“Nazi Israel:” Obama’s Official Web Site Equates Israel to Nazi Germany
“The majority of the Israeli policies are the exact copies of the Nazi policies”
by Bill Levinson
Barack Obama’s official Web site, over which Barack Obama’s organization exercises editorial control, carries an entry that equates Israelis to Nazis and their treatment of Palestinians to the Holocaust. Emily and her fellow moderators at Obama for America apparently did not consider an entry that compares Israeli Jews to Nazis as “disrespectful to our other users and detract from a welcoming community where all people can engage in positive discourse.” Here is the material that Obama for America approved for posting.
- Nazi Israel … Indeed
Richard Falk, the professor of international law at Princeton University and the UN’s special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, had accused Israel of violating international law, international humanitarian laws, and the Geneva Convention. He described Israel’s policies against Palestinians and its siege of Gaza as “war crimes”, “genocidal tendencies”, “holocaust implications”, and “holocaust-in-the-making”. He urged the International Criminal Court to look into the possibility of indicting Israeli leaders for war crimes.
The Coming Failure On Iran
By Jackson Diehl, Washington Post
Not talks. Not sanctions, even of the “crippling” variety the Obama administration has spoken of. Not military strikes. And probably not support for regime change through the still-vibrant opposition.
For obvious reasons, senior officials won’t state this broad conclusion out loud. But it’s not hard to find pessimistic public statements about three of the four options. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called the prospects for diplomacy “very doubtful.” Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has said military action will do no more than “buy time.” Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, echoing private statements I’ve heard from the Obama administration, told me last week that a strategy of backing the Iranian opposition “would take too long” and might well produce a government with the same nuclear policy.
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Oren upbeat about West-Iran dialogue
[I liked it better when we were fighting. What has Bibi caved to. Why should Netanyahu give an inch. For that matter, why should Ahmedinejad give an inch.
Mofaz: New Iran nuke direction is just strategy of buying time ]
JPOST
Ambassador to the US Michael Oren on Friday welcomed the arrangements worked out between America and other world powers with Iran the day before, in some of the first comments by an Israel official on the talks.
He referred to Iran’s agreement to allow inspectors into its recently revealed secret nuclear facility in Qom as well as apparent willingness to transfer much of its enriched uranium to other countries for processing into nuclear fuel as “several important and rather positive developments.”
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Report: Israel Knows Exactly Where Shalit Is
A report in the London-based Arabic daily ash-Sharq al-Awsat, quoting Israeli officials, says that the IDF knows “exactly” where kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit is being held, and that the location is under constant Israeli surveillance. Hamas is aware that Israel knows where Shalit is being held, the report said, quoting an Israeli source.
The reason Israel has withheld from rescuing Shalit, the report said, is because of a fear that Hamas will kill the soldier if Israel attempts to rescue him. The site where Shalit is being held is surrounded by explosives, which will be set off remotely if IDF soldiers get too close, the source said, citing the murder of another IDF captive, Nachson Wachsman, who was killed when Israeli soldiers tried to rescue him in 1994.
Jerusalem sources: Peace talks with PA to resume very soon
This report was no where to be found in YNET or JPOST. I found it very disturbing. Israel should not trade anything for support on Goldstone Report. Obama should be ashamed of himself for putting a price tag on support.
I cannot believe that “the opening conditions and time table of the talks were significantly narrowed.” . One of the Arab demands was that discussions be based on the ‘67 borders. Another was that we start where Olmert left off. There is no room for Israel to concede anything here.
By Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent
The U.S. envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, was expected to arrive in Israel on Wednesday in order to continue efforts to restart peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Jerusalem sources believe that the resumption of talks will be announced soon, possibly immediately following Mitchell’s visit.
Jerusalem officials stressed that “U.S. assistance in curbing the effects of the Goldstone report will produce significant pressure on Israel by the Obama administration to move forward with the diplomatic process.”
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Unilateral declaration of statehood - no way, no how.
JCPA
International Recognition of a Unilaterally Declared Palestinian State:Legal and Policy Dilemmas
Tal Becker
This paper is based on background research for the Office of the Legal Advisor, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Government of Israel.
Preface
Tal Becker’s study does not deal with the question of whether a Palestinian state is desirable or not. It also does not explore its impact on Israeli national security. It does, however, address the legal implications of a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state for the international community.
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No cure for this Arab-Muslim sickness
Any thinking Muslim with a shred of self-respect must have cringed in disgust on watching the buffoonery of Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the UN recently.
These two leaders taking centre-stage at the General Assembly displayed the sickness that has turned the Arab-Muslim world into a cultural wasteland and political prison.
Adonis is a cult figure of Greek mythology and the pseudonym of the Arab world’s most revered living poet, Ali Ahmad Sa’id (born in 1930), a native of Syria and residing in France for the past three decades.
In a television interview on the Lebanese Arab News Broadcast done in November 2006, Adonis expounded on the emptiness of the Arab world. He said (translation provided by MEMRI - Middle East Media Research Institute):
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The Dirty Little Secret About the ‘Palestinians’
The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the Nakba (catastrophe) for Arabs, and the aggression by five well-armed Arab countries, assisting local Arab gangs and militias who had been attacking Jews for years, placed Jews in Israel and the state in mortal danger.Fighting back, Israel eventually negotiated an armistice in 1949 that allowed it respite from open war, albeit not terrorism, and without peace. The Egyptians occupied the Gaza Strip; the Jordanians occupied Judea, Samaria, and the eastern part of Jerusalem, including the Old City and Temple Mount; Syria continued to occupy the Golan Heights, from which it constantly shelled Israeli settlements; all trained and supplied terrorists who raided Israel. The UN did nothing.
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The Quartet’s disturbing shift and America’s new direction
Amidst the major developments of the last few weeks surrounding Iran and the opening of the UN General Assembly, the Quartet - representing the US, the UN Secretariat, the EU and Russia - issued a new policy statement in New York on September 24 about the state of Israeli-Palestinian contacts that was extremely disturbing. Surprisingly, it has received little if any notice in the mainstream media.
As usual, the Quartet meeting in New York that issued the statement was held at a very senior level - including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, along with the US special envoy George Mitchell, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, and Tony Blair, the Quartet representative.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem
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