"Israpundit" - 10 new articles
- The Lavi Fighter
- American Muslim Association of North America Posts Ku Klux Klan Video
- Sharia in New Jersey
- Fakestinian Welfare Leeches
- Obama Warns Abbas: ‘Start Talks or Else’
- Prof: Israel must do all the compromising
- Europe’s Jewish problem
- Tea Party Caucus members endorse Israeli attack on Iran
- The Barack and Rashid show
- The Legal Basis of Israel’s Naval Blockade of Gaza
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The Lavi Fighter
Laura: Israeli shortsightedness has left it at the mercy of someone like Barack Hussein Obama. There is no reason why a country with such enormous technological capability shouldn’t be producing its own fighter jets.
Just imagine Israel’s position today had the Lavi fighter jet project not been canceled.
By Moshe Arens, Haaretz
Who would have believed it? Some years ago Israel was developing the world’s most advanced fighter aircraft, the Lavi, while the Western world’s aircraft manufacturers were beating their way to our door, eager to participate in the Lavi project, or trying to sell their competing plane to the Israel Air Force. And now Israel goes hat in hand pleading for a chance to be allowed to acquire the F-35 aircraft, at a price tag of $150 million each. But it’s not only the astronomical price. Israel is told that the F-35 must be taken as is – no changes or modifications to suit Israel’s specific needs, and absolutely no Israeli systems included. Take it or leave it.
Just imagine Israel’s position today had the Lavi project not been canceled. The IAF would be operating the world’s most advanced fighter, upgraded over the years to incorporate operational experience and newer technology. Much of Israel’s industry would have moved a great step ahead, Israel Aerospace Industries would have become a leading developer of fighter aircraft, and most importantly, a number of options would be open to the IAF in choosing its next fighter.
What were the outlandish claims trumpeted by the opponents of the Lavi? The project, they said, was too big for Israel. These narrow-minded skeptics had not believed that we could convince the U.S. Congress to fund most of the project, and certainly were incapable of foreseeing Israel’s economic growth in the years to come. Now they are staring at a $3 billion price tag for 20 F-35s. They said Israel should not be...
American Muslim Association of North America Posts Ku Klux Klan Video
by Bill Levinson
The American Muslim Association of North America has posted a video by David Duke, also known as David DuKKKe because of his leadership of the sheet and hood organization. We also note that Amana uses PayPal, and that militant “Muslims” attempted unsuccessfully to get PayPal to discontinue doing business with Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs on the basis of PayPal’s terms of service that include a prohibition on the promotion of hate. We have notified PayPal that AMANA is posting an anti-Semitic video (Duke talks about “Jewish influence” on the media) by a leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and have copied Ms. Geller on the complaint.
American Muslim Association of North America hosts video by Klansman David Duke
Sharia in New Jersey
Laura: A judge in New Jersey decided that a muslim man who raped his wife shouldn’t be punished because islamic law permits a husband to rape his wife if she refuses sex. Can you believe that sharia law is being accepted in 21st century America? I wonder if any feminists raised their voices in protest. We should be able to expect the law to protect abused women but instead a politically correct dhimmi judge essentially gives muslim men a license to rape. Fortunately the decision was overturned by an appellate court.
Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch
Muhammad said: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning” (Bukhari 4.54.460).
He also said: “By him in Whose Hand lies my life, a woman can not carry out the right of her Lord, till she carries out the right of her husband. And if he asks her to surrender herself she should not refuse him even if she is on a camel’s saddle” (Ibn Majah 1854).
And now a New Jersey judge sees no evidence that a Muslim committed sexual assault of his wife — not because he didn’t do it, but because he was acting on his Islamic beliefs: “This court does not feel that, under the circumstances, that this defendant had a criminal desire to or intent to sexually assault or to sexually contact the plaintiff when he did. The court believes that he was operating under his belief that it is, as the husband, his desire to have sex when and whether he wanted to, was something that was consistent with his practices and it was something that was not prohibited.” Continue
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Fakestinian Welfare Leeches
Laura: The fakestinians are the world’s biggest welfare leeches. And while the idiot western governments provide money for hamas and fatah weaponry and mansions for their members, real humanitarian castastrophes are met with indifference as children in the third world suffer from illness and starvation.
Click here to view the embedded video.
Obama Warns Abbas: ‘Start Talks or Else’
A secret 36-page memo based on Obama administration statements indicates that the president warned Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to start direct talks with Israel or risk losing American support for the recognition of the PA as a country.
The Associated Press reported it has possession of the document, under the letterhead of the Palestinian Negotiations Department and which indicates the warning came from President Barack Obama via U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell.
It shows that the Obama administration has resigned itself to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remaining head of Israel’s coalition government. “Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is not in political danger of being replaced,” the document states.
It adds that Abbas is under pressure from both the Arab world and within the PA, whereby his consent to direct talks with Israel would be “political suicide” for him. However, the document warns, “Abbas needs to accept direct talks now if he wants President Obama’s help in facilitating statehood.” The memo says that PA advisors are in favor of rejecting the American ultimatum.
Abbas told PA media on Sunday that he is resisting pressure from “the entire world” to concede his long-stated condition that Netanyahu extend the 10-month building freeze that expires in late September.
Senior Cabinet ministers as well as the Prime Minister have clearly stated they will not extend the freeze. Political support for the coalition is strong, with even the center-left Israeli media generally recognizing that the PA keeps adding on new condition for direct talks.
Abbas has in effect insisted on acceptance of a proposed PA state without negotiations on any substantial issues, such as the status of Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Abbas have been blaming each other for the failure to sit down for direct talks. “We have negotiated with Israeli governments before, more than once. Why would we...
Prof: Israel must do all the compromising
ALON BEN-MEIR of NYU beleives Israel needs a Palestinian state and that without direct talks, the Palestinians will declare statehood unilaterally.
Against this backdrop, the right-of-center government appears to be committed to disfranchise Palestinians, suppress opposition, undermine democratic values and forsake the moral tenants on which the state was created.
IN THIS regard, the introduction of two abominable measures in the Knesset speak volumes about how far this government will go to advance the right-wing “Greater Israel” agenda, however perilous this prospect may be. The first bill requires every individual seeking Israeli citizenship to declare his loyalty to a “Jewish democratic state,” specifically designed to discriminate against Palestinian citizens.
The second bill would punish anyone calling for a boycott of any Israeli individual or institution, whether in Israel or in the territories, with a fine of NIS 30,000 plus any proven damages.
So he considers abominable the requirement of a loyalty oath for citizenship and a penalty for calling for a boycott of Israel. One might disagree with such legislation but to call it “abominable” is just way over the top.
In addition to such legislative efforts, the government has continued to demolish Palestinian houses, force eviction, seize land and deliberately disrupt communal life.
Here again he ignores that the homes were built without permits and that people must be evicted before they are demolished. Jewish homes are also being demolished. Allegations of this sort must be supported with evidence.
Indeed, there is no internationally orchestrated campaign to delegitimize Israel as many claim. By its own actions and policies, the country itself is doing a very good job at that. Rather than address Palestinian national aspirations for statehood in the context of a secure and independent Israel, the current government erroneously views maintenance of the occupation...
Europe’s Jewish problem
EU hostile to Jewish State because Israel’s success flaunts Europe’s failure
By Moshe Dann, YNET
Antipathy for Israel among Europeans is increasing and alarming as campaigns of de-legitimization and vilification spread across the world, fueled by Muslim propaganda and money, whetted by the hunger for oil. Even once friendly European countries, those that helped establish the State of Israel and tried to assist Jews during the Holocaust, have become more hostile towards Israel. Europe’s brief love affair with Israel seems over. Why?
Yoram Hazony, director of Jerusalem’s Shalem Center, offers a unique and compelling perspective:
“The path of national self-determination … lies beneath the nearly boundless disgust so many feel towards Israel, and especially toward anything having to do with Israel’s attempts to defend itself… It is driven by the rapid advance of a new paradigm that understands Israel, and especially the independent Israeli use of force to defend itself, as illegitimate down to its foundations.”
Still, this does not explain why the right of self-defense, sacrosanct and enshrined in national and international law, does not apply to Israel.
For Europeans today, who did not experience the Holocaust, Israel is a constant reminder of their complicity and guilt in the genocide of Jews. They want to forget it; Israel can’t.
Before and after World War II, the Soviet Union slaughtered, persecuted and enslaved Jews in gulags, sponsored and trained Arab terrorists, and attempted to wipe out Judaism. Eventually, the barriers fell, Jews emigrated, and the USSR folded and became the FSU.
Every time we force European dignitaries to visit Yad Vashem, we rub their noses in what they allowed; a return to scenes of their crimes. We make them pay when they see how vibrant we are and – the ultimate snub, except for Russia – with an army more powerful than their own!
Deliberately, methodically, Europe...
Tea Party Caucus members endorse Israeli attack on Iran
Now that the congressional supporters of the Tea Party movement have formed their own caucus, their policy positions are becoming easier to track. Expanding their foray into foreign policy, 21 members of the new caucus have now come out explicitly endorsing Israel’s right to strike Iran’s nuclear program.
Almost two dozen Tea Party-affiliated lawmakers cosponsored a new resolution late last week that expresses their support for Israel “to use all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the use of military force.”
The lead sponsor of the resolution was Texas Republican Louie Gohmert, one of four congressmen to announce the formation of the 44-member Tea Party caucus at a press conference on July 21. The other three Tea Party Caucus leaders, Michele Bachmann, R-MN, Steve King, R-IA, and John Culberson, R-TX, are also sponsors of the resolution. In total, 21 Tea Party Caucus members have signed on, according to the latest list of caucus members put out by Bachmann’s office.
The resolution cites threats by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to “annihilate” the state of Israel, endorses other means to persuade Iran to stop pursuing nuclear weapons, and states the lawmakers’ support for an Israeli military strike “if no other peaceful solution can be found within reasonable time.”
“Members of the Tea Party caucus can and do speak for themselves,” said Gohmert in an emailed statement, “but most if not all members have strong beliefs that we should not turn on our backs on our best friends and reward those bent on our destruction. This resolution was borne out of concern for the threat, not merely to Israel, but also to the United States.”
Notably absent from the resolution — and indeed, from the Tea Party Caucus — is Ron Paul, the Texas congressman and 2008...
The Barack and Rashid show
FresnoZionism.org —
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about an embarrassing videotape of Barack Obama speaking at a party for Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi. Well, Khalidi’s done it again by joining an appeal to raise funds for an American boat that will try to break the blockade of Gaza. And just in case anyone might fail to see the connection, they’re calling the boat “The Audacity of Hope”.
Click here to view the embedded video.
FresnoZionism.org has obtained a top-secret transcript of a recent telephone conversation between the President and Khalidi. Although we journalists — like the LA Times, which still keeps its tape locked up — must protect our sources, I can guarantee that in some possible universe every word of it is entirely accurate:
Barack Obama: Ahlan Rashid!
Rashid Khalidi: Barack! Good to hear from you. Why don’t you come over for some of Mona’s hummus, like you used to?
BO: Well, you know. I have to be careful of my associations. Those right-wing neocon Zionist bloggers would have a field day if I did that. Which is why I called…
RK: You mean you want me to whack some Zionists? Just say the word, Barack. I’ll give Marzook a call. Itbach al yahud –
BO: No! Don’t do that. But actually, it does have to do with the pesky Jews.
RK: Al-Yahud qalab’na! We know how to handle them. Just fire some rockets into Montgomery County. I can –
BO: Please. I’m in enough trouble already. Why do you have to call your Gaza boat “Audacity of Hope?” You might as well name it “Barack’s Gaza Love Boat.” Here I am trying to make the Jews forget the fact that my administration has been the most anti-Israel one since 1948 — before the midterm elections — and you drag me into this!
RK: We must break the horrific blockade! Gaza is an open-air prison! People are suffering! You can see how bad it is here and here.
BO: But I thought the Zionists had ended restrictions on consumer goods… and even the UN thinks there shouldn’t be...
The Legal Basis of Israel’s Naval Blockade of Gaza
Ruth Lapidoth, Professor Emeritus of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
* The relations between Israel and Hamas are in the nature of armed conflict. Nowadays no formal declaration of war is needed. Hence the rules of the laws of armed conflict apply. This means that Israel may control shipping headed for Gaza – even when the vessels are still on the high seas.
* The rules of naval warfare have not been fully codified in a treaty and are in the nature of binding customary rules. They can be found in the relevant manuals of Western armies (in particular the U.S. and Britain) and in the San Remo Manual prepared by a group of experts.
* In order to be legal, a blockade has to be declared and announced, effective, non-discriminatory, and has to permit the passage of humanitarian assistance to the civilian population. In addition, the San Remo Manual of 1994 includes two conditions: first, the state which applies the blockade may decide where and when and through which port the assistance should reach the coast. In addition, the state may require that a neutral organization on the coast should verify who is the recipient of the assistance. In Gaza, for instance, does it reach the civilians or Hamas?
* A ship that clearly intends to breach the blockade may be stopped already when it is still on the high seas. Stopping the flotilla heading for Gaza in international waters 100 kilometers from Israel was not illegal; in time of armed conflict, ships intending to breach the blockade may be searched even on the high seas.
* Israel is within its rights and is in full compliance with international law because it has fulfilled all of the above-mentioned conditions for a lawful blockade. E.g., in January 2009 Israel notified the relevant authorities of its intention to establish a blockade of the Gaza coast.
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