The Real Face of Islam…Why is Israel supporting them?
Israel Improves Gaza Economy as Rocket Fire Continues
by Chana Ya’ar
Israel has helped improve the Gaza economy by a significant measure over the past year despite continued rocket fire from the region’s terrorists aimed at Negev communities. According to a September report by the International Monetary Fund, the Gaza economy grew by 16 percent in the first half of 2010, a trend that was expected to continue in the second half of the year as well.
Israel recently approved the export of strawberries and flowers from Gaza to European markets, resulting in the export of 23 tons of the fruit and some 33,000 blossoms thus far
Hamas: Kill Christians and Jews “to the last one”
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Further exports are expected to focus on agriculture, furniture and textiles, according to a communiqué issued following Wednesday’s Security Cabinet meeting. The exports will be subject to security and logistical preparations at the Kerem Shalom...
Daniel Pipes: ‘Israel Has No Policy’
Q: Has Israel given up on the idea of victory?
Daniel Pipes: I would say that it isn’t trying to win; it has no idea what it is doing.
- by Dennis Mitzner and Ariel Solomon
As recent decades have been plagued by Islamic terrorism and wars in the Middle East, Islam has moved to the center of Western political discourse. And Daniel Pipes has been at the center of this debate, providing tens of millions with his insightful analysis. This analysis has made Dr. Pipes an authority on matters related to Islam and Middle Eastern affairs. In addition to providing analysis through his personal website and the Middle East Forum, which he founded, Pipes travels around the world, speaking at universities, think tanks, and other venues. His appearances often provoke disruptions and angry protests, while simultaneously arousing fervent support.
We sat down with him to talk about Israel, Iran, Barack Obama’s presidency, and other timely issues. He also reminisced about a debate — which...
The ‘Real Jew’ Debate
By ROGER COHEN
Ira Stup was raised in Philadelphia attending Jewish day school and camps. He found his home in the Jewish community and was “intoxicated with Jewish democracy” as framed in the ideals of Israel’s foundation. Now he has returned deeply troubled from a one-year fellowship based in Tel Aviv.
The worst single incident occurred on Ben Yehuda Street in central Jerusalem. Stup, 24, a Columbia graduate, was returning from a rally with a couple of friends carrying a banner that said, “Zionists are not settlers.” A group of religious Jews wearing yarmulkes approached, spat on them and started punching.
“About 20 people saw the whole thing and just watched. They were screaming, ‘You are not real Jews.’ Most of them were American. It was one of the most disappointing moments of my life — you can disagree as much as you want with a banner but to allow violence and not react is outrageous. For me it was a turning point. Nobody previously had said I was not a...
Palin is running for President already
By Ted Belman
This weekend she is off to visit cholera victims in Haiti with Franklin Graham..
The word is out that she is planning a trip to the UK and Israel next year.
She has been posting policy positions on Facebook for some time now including on Foreign policy, Bailouts, Obamacare, and Quantitative Easing to name just a few.
Now she has published a major policy position in the WSJ on cutting the deficit by reducing and reordering entitlements.
To my mind she is unbeatable. She has brains, beauty and balls.
Fendel: In Defense of the Rabbi’s Ruling
The Rabbis’ Letter forbidding Jews from selling homes in Israel to Arabs has become the latest controversy in Israel. It was placed on hold for a few days while the Carmel fire raged wildly around it, but is now comfortably back on the media’s “hot seat” – and the
Some 300 rabbis have expressed support for the ruling, while several mainstream rabbis have come out prominently against it. What is a bystander to think?
Here’s one opinion: The question is not so much one of technical Jewish Law, but rather this: Can Jews help Israel remain Jewish, or not?
It appears that the rabbis who signed on the ruling take very seriously accusations leveled at them in the past of “standing idly by,” “not being proactive,” and “ignoring dangers.” In fulfillment of the Mishnaic teaching, “Where there is no man, try to be a man,” they took bold and seemingly unpopular action to try to stem a tide that threatens to engulf all of us – reporters,...
Poll: Right up by 4 seats to 69
By Ted Belman
A recent JPOST poll found,
It predicted that Likud would win one more mandate than Kadima, 30 to 29, instead of the 28 seats for Kadima and 27 for Likud in the current Knesset. Israel Beiteinu and Shas would remain at 15 and 11 seats, respectively.
In a dramatic shift on the Left, Labor would fall from 13 seats to only six and Meretz would double its current total of three mandates to match Labor.
Arab parties would win 10 seats, down one, United Torah Judaism would rise from five seats to seven, and the two religious-Zionist parties – the National Union and Habayit Hayehudi – would each win three.
Asked who they would prefer as prime minister, 40% of respondents said Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, 30% opposition leader Tzipi Livni, and 30% had no preference or opinion. Among voters who have not decided which party to vote for, 33% said they preferred Livni and 31% Netanyahu, while 36% would not say.
Labor is falling apart, probably because they are in...
Democrats are calling for Iran first policy
By Ted Belman
What with the revelations of Wikileaks and the looming Republican Congress, even Democrats are challenging Obama’s ME policies.
NY rep Gary Ackerman said, of Obama’s decision not to push for a deal over extending Israel’s settlement moratorium as a means of restarting direct Israeli-Palestinian talks.
“I sincerely hope this decision represents a strategic shift in the Obama administration’s approach to the Middle East,”
“The shift of effort away from the settlements issue, which was and is truly tangential to the future of the region, creates an opportunity to focus on the singular, totally consuming issue in the Middle East, namely stopping Iran’s determined effort to acquire nuclear weapons.”
Now we are getting somewhere.
The international lynch mob is building a head of steam
By Ted Belman
Haaretz published an article today which they have summarized as follows,
26 former top EU officials, including ex EU chief Solana and former German President Richard von Weizsacker, urge world powers to confront Jerusalem over its refusal to obey international law.
This is what they want.
They also propose that the EU announce that it will not accept any unilateral changes to the 1967 border that Israel carried out against international law, and that the Palestinian state would cover an area the same size as the area occupied in 1967. This would also include the establishment of a capital in East Jerusalem.
The leaders recommend that the EU support only minor land swaps on which the two sides agree.
The only trouble is, Israel is not in contravention of international law. Furthermore there is no such thing as “1967 borders”. This line is only an armistace line agreed to in 1949, which agreement specifically daid that the line was...
Another Great Israeli Innovation
Laura: An Israeli invention to help paralyzed people to be able to walk. How tragic and self-defeating that much of the world wishes to destroy such a nation while siding with her barbaric enemies who’s contribution to the world consists of creating oppression and bloodshed. The boycott Israel movement will do more harm to the rest of the world than it will do to Israel itself. Let the hateful lunatics try telling people with paralysis that they shouldn’t use this device.
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Poll: Majority of Americans favor U.S. role in resolving Mideast dispute
Poll: Israel’s Arabs don’t want to be part of Palestinian state
Saban Center survey shows 58% of Israeli-Arabs against annexation of Arab cities to future Palestinian state as part of territorial exchanges; 47% of Israel’s Jews believe peace will never be achieved Read More
A poll to be released Thursday by the Brookings Institution shows that two-thirds of Americans believe the Arab-Israeli issue is among the top five American interests, while one quarter believe it is one of the top three American interests.
The findings “are really striking,” the poll’s coordinator, Shibley Telhami told POLITICO on Wednesday. “The American public thinks this is a big-time issue.”
Telhami is the Anwar Sadat professor for peace and development at the University of Maryland and a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings.
With 71 percent of those polled supporting American diplomatic efforts to mediate the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,...
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