Karsenty Running For Parliament
Laura: Philippe Karsenty, who exposed the Mohamed al Dura hoax and France 2′s role in it, is running for a parliamentary seat in France.
Sarkozy is as much a scoundrel as his French predecessors. The Golan Heights does NOT belong to Syria. Syria waged a war of aggression against Israel and lost the Golan Heights and the war. They don’t get to have it back. Under what historical precedent does a country which won a war in self-defense have to relinquish territory to the aggressor? This is only expected of Israel. No matter who leads France and no matter how much of a problem it has with muslim immigrants, nothing will ever cause that country to alter its hostility towards Israel.
French Political Cuisine
Philippe Karsenty, “the worst nightmare of the French media outlets”
Written by Nurit Greenger, from the original speech, as was delivered
by Mr. Philippe Karsenty
June 4, 2011
Philippe Karsenty, is a French national of the Jewish faith, who is ...
Zell: “Jews residing in Judea and Samaria are there as a matter of right.”
A week ago, I posted a letter to Ban Ki Moon, signed by 60 attorneys, which said A UN Resolution to Recognize a Palestinian State within “1967 Borders” Would Be Illegal. One of the people signing was Marc Zell who pratices law in Jerusalem and was formerlly a law partner in the firm of Feith and Zell.
He sent me this email he wrote in response to a email criticizing said letter
To So and So
Your note to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has been forwarded to me by Ambassador (Ret.) Alan Baker. I, along with Amb. Baker, am one of the authors of and a signatory to the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel’s letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to which your remarks are directed. I would like to reply to certain points raised in your e-note.
(1) “Whatever the League of Nations may have ruled, it was the UN and not the League that was instrumental in the establishment of the state of Israel”.
Neither the League of Nations nor the United...
Israel’s energy will turn the tables
Time is on Israel’s side
The world’s dependence on Israel’s enemies is dwindling
By Lawrence Solomon, NATIONAL POST
‘We cannot afford to wait another decade, or another two decades, or another three decades, to achieve peace,” President Barack Obama said Sunday, referring to the Arab-Israeli conflict. “The extraordinary challenges facing Israel would only grow. Delay will undermine Israel’s security and the peace that the Israeli people deserve.”
President Obama has it backwards. Time is very much on Israel’s side. In 10 years, the free world’s dependence on Israel’s enemies will likely have lessened immensely and the extraordinary challenges facing Israel will likely have diminished immensely. Peace will then have a chance.
Much of the world now sides with the Palestinians and not Israel. Some do so because they believe the United Nations was wrong to establish a Jewish state on what they viewed as Arab lands after the Second World War. Some do so out of...
No blind eye to the ‘worst of the worst’
Netanyahu showed his resolve to defend Israel’s borders. A few thousand only of Syrians gathered on the border and were warnned they would face live fire if they tried to cross the border. At least 4 tried and were killed by IDF fire according to Syria. But Israel was hooting at their legs if they approached the fence. IDF has yet to confirm.. Ted Belman
by Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe
IT WAS THE TORTURE of elementary-school students in Deraa that gave momentum to the current Syrian uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime. The children, some as young as 10, were picked up by security agents for scrawling antigovernment graffiti on a school wall. When they were released days later, there were cigarette burn marks on their bodies, and the fingernails had been pulled from their hands. Word of the torture spread, outraging Syrians and helping fuel further protest. The government’s response has been a deadly crackdown with appalling new levels of cruelty.
Ground Rules for Gaza Flotillas
by Amb. Alan Baker, INN
Summary:
An ostensibly civilian, humanitarian flotilla was employed in May 2010 to demonstratively breach the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza coast. This flotilla was organized by the Turkish IHH, which has extensive links to extreme Islamic terror groups. Provoking a confrontation with Israel continues to be the primary aim.
Since May 2010, the Israeli government has altered the manner in which it administers the limitations on the transfer of goods to Gaza. It now specifically prohibits only those materials that might be taken and directed by Hamas and other terror groups in furtherance of their hostile purposes.
There is no humanitarian emergency among the civilian population in Gaza, and hence there can be no justification for conveying emergency shipments intended to alleviate an emergency that clearly does not exist. Any genuine wish to provide materials to the Gaza population can be directed through Israeli ports and the relevant...
The long view in Israel against the 1967 line
For decades, Israel’s greatest strategic minds have concluded that the Jewish state can safeguard its future only by retaining defensible borders beyond the 1967 line.
By Dore Gold, LA Times
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent statement that Israel can’t defend itself with borders drawn along pre-1967 lines has been questioned in certain foreign policy circles. These critics have noted that Israel successfully fought two wars, in 1956 and in 1967, while based within those borders. And they have claimed that borders don’t matter as much in modern warfare. But Netanyahu is right.
The idea that the 1967 line isn’t defensible has actually been around for decades. Indeed, the architects of Israel’s national security doctrine reached that conclusion soon after the Six-Day War. The main strategic problem that Israel faced at that time was the enormous asymmetry between its small standing army, which needed to be reinforced with a timely reserve...
The Mutually-Beneficial Bottom-Up US-Israel Relations
Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: US-Israel Initiative”
June 3, 2011
The enthusiastic reception – by Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, doves and hawks – to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s May 24, 2011 speech before a joint session of the US Congress reflected the unique relationship between the United States and Israel. The ties between the US and Israel resemble a triple-braided cord, which is not easily broken, consisting of shared values and mutually-beneficial economic and security interests.
The US affinity towards the Jewish State is exceptional in the international relations arena. It is based upon a bottom-up structure, deriving its potency from the American people more than from American politicians.
Most Americans identify the Jewish State with cardinal US domestic values – not just with foreign policy – that reflect the Judeo-Christian roots of American democracy, liberty, morality, justice and the federalist system. Such...
Conrad Black: Harper courageously defies Obama, in support of Israel
Black discounts Canada’s Foreign Minister’s seeming contradiction of Harper’s stand. I don’t share his views on this but will wait til Harper reiterates his stand or contradicts Baird. Black added
The problem with the Obama formula was not the concept of 1967 with land swaps, it was the call for peace to be achieved by “negotiation” between Israel and a party that in 44 years has never ceded a square inch of territory or renounced the right of self-proclaimed Palestinian fugitives from inundating with non-Jews what was established and recognized as a “Jewish state.”
The concept of ’67 with land swaps is unacceptable even if we had someone to negotiate with. Ted Belman
By Conrad Black, NATIONAL POST
At the G8 meetings in Paris, Stephen Harper became the moral leader of the world’s statesmen
As befits a modest country unaccustomed to leading the world other than by homogenized measurements of the quality of life, Canada seems not to...
The real Egyptian revolution
The coverage of recent events in Egypt is further proof that Western elites cannot see the forest for the trees. Over the past week, leading newspapers have devoted relatively in-depth coverage to the Egyptian military authorities’ repressive actions in subduing protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo, particularly during their large protest last Friday.
That is, they have provided in-depth coverage of one spent force repressing another spent force. Neither the military nor the protesters are calling the shots anymore in Egypt, if they ever were. That is the job of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The proximate cause of last Friday’s mass demonstration was what the so-called Twitter and Facebook revolutionaries consider the military’s slowness to respond to their demand for ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s head on a platter. The military responded by announcing that Mubarak and his sons will go on trial for capital crimes on August 3.
Beyond bloodlust,...
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Ted Belman
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