By MICHAL SHMULOVICH, Times of Israel Own an apartment in Israel but don’t live in it most of the year? Get ready to pay double in property taxes. The cabinet on Sunday adopted a series of recommendations on housing put forward by the Trajtenberg Committee, aiming to fix tax loopholes, reduce costs and add more housing units to a country that has seen home prices balloon in recent years. Laura: Islam is on the warpath around the world, slaughtering Christians, Hindus and Buddhists. The islamic regime in Iran is threatening the Jewish state with a nuclear holocaust. And other jihadist groups regularly call for the genocide of Jews. You might think that a Jewish community center would hold a symposium on the rampant antisemitism sweeping the world or the global jihad. But instead, they chose to conduct an event on “Combating islamophobia”. A wholly imaginary problem. Pathetic. These are the leaders such as Rabbi Schneier with which the Jewish community in the diaspora has the misfortune to be represented by. They certainly don’t speak for me. Interfaith outreach is just another islamic swindle and Jewish liberals consistently allow themselves to be played for suckers. New York City “Islamophobia” Event Ignores What We’re Afraid of Be the first of your friends to like this.As... Part I: Yesha is ours. Important summary of facts and law in support of Israel’s lawful exercise of sovereignty over East Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. At least three nation-states, the UK, the US and Canada allow evidence of legislative purpose to be admitted to show the meaning of a statute that is ambiguous. What follows is a necessary minimum of that evidence to show the purpose of the Balfour Declaration that was adopted by the WWI Allies at San Remo that established the International Law provided by that Agreement and the British Mandate for Palestine. Five months ago, I wrote here and here detailing how the U.S. government collaborated in creating an anti-American, Islamist-dominated leadership for the Syrian revolution. This leadership group, assembled by the Islamist Turkish regime as the Obama government’s subcontractor, failed immediately. Now it is collapsing openly. But the Syrian National... Controlling soaring housing prices By Haim Shine, ISRAEL HAYOM ISTANBUL — Five Syrian opposition groups on Saturday announced the formation of a new coalition, a sign of how difficult opponents of the Damascus regime find it to cooperate, a year after the start of the protest movement. Asked about relations between the new coalition and the SNC, Ammar al-Qurabi, leader of the National Movement for Change, told AFP his “coalition was not set up in opposition to anyone, other than Assad’s regime, but rather to unite the opposition... The Mask is Off Just in from teapartytribune: This Executive Order was posted on the WhiteHouse.gov web site on Friday, March 16, 2012, under the name National Defense Resources Preparedness. In a nutshell, it’s the blueprint for Peacetime Martial Law and it gives the president the power to take just about anything deemed necessary for “National Defense”, whatever they decide that is. It’s peacetime, because as the title of the order says, it’s for “Preparedness”. A copy of the entire order follows the end of this story. Under this order the heads of these cabinet level positions; Agriculture, Energy, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Defense and Commerce can take food, livestock, fertilizer, farm equipment, all forms of energy, water resources, all forms of civil transporation (meaning any vehicles, boats, planes), and any other materials, including construction materials from wherever they are available. This is probably why... By Andrew C. McCarthy We have met the enemy and we are they. That is certainly the message the Obama administration has conveyed to the United States Marine Corps in Afghanistan this week.
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Monday, 19 March 2012
This is the fourth section of the Trajtenberg report to be adopted by the cabinet. According to a government statement, approval of the main recommendations of the section is expected to lead to a significant increase in the number of residential apartments available throughout the country.
One of the recommendations adopted is aimed at people who own “ghost apartments” — apartments that are not lived in by their owners. Units...
by Phyllis Chesler with Fern Sidman
March 16, 2012
It is widely accepted, but not correct, that the West Bank belongs to the local Arabs in Palestine who in 1964, at the suggestion of the Soviet dezinformatsia, decided to call themselves “Palestinians.” [1]
These “invented people” [2] also pretend they had long had a passion for self government. [3] The full...
Of the nineteen announced members of the top leadership, I explained, ten of them were Islamists, either Muslim Brotherhood or Salafist. A reliable Syrian opposition source tells me that two more members are secretly Islamist tools.
This was far in excess of the proportion of those forces in the revolution. In short, the U.S. government was helping to turn Syria’s revolution over to the Islamists. If this group had succeeded, the West would be facing still another radical Islamist regime that hated the West, wanted to go to war with Israel, and would be imposing a new dictatorship on its country.
Recently, I visited Memphis, Tennessee. The Jewish neighborhood in this city is filled with beautiful, well-kept homes with nice lawns, swimming pools and stylish architecture. Through just a few conversations with homeowners, I learned that a fancy home such as this costs the same as a three-room apartment in Raanana, where I live. The price of a five-room apartment in Raanana is the same as an apartment in Manhattan, the world’s financial capital and one of the most expensive cities in the world.
The price of housing in Israel is unreasonable. The price of apartments makes it difficult for Israelis to buy and makes it difficult for Jews from Western countries to consider immigrating to Israel. There is hardly any building in Israel aimed at rentals and Israelis have to work for many years before they can afford to buy an apartment. The high price of apartments is not just in the central areas which are in higher...
Jonathan D. Halevi..
The new Egyptian Parliament recently issued a statement undermining the 1979 peace agreement by proclaiming it was Israel’s bitter enemy. On March 12, 2012, Dr. Mohamed Al-Saed Idris, Chairman of the Arab Affairs Committee in the Parliament, presented the committee’s official outline of Egypt’s regional policy, as approved by a parliamentary majority that included the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafi party, and the Egyptian Left parties. Idris is one of the founders of the Kefaya protest movement and a member of the leftist al-Karama party, which has formed an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party.
The statement of the Arab Affairs Committee is important in its wording and content. The term “the State of Israel” is not mentioned and is replaced throughout by the terms “Zionist entity” and “the enemy.” The statement focused on recent tensions between Israel and Gaza...
The five groups, meeting here, said their yet unammed coalition would act independently from the Syrian National Council (SNC), the main opposition coalition which was set up in August to fight President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The new group is made up of the liberal National Movement for Change, the islamist Movement for the Fatherland, the Bloc for Liberation and Development, led by Nawaf al-Bashir, a tribal chief, the Turkmen National Bloc, and the Kurdish Mouvement for a New Life.
Our troops have been the target of serial sneak attacks by the Afghans with whom they are forced to “partner.” Nevertheless, our Marines were ordered to disarm before being admitted into the presence of Obama’s defense secretary, Leon Panetta. Yes, you read that correctly: Our Marines were stripped of their arms.
Panetta was at Camp Leatherneck on a “surprise” visit, hoping to calm the disastrous situation in the combat theater. Turns out not to have been much of a surprise: One of our Afghan “partners” — a contract interpreter hired to help our armed forces in deadly Helmand province — seamlessly converted to Islamist suicide assassin. His contacts clued him in on the surprise, so much so that he managed to speed a stolen truck toward the runway,...
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