By Ted Belman
In an earlier comment, I wrote, in reference to the Iraq War,
The US was going to teach the ME a lesson, “Don’t mess with the US” but as it happens the US got taught not to mess with Muslims, It may well be that with that lesson in mind the US is getting in bed with the MB as a means to control the ME.
Now Barry Rubin writes in SCOOP: Obama Administration Does it Again! Empowers Largely Islamist Leadership for Syrian Revolution
I believe that the Turkish Islamist regime deliberately helped produce a Syrian leadership that is more Islamist and more Muslim Brotherhood controlled than was necessary. Since Turkey’s government was empowered to do this by the Obama administration, the White House is responsible for this extremely dangerous situation. It is a blunder or a betrayal — in effect, the motive and cause don’t matter — of the greatest dimensions. The Obama administration may “only” have paved the way for the triumph of Islamist regimes...
East Jerusalem construction scuttling two-state solution
The Left is worried. They want to preserve the possibility of a two state solution by not building on what they consider Palestinian land. They know that a peace agreement is not possible now but want to preserve the possibility until the Arabs are ready to accept it, however long it takes.
The Right is glad. The Right wants to hold on to Jerusalem as annexed, as the undivided capital of Jerusalem. It doesn’t believe that a two state solution acceptable to Israel can be negotiated now or in the future.
Why should these projects or even the whole plan scuttle the two-state solution. Bush said we could keep the settlement blocs. Obama said we could swap land, They both said we could build a road connecting Gaza to Judea and Samaria so why not build another road connecting Bethlehem to Ramallah? In fact such a by-pass is already planned and I think built. Ted Belman
Givat Hamatos is the keystone of a plan that quietly, piece by piece, is unilaterally sealing the southern border of...
Four big Israeli mistakes
IDF Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren (center),with General Uzi Narkiss (left) at the Western Wall, June 7, 1967On June 7th, 1967, Israeli Paratroopers liberated the Temple Mount. Although some religious leaders (including, initially, Rabbi Shlomo Goren) favored destroying the Dome of the Rock and building a Third Temple, this idea was never seriously considered. But short of that, what was to be done? There was a debate among the rabbis about how to deal with the prohibition against entering the Holy of Holies. Some proposed simply banning Jews from the entire area. But Rav Goren felt that Jews should be allowed to pray on at least specified parts of it, because otherwise Israel would lose its sovereignty there.
In a confidential memorandum to the Ministerial Committee for Holy Places which he sent shortly after military hostilities had ceased, Goren proposed that
the prime minister should declare that the holy places of the Jews be placed under rabbinic...
PR campaigns work
By Ted Belman
Noam Shalit retained a PR firm to organize a campaign to bring his son home. Israel Hayom tells the story. It makes for interesting reading. It tells us how Israelis were manipulated.
It reminds me of how successful the Women in Black were in getting Israel to pull our of Lebanon. Or how successful Ruder Finn was in painting the Serbs as the Nazis and the Muslims as the victims.
But most of all it reminds me of how successful the PA has been in deligitimating and deamonizing Israel. The resources it and its friends in the Arab world invest in propaganda and media manipulation are enormous.
Many activists on the right have been calling for years for the Israel Government to take a miniscule portion of the defense budget and devote it to a sustained PR campaign. So far without success.
Naked Imperialism
Simply put, the West bombed Libya into the stone age and killed tens of thousands of Libyans for a barrel of oil. You can’t make a silk purse out of this pig no matter how much you spin it.
Where was the anti-war crowd? Where was the humanitarian crowd? Where was the anti-imperialism crowd? Where was the international law crowd? Where was the proud-to-be-American crowd? Where was the UN crowd calling for a ceasefire? Where was he proportionality crowd? WShere was the war crimes crowd? Where was the main stream media crowd? Either complicit or asleep. Ted Belman
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