Retired Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy, who heads a committee tasked with examining the legality of Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria, declared on Tuesday that Israelis have a legal right to settle the region. The committee was established by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in efforts to determine and cement the legal status of the outposts in Judea and Samaria, with an emphasis on communities that were not built on privately owned Palestinian land but their status was still in doubt due to legal bureaucracy. Israeli committee: Enlist 80% of draft-age ultra-Orthodox by 2016 Netanyahu and Mofaz could meet on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to resolve their dispute over the Plesner Committee and prevent Kadima from quitting the governing coalition over the issue. Kadima joined the Netanyahu-led coalition under the condition that an alternative to the Tal Law be formulated. The findings by the Plesner Committee determined that about 80 percent of draft-age Haredi Jews would perform either military or civilian national service by 2016.The military service track would last 24 months and the civilian national service track... Michael Coren interviews Steve Emerson on the Muslim Brotherhood and Stealth Jihad MICHAEL COREN: Steve Emerson is one of North America’s most eminent and respected commentators. He is the author of six books and his television documentary, if you haven’t seen it, you have to, “Jihad in America” won the 1994 George Polk award for best TV documentary. Very early to have covered this sort of stuff. And top prize for the best investigative reporting from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He is also the executive director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism and he frequently testifies before Congressional committees and other related organizations. A great pleasure to welcome you back on the show. How are you? Damascus opposition summit fails to form united leadership as internal disagreements mar attempts to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad Syrian opposition groups have failed to form a united leadership at a meeting that exposed vast disagreements that have prevented them from effectively leading the uprising against President Assad. An Arab League-sponsored conference in Cairo aimed at uniting the fractured Syrian opposition ended in chaos Tuesday when the Kurdish delegation stormed out. The conference ended with an agreement on two documents, both vague: One provides a general outline to guide the opposition through a transitional period, while the other lays out the fundamental principles envisaged for a post-Assad Syria. But they failed to reach an agreement on... History, Demographics, and Law Favor Israel’s Annexation of Judea and Samaria, Not a Two-State Solution It has become an article of political faith in the West that the creation of an independent Palestinian state will resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. But the two-state paradigm is based on fictional assumptions – that an ancient Palestinian people occupied the land for thousands of years until its displacement by Israel, that the conflict is driven by this displacement, and that Israel usurped ancestral Arab soil. These false premises are used to obscure the true nature of the conflict, which is not really a dispute between Israelis and Palestinians over real estate, but rather is a war of annihilation being waged by the entire Arab-Muslim world. The establishment of an independent Palestine will not facilitate peace because the goal of this war is Israel’s demise. A more rational resolution, and one that makes historical,... BY: Adam Kredo - President Obama and two of his senior advisers recently participated in a conference that was organized by an Arab-American group whose members and affiliates routinely condemn Israel, refer to its leaders as terrorists, and equate Zionism with racism. Obama recently filmed remarks for the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee’s (ADC) 2012 conference, which took place last week in Washington, D.C. The ADC bills itself as a civil rights organization that is focused on protecting Arab Americans from discrimination, yet it has often come under scrutiny for promoting views that are highly critical of Israel. In addition to filming remarks, Obama also directed two of his top advisers to speak at the confab: Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes and Ari Matusiak, executive director of the White House Business Council. The administration’s endorsement of a conference that featured a Palestinian advocate who has labeled Israel an...
‘Israelis have a legal right to settle all Judea and Samaria’
“According to international law, Israelis have a legal right to settle all of Judea and Samaria, at the very least the lands that Israel controls under agreements with the Palestinian Authority. Therefore, the establishment of Jewish settlements is, in itself, not illegal.”
The committee issued its report on Tuesday, which was subsequently handed over to Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein. In...Plesner report: Criminal files for haredim who don’t serve
Plesner Committee appointed to draft legislation requiring ultra-Orthodox Jews and Israeli Arabs to do either military or civilian national service; no specific rules for Israeli Arab enlistment.
Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz has said the committee’s recommendations should be the sole basis for formulating new enlistment legislation.Emerson: “Muslim Brotherhood is a fascist group”
STEVEN EMERSON: Hard to answer that question. I have become a dysfunctional workaholic, working 14 hours a day, but that is normal in DC. And the only problem is that I am reading emails until four in the morning and it gets me so stressed...Canada, EU and US fund anti-Israel demonization
BDS IN THE PEWS
Rifts split Syria’s opposition; meeting ends in chaos
The delegates agreed in general terms on support for the Free Syrian Army, the dissolution of the ruling Baath Party and the exclusion of Assad or other senior regime figures from a place in the transition.Annexation Wins Hands Down over a Two-State solution
By Matthew M. Hausman (reposted from Aug 2011)Obama participates in confab of anti-Israel activists
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