A Double Standard Against Israel
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Will the PA fall to the islamists?
Many of Israel’s political and military leaders believe that we are witnessing the near-inevitable, albeit protracted, demise of Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority. And while some of the country’s security chiefs have been urging the government to adopt policies and take actions that might just avert that process, the political leadership is disinclined to do so.
The secular Palestinian leadership in the West Bank is an increasing anomaly in a region where last month’s presidential victory by Mohammed Morsi in Egypt underlines the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and its various incarnations and allies.
And while many Palestinians appreciate the relative stability and economic improvement of life in the West Bank, the absence of significant progress en route to Palestinian statehood is eating away at Abbas’s popularity.
As the September 2012 UN General Assembly looms, Abbas — who last year appealed dramatically to the Security...
Glenn Beck stands with Israel
Lies we can believe in
Civil disobedience is the act of breaking the law and defying the authorities to do anything about it. So is tyranny. The difference between the two lies in which side of the power equation the breaker is on. When the law is broken, two things happen. Either the law is upheld or the authorities back away from a confrontation and find some way to save face.
The ObamaCare process involved breaking a long list of rules and laws and then defying the ragged remnants of the system to do anything about it. At every turn the United States was unable to stop a rogue chief executive and his ruling party from trampling the law. When the case finally reached the Supreme Court, the leading judicial body in the land sidestepped a confrontation by redefining what the action was, rather than rule on the law. It was a classic case of the authorities saving face.
Civil disobedience balances moral absolutes against legal principles. The Supreme Court exists to serve as the...
Obama’s Iran Loopholes
WSJ
In Istanbul Tuesday, U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiators meet for the fourth time in four months, with the classic diplomatic assignment of talking about whether to hold future talks. They’ll likely agree to do so, but the real news happened under the radar last week: Though economic sanctions still haven’t slowed or stopped Iran’s nuclear drive, the Obama Administration has decided to make them even weaker. The Iran sanctions regime is looking like the U.S. tax code—filled with loopholes.
It’s so weak, in fact, that all 20 of Iran’s major trading partners are now exempt from them. We’ve arrived at a kind of voodoo version of sanctions. They look real, insofar as Congress forced them into a bill President Obama had to sign in December. The Administration has spoken incantations about their powers. But if you’re a big oil importer in China, India or 18 other major economies, the sanctions are mostly smoke.
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YB: “all citizens must share the burden”
Must all persons share the burden in the same way?. I think this is the wrong way to look at the problem. Not all people share the burden of taxation. Society in all countries sanctions progressive taxations which applies different rates to different earners. America doesn’t have a draft. They have a voluntary army and simply raise the pay if not enough are volunteering. Israel could do the same or provide higher pensions for those that do enlist. Another way to look at it is that people who don’t serve must pay into a fund that reduces the financial hardship of those serving. Similarly those who run factories that pollute the air must buy environmental credits from those who reduce their pollution. Thus a company has the choice of investing in technology to clean the air or helping others that do.
The Arabs and the Haredim present two different problems but the solution can embrace the same idea, either they serve or they pay into a fund to support those who do....
Israeli Jews becoming more religious
Poll: 80% of Israeli Jews believe in God
Extensive Judaism study conducted by Guttman Institute and AVI CHAI Foundation points to increase in number of religious and haredi Jews, decrease in number of traditional and secular Jews; 63% don’t mix meat and milk, but 65% watch TV on Shabbat
Eighty percent of Jews living in Israel believe in God, according to the findings of an extensive study conducted by the Guttman Center at the Israel Democracy Institute and published Thursday.
The study is a continuation of two previous surveys conducted in 1991 and 1999. A comparison shows that while the 1990s recorded a certain drop in affiliation to Jewish tradition, the following decade recorded an increase in affiliation up and beyond the numbers measured in 1991.
The survey was commissioned by the AVI CHAI Foundation in Israel in 2009. Its findings are only being published now due to the passing of the head of the research team, Prof. Asher Arian.
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Israelis, Palestinians: 2 states in 5 years unlikely
This poll was conducted by left wing organizations. “Israelis” included Jews and Arabs. This article refers to a new plan where Israel would get out of Judea and Samaria as defined in the article. I do not believe that the numbers polled reflect reality. Ted Belman
Joint poll finds that the majority of both sides view the chances of establishing Palestinian state within next 5 years low.
Most Israelis and Palestinians view the chances of establishing an independent Palestinian state within the next five years as low or nonexistent, a new joint Israeli-Palestinian poll reported.
Meanwhile, the majority of Israelis oppose military intervention in Syria and an unaided strike on Iran, the latter of which they agree could spark the eruption of a major regional war, according to the survey.
The joint poll, supported by the Ford Foundation in Cairo and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Ramallah and Jerusalem, was conducted by the Hebrew University’s...
The Left’s National Vote Fraud Strategy Exposed
This report reveals the Left’s vote fraud strategy for the 2012 elections. Like a KGB operation, it is thorough, multi-faceted and redundant. It has overt and covert, illegal and legal elements, the latter of which are designed, at least in part, to facilitate illegal activities later. It is a deliberate, premeditated, comprehensive plan to win the 2012 presidential election at all costs, and is in keeping with the organizational methods, associations and ethics of the Community-Organizer-in-Chief, Barack Obama.
The Left seeks fundamental structural change to our entire form of government. In keeping with their amoral, means-justifies-ends philosophy, they will register any voters, dead or alive, legal or illegal, who will then vote as many times as possible, in order to establish a “permanent progressive majority.” As two New York Democrats recently caught in a vote fraud scandal told police, “voter fraud is an accepted way of winning...
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