By Yisroel Medad I was all for “retention” as the political buzzword. It is my presumption that politicians are afraid of movement, initiative, change. Presented with plans for immediate application of sovereignty over Judea and Samaria or suggestions of additional annexation moves, the reaction would be one of nervousness. I suggested a new campaign: The US Joint Chiefs of Staff reported on June 29, 1967, submitting an opinion about Israel’s needs for retaining territory which detailed in this Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense from the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCSM-373-67) possible lines in Judea and Samaria as so: a. The Jordanian West Bank. Control of the high ground running... By Ted Belman Ehud Barak when speaking to Union for Reform Judaism conference, said, according to Haaretz Israel would not “agree to the creation of a Palestinian State, if the raison d’être of that Palestinian State is to continue the conflict, and to deny our basic national rights.” “I believe that an agreement – based on [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s] Bar Ilan and Knesset speeches, President Obama’s two speeches from May of this year and the Clinton parameters – can still be achieved – and thus, saving us the alternatives which are much much worse,” the defense minister said, reiterating that Israel would “not accept unilateralism.” On Jerusalem he wrote The general principle... By Kenneth R. Timmerman, The Daily Caller NEW YORK — In an historic hearing in the federal courthouse in Manhattan on Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge George Daniels said he planned to issue a ruling in the coming days declaring that Iran shares in the responsibility for the 9/11 terror attacks. US political turnabout on J & S
To hell with the Clinton parameters
Federal judge: Iran shares responsibility for 9/11 attacks
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Sunday, 18 December 2011
Retain The Territories
Retention, which I employed in this 2005 op-ed, avoids the issue of “sovereignty” which, I am forced to acknowledge, scares people because they think – wrongly – that Israel doesn’t have the better claim but it does.
These parameters are totally unacceptable.
Clinton stressed that the solution should “Minimize the number of Palestinians affected.” and said that 20% of the settlers (now over 120,000 whould have to be evicted.
“The extensive record submitted to this court, including fact witnesses and expert testimony, is satisfactory to this court,” Judge Daniels said. The court “accepts as true” the various allegations of the plaintiffs and their experts, he declared, and “will issue an order” in the coming days that Iran bears legal responsibility for providing “material support” to the 9/11 plotters and hijackers.
Family members of 9/11 victims who attended the open-court hearing broke into tears. They had nervously sat through a four-hour presentation by attorneys Thomas E. Mellon, Jr., and Timothy B. Fleming, consisting of evidence backing up their claims that Iran had foreknowledge...
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