Israel’s reviled strategic wisdom
By Caroline Glick
As was the case in 2011, the voices of liberal democracy in Egypt are so few and far between that they have no chance whatsoever of gaining power, today or for the foreseeable future. At this point it is hard to know what the balance of power is between the Islamists who won 74 percent of the vote in the 2011 parliamentary elections and their opponents. But it is clear that their opponents are not liberal democrats. They are a mix of neo-Nasserist fascists, communists and other not particularly palatable groups.
None of them share Western conceptions of freedom and limited government. None of them are particularly pro-American. None of them like Jews. And none of them support maintaining Egypt’s cold peace with Israel.
Egypt’s greatest modern leader was Gamal Abdel Nasser. By many accounts the most common political view of the anti-Muslim Brotherhood protesters is neo-Nasserist fascism.
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EU Loses Patience With Israel
Actually Israelis have lost patience with the E.U. What matters is our perception , not theirs, our security, not theirs and our neck not theirs. They worry that the lack of progress with the peace process may result in the downfall of the PA. So? Let the PA or the Palestinians worry about that, not us. If security chaos results its our neck on the line. Not theirs. So back off. Ted Belman
By: Akiva Eldar for Al-Monitor Israel Pulse Posted on July 4.
Several days before US Secretary of State John Kerry started his fifth round of shuttle diplomacy in the region, Baroness Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s high representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, wound up a working visit to Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Israel and the West Bank. In Jerusalem, Ashton met a confused and even frightened Israeli prime minister. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fear of the shock waves going through Egypt and Syria and the instability in Jordan are competing with his anxiety over Iran’s nuclear program, and recently also with concern about Israel becoming a binational state. On the face of it, Netanyahu understands that freezing the diplomatic process will perpetuate the binational reality that already exists between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. Actually, he refuses to pay the list price for changing this reality, especially given the regional turbulence. (Read more…)
Kerry and the struggle over the Jordan Valley
Why are we even talking about the ’67 lines. They have no legitimacy whatsoever. Either its the Partition lines which are antiquated or its wherever we agree. R242 said we are entitled to retain some territory when setting secure borders. The Palestinians have no legitimate claim to Judea and Samaria whereas the Jews do by virtue of the Palestine Mandate. Why is Netanyahu not making this abundantly clear? We must keep the highlands overlooking the coastal plain. Ted Belman
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has been doing his utmost over the last several months to persuade U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on the merits of his demand that Israel accept the 1967 lines as the basis for a future border before any negotiations can be resumed. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has responded firmly that he refuses to accept any preconditions for sitting at the table with Palestinian negotiators.
HITLER WAS ALMOST DESTROYED IN 1933
An HIR series
Historical and Investigative Research – 06 May 2006
by Francisco Gil-White
The Crisis of 1933 In 1933, ordinary Jews all over the world banded together and came within an inch of destroying the Hitler regime. They did not fail. Their leaders failed them.________________________________________________________
by Francisco Gil-White
Qatar hails new Egypt leader in apparent policy shift
By Regan Doherty and Amena Bakr
(Reuters) – Qatar joined other Gulf Arab states in welcoming Egypt’s interim ruler on Thursday in an apparent attempt to salvage diplomatic prestige after the ousting of Cairo’s Islamist government which it had backed with billions of dollars in aid.
Qatar has been a regional maverick for its support of Arab Spring revolts and its aid to Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt alarmed neighboring Gulf dynasties who see the Islamist group as a potential threat to their own hereditary authority.
Qatar had extended $7.5 billion in loans or grants to Egypt since a revolution toppled veteran President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, providing much of it during the administration of Mohamed Mursi, an Islamist elected in June 2012.
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AJC, AIPAC, ADL and JCPA and rap Bennett’s two-state obit
By RON KAMPEAS/JTA
Groups which are usually loathe to publicly criticize the Israeli gov’t have changed their tune in wake of appeal by John Kerry.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — It’s almost boilerplate: The American Jewish community asks a foreign leader with whom it has cultivated a close relationship to kindly tell firebrands in the leader’s government to pipe down and fall in with an established policy that happens to be embraced by the U.S. government.
Greece? Romania? Hungary? Russia?
Try Israel.
In a rare rebuke of a sitting Israeli minister, three major centrist Jewish groups in recent weeks have criticized Naftali Bennett, the economics chief in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government, for saying that the two-state solution is a “dead end.” Bennett also called on the government to annex the West Bank.
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Don’t Bow Down before the Goyim
International Christian Zionist Center
Why Israel’s government and people should be totally against the formation of a Palestinian state in the land G-d promised to them for eternity – the Land of Israel:
I. It will not lead to peace, but to the destruction of what would be left of Israel.
II. It will not solve Israel’s democratic problem, and so will not preserve the Jewish character of what will be left of Israel.
- Israel should in no way fear that a demographic dilemma will arise out of keeping all Samaria and Judea, but should vigorously confront any such danger by adopting the following measures: a) Make bringing Jews home from all over the world a governmental top priority; an upgraded Ministry of Immigration fielding the best candidates to clarify abroad the need to make aliyah. (Read more…)
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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