Saturday 27 July 2013

IsraPundit


Poll: 61%:26% Israelis oppose expected deal with Palestinians  

Dr. Aaron Lerner, IMRA Date 23 July 2013
The survey was conducted by Maagar – Interdisciplinary Research and Consulting Institute Ltd., managed by Professor Yitzhak Katz.
The survey was commissioned by The Orly & Guy Morning Program – Channel 10
TV and conducted by telephone on 22 July of a sample of 503 respondents, constituting a representative sample of Israel’s adult population (aged 18 and over – including Israeli Arabs). Statistical error +/- 4.5 percentage points.
Are you for or against Israel entering negotiations with the Palestinians in
the wake of the visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry to the region?
    Total:For 59% Against 31% Other replies 10%
    Jews: For 49% Against 41% Other 10%

An invitation to the dance  

[Although this article is four days old I didn't want you to miss it.]
Just as in a B movie, the (artificial) tension only broke at the very last minute. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced that he had reached an agreement with Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which would serve as a basis for resuming peace talks. American pressure on PA President Mahmoud Abbas, with a little help from the Arab League, did its job, and Kerry went back to Washington satisfied. Still, Kerry is no doubt aware that he still has to overcome, if not the seven gates of hell, then at least a Palestinian steeplechase.
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DEBKAfile: Kerry obtains Israeli, Palestinian consent to negotiate interim accord, without borders issue  

No one else that I have read mentions this interim deal. Quite a shocker. Abbas has always been against a provisional state with temporary borders. Perhaps we are not talking here about such a state. Furthermore, I can’t believe that Bibi yielded on ’67 lines. We will see how this turns out. Ted Belman
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 19, 2013, 11:45 PM
After substantially lowering his expectations, US Secretary of State John Kerry was able to save his mission to restart peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians with only moments to spare before his sixth round of shuttle diplomacy crashed. Friday night, July 19, Kerry announced in Amman that “initial talks would resume in Washington very soon.”
In this exclusive report, DEBKAfile discloses for the first time details of the formula for which Kerry obtained the consent of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and, after an unscheduled side trip Friday to Ramallah, of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas as well.
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How to respond to EU sanctions  

THIS WEEK the EU took three steps that together prove Europe’s ill-intentions toward the Jewish state.
First, last Friday the EU announced it is imposing economic sanctions on Israel. The sanctions deny EU funds to Israeli entities with an address beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines. They also deny EU funds to Israeli entities countrywide that carry out activities beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines.
The areas beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines delineated by the EU directive include the Gaza Strip, which Israel abandoned eight years ago; the Golan Heights, which has been under Israeli sovereignty since 1981; eastern, northern and southern Jerusalem, which have been under Israeli sovereignty since 1967; and Judea and Samaria, over which Israel has shared governance with the PLO since 1994 in accordance with signed agreements witnessed by EU representatives.
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Thank you all for your good wishes and concern. I am back at my place.  

Without warning, I started passing urine with blood and blood clots.  Very painfull.  Lots of blood clots.
I don’t want to see another catheter again. They used it to irrigate my bladder in order to clean out the clots. The irrigation went on 24 hours a day. The clots kept coming until the operation.  The passing of the clots is extremely painful.
The took me to the operating room yesterday and gave me a spinal.  What an experience that was. You end up totally disconnected with your lower body so they can do their will. They put in a camera with other attachments to clean out the remaining blood and blood clots.  Then they looked for where the blood was coming (my prostate) and then cauterized the spot.
Every thing seems OK now.  So back to work.
By the way, that sure was a busy week newswise.
 


Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel

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