Pamela Geller: The Bête Noire of Progressive-Left Jewry
Anyone who follows the American Jewish press knows that gadfly Pamela Geller was recently disinvited to give a talk on the subject of Sharia at Great Neck Synagogue on Long Island. The reason for this is because progressives constantly tell one another that Geller is a racist. And if the progressive-left despises Geller as a racist, no one on the planet despises Geller more than progressive-left Jews. Your average progressive Zionist, i.e., your average left-wing Jewish pro-Israel activist, despises Geller far more than he or she despises even the most genocidal of Israel’s enemies. They quite literally loathe Geller more than they do Muhammed Morsi, who has compared Jews to apes and pigs, and they hate her more than Hamas which calls quite clearly for the genocide of the Jewish people.
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Things are Not All Quiet on the Eastern Front
With the cold but steady peace between Israel and Egypt growing ever shakier, at least there is still a rock solid peace treaty between Israel and her esteemed neighbor to the East, Jordan.
We hope.
Several fissures have appeared in that rock solid relationship of late, and they are troubling.
For example, late last month the acting leader of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, and Jordan’s King Abdullah II signed an agreement they described as one to jointly defend Jerusalem “from Israeli Judaization attempts.”
According to The Jerusalem Post, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, “would not comment on the agreement.”
But someone else with a strong interest is willing to comment.
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Israel May Fast-Track Plans to Attack Iran
By: David A. Patten, Newsmax
Analysts fear a dramatic advance in North Korea’s nuclear missile technology, revealed inadvertently during a Congressional hearing Thursday, will quickly find its way to Iran — forcing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fast-track a long-contemplated attack against Tehran’s nuclear-enrichment facilities.
Pentagon officials are playing down a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency assessment that North Korea probably has the ability to miniaturize a nuclear weapon and place it on an ICBM. U.S. officials say that miniaturization capability, if it exists, is untested and unreliable.
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Better to be hung for a pound than a penny
By Ted Belman
On March 11/03, The New Republic published an essay by Ben Birnbaum entitled The End of the Two-State Solution Why the window is closing on Middle-East peace. He wrote:
- Today, the essential conditions for a peace process remain. Majorities of Israelis and Palestinians continue to support a two-state solution. It remains possible to draw a border that would give the Palestinians the territorial equivalent of the entire West Bank, while allowing Israel to incorporate the vast majority of its settlers. So far, the number of settlers living in communities that would need to be evacuated has not passed the point of irreversibility. Jerusalem is still dividable. Hamas is confined to its Gaza fortress. And Abbas, a Palestinian leader like no other before and perhaps no other to come, remains in office. By the end of Barack Obama’s presidency, however, every one of these circumstances could vanish—and if that happens, the two-state solution will vanish along with them.
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The two-state solution is dead (and why we should be celebrating)
By Daniel Frank, TOI MARCH 14, 2013,
This past week, Robert Serry, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process gave a lecture at Tel Aviv University proclaiming that the possibility for a two-state solution would die in a matter of months, Ben Birnbaum wrote a riveting and influential essay about the end of the two-state solution and at a Herzliya conference panel on the peace process, almost everyone except Tzipi Livni spoke as if a two-state solution is presently untenable. In response to this I say yes, the two-state solution (as we know it) is dead, but this is a positive, not negative step towards peace.
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Obama’s obsession
By Guy Bechor, YNET NEWS
What is an obsession? A compulsive act or thought which repeats itself uncontrollably. That is exactly how one can define the foreign policy of the Obama-Kerry-Hagel trio towards Israeland towards those Arabs called “Palestinians.” Their conduct in this arena should raise an eyebrow.
Let us pretend that North Korea is not threatening to launch the first nuclear attack since World War II; let us pretend that the rival camps in Syria are not using chemical weapons and committing unprecedented war crimes in the Middle East; let us pretend that North Africa, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq are not being dissolved in front of our eyes, and that Salafi kingdoms are being born instead; let us pretend that the eurozone is breaking apart and the US economy itself is not headed towards collapse. Let us all focus on the “Palestinians.” As far as Secretary of State Kerry is concerned, that it probably the most important thing. Well, what do you know! He wants to come here every two weeks.
Bennett: Employment More Important Than Equal Burden
Arutz Sheva 4/5/2013,
Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett said on Thursday that ensuring employment for sectors of Israelis who do not enter the workforce is more important than tackling the issue of equal burden in army service, which was one of the hotly debated issues during the recent election campaign.
Speaking at a Manufacturers Association conference in Tel Aviv, Bennett said that in the coming weeks he would be presenting a new program that will see hareidi men and Arab women being integrated into the Israeli workforce.
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Ted Belman
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