Monday 8 July 2013


IsraPundit


Report: Secret EU funding for BDS leader  

NGO Monitor issues report saying EU’s grantees are centrally involved in 2001 Durban Forum’s strategy of ‘political warfare and demonization of Israel’
In a new report presented to members of the European Parliament, NGO Monitor details the damaging impact of “highly secretive EU funding for radical political advocacy NGOs.” 
According to NGO Monitor, EU funds are going to organizations involved in anti-Israel boycotts and violent demonstrations, which “undermine the EU’s efforts to secure peace in the Middle East.” 
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Obama’s Real Foreign Policy Takes Heavy Blows  

Since taking office in January 2009, or even before then, Barack Hussein Obama has been working with a number of US intelligence honchos, James Jones, Clapper, Donilon, and others to promote the rise to power of Muslim Brotherhood governments in Sunni Arab countries as well as encouraging governments run by the MB’s Shiite counterparts, as in Iran and its ally, Syria [dominated by Alawites, an offshoot sect of Shiism, considered heretics by Sunnis but as Muslims by Shiites, at least as long as convenient], and by Sunni counterparts of the MB as in Turkey. Obama’s first trip abroad after taking office as president was to Ankara, where Erdogan –a veteran Judeophobe– had successfully subdued his possible political opposition in the army and the judiciary, installing his own men, and had adopted an aggressive pro-Islamist foreign policy with overtones of nostalgia for the Sunni Ottoman Empire. Obama’s second trip abroad, in June 2009, was to Egypt where he was going to make the Arab and Muslim worlds love America, while he forged an alliance of sorts with the Muslim Brotherhood. (Read more…)

Netanyahu is toying with ’67 lines  

Haaretz reports that Kerry is returning to Israel on Friday. Apparantly Netanyahu has made some concessions which include releasing prisoners over a six month period, construction freeze on settlements outside the blocs and most worrisome,
    As for basing the talks on the 1967 lines, a senior Israeli official said that if talks are renewed, Kerry will announce that they will be based on the 1967 lines with exchanges of territory. This would allow both the Palestinians and Israelis to present their public objections to the issue, while accepting it in principle.
Is this an agreement to disagree? If so that would be meaningless. But to allow Kerry to say it is not meaningless and will have huge significance.
Apparently Abbas is also being asked to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and is balking..
 


Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel