsoring this rally include, but are not limited to: Hindu Human Rights Watch, Indian American Intellectual Forum, 911 Families for A Secure America, American Coptic Union, Americans for a Safe Israel, Damanga (Darfur Muslim Council), R.E.A.L. (Responsible for Equality and Liberty), AMCHA, Chinese Community Relations Council, Muslims Against Sharia, Namdhari Sikh Foundation, Women United, Sudan Freedom Walk, Center for Security Policy, International Foundation of Bangladeshi Hindus, ACT for America, Foundation of Nepalese, Alliance for Interfaith Resistance, Stand With Us, etc. There will be many speakers, myself included.

 
 
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Is Israel 'preparing massive strike on Iran'?

 
WorldNetDaily's Aaron Klein reports that:
 
"The Israel Defense Forces is carrying out drills to practice for a possible massive aerial assault on Iran's nuclear facilities within days - or even hours - of being given the go-ahead by its new government..."
 
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