Wednesday, 5 June 2013


IsraPundit


African country agrees to take in Eritrean labor migrants living in Israel, government claims  

An African country has agreed to take in Eritrean labor migrants living in Israel if Israel gives them agricultural training first.
African countries had hitherto been cool to the proposal, but a senior Israeli official said Sunday that talks were under way with several countries that might accept the migrants; he said the resettlement process would probably take place over five years at least.
In the past year, Hagai Hadas, a former senior Mossad official, has represented Israel in talks with Ghana, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and other countries over the issue. The number of Eritrean labor migrants in Israel is estimated at around 35,000.
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Alicia Keys Rejects Calls From Boycotters  

Laura: Alicia Keys has so far rejected pressure from rabid Jew-haters roger waters and alice walker to cancel her upcoming concert in Israel.
Entertainers have visited communist Cuba and literally embraced the late communist dictator hugo chavez with no condemnations from their peers. In fact they were lauded for doing so.
Lest anyone give waters and walker the benefit of the doubt and chalk up their repugnant rantings about Israel as the result of being misinformed, I’m quite certain that they have since been informed of the truth by many, but choose to ignore it. Waters is the skunk who condemned the building of Israel’s security fence, calling it an apartheid wall, knowing full well that his beloved “palestinians” had been engaged at the time in a wave of suicide bombings against Israelis, resulting in the massacre of hundreds. This was widely reported by the international media. What else to conclude except that the bastard sanctions the slaughter of Jews?
What else to expect from someone like waters who represents a profession of hedonistic drug addicts and perverts. People who practice no moral standards in their personal lives certainly can’t be expected to have a moral compass regarding larger issues.
Even the PA newspaper admitted that Israel helps Palestinians:
In fact, a 2012 report from the World Health Organization found that Israel approved 91.5 percent of all Palestinian applications to receive medical care within the State of Israel. Save a Child’s Heart, an Israeli organization, has also saved the lives of 3,000 children, of who half were hailing from the Palestinian Authority. Additionally, an Israeli hospital has reportedly been taking care of a disabled Gazan baby after he was abandoned both by his parents and the Palestinian Authority, who stopped funding his medical treatment.
Yet the black hearted roger waters and alice walker continue to perpetuate the apartheid lie and all the other disgusting lies accusing Israel of horrible treatment of the palestinians, including genocide.

The coming Hamas whitewash  

On May 16, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to travel to Hamas-ruled Gaza in June. Standing next to U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House, Erdogan expressed hope “that my visit can contribute to the process.”
Elaborating, Erdogan declared that “a negotiating table where Hamas … is not represented cannot produce peace. … For us, Hamas is what Fatah is.” The following day, he reaffirmed that “unity between Fatah and Hamas … has to be achieved.”
It is difficult to fathom that Obama could not have persuaded Erdogan to forgo his trip. The administration, after all, had obliged various Turkish security requests over the implosion in Syria — such as by deploying Patriot missiles along Turkey’s border with Syria earlier this year — in exchange for promises from Erdogan. Obama also could have applied direct pressure on Erdogan, as when he recently strong-armed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into apologizing for the Mavi Marmara incident.
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Israel ‘unmoved’ by threat of US disengagement from peace process  

A senior Israeli diplomatic official in Jerusalem has told Israel Hayom that he “refused to be moved” by a Reuters report on Monday that quoted a senior U.S. official as saying the U.S. government would abandon its efforts to advance the peace process if it determined that Israel and the Palestinians were not serious about the matter.
On Monday, the U.S. official told Reuters, “There are too many things going on in the world … You could bang your head on this for years and years and years.”
According to the Israeli official, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has not presented a formal peace plan, but rather has offered a number of proposals to renew negotiations between the sides. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s envoy Itzhak Molcho, is responsible for negotiations with the Palestinians, met with Kerry in Washington on Monday.
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Make Room for Islamistgate: The Obama Administration’s New Scandal  

Up to now the Obama Administration has faced three big scandals—the IRS, the bugging of AP and Fox, and Benghazi. And now here is scandal Number 4:
For the last four years the Obama Administration has conducted a major “outreach” program to Islamic groups in the United States and in the Middle East. Patrick Poole has been investigating this project and in a comprehensive article now presents the full scoop and scope of what’s been going on. His article, “Blind to Terror: The U.S. Government’s Disastrous Muslim Outreach Efforts and the Impact on U.S. Policy”in the new, Summer, issue of MERIA Journal is a gamechanger. 
You may think that you know about this subject but it goes far beyond what you have heard about. The majority of groups and individuals promoted by the Obama Administration have been radical Islamists, particularly Muslim Brotherhood cadre, and more than occasionally people involved in terrorist activity.
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Is Christian Evangelical Support for Israel Kosher?  

Some Christians embrace Jews and Israel for the right reasons while others do not.
Matthew M. Hausman, J.D.
Support for Israel among evangelical Christians is a growing phenomenon that has many American Jews scratching their heads and asking questions. Is Christian support sincere or is it merely subterfuge to facilitate the missionary impulse? Do Christian “love offerings” for Israel come with theological strings or are they presented free and clear?
These questions are understandable given the long history of Christian anti-Semitism and missionary excess. However, an alarming number of secular Jews today are so divorced from Jewish tradition and practice that these questions are devoid of historical context. Skepticism regarding evangelical support is often informed by liberal political sensibilities, and suspicion of evangelicals’ motivations is more likely influenced by distrust of their social and political conservatism than by any collective memory of the horrors suffered by the Jews in Europe. (Read more…)

Reform Rabbi Eric Yoffie and his Jew-Hating Friends  

After the Jerusalem Post ran a vicious defamatory article by the uber-left Rabbi Yoffie,  President of the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ), I submitted a response to his unchallenged and unsubstantiated libel to Post Editor-in-Chief Steve Linde. Linde bounced me to Sara Miller, Managing Editor ofJPost.com, who procrastinated and thought that Yoffie saying that “Pamela Geller has no place in an American synagogue. She is a bigot and purveyor of hate” didn’t warrant any response from me.
Miller should be on the receiving end of ad hominem attacks and defamation, and sit quietly.
Yoffie wrote last week that “diversity of views should be welcome. Debate should be promoted and controversy encouraged.”
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Land already divided once  

The peace camp is mourning. The vision of dividing the land is no longer possible, and the inevitable result is a “bi-national state,” they claim. Yossi Sarid lamented “the end of the Jewish state” on television, and the bi-national phobia has even been joined recently by Benjamin Netanyahu – who is, seemingly, still head of the national camp.
The creators of this artificial panic should deal with the previous attempt to divide the land: The UN General Assembly resolution from November 29, 1947. On a territory allotted there to a state defined as “Jewish,” sat next to 598,000 Jews another 497,000 Arabs – almost equal numbers. In other words, that partition solution contained exactly what concerns those who oppose the wholeness of the Land of Israel today – the danger of a bi-national state. What saved the State of Israel from becoming bi-national was the Arabs’ departure, which happened during the War of Independence and created a democratic Jewish majority and that same “Jewish state” which Sarid and his friends are mourning the loss of.
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Martin Sherman says no to Palestine, yes to Israeli sovereignty  

I attended this lecture a month ago along with 200 plus people. It takes just over one hour but it is well worth hearing. Ted Belman
The article that comes with it can be translated into English.

U.S. publishes details of missile base Israel wanted kept secret  

By Sheera Frenkel | McClatchy Foreign Staff
TEL AVIV, Israel –Israel’s military fumed Monday over the discovery that the U.S. government had revealed details of a top-secret Israeli military installation in published bid requests.
The Obama administration had promised to build Israel a state-of-the-art facility to house a new ballistic-missile defense system, the Arrow 3. As with all Defense Department projects, detailed specifications were made public so that contractors could bid on the $25 million project. The specifications included more than 1,000 pages of details on the facility, ranging from the heating and cooling systems to the thickness of the walls.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel

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