Thursday, 12 January 2012

Isi Leibler..Candidly Speaking from Jerusalem..

The collapse of the Palestinian initiative to achieve unilateral independence and the widespread consensus within Israel concerning the principal threats confronting us, have deeply frustrated marginalized far left groups. Their response has been to launch a global campaign portraying us as a State losing its democratic ethos and adopting fascism – a theme eagerly endorsed by much of the Western media.

The religious zealots, whose revolting behavior towards women dominated the Israeli media over the past month, are portrayed as harbingers of a medieval theocratic State. Most of the media ignored the fact that the President, Prime Minister and the vast majority of the public, including many of the ultra-Orthodox and their rabbis, vigorously condemned the behavior and demanded prompt action to punish the hoodlums with the full severity of the law.

Another cynical spin to discredit democracy is the suggestion that the...

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Judea and Samaria are not “occupied territories.”

By Ted Belman

The international community keeps referring to Judea and Samaria being “occupied territories” it relies on the Fourth Geneva Convention which applies only to territories of one High Contracting Party being occupied by another High Contracting Party during or after a war

But, as is clear, Judea and Samaria were not lands of a HCP at the time of the war because Jordan’s annexation of same was not recognized by the world save for Britain and Pakistan, it follows that they are not “occupied territories” pursuant to the FGC.

Furthermore, the U.S. Definition of “Occupied Territory” is:

    “Territory under the authority and effective control of a belligerent armed force. The term is not applicable to territory being administered pursuant to peace terms, treaty, or other agreement, express or implied, with the civil authority of the territory.”

Currently Judea and Samaria are being administered according to the...

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Jews and Hindus: Building A Passage to India

Prof. Phyllis Chesler, INN

On January 8, 2012, I delivered a rather passionate speech in Pune, India via skype. I was invited to do so by “Youth 4 Panun Kashmir.” The organizers were especially interested in my drawing parallels between Israel and India, Jews and Hindus both of whom have, historically, been genocidally exterminated and driven out of their holy places.

I was approached to speak partly because I have written about Islamic terrorism in India before and partly because I recently took up the case of Dr. Subramanian Swamy, an Indian political leader and economist, who was wrongfully dismissed by Harvard after twenty years for daring to take a “controversial” stand against Islamic terrorism in India.

Here is part of what I said. I think it will be of interest to the readers of Israel National News and perhaps to Israeli diplomats who are in touch with their counterparts in India, because Dr. Swamy was the highest ranking Indian leader to first visit Israel in...

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Israel is free to subsidize, build and expropriate in Judea and Samaria

Ted Belman, The heading of the article below, is wrong on many accounts. Firstly, what the government is doing in Efrat, is to offer cheaper land to the builders in exchange for the builder’s commitment to pass the savings on to the consumer by way of cheaper housing. i.e subsidized housing. Its done all over Israel and all over the world. Secondly, with Obama disavowing the letter from Bush as a binding agreement, Israel is released from any commitments given to get it. Haaretz and the left ignore this. In addition, this isn’t a “reprisal”, its an exercise of our right. It needs no excuse.

Finally these agreements by Israel would not have an value had Israel not had the right to do such things previous to the agreement. With the disavowing of the Bush letter, Israel is no longer restricted from doing what it did previously.


Revelation comes as PM Netanyahu announces plan to build 277 housing...

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Egyptian Soccer Fans Calling For the Genocide of Jews

Laura: We are always being told by liberals the fiction that “extremists” represent a tiny fringe minority of the muslim population while the vast majority are “peaceful” and “moderate”. In reality, genocidal Jew-hatred is mainstream in islam. So obsessed are the Arab-muslims with the Jews that this Jew-hatred is even expressed during a soccer game. It is unthinkable for example that football fans in America would go to a game and carry signs and shout for the genocide of any group of people. But this is normative behavior in the islamic world. Liberals give us this childish blather about how there is good and bad in everyone and we can’t judge an entire people. They refuse to accept that hatred such as this is inherent to their culture. Egypt, like the rest of the islamic world, is another failed state, which despite its far larger population and land mass, cannot compete with Israel economically. So let the Egyptians wallow in their hatred...

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