Barkat Plan ‘Will Turn Jerusalem into Sderot’ Coalition and Likud Knesset-faction Chairman Ze’ev Elkin expressed surprise that Jerusalem mayor Nir Bakat is trying to persuade officials to accept his plan to divide Israel’s capital. “I regret that the mayor of Jerusalem, elected with the votes of the nationalist public, openly endorses the erosion of Jerusalem’s unity,” Elkin, who also chairs the Knesset Jerusalem Lobby, said. By Tevi Troy, NRO Tablet’s Allison Hoffman has a big piece on Team Obama’s recent desire to improve its standing in the Jewish community. The argument that Team Obama seems to be making is that Obama has lots of Jewish friends — some of my best friends are Jewish — and that there is some kind of nefarious “whisper campaign” against Obama on the issue of Israel. The argument is flawed on several fronts. I don’t doubt that Obama has Jewish friends, but this has not made his Israel policies any more palatable. As for the notion of a whisper campaign, it seems to me that Republicans have been shouting their concerns about Obama and Israel from the rooftops. Nobody seems to be whispering, not the Emergency Committee for Israel, not the Republican Jewish Coalition, not Dan Senor, nor any of the dozens of writers and analysts who have made the case that Obama has exhibited a certain coldness towards Israel and towards Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu. [If only he could get his story out, Jews would applaud him or so his thinking goes. But Jews know his story only too well.] By Allison Hoffman, Tablet Magazine Earlier this month, the Republican presidential candidates convened in a Washington ballroom to lay out their case that President Barack Obama has been bad for Israel—and, by extension, bad for the Jews. That afternoon, in a rushed conference call, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, took a break between floor votes to tell reporters why the GOP candidates were wrong. “The facts of President Obama’s record are unambiguously clear,” Wasserman Schultz said, rattling off a laundry list: an increase in foreign aid to Israel, more joint military exercises between the two millitaries, and successful opposition to the Palestinian bid for statehood... MK Rabbi Amsalem calls for hareidi young men to join the IDF, saying: “While a few select and elite scholars must always be designated to focus exclusively on Torah study, the rest of the nation, including Hareidim, must go to fight.” The Syrian leader, Antiochus, sent his general, Apollonius, together with a large army to Jerusalem in the year 167 B.C.E. He did so after trying to force the Jews to assimilate by appointing Hellenized Jews such as Menelaus to leadership posts. By Ted Belman When the security fence was being built on the eastern side of Jerusalem, some Jerusalem annexed land containing 60,000 Arabs who had residency permits and blue cards, ended up east of the fence and some lands not annexed ended up west of the fence and they house 20,000 Arabs without blue cards or residency rights. Barkat wants to swap these areas so the Jerusalem border coincides with the fence. Barkat argued the outside area “should be under the PA’s jurisdiction rather than that of the municipality, which has trouble providing services and accessing those areas due to the security situation. While some support the idea, not everyone does. Barkat seeks support to redesign J’lem borders Deputy Mayor David Hadari, who holds the economic portfolio, slammed Barkat’s suggestion. “I am totally against giving up on any part of Jerusalem; it doesn’t matter what side of the fence that it’s on,” he declared on Thursday. “There are borders in... White Supremacists Rally Around Ron Paul’s Newsletter Scandal by Adam Martin Ron Paul’s latest flap over a series of racist newsletters has won him the support of a group no politician wants on their side: White supremacists. And it’s not the first time, either. The Republican presidential candidate is a perennial favorite among those on the white supremacist message board Stormfront, where he’s getting all kinds of unabashed support for his campaign, his newsletters, and his political persona in general. For the sake of your browsing history, we’re going to put a * next to links that will take you to Stormfront or sites like it. We could have used one of those from Slate’s Dave Wiegel when he tweeted today: “Shockingly, Stormfront commenters believe that Paul’s newsletters are right and awesome,” with a link that led to a very white-power themed discussion* of how great Paul was when he walked off a CNN interview Wednesday.... 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“Neighborhoods Barkat wants to remove from his municipal jurisdiction are a part of the sovereign territory of Israel protected under the Basic Law… the Jerusalem law, and a referendum we enacted in this Knesset,” he added.
According to Elkin, “excluding the areas and leaving them outside the security fence was a terrible mistake that only increases the numbers of Palestinians within the city, and harms the security situation. Who wants to add insult to injury and make some parts of Jerusalem like...
By MK Rabbi Haim Amsalem, Chairman of the Am Shalem political movement whose internet site is.www.amshalem.org
The Jews of Jerusalem fought against these Jewish traitors with success so Antiochus sent his own army to take care of the Jewish problem. Soon enough, his forces began to massacre the Jews and decrees of death were declared for essentially all displays of Jewish behavior.
Who would we expect to rise up against this strong and vicious army which had spread its...
Iowa, get a grip. You cannot be serious. Ron Paul is leading the Iowa polls?
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